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Kimberley Hotel Halls Creek
This Hotel has comfortable rooms with all the mod cons, and a sports bar and restaurant...
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3.5 Star Hotel
Kununurra Lakeside Resort
At the edge of Lily Creek Lagoon, with a good range of accommodation set within leafy grounds.
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Kimberley Croc Backpackers
This slick, modern YHA close to the action has a large pool and barbecue area and excellent kitchen faci...
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Kununurra Country Club Resort
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Pinctada Kimberley Grande
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Hotel Kununurra
Desert Rose
The best sleep in town is worth booking ahead. Spacious, individually styled rooms come with a nice shady pool, leadlight windows and a sumptuous breakfast. Host Anne is a font of local information.
Spinifex Hotel
Derby’s affable pub also rents very basic rooms, which are fine in a pinch. The Spini also whips up decent counter meals (mains $12 to $24).
Wyndham Town Hotel
Wyndham Town Hotel, near Wyndham Port, has basic, overpriced motel-style rooms, but the pub is the best place to meet locals over a beer and the bistro cooks up generous home-style steaks, fish and chips and salads (mains $15 to .
Kununurra Backpackers
There's a nice leafy garden and large shared kitchen at this friendly hostel popular with seasonal workers.
Boab Inn
Excellent counter meals and free wi-fi make this the lunch stop of choice. The motel-style rooms are clean, comfortable and normally booked out.
Lakeview Apartments
These spacious, self-contained apartments across from Lily Creek Lagoon have all mod cons, fully equipped kitchens and free wi-fi and cable. There's a minimum two-night stay on weekends.
Parry Creek Farm
Parry Creek Farm, at Parry Lagoons Nature Reserve, is a lovely place to stay, with its own billabong and loads of bird and animal life. A raised boardwalk leads to comfy cabins and there’s a cafe.
Crossing Inn
The oldest pub in the Kimberley, lively Crossing Inn provides a chance to meet locals inside its tin shed and across the road at the billabong. Basic accommodation is at the back of the pub.
Halls Creek Caravan Park
This is an OK place to camp, though there isn’t much shade.
Mornington Wilderness Camp
Mornington Wilderness Camp, part of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, lies on the Fitzroy River, a rough 95km drive south of the Gibb’s 247km mark. Guests can camp or stay in spacious tents with verandahs.
El Questro Station Township
The place to start any visit is El Questro Station Township, where there’s a bar, restaurant, tour desk and camping. There’s more accommodation in safari-style tent-cabins at the Emma Gorge Resort (d $270).
Mt Hart Wilderness Lodge
At the enchanting Mount Hart Wilderness Lodge, guests can hike along gorges, cool off in refreshing streams and fish for black bream.
Derby Lodge
Across from the visitors centre, this small, welcoming place has clean, simple rooms with nicely maintained facilities, including two communal kitchens. Only en suite rooms have windows.
Best Western Halls Creek Motel
This Motel has clean, well-equipped rooms, including decent budget rooms, and serves hearty meals at Russian Jack’s.
Kimberley Entrance Caravan Park
Passable sites, not all shaded, close to the mudflats.
Fitzroy River Lodge Motel Hotel & Caravan Park
This place has comfortable motel rooms, safari tents and camping spots, plus a friendly bar with decent counter meals (mains $12 to $26). Sometimes the park has infestations of Singapore ants; if this is the case, campers should not stay here.
Birdwood Downs Station
The 5000-acre Birdwood Downs Station, about 20km from Derby, offers outback accommodation and a range of tours. It’s also the Kimberley School of Horsemanship, with lessons, riding camps and trail rides (two-hour sunset ride $90).
Drysdale River Station
After crossing the Gibb River at 3km, and Plain Creek at 16km, you reach the first fuel stop at 59km, Drysdale River Station, where you can get basic supplies, meals and, in the Dry, set up scenic flights to Mitchell Falls ($325).
Hidden Valley Caravan Park
Under the looming crags of Mirima National Park, this excellent little park has nice grassy sites and is popular with seasonal workers. The self-contained cabins are good value. Bike hire is $15/25 per half/full day.
Mt Elizabeth Station
A little further up the Gibb (at the 345km point) is the turn-off (and 30km drive) to Mount Elizabeth Station, a good base for exploring the gorges, waterfalls and Indigenous rock art on the 200,000-hectare property.
Home Valley Station
At 406km you reach the Kalumburu turn-off and at 579km there are views of the Cockburn Ranges, the Cambridge Gulf and the Pentecost and Durack Rivers.