Pre-Cruise Hotels · Broome
Ten hotels for the night before a Kimberley voyage, scored on what they publish. Most lines collect you from your hotel, so the evening matters more here than the distance, and none of the ten says breakfast is in a standard rate.
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Matching weighs your answers against each hotel’s published shuttle, parking, breakfast, pool, kitchen and pet policies.
Five answers, and the page builds the whole thing: the hotel, the ride in, the ride to the ship, what happens to the car, what time to leave, and how you get home. Every figure is one the hotel, its brand, the Broome Visitor Centre or the line publishes. Where nobody publishes a number, you’ll see that instead of a guess.
There’s no cruise parking to price here, so the plan assumes you fly in.
Who’s coming and the mood come from Your Match; the plan uses the same answers.
There are no partner links in this plan. It’s built only from what the lines, the airport, the Broome Visitor Centre and each hotel publish.
Moonlight Bay Suites and the Mangrove tie on 34, next door to each other on Roebuck Bay; Moonlight takes first on our straight-line tiebreak, by metres. Habitat Resort is third, the nearest to the jetty, with two pools; the Cable Beach Club, with the most to do the night before, is fourth.
Narrow the ten by what your night needs. Save the ones you like. Tick up to three to compare side by side — the order is ours, the shortlist is yours.
Why ten? We checked fourteen and ranked ten; the four we left out are at the bottom of the page.
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All 10 hotels
Self-contained suites on Roebuck Bay with a kitchen, a 28 m pool and a gym, about 5.2 km from the port jetty.
Sixty rooms on Roebuck Bay with The Bay Club, two pools and a gym, about 5.2 km from the port jetty.
Apartments and bungalows on Port Drive with two pools, the nearest of our ten to the jetty at about 1.9 km.
The resort on Cable Beach, with four places to eat, two pools, a spa and a gym, about 7.4 km from the port jetty.
A Town Beach hotel with the 1861 restaurant and two pools, the nearest of our town picks to the port at about 4.3 km.
Courtyard villas at Cable Beach with a saltwater pool, a day spa and an in-house café, about 7.1 km from the port jetty.
Units to three bedrooms near Cable Beach with kitchenettes, Cables Restaurant and several pools, about 7.1 km from the port jetty.
A town-centre hotel on Weld Street with the Conti Bar & Bistro, about 4.7 km from the port jetty.
Fifty-eight self-contained rooms with a pool and an airport shuttle, the nearest of our ten to the airport at about 900 m.
One- to three-bedroom apartments near Cable Beach with full kitchens, two heated pools and luggage storage, about 6.8 km from the port jetty.
Booking.com lists airport taxis you can book ahead. Check the pickup point, the price and the cancellation terms before you book.
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Pick how you’re arriving. The board counts what each hotel publishes, the table lights up that column, and the cards below are the rides from the airport.
None of the ten runs its own ride to the ship, and most lines collect you. Two resorts run paid guest airport shuttles; Broome Transit covers the rest.
Broome Airport · about 1.4 km from Chinatown by our pins; Broome Transit AU$15–20 a person
AU$15 to Town Beach, AU$20 to Cable Beach, one way; tickets on arrival at the airport, per the Broome Visitor Centre.
About AU$15–20 to Town Beach and AU$28–35 to Cable Beach. Chinatown Taxis and Broome Taxis use the rank; Broome Private Taxis takes bookings only.
True North and Kimberley Quest collect from your accommodation from about 16:00. Check your joining instructions.
Driving? It barely applies. See the parking note below.
| Hotel | To the ship | While you sail | From BME |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | Not stated | |
Broome International Airport (BME)The hotel doesn’t mention an airport transfer. Broome Transit runs from the airport to Town Beach for AU$15 a person, per the Broome Visitor Centre. To the shipNo ride to the ship is listed. Our jetty pin is about 5.2 km away; True North and Kimberley Quest collect from your accommodation, so give them this address. | |||
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | Not stated | |
Broome International Airport (BME)The hotel doesn’t mention an airport transfer. Taxis to Town Beach run about AU$15–20, per the Broome Visitor Centre. To the shipNo ride to the ship is listed. The jetty is about 5.2 km in a straight line from our pin; give your line this address for the pickup. | |||
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | Not stated | |
Broome International Airport (BME)Hotels.com lists no airport shuttle and puts the airport a 6-minute drive away. A taxi is the plan. To the shipNo ride to the ship is listed. By our pins Habitat is about 1.9 km from the jetty, the nearest of our ten, on the same road. That’s still a pickup, not a walk, through a working port. | |||
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | Paid shuttle; get a quote | |
Broome International Airport (BME)A paid, prebooked resort shuttle; the resort’s page and the Broome Visitor Centre disagree on the price, so get a quote when you book. Villa guests get a private transfer, per the resort. To the shipNo ride to the ship is published. The jetty is about 7.4 km away by our pins, the farthest of our ten, so let your line collect you here. | |||
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | No transfer | |
Broome International Airport (BME)Oaks says it doesn’t offer airport transfers; take a taxi or rideshare. It puts the airport about a 5- to 6-minute drive away. To the shipOaks offers no transfers. The jetty is about 4.3 km in a straight line, the nearest of our town picks; your line’s pickup or a taxi does it. | |||
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | No transfer; reception helps | |
Broome International Airport (BME)Bali Hai doesn’t run airport transfers, but reception can help arrange one. It puts the airport about a 10-minute drive away. To the shipNo ride to the ship is listed. The jetty is about 7.1 km in a straight line; reception can help arrange transport, the resort says, and most lines collect you. | |||
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | No transfer | |
Broome International Airport (BME)Oaks says it doesn’t offer airport transfers; take a taxi, a rideshare or a hire car. Taxis to Cable Beach run about AU$28–35, per the Broome Visitor Centre. To the shipOaks offers no transfers. The jetty is about 7.1 km in a straight line, so let your line collect you here or book a taxi. | |||
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | Not stated | |
Broome International Airport (BME)Booking.com lists no airport shuttle. Taxis to town run about AU$15–20, per the Broome Visitor Centre. To the shipNo ride to the ship is listed. The jetty is about 4.7 km in a straight line from our pin; give your line the hotel’s name for the pickup. | |||
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | Shuttle; ask the price | |
Broome International Airport (BME)The resort runs an airport shuttle; ask it for the current fare, since the older published prices may have changed. By our pins the airport is about 900 m away, the nearest of our ten. To the shipNo ride to the ship is listed. The jetty is about 5.2 km in a straight line; give your line this address for the pickup. | |||
| Shuttle not stated | Cruise parking unconfirmed | Not stated | |
Broome International Airport (BME)Mantra doesn’t mention an airport transfer. It puts the airport about a 10-minute drive away. To the shipNo ride to the ship is listed. The jetty is about 6.8 km in a straight line, so use your line’s pickup or a taxi. | |||
Every distance ends at our Port of Broome jetty pin, and every one is a straight line between our own estimated pins, not a route. Most lines collect you, so treat these as a rough guide.
No walking times: the jetty is at the end of Port Drive in a working port, and the lines run the transfer.
Five things make a night before easy or hard. In Broome the evening does most of the work, because the lines run the ride. Points come from the hotel, its brand or, where we name it, a tourism board. Booking platforms never score.
Silence scores zero, not a guess. Booking sites don’t count, and a walking time to “the harbour” isn’t a walking time to a cruise quay.
By band, from our jetty pin: Port Drive, within 3 km, 30; town and Chinatown, within 6 km, 25; Cable Beach, 20. The bands are wide because nobody walks to the ship.
A transfer the hotel runs or arranges, with a published price, 25. A ride only inside a package 20. The hotel’s own ride with no published fare 15. A walk the hotel itself prints at half a mile or less 15. Nobody in Broome scores here; no hotel publishes its own ride to the ship. Line pickups are the line’s arrangement, not the hotel’s.
A published rate to leave the car at the hotel while you cruise 20; offered, but unpriced or not guaranteed, 14. Day rates in a public garage don’t count. Nobody scores here either.
A breakfast the hotel says is included scores 10. Nobody scores. The Cable Beach Club includes breakfast only in its Villas, and Oaks only in an offer.
Pool 3, food or a bar on site 3, a kitchen in the room 3, a sauna or spa 3, a gym 3. Habitat Resort’s two pools and The Continental’s Conti Bar & Bistro score because the operators say so; the kitchens, bars, pools and gym that only booking platforms list don’t. A kitchen in only some rooms doesn’t count.
Ties are broken in order: any published parking for your cruise, any stated ride to the ship, free breakfast, then the shorter straight-line distance to the Port of Broome jetty. Moonlight Bay Suites takes first from the Mangrove, both on 34, because our pin for it sits a few metres nearer the jetty; treat that as a tie. Bali Hai edges Oaks Cable Beach, both on 29, and The Continental edges Broome Time Resort, both on 28, the same way.
What’s left out is deliberate. Room rates move by the day, so they aren’t scored, and review scores neither. Distances are straight lines between our own map pins, not routed walks or drives, and we say so wherever they appear.
No hotel in our ten offers parking for a voyage, and that’s fine. A Kimberley voyage starts with a flight, not a drive.
Why there’s no calculator. Almost everyone sailing from Broome arrives by air, and nobody publishes cruise parking at the Port of Broome. The free parking several hotels list is for your stay.
What to plan instead. Bags and the pickup. The airport has lockers for up to 7 days, and Bali Hai and Mantra Frangipani hold luggage after check-out.
We checked fourteen and ranked ten. The four we left out:
| Hotel | Why it isn’t ranked |
|---|---|
| Pinctada Hotel Broome | Its own site was blocked in our session, and we wouldn’t rank it on a listing alone. |
| Seashells Broome | Its resort page was blocked in our session. |
| Roebuck Bay Hotel | The Visitor Centre lists a free airport transfer for guests, but we couldn’t read the hotel’s own pages. |
| Kimberley Travellers Lodge (YHA) | A hostel; we ranked hotel rooms and apartments. |
Broome Airport is about 1.4 km from Chinatown by our pins. Broome Transit meets flights for AU$15–20 a person, and taxis wait at the rank.
Booked a line package? Check whether the hotel night and transfers are in it; Ponant’s 2026 Fly, Stay & Cruise package included one hotel night. The Getting There table shows what each hotel publishes, and the airport page has the flights and the landing check.
Tours, tickets and things to do are on Booking.com. Book the day before, not sail day.
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On our scoring, Moonlight Bay Suites: kitchens, a 28 m pool and a gym, per its own site. The Mangrove next door ties it on points, with a restaurant instead of kitchens.
Of our ten, Habitat Resort on Port Drive, about 1.9 km from our jetty pin. The resort lists two main pools; most other details are Hotels.com’s.
Several do. True North and Kimberley Quest collect from your accommodation from about 16:00. Coral’s trip notes, as Exodus sells them, use a check-in at the Broome Civic Centre instead.
None of our ten says it’s in every rate. The Cable Beach Club includes it in Villas, and Oaks in a Breaks & Brekky offer.
The Cable Beach Club and Broome Time Resort run paid guest shuttles. Ask each for the current price. Otherwise take Broome Transit or a taxi.
Chinatown and Town Beach put you on Roebuck Bay for the Staircase to the Moon; Cable Beach has the resorts and the sunset. Your line usually collects you from either.
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