Nanutarra Roadhouse

You wouldn't raise a smile either if every customer rightly whinged about the price of your fuel :))

Gidday Hurkmagurk

Having come from a few years in the petroleum Industry, you need to understand that it provides a product to a very wide market.

In a lot of remote areas they have a relatively short tourist season and need to make the most out of it to survive for the balance of the year. Once the season is finished, they may only have a few hundred locals as customers.

The mines and larger stations will be signed up by the oil companies and increasingly, supplied from the 'Gate' by contractors rather than distributors.

Therefore there isn't much left for the small fella, apart from local or passing trade.

I'm a pretty easy going sort of fella, but have to admit it gets my goat when people start complaining about the cost of things in the bush.

Not having a go at you mate, but it needs to said.

Regards

Kim

Gidday Gerry

That's a fair statement. I don't know much about the area South of Meekatharra, but if it's a truck stop I think you'll find your paying for the margin lost to large transport companies.

Things change over time, and I could be dead wrong.

Regards

Kim

They were said to charge 10 bucks for a standard size meat pie a couple of years ago and that outraged a few people I spoke with in Broome.
Hopefully loads of people will read or hear about their rip offs and avoid the place as I certainly will.
Alan.

Nanutarra..... or the road kill roadhouse as its often called ...from someone that travels theses roads constantly .its always the dearest on the coast road for anything......
$7:50 for a pie n sauce.....and almost the dearest in the state....and the service and attitude of the people whom work there is pathetic.
i think the only patronage they would get is from terrorists..sorry tourists...as anyone whom knows avoids it like the plague ...i still don't understand how they can put up no camping signs ground that rip-off roadhouse ..if by some chance you do stop overnight out the front/or in the area sth of the bridge...and go in there in the morning .....they try n charge you $25:00 for a camping fee: unreal.and here was me thinking it was still a fee country ...lol...........well there we go all.just a word of warning to everyone .....Minilya is only 100 or so further on very clean good food. maybe a little dear but i don't mind that if its good.and friendly smiles ......no affiliation with them ...except a feed and a good old chin wag.from time to time...

Bundy

Yep - I passed through there 2 weeks back and they hadnt changed since last time I posted about them about 3 years back (or maybe 4). Back then according to the fuel price section on Exploroz they had the most expensive Diesel in Aust except for the remote communities. This is a total rip-off as they are on the main highway with places either side of them selling fuel for A LOT less!!!!!!

Smiley in the cafe is full of personality - had a giggle to herself when I asked if she was mistaken about the $4.90 price of an Iced Coffee - there was no mistake....

Now I only drop in there to use their toilet and throw rubbish in their bin - they have ripped me off so many times previously that I am happy to do this.....

Been through Balladonia Caiguna Madura lately>

Its nice to meet nice traders in the bush, but to be fair we can only expect civility IMO. I try and remind myself on evey trip that it would be a bugger to be stuck out there for 6 months a year - virtually everything you could want is 3000km away ! To work there in the summer would be hell - and as for prices - most of the people we see in such places probably have no influence on pricing ......just indians in many cases ... that said, seeing those proprietors treat the situation like an economic jungle, we need to improve our fuel capacity and drive straight on by - survival of the fittest !!

No 'ifs and buts', they go out of their way to rip people off and are unpleasant whilst doing it. The place has been black banned by most truckies and some of the local stations. They have a track record of exploiting motorists trapped by floods and other misfortunes. Avoid them like the plague.