Name: Lismore Gateway Motel
Address: 99 Ballina Road, Lismore, NSW2480, AU

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jun 2026

Scott

It came across as brand new, all very clean and tidy and the management were very friendly

Self

10/10

Exceptional

14 Apr 2026

Tonie

Good location, opposite Aldi. They have a great shared kitchenette and laundry facilities available. Lovely pool.
Quiet as well. Friendly staff when we checked in. Will definitely stay here again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Mar 2026

John

Had a lovely stay at this Motel when we visited Lismore. Highly recommended

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Mar 2026

Joseph

Nice place.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

18 Mar 2026

Joseph

Nice place.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

18 Mar 2026

Joseph

Nice place to stay.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

30 Dec 2025

Corey

The place was spotless and well cared for. The room felt brand new and decor and amenities were lovely. All staff that we spoke to were cheerful, chatty, helpful and friendly. We will be back for sure!

Business_and_leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Dec 2025

Tammy

We had an excellent stay. Will come again

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

16 Dec 2025

bruce

Excellent motel, very clean & comfortable beds

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

20 Oct 2025

Chris

Excellent service from John at reception was helpful and offered a number of suggestions. I stayed two nights and mostly walked to everything I needed to attend. The Lismore Gateway Motel was a real find that I wasn't expecting.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

09 Oct 2025

Shane

Cannot fault this accom. Really nicely appointed and quiet room with great facilities and close proximity to shops and food options. Would not hesitate and hope to stay here again

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

25 Aug 2025

Maureen

Short but lovely!

Only a short stay but thoroughly restful. Neat clean and modern - lovely comfy bed. Reception extremely helpful and welcoming!

Self

10/10

Exceptional

03 Aug 2025

Brendon

Very neat tidy and clean. Great friendly staff

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

31 Jul 2025

Brett

Nice staff, clean and nice rooms.

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jul 2025

Lily

Amazing Motel, so clean and spacious. The room had everything we needed and was so relaxing. Would recommend this motel to anyone!

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

13 Jul 2025

Dianne

Good

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jun 2025

Matthew

Excellent.

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

29 May 2025

Patrice

As usual. I had a great stay. Very clean and staff are amazing

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

18 May 2025

Rebecca

Brand new and beautifully fitted out Motel. Highly recommend.

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

07 May 2025

Patrice

Staff were so friendly, the room was beautiful very clean and very fancy.
Had a fantastic stay and look forward to returning in the future.

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

07 May 2025

Rebecca

Better than most city hotels. New, shiny and stylish with everything you need

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

05 May 2025

Dianne

Great place to stay. Very central. Staff could not be more helpful and pleasant. Would recommend motel.

Business_and_leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

20 Apr 2025

Pradip

Nice motel feels like hotel.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 Apr 2025

Beau

Top quality accommodation, but you pay accordingly

Definitely the best place to stay when work is paying.
But every place is expensive in Lismore.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

06 Feb 2025

Bede

Great place to stay for work. All is fresh and new. Great friendly service

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

05 Feb 2025

Doug

Great

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

01 Jan 2025

Amith

Sherry and Jim were very helpful at the front desk. This place has beautiful pool and amazing access to aminities.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

23 Nov 2024

Paul

The new management team are awesome

Business Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Nov 2024

Kim

Fantastic Lismore Motel

We had a lovely comfortable stay at Lismore Gateway Motel. The Motel is very well located, close to the centre of town, easy to find and had undercover parking. The staff were helpful and friendly. Its a new Motel with very well maintained gardens and pool.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

23 Feb 2022

Amanda

Comfortable and close to everything.

Well situated near cafes,shops,services and hospitals. Comfortable and easy lift access. Lovely gardens and pool.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

26 Jan 2022

Hillary

Friendly and Comfortable

Overnight trip for work.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jan 2022

Aaron

Our stay at the Lismore Gateway Motel was highly enjoyable.

The staff were so accommodating and friendly and truly went out of their way to provide exceptional service. The rooms and grounds are kept to the highest standard of cleanliness.

I highly recommend this motel to anyone who is looking for somewhere to stay in Lismore.

Leisure Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

14 Jan 2022

Esther

Very helpful people

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jan 2022

Mona

We visited Lismore Gateway Motel during the Covid 19 Pandemic at a time when the travel restrictions had just been lifted. This caused a surge in the numbers of people travelling and we were lucky to get a booking. The pandemic had caused staff shortages across the hospitality industry and Lismore Gateway Motel was also dealing with this problem.
Brad and his team were very professional in the way they dealt with problems arising from this situation. They worked hard to ensure that their guests were comfortable and satisfied with their stay and the services provided by the motel.
We have family in Lismore and will be staying at Lismore Gateway Motel on all our future visits.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

05 Jan 2022

Rajeev

Very centrally located

Leisure Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

03 Aug 2021

Verified traveler

This motel is centrally located near cafes and restaurants. The rooms are modern and tastefully decorated. The staff are friendly and helpful.

Business_and_leisure Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

14 Jul 2021

Verified traveler

Friendly staff, convenient location and super clean and comfortable.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jul 2021

Verified traveler

Cleanliness

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

08 Jun 2021

Verified traveler

Cleanliness, quality of accommodation, excellent breakfast and service.

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

11 Apr 2021

Verified traveler

Another expensive $160 per night motel in a country town! Recently built and in very good order! Swimming pool that I did not use! Nothing in the fridge apart from the milk! Difficult to get a beet but Dan Murphy is just up the road. Restaurant was not open ? COVID 19 stuff! Overall very good but the shower is better in the Bounty! And the food is great in the Bounty restaurant!

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

03 Jan 2021

Dariush

Very spacious and clean room.

Excellent hotel. Very clean and spacious room. A very nice surprise. Good location. Much better than expected. 5 star quality.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

27 Oct 2020

Tracey

Modern and comfortable

Very comfortable and quiet even though the motel is on the main road. The rooms with the balcony that look over the pool are very spacious. The balcony gives you privacy from the other guests so makes a nice place to eat a take away meal.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

12 Sep 2020

Verified traveler

I like the Gateway because it is modern, clean and the beds are comfortable. It is also close to good places to eat.

Friends_and_family Partner

10/10

Exceptional

20 Mar 2020

Steve

Went for business and clean friendly staff and fantastic meals

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

24 Feb 2020

Joanna

Good size room

Comfortable and big room

Business

10/10

Exceptional

01 Feb 2020

Verified traveler

Nice clean property in really good condition. Great staff!

Family

8/10

Excellent

30 Dec 2019

Verified traveler

We really enjoyed our stay .
Great staff nice pool.
BUT .
One reason for staying was the restaurant but it wasn't open at night while we were there .
Its not open every day for breakfasts .
We had breakfast and it was great food .
Restaurant needs to be open every day for breakfast and dinner .

Friends_and_family Partner

10/10

Exceptional

01 Dec 2019

Verified traveler

The friendly staff and management looked after us as a group and took care of any special requests .... just great

Leisure Friends

6/10

Pleasant

31 Oct 2019

Verified traveler

Complete lack of customer service skills at check in, and my earlier request by messaging the hotel to join two single beds together was completely ignored and a poor excuse from front office staff member. Very disappointed.

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

11 Oct 2019

Verified traveler

The bed was comfotable. The motel is in a central position.

Friends_and_family Partner

8/10

Excellent

10 Oct 2019

Verified traveler

Clean and good value ... Good location and easy parking

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Aug 2019

Verified traveler

We loved eveything about the room and motel and also loved the bed was so comfy and pillows were so soft really nice and it was very clean thumbs up to the whole team and thank u for the early check in will go back for sure

Friends_and_family Partner

6/10

Pleasant

04 Aug 2019

Lyle

Unfair

Happy with all the workers, food and bar staff. On departure I received an unusual email about their bank details changing. I dropped back in to check what this has to do with me as they had my cc details to make final charges. The lady at the counter was explaining it to me when an older gentleman interjected uninvited and was as rude as ever, smug and sarcastic. After this I have made the decision to never return to this place again. Unfair to the rest of their team as they were excellent. I will make regular visits to the area, around 30 nights a year and will be looking else where.

10/10

Exceptional

23 Jul 2019

Verified traveler

Our overall experience was excellent, the room and motel very clean and tidy. The room was very quiet and spacious.

Friends_and_family Partner

8/10

Excellent

08 Jul 2019

Lance

Next door to barking dogs that bark all night long and early mornings!

10/10

Exceptional

26 Jun 2019

Gary

Absolute great hotel.

8/10

Excellent

22 Jun 2019

Matt

Nice Solid Motel

Solid motel and good facilities - needs a better clean through out the bathrooms

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jun 2019

Verified traveler

A Lovley venue for a rest.

The Lismore Gateway was clean and neat with a very engaging staff; close to anything you might wish to see in the area.

Family

6/10

Pleasant

26 May 2019

Verified traveler

We stayed for 3 nights. Cleaning was pulling up the beds not even making them properly or picking up pillows off the floor.

No vacuuming of the room or bathroom. No wiping of the benches. Extremely disappointed.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

24 May 2019

Verified traveler

Went to Lismore for a sporting event held Southern Cross uni.. Gateway compared to other people’s accom photo was total luxury...
Gateway is great location to everything around Lismore, we walked 3 min to Lismore Workers club - great feed & kids (10-12yrs )loved the play room, 5min to town centre...
Despite being on main road, glass doors are sound proof so heard absolutely nothing..
We had a king room #6 with balcony over the pool & would gladly stay there again.

Business_and_leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

05 May 2019

Bridget

Overnight for business

A good hotel for a mid-week stay. There were some issues with the shower but it was handled well. The on site restaurant did a great meal, well priced and the rooms were well appointed

8/10

Excellent

18 Apr 2019

IPP2019

Very neat & tidy, close to heart of town has a restaurant open for breakfast & dinner only some days found this a little inconvenient for a family especially in the morning. Staff were very friendly.

Business Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

31 Mar 2019

Verified traveler

The room was clean and roomy, with a really comfortable King bed. Staff friendly and welcoming.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Mar 2019

Verified traveler

Central location for our needs large rooms great bathroom and the restaurant was excellent food well prepared for both dinner and breakfast Shell and Nicole looked after us very well 😀

Business_and_leisure

10/10

Exceptional

18 Feb 2019

Sarah

Wonderful site - very impressed! Large room - really clean and new. Friendly staff!

Business

10/10

Exceptional

15 Feb 2019

Verified traveler

Our key cards didn’t work and had to be reprogrammed, a small thing, but we were staying there for medical reasons and after travelling needed to urgently use the facilities. The delay nearly undid us!

Business Partner

10/10

Exceptional

12 Jan 2019

Verified traveler

Nice and clean

Great place and friendly staff. Bed was a bit hard and not so soundproof but otherwise a great hotel.

10/10

Exceptional

11 Jan 2019

Verified traveler

Staff went out of their way to assist us with a late check-in, were flexible with children's meals and generally went over and above to make the stay comfortable and enjoyable. The central location is excellent too.

8/10

Excellent

01 Nov 2018

Verified traveler

I regularly stay here for business and it is in my opinion the best hotel available in the area. Staff are always friendly and the rooms have everything you would expect from a hotel.

10/10

Exceptional

29 Oct 2018

Ray

Everything about this motel was outstanding. It seemed more like a high class city hotel than your average country motel.

6/10

Pleasant

08 Oct 2018

Verified traveler

Not Recommended

The bath room had drain flies all over the place which disgusted me, the towels and bed sheets did not look clean

8/10

Excellent

03 Oct 2018

Fi

Does the job well.

Quiet room overlooking car park and neighbors. Was very refreshing to have a window that one could open to get fresh air with no security risk at night. Big well appointed bathroom but was lacking a few essential toiletries like bath / shower gel. Used the shampoo in the bath and then that was it. Lovely well presented breakfast. Fairly basic facility, clean neat and tidy but felt pretty spartan, good if you are not looking for luxury, a great bed and a quiet nights sleep was what I desperately needed and got. Happy :)

8/10

Excellent

30 Sep 2018

Verified traveler

Quality Motel in Lismore

Stylish modern accommodation, friendly staff. Restaurant a plus with quality meals.

10/10

Exceptional

25 Sep 2018

Andrew

Manager was brilliant, there were no available taxis, so the manager drove us to a party we were attending.

10/10

Exceptional

30 Aug 2018

Tracey

A relaxing haven after a full day on the road.

This is easily the best motel in Lismore. It is relatively new, fresh, and the rooms are spacious and comfortable. All rooms have a very pleasant balcony that overlooks the pool. The pool area with its well tended tropical gardens and water feature creates a relaxed holiday vibe.

Family

8/10

Excellent

29 Aug 2018

Maz

Great restaurant

Staff great . Lovely meal. Rooms were good but need a slip mat in the shower as it is very slippery when wet. Will stay there again though

8/10

Excellent

20 Aug 2018

Amy

The Motel was clean/ bright . Very modern. I would recommend it!

8/10

Excellent

29 Jul 2018

Verified traveler

Always good

8/10

Excellent

26 Jul 2018

Verified traveler

The best place to stay in Lismore

8/10

Excellent

22 Jul 2018

Anthony

Great place to stay

Stayed a few nights. Great place. The one thing that's missing is a gym

10/10

Exceptional

22 Jul 2018

Anthony

Relaxing atmosphere

What a lovely stay. Very clean rooms, lovely staff. I will be back, thank you Gateway Motel

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jun 2018

Kev

Great and comfortable hotel..
Amanda will look after all of your needs
Keep in mind, restaurant not open Saturday nights. But plenty of great place to eat in Lismore..

10/10

Exceptional

24 May 2018

jen

Centrally located in Lismore, the gateway motel is value for money compared to other motels in area. We where in a bright room with no traffic noise. Will stay again.

8/10

Excellent

18 Apr 2018

laura

Clean and comfortable room. Quiet but close to town centre.

10/10

Exceptional

16 Apr 2018

johnacau

Modern, clean, comfortable, quiet, good parking

Great for families with adjoining rooms. Lovely wide corridors and easy access

8/10

Excellent

12 Apr 2018

Verified traveler

Clean and friendly does not open for dinner Saturday or breakfast Sunday was only downside

8/10

Excellent

29 Mar 2018

Verified traveler

Very disappointing the restaurant and bar closed Sat night despite the website stating closed on Sundays only. Would not recommend to weekend stayers.
Vending machine products were all stuck no one to contact despite visiting reception prior to closing.

10/10

Exceptional

11 Mar 2018

Verified traveler

This hotel is very clean, with great facilities and friendly staff. Would highly recommend.

10/10

Exceptional

04 Mar 2018

mimi

Very comfortable..close to everything.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 Feb 2018

Mary

Great Staff and Comfortable Stay

Amanda and the staff at Lismore Gateway were exceptional. Nothing was a problem - from having a few drinks in the lounge early afternoon to finding my mobile phone which I left behind. Great service. Comfy rooms and bed too - with a large bathroom. Two points for fellow travellers: Sundays are very quiet - no lounge or dining room service. Also the rooms in the back overlook many homes which can be quite noisy. The hotel is in a great location and we will use it again when we are in Lismore. Thank you.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

20 Feb 2018

Doug

First room had a smoke smell, ashtray outside

Had a good stay overnight, breakfast was overcharged but fixed finally.

8/10

Excellent

04 Feb 2018

Michael

Modern large room but a little sparse.

Very friendly and helpful manager. The room was large and modern but just lacked ambience. Restaurant does not open on weekends.

8/10

Excellent

11 Jan 2018

katie

Clean and comfortable. Nice pool and surrounds. Good for children. Friendly staff. Only stayed one night for a family function.

10/10

Exceptional

02 Jan 2018

Verified traveler

Very nice modern hotel. Its worth the extra cost for the comfort.

6/10

Pleasant

24 Nov 2017

Verified traveler

good

it was
very good.

8/10

Excellent

25 Oct 2017

Paul

Modern and Comfortable

Room was clean and modern. Bathroom spacious and with shower over the bathtub. No room service for breakfast was my only real complaint. Will stay again.

10/10

Exceptional

11 Oct 2017

Kym

Convenient Motel

Service from ALL staff was great. Facilities were very good. Happy to return next trip.

10/10

Exceptional

05 Oct 2017

Nathan

this hotel is clean and modern and the online booking through wotif was simple and easy and the staff onsite were friendly and helpful

10/10