Spotting from the Ibis Brisbane Airport

As you can see from my last two posts I spent the night at the Ibis Brisbane Airport with my beautiful wife (and fellow plane spotter) doing some plane spotting. So I thought I would do a post on the hotel for anyone thinking about going here. When I booked the room over the phone I asked for room 815 as I was told this is the best room to ask for for plane spotting. Check in time was the usual 2pm but we arrived just before 1pm and as our room was ready we were allowed to check in. I paid $159 for the room over the phone but doing a goggle search (for this blog) and I found you can get a room for as little as $139.00. We had to pay $40 for parking on top of this as well. There is Wi-Fi available, on arrival you are entitled to one hour internet time complimentary, if you are an ACCOR member you get free Wi-FI for the whole period of your stay. If you are not a member you can pay $10 for a 24 hour period. There are some restrictions on this I was informed but you can have up to three devices per room.. There are two hotels across the road from the airport, the Pullman, a 5 star hotel and the Ibis, a 3.5 star hotel. The hotels are side by side and are only a four minute walk from the domestic train station. The air train operates from 5am - 10pm daily. The Ibis has 243 rooms including 99 Superior rooms. Once in the room we thought the room was incredible, as we not only had a wide window facing south east, we had a tall smaller window facing north. It turns out there is a ninth floor so room 915 would be the same but slightly higher. Room numbers ending 14, 13 and 12  would be just as good but only offer a single window with a south eastly view.
Despite having a roof top garden restaurant it is closed to guests and is only open to functions, this was extremely disappointing as I was not only looking forward to eating up there but doing some spotting from there.

FACING EAST SOUTH EAST

FACING EAST

THROUGH SMALL WINDOW



FACING NORTH EAST

FACING SOUTH

If you look south from the window you can see aircraft parked at the logistics apron (the old international)

The room had an incredibly comfortable bed, a mini bar fridge with milk inside for a cuppa (no mini bar) there was a jug with tea and coffee. The in wall air conditioner work very well and the shower was hot and powerful.
There is no room service available but there is a restaurant / bar / café down on the ground floor called the "Cribb Island Beach Club" . A buffet breakfast is available from 5.30am - 10am and a continental will cost you $11.90 and the full cooked breakfast is $19.90.

If it is lunch you are after there is a café / takeaway section there as well offering take away sandwiches, pies and coffee.
While we had a few drinks in the bar yesterday afternoon, I noticed they had a large selection of beers on tap, house cocktails and wine by the glass or bottle. We had dinner in the restaurant last night and we found the prices were not extreme. Dinner is available from 5pm -10pm. If you get hungry during the night or just want a snack, there is a vending machine in the foyer.


If you walk to the other end of the corridor you can see the work going on for the new runway due to open in mid 2020