Star Hotel, Macksville NSW

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Star Hotel, Macksville NSW

The Star Hotel is a hotel located in Macksville, New South Wales.
They have a bar, great food and drink options and offer accommodation. They also have a great dine-in restaurant.
They have an average rating of 4.2 out of 445 reviews, with the latest ratings ranging from 1 to 5.
Have stayed at The Star a couple of time always enjoyed it. Good food nice person.
16 River St, Macksville NSW 2447
This venue is currently open
Opening hours
Monday: 24 hours
Tuesday: 24 hours
Wednesday: 24 hours
Thursday: 24 hours
Friday: 24 hours
Saturday: 24 hours
Sunday: 24 hours
This venue is currently open

Opening hours

Monday: 24 hours
Tuesday: 24 hours
Wednesday: 24 hours
Thursday: 24 hours
Friday: 24 hours
Saturday: 24 hours
Sunday: 24 hours

Other Clubs and Pubs in Macksville

There are 3 venues in Macksville NSW. This list shows venues that are in Macksville and does not include venues that are in an adjacent town such as 'Macksville North'

Latest reviews for Star Hotel, Macksville NSW

Richard Jagger
02/09/2023
Good value food in a great old pub overlooking the Nambucca River in Macksville.
My marinated chook breast was char grilled and delicious.
The creamyvgarlic king prawns were big prawns and plenty of them!!!
Epic Rides and Tours Sidecar Adventures
22/08/2023
The staff were very friendly and happy to see and great us. Our food was great, and the portion sizes were more than enough. We are looking forward to visiting again soon.
MARY MACKINNON
17/08/2023
I came here for a drink and dinner overlooking the river! Dinner was amazing! I had the Barramundi fillet with sweet potato purée, crispy potatoes, cherry tomatoes, red wine jus and mushrooms. Absolutely fabulous. Highly recommend. Staff were lovely
Kay Farrelly
30/04/2023
Great food absolutely well priced and huge portions. Had to get a doggy bag as couldn't finish. Seems popular as very busy for a Sunday.
Jeff Smith
17/04/2023
Stopped in for the Sunday lunch and was not disappointed. Try the Slow Cooked Beef in Red Wine Sauce or the Green Thai Chicken Curry with Rice and Pappadum. Chill out on the upstairs verandah and take in the river views with your choice of the many drinks on offer. Plenty of parking outside up and down the street. Lovely old pub.
Micheal Scholes
14/04/2023
We stopped in for lunch on our drive for our holiday. Amazing value for money. We both had the chicken snitty for $22 and my partner and I couldn't finish it. Friendly service at the bistro and bar. $7.50 for a stubby cooler is a winner as well
Kay Berczelly
02/03/2023
We saw a lot of negative reviews, but 8 of us decided to have lunch on the balcony, none of us have a complaint, we all had a variety of meals, they were delicious & absolutely no complaints, great food, good service, thank you ??'?
Dick Wesseling
23/02/2023
Had lunch at this hotel on way North. Exceptionally good Crispy Barramundi and Pork Belly. Compliments to the chef for a sumptuous meal and beautiful presented. Choice of ingredients was surprisingly refreshing compared to usual pub fare. Keep it up
Gary Stirling
17/02/2023
Poor experience recently. A few of us booked rooms weeks before. When we arrived, I was told 'I had a problem'. Was told 'someone' had booked me into an occupied room. When I asked what they could do, the response was it was my problem. No apology - I had to work something out for myself. Luckily one of our group offered me a spare bed in his room
We arrived mid afternoon to find tables in upstairs verandah with left over lunch plates with pigeons having a good feed. We asked for someone to clear the plates, when they finally did arrive, they couldn't be bothered to pick up the chips the pigeons had spread around the floor.
We made a wise decision to go to the Services Club around the corner for dinner.
Phil G
14/02/2023
The only redeeming feature of this hotel is the location on the river. Six of us had just stayed at three other country pubs over the previously five days, they all got five stars.

The Royal has great bones and with with some TLC it would be a a destination hotel. It is clearly unloved, motorcycle parking around the back is on loose gravel, with lots of old rubbish that wouldn't take too much to clean up.

Grumpy manager and a nice English backpacker employee took our $90/room. The one redeeming feature of my room was it had air conditioning and four hooks to hang gear, there were no power points! Just as well I had a charged power pack for all of the essential USB devices. Pity if you needed to hook up a CPAP or any other device. The lounge has a couch that was spewing stuffing, most other furnishing with some work would look great, but they were knocked about. The showers were ok but both had floppy mixing taps, someone just doesn't care.

The verandah with the beautiful view of the river could be fantastic but... Obviously a few had had lunch up there on the crowded filthy tables, at 5pm the birds were enjoying the scraps off the plates and off the floor. Everywhere else on the deck was grubby, years of no cleaning

We ate at the RSL it was roast night, excellent food and very friendly staff. It was going to be pizza but it was closed until Tuesday.
Joshua Fairhall
07/01/2023
One of the staff thought to take it upon themselves to call me a "knob" on a private message when I expressed my concern for a staff member with a long history of very sub standard kitchen practices, witnessed by myself and the board of this persons former employer. So I'm sorry to say after 20 years of going there for all sorts of different occasions, I wont be going back there. I'm hearing that I'm not alone in my decision to not go back.
Allison Masuch
01/01/2023
Went for dinner, absolutely appauling customer service from the chef who yelled and sweared at us after checking on our meal for the second time that we had been waiting 2 hours for! Both the chef and RSA marshall were yelling and swearing at us when we requested a refund because we did not receive our food.
DO NOT GO HERE!
A Verschure
31/12/2022
We had to wait 1.5 hours to be told there was no more fish available, worst was that the guy in the kitchen told us every half hour that our meals were on its way.......a quick apology from this manager will not do anymore ....be warned!!!
ross dean
11/12/2022
Found a dirty pair of socks in bedside drawer. Place needs a really good clean both inside & out & a decent coat of paint.
David Jones
29/10/2022
I visit Macksville twice a year and look forward in visiting the Star Hotel for the amazing food and atmosphere. I have never seen anything go down faster than a meteorite. Was looking forward to a nice meal and conversation with friends and family. Food was so dissapointing. Why bother with a special board when there's nothing special to offer except for the expensive price. Oh, don't forget to bring your ear plug unless you like listening to very very loud awful music. Nice to see the manager having a great time dancing to Nutbush city Limit. Not worth the visit, maybe try The Macksville Hotel or Rusty pizza. Hey Star Hotel are you deliberately trying to run the place down.
Karen Nankervis
13/09/2022
From my phone call to book to the beautiful morning view over the river, our overnight stay was perfect for us. Lylah was so helpful in taking our booking and when we arrived, the barman (Clint?) made us feel very welcome. At Lylah's suggest we booked a room with verandah access and were treated to a wonderful view for sunset and sunrise. We had a great night's sleep.
Kerrie Murphy
26/07/2022
Wow this once beautifully run pub has gone backwards. Only a specials board, no menu and hopefully you like meat because that's almost all that's on offer.
Had salad and chips (not on the menu, the only thing for vegans), chips were cold and the salad was made of onion, 2 types of cabbage and beetroot.
Very disappointing compared to previous dining here.
Lj Quinn
31/05/2022
I was so looking forward to having lunch , but no smiles, dirty cutlery, steak was well done when requested rare to medium, girl who took orders hated being there, , warm wine. This cost me $70. You are better off going to bakery..
Imo Wat
04/05/2022
I usually stay in motels for work but this was all that was available. I was so pleasantly surprised! The service from the moment I walked in was lovely, informative and welcoming. Room was tidy, clean and comfortable. Beautiful river views. Cheap happy hr and the best pub meal I've had in a long time !
Meredith Beaton
05/04/2022
Friendly staff from bar to kitchen.
Absolutely THE best bistro meals in Macksville and probably a lot further.
Meals are cooked beautifully, veggies still firm, meat, chicken or seafood all cooked to perfection.
Highly recommend this place
Scott Smith
03/04/2022
I also love this hotel great bar staff great food right opposite the river, macksville has the best hotels .
Jacqueline Larratt
06/03/2022
We are locals & I could not have had a better meal than here with family of 6 on Sunday night.
It beat any resturant around & Sydney eateries hands down.
Thankyou so much for serving quality products & creative fresh flavours.
Steve Wotherspoon
08/02/2022
The best fish and chips, one very well, very fresh. Very popular food spot for the locals. The Nambucca River and the upstairs dinning is specular.
BrandsByG
26/01/2022
Look the rooms are neat and tidy bathrooms clean good value for money and they have a fantastic chef. Issue I have is when 2 staff members take it upon themselves to ruin it with attitude, Un-helpfulness, yet their service varies depending on who you are!! 2 bad eggs, get rid of them. Spoils the experience.
Denna Bowden
18/07/2021
The cakes were unavailable for sale at 3pm despite sitting and looking so delicious. The lady refused to sell them.
Greg Payne
06/07/2021
Have stayed at The Star a couple of time always enjoyed it. Good food nice person.
Vicki Reay
08/06/2021
Great spot on the river front. The food was fabulous with large meals. Monday is Schnitzel Night with a variety to choose from for $17 with a free beer/ wine.
ian mulqueeney
18/05/2021
Sweet place. cosy and great spot for a few drinks or some of the tasty as food. Your tongue, guts, mouth, brain, eyes and feet with thank you for stopping here to take a load off.
Bel Oliver
15/05/2021
Had our farewell here and will miss the star. We had a great night. Beautiful food and fantastic price.
Bec and Andrew Mulholland
10/04/2021
Great pub! Meals were extremely tasty and very large servings. Eating upstairs on the verandah made for an awesome view (although the band that we saw playing downstairs as we were leaving also would have been great to listen to).
Had a great family night out!
Sandra Chaser
16/03/2021
In all my years of dining out never have I ever experienced this level of rude! I asked for a cloth to wipe down a dirty table, was told she didn't have time and tried to hand me a dirty chux cloth (while glaring and sneering at me). I had to go get anti-bacterial Wipes from my car to remove the bird droppings. It completely ruined what would have otherwise been a lovely meal. Next time our money will be spent elsewhere.
Sue Hoy
29/12/2020
Great spot for an over night stay. Clean, comfortable, simple room. Shared facilities. Great position across the road from the river.
Quarter Lyfe Krysis
14/12/2020
Awesome country pub feel. Everybody there even the patrons were friendly. Great furniture and history on display which creates quite the atmosphere. Also has a great view of the river from everywhere in the pub, but the second floor is best. Would 100 percent recommend!
Someotherdude Didit
07/12/2020
Beautiful old fashioned pub with views of the river and macksvilles famous narrow bridge. Food is delicious including desserts n coffee. Yummo!
Dawn Nealon
03/12/2020
This is a great hotel something out of the past. Country hospitality at its best. Local characters add to the ambiance. Great food clean amenities friendly staff. View the river whilst enjoying a great meal in Macksville. Great spot.
Jenny K.
14/11/2020
Characteristic pub with terrace view of Nambucca river, delicious and hugely portioned food! We had the chicken schnitzel and roasted pork belly special which was of bistro quality. I enjoyed every bite and highly recommend!
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