Food is ok. But the service and lack of know how at the garden bar restaurant amazed me. When ordering at the bar they had no idea what was happening. I waited 30 minutes for a drink and got it after my food after asking multiple times. My friend waiting for her food so long when a worker was clearing our plates we had to let them know. She watched us eat our whole meal and then got hers. For a place that is somewhat expensive this was not worth it at all....stay away or be ready to wait for your food. read more

Saturday night and the floors are sticky, the music is pumping and the vibe is seedy.... thats my Coogee Bay Hotel experience....Yes, it was fun when I was a teenager, watching the boys with sleaky greasy hair as we pranced around in stilettos, but now our skirts are longer, our self esteem higher but the same greasy hair boys are still there reminding us - somethings never change... For a cool summer drink during the day its fine to hangout but if you like a little bit more of an up market ambience I'd avoid the weekend evenings especially as people are just here to party, and at some point during the night someone outsides going to be bashed up or throwing up... it can all get a bit to messy for my taste.... meh.... I'm too old for this stuff... read more

Coogee Bay Hotel - Hotels Near Me - Coogee, NSW

The beer garden at Coogee Bay Hotel is its stand out feature. A spacious open courtyard that overlooks Coogee Beach, it's filled with long wooden benches and spanning white umbrellas and is clearly the beach-side venue of choice on a sunny summer afternoon. And with Strongbow, Five Seeds and Bulmers ciders on tap, as well as a fridge full of Rekorderlig, Monteiths and Strongbow's entire range, their cider and courtyard combo is hard to beat. If you don't want to risk the sun-stoke and alcohol combo, they also have bottles of Bundaberg Ginger Beer, not just your watery, tasteless dry ginger ale post-mix. Which shouldn't exist. Coogee Bay has a pretty relaxed dress code too, and thankfully. This place would be out of business if they brought in a 'no thongs' law, or even if they insisted on the wearing of shirts. The Hotel is a pretty expansive joint made up of more than a handful of different bars. It also hosts a pretty popular music venue which is pretty large in itself, especially for a pub venue, and has live music here every night. The constant "beepbeepbeepbeepbeep" of food buzzers means that the food here is pretty popular, if considerably pricier than the neighbouring Five-Os. Whilst it doesn't have the kind of charm that you'd find in Sydney's Inner West, it's not bad for a lazy afternoon beverage. read more

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Used to live 150 meters from "The Cooge"... spent my first night and my last night in Australia there. I would normally give it 4 stars but it gets a one star bump for all the fond memories. This place has everything (literally, it's huge) from a sports bar to live music, from outdoor patios to a dance floor. We would come here for a relaxed drink with friends and or we would come here to drink excessively. We often stopped by after coming back from the city... if we got in... They let us watch the Champions League Final here until 6:00 am. It's definitely the kind of place you bring your kids to in 20 years and say, when I was young and living in Australia.... read more

Friendly staff, great views. A nice stop after the small trek from Bondi along the coast.

Chill vibe on a Monday, great for groups, friendly staff, fun food. Half priced meals on Monday.... Worth it

Place is in great location. Food and facilities are good. I'm only giving it three stars as staff in sports bar barely acknowledged me (I was only one at counter) and they continued to have their conversation whilst servings me. Also if ur gambling on horses/dogs etc then none of the tvs were on at 5pm on a Tuesday. read more

How dare I be the white bloke in pluggers at the Coogee bay hotel after dark. As much as I like lebs being the bouncers (white guys are such trouble) social profiling is a lot of fun. Being a white guy still defending the 50's; as fun at is gets even better when as a skinny white guy I get asked to sort it outside (ironically already there) by the protein Mensa bouncer. Living locally I struggle to think how they get the locals to keep coming back for more. Perhaps I should of just had the ice cream and I would have had a shit of a time! read more

Well-designed beer garden in which to spend a warm, sunny day, complete with big table umbrellas so that you're not sitting entirely in the sun. Plus an indoor sports bar, an indoor eating area if you can't get a seat outside or if it's too cold, another indoor bar at which they have live music on weekend evenings, and a good-sized live music venue that isn't used much any more but in its day hosted bands whose names you'd know, before most people knew them. The food they serve is pretty much all designed to go well with alcohol (no surprise here). They offer pub standards like schnitzel and steak, along with burgers and other grilled sangas, fish and chips, other seafood and random salads and sides. Their blackboard specials tend to be delicious. The grilled scampi recently added to the menu during an apparent push to upscale their offerings is to die for, though not inexpensive. They also have some creative pizza options worth a go, although the crust itself is pretty average. Like most establishments in the area, you'd be hard-pressed to find a bargain on food here, although the Monday night 2-for-1 on selected traditional pub menu items gets you closer to a deal. On a nice day, you might find some surfboards or paddle boards propped against the wall at the entrance, their rightful owners just on the other side of the alcohol service boundary. How much more "beach" can you get, than that? Last summer, there was a tiki bar set up where they served tropical cocktails, near the outdoor dining area. NSW laws apply, so there's no smoking in food service areas, even outdoors, and the beer garden features numerous signs to remind you of that so that ignorance of the rule isn't an excuse. However, the bar area at the far southern end of the beer garden does have a clearly marked smoking area, so if you have to "duck out", it's not far. (But still far enough away that those of us who'd rather not join in, get clean air.) Pro tips, other than the obvious Monday 2-for-1 meal deal: (1) If the bar you're in doesn't offer a particular beer on tap, check the other bars in the hotel, as they feature different ones. (2) If you're a visitor coming from the city for dinner and drinks/music later, the 373 bus runs all night (no stupid Nightride milk run route hassles here!), and the pub is open until 6am on the weekends in the sports bar, and usually until 1am-3am depending on crowds in the beach bar that features live music on the weekends. It drops off right at the entrance to the hotel, and picks up on the other side of the street, north a bit. Follow Plan B from the start and take the bus to and from, so that you don't require a designated driver. The bus only runs every hour in the wee hours of the morning, so check the schedule before you go in so that you can pick a reasonable time to end your evening. (3) They have other random deals from time to time. Right now, there's a pizza and Coopers deal for $25, for example. (4) I'm not sure if this is well-advertised, but you can get food for takeaway if you don't have time to enjoy the atmosphere. Between local regulars and travellers with interesting stories to tell, there are plenty of people to just hang out and enjoy a beer with, if you're in the area by yourself. If you're female, don't pay too much attention to the pre-2014 reviews. The Bay used to be a pretty rough place, but it's gentrified considerably in the past couple years. I've gone there dozens of times by myself and never had a problem. Before I moved to Coogee, I would regularly weekend here, getting a pub room for a night so that I could have dinner, stay up late listening to music and then enjoy breakfast back in the brasserie in the morning. Patrons tend to be polite. Blokes will probably try to chat you up, but if you're not interested, they move along quickly enough. Fair warning: You can get into conversations interesting enough that by the time they're all done shouting you and you them, it's well after midnight on a work night. Yes, the Coogee Bay is old school enough that it offers accom. The pub rooms aren't flash, and you have to climb stairs to get to them, but every one has its own ensuite, which is something you can't say about most pub rooms I've stayed in. (There is also deluxe accom, which is more like a typical 4* ... I'd put the pub rooms at 2.5 or so, although as a lover of vintage I'm tempted to give an extra .5 for the (presumably non-working?) motel side tables with built in radios (from the 60's? ... the CBH used to look like a drive-up roadside beach motel with a bar in its pre-beer garden days) in some of the rooms -- parents, show your kids (or grandkids) what roadside motel rooms USED to look like, as these haven't changed all that much! ;-) read more

Location is amazing, great vibe, need more bar staff on a summers day 2 people behind a bar is not enough waiting 10 minutes for a drink is not acceptable and bar staff are slow. read more