Guestbook

It’s amazing the number of people who pass through our hotel and we forget to ask them to sign the Guestbook or take a snapshot.

If we promise to try to record more of your visits, will you promise to sign the Guestbook and send us your favorite photos of your stay?

prairie_hotel@bigpond.com.au

We’ll put selections on this screen and display the rest.
Look forward to seeing and hearing from you.



Some we caught on camera

  • Philip Noyce, Hollywood film director
  • Christopher Doyle, Cinematographer - "The Prairie Hotel is God's gift to cuisine and fellowship."
  • Lesley Cheung, Asian teen idol and star of "Farewell my Concubine"

 

And some celebs who got away include:

  • Harry Hamlin and Susan Dey
  • Kate Winslett and Harvey Keitel, during filming of 
    Holy Smoke.
  • The Australian Chamber Orchestra.
  • Jane and Anna Campion, director and writer of 
    Holy Smoke.
  • Australia’s own rock songster Paul Kelly
  • Jazz great Don Burrows – who likes to play a few bars in the front bar every now and then…
  • …and The Variety Club Bash motor rally, raising funds for children’s charities during their annual marathon drive.

 

What does the media say?

‘Ordinarily, a traveller in the outback is profoundly grateful to find any refuge at all, but the Prairie Hotel, first licensed in 1876, is no raw outback beerstop. Against all odds, it’s an island of civilisation, gastronomy and comfort.’

- Margaret Hickey, Food & Travel Magazine, 
UK, October 1999

‘The life and soul of Parachilna is the twelve-room Prairie Hotel, which dates from 1906 and is one of the most incongruous places imaginable, an oasis of civilization in the middle of nowhere.’

- Rory Ross, Gourmet New York March 1999

‘But thanks to the vision of Jane Fargher, who bought the place eight years ago, refurbished the interior and – with the help of superb bush-inspired food and modern accommodation – created a gastronomic oasis, this tiny outpost is back on the map.’

- Richard Neill, Decanter Magazine, UK, February '99

The following year the hotel was transformed from a little country pub to one providing some of the best accommodation in the outback. 

- Nigel Austin, Outback Magazine, Australia, June 1999

‘Far away to the east, Sydney chefs are also much caught up in this trend towards using indigenous Australian foods. Somehow there, however, they lack context: at Parachilna, there is a peculiar relevance to these ingredients.’

- Margaret Hickey, Food & Travel Magazine, 
United Kingdom

 

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