A Royal Tour

[Williamson]

A day ride a couple of months ago, got the Royal treatment. The idea is to take a day ride and get a pic of your ST in front of a Royal Hotel.

The Royal Hotel at Ferntree Gully:


The Royal Hotel at Drouin:


The Royal Hotel at Koo Wee Rup:


The Royal Hotel at Loch:


Around 500km for the day.

Royal Hotels are pretty common in AUS, not sure about the USA, probably common in CAN. Anyway, let's see what you boys can do.

 

[ToddC]

Nice..!! But what is a "Pokie"..???? First pic reader board....

T

 

[Upt' North]

Nice..!! But what is a "Pokie"..???? First pic reader board....

T

I'm guessing if you have to ask Todd, you definitely don't want one!
I blame it all on them living upside down, can't be healthy.
Upt'North.

 

[Al Gully]

Royal Hotels are pretty common in AUS, not sure about the USA, probably common in CAN. Anyway, let's see what you boys can do

Never heard of them in Canada. Must be just an AUS franchise.

 

[paulcb]

Google says a "pokie" is a poker machine.

 

[Williamson]

Google says a "pokie" is a poker machine.

Correct! Older models also know as one armed bandits.

 

[ibike2havefun]

If the Royal Hotel chain exists in the States ("colonies"...), I was unable to guess their URL or find them with 15 seconds of desultory Googling... but I like the notion of your game.

 

[Williamson]

Methinks some of you misunderstand, Royal Hotel is not a chain in Australia.

The "Royal" comes from the the 1800's when loyalty to King, Queen and Country was very strong with the early settlers (who were mainly English). We also have many "George" and "Victoria" Hotels - named after King and Queen, and likewise the Duke of Kent and Duke of Wellington Hotels, named after ......... well I guess you get the point.

 

[Upt' North]

And of course we never fought a war of independence with you nice down under folk!
Don't tell anyone I said that, scchhhhh.
Upt'North.

 

[Williamson]

Getting ready for another Royal Tour, thought I better see if the thread is still active, found it (d'oh!), realise I have not yet posted the 2nd Royal Tour, so here goes ....

Royal Mail Hotel, Whittlesea


Royal Mail Hotel, Yea


Royal Hotel, Seymour


Royal Hotel, Benalla


These are from May 2018 (yikes, how time flies), my pic folder on my laptop indicates that this was my ride route:


I stayed at the Royal Hotel, Benalla. Plenty of cold beers, a nice meal, room upstairs, plenty of water for the AM shower - pub (hotel) stays are good. In fact, pub stays are very popular with the touring motorcyclist here in AUS. Many pubs offer accommodation at very good rates (some still as low as $50 per head per night, but many are getting greedy), beers & meals on premises, most will offer off-street parking, sometimes under-cover. Basically once your bike is parked, you have everything you need without walking anywhere.

Off-street, undercover parking? Often the manager / owner will move their car out of their garage to allow you to park your bike.

 

[Obo]

Sounds like the Royal treatment.

 

[catcher]

In the town of my youth, there was this - https://www.theroyalhotel.ca/ However, it looked very different in those days. More recently, a zillion dollars have been spent to convert it to a very effective tourist trap!

 

[Williamson]

In the town of my youth, there was this - https://www.theroyalhotel.ca/ However, it looked very different in those days. More recently, a zillion dollars have been spent to convert it to a very effective tourist trap!

Yikes, rooms from $369 per night, way outta my class when motorcycle touring.