Welcome to Jack Thompson's Hotel Gearin, Katoomba, located in the centre of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. Amazing natural wonders such as the Three Sisters and Echo Point are located literally at the Hotel Gearin's doorstep.

Hotel Gearin offers a warm and comfortable place to rest, where visitors can choose from many local and imported wines and beers, check out bands from all walks of life and snuggle up in our comfortable, afforable accommodation.

The Blue Mountains offers many beautiful bushwalks that cater to the experienced walkers as well as easier walks suited those just wishing to see a few sites. For the more adventurous there is also abseiling, rock climbing and mountain-biking, all of which can be booked literally one minute walk from Hotel Gearin.

Base yourself at Hotel Gearin and let the mountains guide you......

Guest Internet and Wireless Internet Service at The Hotel Gearin

Our guest internet and wireless internet service is provided by Global Gossip. We have the latest hardware and software including Skype and iTunes along with webcams and headphones. You can even pick up the wireless signal waiting on the train platform at Katoomba Station!

The Hotel Gearin has set up an affiliation with NOMADS
 
Hotel Gearin is now part of the fantastic NOMADS network, offering discounts to NOMADS card holders (MAD) and exposing ourselves to tour operators and retail agents worldwide. This makes the booking of our beds so much easier for you, the traveller.

NOMADS was developed by Australian Richard McLeod in 1994, as a way and means of marketing hostels to International travellers. It allowed hostels the opportunity to market their product in a cost efficient and very effective way, by pooling resources and using NOMADS expertise in marketing and tour operations. Nomads now actively sells youth travel products in more than 40 countries via 80 travel retailers and wholesalers representing thousands of travel agents.  The average month will see more than 20 different nationalities book travel from NOMADS web site alone.