Mercure Darwin Airport Resort

They say they have the best swimming pool in darwin

Great location. Basic rooms with comfortable bed. Limited options for breakfast - we eventually found out about the “pool view” cafe in the Novotel (the pool is dry) which had better breakfast options for us as we had small children who only wanted toast and not the buffet breakfast at the Mercure. (We were told it would be $15 for children over 5 (our grandchild is 6) but then other people said they were told it was free.!? Had some trouble with parking - paying guests should be assigned at least 1 car park per room - however this wasn’t the case and we had to park in the “overflow” area across the road and carry our luggage over. Definitely need a car or vehicle to go anywhere. Great new pool but don’t stand on the fake turf on a hot day as it burns your feet! Don’t forget to ask for “Territorian rates” if you are a local - show your drivers licence and get a discount.

Very Realaxing accommodation! and impressive rooms renovation ☺️

Property is very pretty with gorgeous gardens, pool is stunning but unfortunately in the wet season the pool is warm as soup .

The only good thing about this place was the bed, it was very comfy. The new pool looks absolutely stunning but it wasn't open so we couldn't try it. There were cockroaches all through our room, we counted about eight before I gave up. We booked this hotel because it was convenient to the airport with our flight coming in so late at night. Had that not been the case and it was earlier, I would've cancelled my booking and gone elsewhere. It is very overpriced. Bit of a shame really as it has the potential to be a great place.

We went there for 2 nights at the beginning of our stay since we landed 1:30am and the hotel was close. We booked a 1 bedroom deluxe suite in the Mecure which I found excellent. The Novotel, Mecure and Ibis is basically one complex with one central reception at the entrance which serves all 3. We had breakfast included and went to the Mecure buffet breakfast was was good. The Novotel supposedly does an A La carte breakfast. We went to the Novotel one night for dinner, the atmosphere was that of a workers meal location and assume that what it was in the day and is now, I think Novotel must have changed the pool facing conference room from the original Novotel restaurant..... Anyway terrible looking restaurant, food was good but look and feel of restaurant dreadful.. Staff were all friendly and good except for main reception female manager with short hair and no name badge was cold and dreadful with no customer service at all. Worst reception person I have ever come across in my life. I verified and the 2nd day I could bring my rental car in to pick up our suitcases our our room was at the back of the resort, day 1 reception staff said that was fine, day 2 when I spoke to this short haired female manager said no and it would cost $20 to drive in through gate to pick our bags up..... although I said I was told it would be ok to pick bags up. I also informed her my door didn't close properly although it looked locked and said the door needs adjusting and she said it was nothing to do with her and it was my fault and she said she would someone to look at it which I never saw, she never smiled once and was horrible. Anyway I went back later and saw another manager as this rude manager was serving someone else and I asked her about picking our bags up through gate and she that was fine to drive in and pick the bags up. Also main Novotel pool looked fine was closed due to whoever knows which we would have loved to swim in.

We stayed in a new king suite and it was lovely, food was great and the pool is spectacular, need more shade though

I stay here once every few months when I am working in Arnhem Land. I usually fly in on the weekend, stay at the Mercure for a night or two then fly out to work on the Monday morning. It has been very convenient for that purpose, but it has, until now, also been a nice play to stay. Now that they have 'centralised' the Mercure and the Novotel, everything is in disarray. The facilities themselves are much worse, and the service staff are disorganised and ignorant of the new processes. I'm sure they are doing their best to adjust to new circustances, but the experience from a traveller's perspective is much worse. I actually extended my stay this time because I thought I would use the new pool at the Novotel. I've seen them building it over the last 12 months and it looks great. However it was only once I checked in that I learned the pool is not working. Not only that, but they have clearly let the Mercure pool itself go into disrepair, probably because the Novotel pool was supposed to supersede it. It is a very strange state of affairs though because the Novotel pool looks pristine but we are told it has a 'plant issue' while the Mercure pool has traffic cones around it, brickwork failing around the edges, and ghetto looking furniture. It makes no sense... what 'plant issue' lasts for months? The Mercure has been my go-to stop when I am working in the territory but I will have to reconsider that in the future.