Place 70: Koala Inn & Holiday Inn
1985Adjacent motels on Outer Jackson Street, separated by a raised walkway. Tom and Audra stay here. The location along Outer Jackson is approximate.
About Koala Inn & Holiday Inn
The Koala Inn and Holiday Inn are neighbouring motels on Outer Jackson Street in 1985. Their parking lots meet across a raised concrete walkway, making the pair a single roadside cluster while preserving two separate businesses. Tom Rogan and Audra Phillips stay in different buildings there during their arrival in Derry. The site belongs to the automobile-oriented outer town, contrasting with downtown hotels and the older commercial blocks nearer the Canal.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
Level A is supported by the named Outer Jackson frontage and the direct side-by-side relationship of the two motels and their lots. Those facts securely place them together on the correct road reach. The account does not establish which motel lies on which side, the direction of the walkway, a street number or distance from central Derry. The selected roadside lot and building arrangement are reconstructed, while adjacency and road identity are firm.
