Cooper's Country Lodge

The lodge is luxury I don't normally experience in remote outback Australia. The rooms are very generously sized with a well stocked kitchenette and super clean bathroom, plenty of storage for clothes as well. There is a shared living area, full kitchen, outdoor dining area, and fire pit. My partner and I stayed here for 2 nights as part of the Natural history museums' dino package which included a bbq and stargazing kit + tour on our first morning followed by a fossil preparation day course. The whole package was worth it for stellar accommodation, a dinner we didn't need to organise ourselves, and already planned activities. You are still a 5 minute drive from being in town for food options and fuel. Bonus, the museum has a cafe so you can walk (or drive) over and get a barista made coffee in the morning. Super friendly and helpful staff, we arrived 2 hours early and on request were able to be let in our room on arrival. Would definitely stay again if were in that part of the world in the future, even if we weren't visiting the museum (but I do recommend it) the accommodation stands on its own.

Clean, comfortable modern accommodation mixed with outback charm all at a reasonable rate when you include the continental breakfast in the communal dining room/lounge. Signage upon entry clarifying that reception is at the Eromanga Natural History Museum would have been better as both ourselves and the car in front got to the accommodation only to have to return to check in.

This is a new facility and is beautiful inside and out. There are lots of things that are good from the clean lines, the comfortable bed and cleanliness of the large room to the views of the bush at the back and the generous continental breakfast. There's a lovely separate lounge, extra cooking room and a guest laundry. But somehow they don't seem to have got it together in terms of what kind of guests they're expecting. It's expensive and you'd expect the typical guests to be travelling with wheeled luggage and eating out in restaurants (& therefore not needing a sink, microwave or fridge in their room). The car park is at the front of the block but the entrance to the rooms is at the back. So if like us you are self catering and travel with lots of bags not on wheels, you have to cart them all around the back. Each room has a microwave and small fridge but only a very small area to serve as a worktop or desk or eating area. We couldn't fit our food into the small freezer in the fridge in our room and there was a large fridge in the communal room but no freezer. We couldn't help but feel that the room layout could have given more space for preparing meals and an easy chair or two. Ah - but maybe they thought we could use the separate area at the end of the block which contains a lounge and large microwave/roasting oven to cook a meal (instead of in our room?). In addition there was strangely no stove top although there are pans available! Altogether a mixed up experience for us. Its expensive but the location is wonderful and eating breakfast with that stunning peaceful view amazing! And to top it all we had the place all to ourselves......

A few km out of Eromanga feels like the middle of the Outback, and Cooper’s is a great little oasis. Simple but comfortable, it’s a ten minute stroll from the Eromanga Museum of Natural History. Bird life abounds around it, along with kangaroos and lizards. A do-it-yourself breakfast is available in the guest kitchen. A great place to stay in the spot furthest from any ocean in Australia (according to the sign!)

The rooms and breakfast are lovely, and unlike anything else for hundreds of kilometers. The price is excellent value for any location. We stayed for three nights - worth it for the views, the local bird watching sites and the quiet. And you are supporting the magnificent Eromanga Natural History Museum while you stay. We watched the stars out by the campfire one of the nights - a very memorable trip.

My husband and I stayed here while visiting Eromanga. Highly recommend this accommodation. It has everything you need. It is spacious, clean and tidy and far surpassed our expectations. The bed was extremely comfortable too. You have basic cooking facilities within your unit but there is a separate area at the end of the units where you have full kitchen facilities including a larder packed with breakfast goodies. It was ideal as we wanted to visit the Museum which was just down the road. We stayed for 3 nights and we drove out along one of the back roads one night to get an amazing sunset.