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Toobeah Hotel Motel Meals, accommodation and cold beer! We have a fresh modern menu that changes regulary.

A fun family pub situated in the heart of Toobeah "the gateway to South West Queensland " The Coronation Hotel caters for everyones needs from farmers to truckies and all inbetween.

27/05/2026

Happy Birthday Big Dan- Toobeah’s longest serving advanced food creation specialist turns 34 today. You are an important cog in our community and we all wish you a happy birthday!!!

27/05/2026

41mm in the CBD of Toobeah. We hope you all got this much needed rain!!!

26/05/2026
In 1911, Albert Pfingst had a vision.To build a hotel.A grand frontier pub rising from the paddocks of Welltown — a plac...
24/05/2026

In 1911, Albert Pfingst had a vision.

To build a hotel.

A grand frontier pub rising from the paddocks of Welltown — a place where travellers, graziers, railway workers, stockmen and families could gather in the heart of the Australian frontier.

That vision became the Coronation Hotel.

And around it… Toobeah grew.

Before the Offerdahl family took over in 1998, the hotel had already seen 36 publicans come and go.

Across 87 years, the average publican lasted just 2.4 years.

Bush pubs are hard places.
They test people, families and entire communities.
Most don’t survive forever.

Since the gold rush era, Australia once had more than 20,000 pubs and hotels. Today, only around 5,000 remain. Thousands of rural hotels closed as towns faded, industries changed, and the bush grew quieter.

But the Coronation Hotel endured.

My parents took on the hotel in 1998.

Then in 2011, Stacy and I took over and continued the legacy together.

Combined, the Offerdahl family has now operated the Coronation Hotel for more than 27 years — making us the longest-serving publican family in the hotel's recorded history.

Longer than the combined length of the previous 11 publicans.

Through droughts, floods, COVID, weird ideas from the city, labour shortages, rising costs and the slow decline of rural Australia, the doors stayed open.

And over the decades, thousands of people have walked through those doors saying:
“My grandfather drank here.”
“My grandmother worked here.”
“My family once owned the pub.”
“I haven’t been back in 40 years.”

Because bush pubs were never just businesses.

They were the heartbeat of frontier Australia.

And somehow, against the odds, this one is still beating, still thriving, still growing and still serving the community.

20/05/2026

Bungunya Mail Run will be Thursday instead of Friday this week- thank you

Happy Mothers Day!
10/05/2026

Happy Mothers Day!

This little fellow was just found around Sneaky Pete’s crossing, Yarilwanna Creek, Toobeah. He is in our yard if anybody...
07/02/2026

This little fellow was just found around Sneaky Pete’s crossing, Yarilwanna Creek, Toobeah. He is in our yard if anybody knows his family.

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