Where to eat and stay in Bowen

29 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Bowen, Queensland — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.

We hold 29 venues in Bowen — 15 places to eat and 14 to stay. That makes it the 64th-largest of the 1280 towns and suburbs we cover in Queensland, carrying 0% of the region's venues.

Of the places to eat, 13% are cafés against a national figure of 30%. Bowen skews 17 points away from cafés and towards pubs, a pattern more typical of an evening trade. The full split is 2 cafés, 2 restaurants, 5 takeaways and 6 pubs.

5 of the 15 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are burger (1), chicken (1) and sandwich (1). None of them is far out of line with the national picture; the mix here is broad rather than specialised.

For a bed, Bowen runs to 14 listings — 6 motels, 1 b&bs and guest houses and 7 holiday parks and campgrounds. Holiday parks and campgrounds dominate, at 50% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 48% of everything mapped here, well above the 25% national share — the signature of a place that hosts more visitors than it has residents.

Places of a similar size — Leichhardt (29), Springwood (29), Mittagong (29) and Brookvale (29) — average 8% accommodation. Bowen runs at 48%, noticeably more, which is what a place that takes in visitors looks like.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. No venue in Bowen yet carries the six recorded attributes needed for its own page, so the rest are listed here, because a page with only a name and a map pin on it would be worth nobody's time. A blank field means unrecorded, not absent. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, no venue has paid to appear, and we publish no ratings or reviews of our own.

Cafés in Bowen (2)

• La Sorelle52 Richmond Road
• Sails on mainCafés

Restaurants in Bowen (2)

• Rynn's Seafoods18484 Bruce Highway
• Quang Nguyen vietnameseRestaurants

Takeaways in Bowen (5)

• McDonald's burgerTakeaways
• Red Rooster chickenTakeaways
• Subway sandwichTakeaways
• Domino's pizzaTakeaways
• Birds Fish BarTakeaways

Pubs in Bowen (6)

• Grandview HotelPubs
• Central HotelPubs
• Commercial HotelPubs
• Denison HotelPubs
• Memorial ClubPubs
• North Australian HotelPubs

Motels in Bowen (6)

• Castle Motor Lodge6 Don Street
• Bowen Arrow MotelMotels
• Ocean View MotelMotels
• Ocean View MotelMotels
• Port Denison MotelMotels
• The Milton MotelMotels

B&Bs and guest houses in Bowen (1)

• Refers BackpackersB&Bs and guest houses

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Bowen (7)

• Harbour Lights Caravan ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Bowen Palms Caravan ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Bowen Village Caravan ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• NRMA Bowen Beachfront Holiday ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Queens Beach Tourist VillageHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Tropical Beach Caravan ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Wangaratta Caravan ParkHoliday parks and campgrounds

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