The large-format Kandos Hotel-Motel is for sale as its long-time “hobby” owners decide to move on to a new pastime.
The popular corner pub in Kandos occupies a generous 3,136sqm, with total floor area of 1,864sqm.
It provides a public bar, commercial kitchen and bistro, gaming room with 13 entitlements and beer garden, and upstairs there are 20 air-conditioned rooms with ensuites.
The business also includes 10 motel rooms, with laundry and reception office.
Kandos is a town of around 1,300 people in the Mudgee Shire, 30 minutes from Mudgee CBD or about an hour from Lithgow. It is the historic home of Kandos Cement and surrounded by working coal mines.
Ray Odgers purchased the hotel 24 years ago, reportedly as a hobby.
Ray was a boilermaker that grew up in Kandos and has never left. He liked the idea of treating his mates to a schooner, but as he didn’t like a drink decided he was best put on the other side of the bar. He is a dedicated Eastern Suburbs supporter, and much of the Hotel is said to be a shrine to the Roosters.
His now wife Julie was a nurse in Dubbo, and moved to Kandos to join Ray, where they raised three kids.
Needing both incomes, Julie worked contract roles in Rylstone hospital, until 15 years ago when Ray expanded the business with the addition of the motel rooms at the rear of the pub, and the couple have run the operation side by side ever since.
After nearly a quarter of a century, the Odgers are now looking to retire, to farming.
“The sale of the Hotel will make way for the Odgers team to build a new home on a block on the edge of town, and take up a small farming practice – to keep busy,” reports Peter Seeto of Cabmon Property, marketing the asset with Andrew Shipman of Shipman Realty.
The freehold going concern of the Kandos Hotel-Motel is being sold via Expressions of Interest, closing Thursday, 30 June.
