John M.
Yelp
Stayed here for a week while in town for work. Its a traditional style motel with a big long row of rooms and a parking spot at the door of each room. There's also a pool and bbq area. The new owners had only just taken over management of the place a few days before I checked in so bear that in mind if you read any older reviews of the place.
The rooms were quite spacious with a queen bed and a single in each. There was also a bit of a desk area, flat screen tv with some foxtel channels, bar fridge, kettle, iron, toaster, wardrobe and drawers. The bathrooms had recently been renovated. There wasn't a microwave in the room but there is a microwave in the laundry for everyone to use and the laundry in conveniently located in the middle of the motel.
My only issue was the wifi. You could generally get online in the morning or middle of the day but come evening it was dead as a doornail. I spoke to the manager about it turned out it was one of those problems they'd inherited from the old owners. They have some sort out router and range extender in there but it was only ever designed to cope with about a dozen devices. In a motel with over 30 rooms that was never going to cut it. The new owners have teed up some repairs to the network next week so hopefully this will be fixed soon. In the meantime they even offered me the use of their own personal Telstra 4G wifi connection - you don't find too many motel managers as hospitable as this couple!
The motel is in a great location. As the name Parkview would suggest it backs on to a big park. In the morning the park is home to hundreds of Galahs that seemed to land here every day and were fun to watch. It's about a minute outside of the centre of Parkes so its in a really quiet location and I barely heard a thing at night.
