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Editor’s note: After Hill End, the Royal Hotel Oberon is the second of John’s cameo posts. It’s a good one for him to take as well because, as John alludes to, I was barely functional at that point. Also, this will be the final post of the year before the blog returns in January with […]
Editor’s Note: This begins another 2-week stint of posts written by John. For this one, the Tour rolled on from the gem of a Royal in Sofala into it’s final stop for the night, the picturesque, quaint gold-mining town of Hill End. Even though our experience at the Royal Hotel Hill End this time around […]
After finishing up in Cassilis, the tour rolled on 2 hours south and seemingly 100 years back in time to the Royal Hotel Sofala. And that’s not a dig at Sofala by any means. I’m pretty sure the olde-time-iness is intentional. Or if not completely intentional, at the very least fully embraced. We thought Carcoar […]
The next stop on the Royal Tour was a hidden gem just up the road: the Royal Hotel Cassilis The town of Cassilis itself is not directly on the Golden Highway (that’s the road’s actual name, I’m not getting poetic) like Merriwa and Denman were. You have to take a short 1.5km detour to get […]
Reluctantly we left the massive pub, absurdly sized TV’s, and morning happy hours of Denman behind, as the Tour continued on up the road to the pub that would mark the 1/4 of the way mark: the Royal Hotel Merriwa. The Merriwa Royal was much more out of the traditional pub mold (as opposed to […]
After a chilly night at the Royal Hotel Capertee, it was time for the Tour to venture on up into the Lower Hunter on a lovely Saturday’s morning to the Royal Hotel Denman. I was still a bit under the weather but I bravely soldiered on. Given that he was more on top of his […]
After admiring the tiles one last time in Wallerawang, it was time to continue our tour. Just a short drive up the Castlereagh Highway was our destination for the night: the Royal Hotel Capertee. The drive up to Capertee takes you by the stunning Capertee Valley. And honestly, if you haven’t been, or seen it, […]
After departing the Royal Hotel Springwood, we completed our trek through the Blue Mountains. Just after coming out the other side we arrived at the next Royal for the tour, the Royal Hotel Wallerawang. The Wang (as I presume it must be affectionately referred to by locals) is a fairly small town with a big […]
As alluded to at the end of the last post, John and I have sat down and ranked our Top Ten Royal Hotels visited so far. We will update this list every 10 Royals we visit, so it’ll be a bit of an evolving ranking as we progress through the Tour. This first edition covers […]
After departing the last of the Sydney Royals in Richmond, we headed west into the Blue Mountains. As it was just about hitting lunchtime, we arrived at our third Royal for the day: the Royal Hotel Springwood. The pub is located on the main drag of Springwood directly across from the train station. And it […]
