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Clean, quiet and comfortable rooms offering great value for money. The Abel Tasman has free parking right at your door, flat screen televisions and FREE Wi-Fi. Located just 8km from Launceston Airport, accommodation at The Abel Tasman is perhaps, just what you're looking for? If you've need a quick overnight stay before an early morning flight, book a standard queen room with electric blankets, heating and Wi-Fi, or stay in a newly renovated self contained apartment sleeping up for five guests in comfort with a kitchen, two televisions, and two bathrooms. Competitively priced, with friendly staff - Stay at the closest motel to Launceston Airport and you're still only ten minutes to Cataract Gorge or Launceston City.
DON'T BOOK THIS PLACE! I booked this place about 8 months ago. When we arrived earlier this month I couldn't find reception. A tenant with a very strong accent told me there was no reception and that the whole motor inn was occupied by workers for a particular company who bought the motor inn about 12 months prior. We booked through Booking.com. No-one contacted us to let us know. It was very late on a Friday afternoon. I sat in the car crying whilst trying to find somewhere to stay for the next 2 nights that didn't cost an arm and a leg. It was no easy task and we eventually find accommodation through airbnb.6
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Date of stay: March 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Dirty dishes, broken toilet seat plus toilet leakes when flushed, blow light globes - main room and bathroom. Unit full of files, bathroom needs a major urgent makeover, broken cane chairs, dirty rotten smell in unit, unit very old, Disappointing and Disgusting
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Date of stay: April 2022Trip type: Travelled with family
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Arrive just after 5pm, people in the room across from us was having a domestic police arrive and left beds are poor flooring lifting and a trip hazard. lights missing wind blowing through the gaps of the windows and doors, as a returning customer I won't be returning no more this place should be ashamed to say the least.
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Date of stay: April 2022Trip type: Travelled with family
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I am well traveled and have traveled in some 3rd world countries but I must say that this is the worst hotel that I have ever stayed in. In reading the past reviews I wasn’t very hopeful of the condition of this hotel. I tried to check in early, as my work didn’t finish until after hours. Reception hours are 2pm to 5 pm. No one answered the 2 phone numbers that were displayed. I found the reception staff sitting out side what was the restaurant, which is sadly no more and explained the situation to them. They repeated the check in times and didn’t care about my inability to check in between 2-5pm. Sadly I must confess that they were mostly correct. The odor in the room when I opened the door smelt like someone or something had previously died in there. I wasn’t game to look under the bed. The curtains were only just hanging onto the curtain rail by the last thread of their life. In fact the curtains didn’t even match and one was several inches shorter than the other. The shower curtain was held up by cable ties and couldn’t be moved along the rail anyway. The first time I walked into the toilet I managed to get wet feet, never a good feeling in the toilet. Upon closer inspection of the plumbing it appears that the toilet has been leaking for some time and the water covers the flooring most of the time. In fact there has been a hole drilled between the wall of the toilet into the adjourning room to allow the drainage of the toilet. The bath at some stage has been hand painted with white paint and not this has semi worn off leaving behind a multi coloured bath of many colours and not very inviting at all. The light in the bathroom didn’t work anyway (perhaps a good thing) I awoke up felling itchy from a very terrible sleep. The towels were clean and fresh and the water was hot.…
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Date of stay: March 2022
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Trip type: Travelled on business
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I booked a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom unit for my husband and I and mother in law to go visit my son from Old. Upon arrival I noticed the curtains were off their tracks and hanging off the windows. No reception on the tv as the aerial was a set of "rabbit ears", One bathroom had a shower and toilet, the water was turned off for the shower so had to use the other bathroom. Every time we flushed the toilet water would pour out all over the floor, so I had to turn water off at the wall. No doorknob on the inside of the bathroom, (it had fell off at some stage and not replaced) The other bathroom had a piece of string instead of a handle to close the door. No rubbish bin at all and no doors on the cupboards! Hence to say we pre paid for 2 nights and left the next morning. I have emailed the hotel and got nothing back. I paid $270 for this place and would have at least liked 1 night refunded but nothing. I have some great photos of this dive and would avoid at all costs.…
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Date of stay: March 2022
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Leaking toilet all over floor x 2, damaged, missing or broken doors, window, mirror, curtains, beds, drawers, tiles, door handles, lights, Not cleaned or sanitised at all. Chunks of old dirty '?' left in the microwave. No communication at all No refund after we left a day early, gave them 24 hours notice.
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Date of stay: March 2022
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Probably the worse run and quality place i have ever stayed. Its such a great location and would be a gold mine if run by good people. The rooms where so bad and shower and toilet were old dirty. carpet was terrible smelt like smoke!! god only knows what the bed looks like under the sheets!! The room like nothing like the pictures!!! Maybe they did at some point but not now.
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Date of stay: February 2022
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We were getting in late and needed something with late check in near the airport. We ended up getting in early. Check in was easy. Our beds were clean and comfortable. We didn't use the shower as it looked unclean, may have just been old. Probably what we expected for the money we paid.
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Date of stay: February 2022Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Other reviews show that the motel has systemic problems. We booked two rooms on the same booking. One had not been cleaned and the linen had not been changed. We received no response after calling the number on the door of reception and via booking.com and so had to find alternative accommodation at short notice and considerable expense. We finally heard back the following morning. Management have refused to give a full refund with the excuse that one of us could have stayed in the clean room. They did not suggest what the other two family members should have done - maybe sleep in the car or the local park. Booking.com completely unhelpful.
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Date of stay: January 2022
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Hotel of horror , abandoned premises ,no real manager just squatters, fraud , authorities should shut this down and fine criminals running this rip off hotel,urine in hotel room with unmade filthy beds with bugs flys in them ,mould , running taps ,body odour ,we had to book a new hotel as not safe ,creepy ,our children traumatized by seeing this ,condoms ,left around room , we traveled hours to Launceston to find this mess ,no manager answered our calls money taken ,it's catfish photos of hotel back in the 90s ,as reception is abandoned and premises must be foreclosure. Do not stay ,it's a fake , why is this ,not shut down yet by police? I had a hospital stay next day and this was so stressful ,
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Date of stay: October 2021Trip type: Travelled with family
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