Three nights/four days in Port Lincoln - we really enjoyed our stay there. It's just a 45 minutes flight from Adelaide; We flew the new Qantas service. They had very cheap airfares - hence our decision to go there. First impression of Port Lincoln came via our taxi driver. He was as friendly as most of the locals we dealt with. The city comes across a clean and pleasant. With about 14,000 inhabitants it is a busy little town which appears have adopted the cafe society judging by the looks of the many cafes in the shopping district. There seems to be a bus service but we chose to ignore it and walked to caught a cab.
www.menulog.com.au/port_lincoln
www.visitportlincoln.net/
The above statue is situated at the foreshore. It depicts "MAKYBE DIVA" the Port Lincoln horse who won the Melbourne Cup, Australia' premier horse racing event, not only once but three times.
www.makybediva.com.au/
The Hotel Port Lincoln was everything we expected including friendly service. The room was the cheap variety and fitted out for disabled yet we had no complaints. The hotel has a swimming pool and a gym. Sharky's bar is a public bar with TAB facilities which we patronised for our first lunch. The shared hamburger was very nice and filled both of us. The hotel also has a bistro and a'la carte restaurant. We had a "light" dinner at the Bistro, ordering a platter and a baguette. More than enough to fill us and well presented - highly recommended. I'd also recommend the hotel for the accomadation.
http://www.portlincolnhotel.com.au/
There is no shortage of hotels within walking distance of our hotel. The Tasman Hotel has their "nights" - we caught the pasta n pizza night. For $10.90 you get to eat all you can - a choice of penne or spaghetti and two sauces: bolognaise or napolitana. The salad bar (included) was sufficient. The pasta/sauce was rather nice; I'd have it again if we should revisit Port Lincoln.
On our second day we walked and managed to end up at the Cove Marina. This would be the place you'd aspire to to live in if you were a Port Linconite. It has a great looking hotel with an outdoor dining area which sits over the water. Unfortunately we must have struck a bad day as I felt the service was well below expectations and my wife saw JUST the meal on the specials board only to be told that it was yesterday's menu. We ended up sharing a seafood platter which certainly was delicious and worth the $30.
There are two chinese reastaurants in Port Lincoln - we lunched at the Ming Inn. The restaurant had a recent makeover which I rather liked. Kinda minimalist with that chinese touch, but I thought square backed chair would have topped off the design. Service and food quality matched the good looks of the place.
When we found out that there was a restaurant which won best seafood restaurant in Australia we had to try it. Del Gorgio was always well patronised when we walked past it. We only managed to get there for breakfast - they serve a beautiful breakfast.
On our last day we thought we'd try the Pier hotel for lunch. Reasonably priced counter meals with a huge serve of very good food.
