About
The Portarlington Hotel sits on Newcombe Street — the main strip of a bayside town that punches well above its size for a place with fewer than 4,000 residents. Portarlington is on the northern tip of the Bellarine Peninsula, about 36km south-east of Geelong and 45km by road from Ocean Grove. Most visitors know it for two things: the mussel farms (Portarlington is the mussel capital of Victoria) and the Portarlington–Geelong ferry, which offers a 55-minute bay crossing as an alternative to driving.
The pub is the community anchor on Newcombe Street. Bistro, beer garden, sports bar and pokies. The kind of local where the beer is cold, the menu does the job, and you can watch the game without feeling like a tourist. A short walk from the foreshore and the pier where the ferry docks.
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Getting to Portarlington
By car: 36km south-east of Geelong via the Bellarine Hwy — about 40 minutes. By ferry: Searoad Ferries runs a year-round passenger service from Geelong Pier (Cunningham Pier) to Portarlington — 55 minutes. Seasonal timetables: check searoad.com.au.
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