White Cliffs Underground Motel
The White Cliffs Underground Motel is a huge underground complex with 30 underground rooms and 2 above ground rooms. It has been open as a Motel for over 20 years welcoming guests from all over the world for an experience that is absolutely unique, bringing together the vast outback, underground living and Opal mining.
The motel boasts a tranquility that ensures a relaxed and peaceful stay. Once you venture underground, the distractions of modern life are let behind. There is no radio or mobile phone coverage, no fridge, TV or bathroom noise. Generally facilities and amenities are located along the edge of the complex, supporting both the peace of underground living, and the stability of the soil structure.
PLEASE NOTE THE SWIMMING POOL IS NO LONGER IN ACTION.
The rooms are known as ‘dugouts’ where you sleep nestled in the hill, in a cosy constant temperature insulated from the harsh and noisy environment of the external world. Rooms can accommodate from 1 person to 5 people, with adjoining rooms for large groups or families.
The complex contains a licensed restaurant, cafe and bar, which was all renovated and altered in 2012. Lunch is available, fresh and tasty meals are served each evening in the restaurant, and breakfast is served from 7.00 to 9.30 in the dining room each morning. It is likely that you will sit with and warm to someone you have never met. It is here that friendships are formed and people chat well into the evening, often seeking the same people to share breakfast with the next morning.
Underground, the motel remains a constant and comfortable 22 to 23 degrees, all year.