Flamingo Hotel By The Lake

Honestly nothing.

This hotel is listed incorrectly. It is not in the city centre. It is AUD$100 cab ride from the airport and is surrounded by old empty buildings and a dirty man-made lake. It’s a run down hotel with rooms that have not been painted since it opened. Upon arrival we were given a room that didn’t open. After having to relocate us to another room we were confronted with a stale smelling room. The walls were stained from years of cigarette smoke. The safe was broken and the toilet was constantly running. The wifi was non existent. The kettle was also faulty. Being 2am at this stage we decided to sleep. After a night sleeping on a hard mattress, we woke up to the air conditioner leaking and flooding the floor. We then ate a cold, buffet breakfast that we had to pay extra for. After approaching staff about the issues we were told to return to our room and maintenance would tend to the issues. We sat and waited for an hour before calling reception again. We then had 3 unpleasant men enter our room and after stuffing around with the aircon it was decided we should be provided with another room and to wait for our new room. Within moments we received a phone call from reception to notify us that we were to check out, though our original plan was to extend our stay.