Hotels near Cloncurry Airport - CNJ, Cloncurry

Just travelling through on journey from NSW through Queensland to Darwin. Only an overnight stay - very interesting countryside, not alot in the Town that grabbed my interest. Gidgee Inn was great stopover for quality.

There are a couple of interesting museums. I found the John Flynn museum particularly interesting. However, we found almost no restaurants or cafes open in Cloncurry over the weekend; a number were listed but just not open (no idea why not). The only open restaurant was fully booked, so we had to eat all our meals at the roadhouse.

We went into the bakery at 3 pm only to find it was no longer serving coffee too late. So I bought my coffee at the pub next door and it was very good. Cloncurry is a good highway stop between the Barkly Homestead and Ilfacombe.

Cloncurry had a nice feel to it, and a lot more to do than the short amount of time we had allocated. We used it as a stopover between Winton and the Northern Territory not expecting to find much to do. In hindsight, two nights would have been great. We ate at the Post Office Hotel - although the atmosphere was basic, the food was fantastic, and they were able to cater to a coeliac - one of the few restaurants on our road trip that had gluten free chips cooked in a separate fryer! Nearly made my 12yo son cry with happiness :). Would give the premix cocktail a miss though and stick to the on-tap beers