Bundaberg's most popular hotel-restaurant is busy all day. The pub food is a step above the competition with tapas, share plates, pizzas, steaks and seafood. It doesn't look much from the outside, or from the inside for that matter, but the restaurant, cafe, bar, beer garden and live music keep the locals streaming through the door.


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1. Alexandra Park & Zoo

0.15 MILES

This lovely sprawling park beside the Burnett River holds plenty of shady trees, flower beds, old cannon, a rotunda and swaths of green lawn for a…

2. Bundaberg Regional Arts Gallery

0.23 MILES

Known by the acronym BRAG, this small (and vividly purple) gallery has surprisingly good exhibitions, representing the local area and various 20th-century…

3. Hinkler Hall of Aviation

1.17 MILES

Sitting in Bundaberg's Botanical Gardens, this modern glass-and-steel museum brings aviation to life through multimedia exhibits, six refurbished aircraft…

4. Bundaberg Rum Distillery

1.64 MILES

Bundaberg’s biggest claim to fame is the iconic Bundaberg Rum: you’ll see the brand's unmistakable polar bear on billboards and bumper stickers all over…

5. Bundaberg Barrel

2.47 MILES

Bundaberg's nonalcoholic ginger beer and other soft drinks aren't as famous as Bundy Rum, but they run a deserved close second. Visit the Barrel to take…

6. Mon Repos Turtle Centre

7.73 MILES

The largest population of marine turtles on Australia's east coast arrives on the beach at Mon Repos every summer, the pregnant loggerheads dragging…

7. Burrum Coast National Park

23.88 MILES

Shifting between a lowland vegetation of stringybark trees, dense mangroves and flat coastal dunes, Burrum Coast National Park is a popular spot for…