Bay House Motel

Shelly Beach Holiday Park

"Upon arrival the office attendant was friendly and welcoming. The cabin was spacious, well equipped and very homely. The holiday park itself was amazing. Such a well set out holiday park with clean surroundings and situated in a great location. A very short walk to Shelly Beach and short drives to surrounding suburbs. Supermarkets, shopping malls and any other amenity required are only a short distance away. A beautiful, well managed, friendly and homely holiday park. I highly recommend Shelly Beach Holiday Park to everyone 👍👍"

Central Jetty Motel

"This place is ok cause if it’s location and as a stop over as our cups were dirty and dusty and stained the cutlery tray was dirty and dusty the floor needed sweeping as you can feel it’s dirty when walking bare foot - there was four people staying so I asked for extra towels as we only had 2 they questioned why we needed more - tried to use the toaster and it tripped the power and we had an outage… they fixed it within 30mins but I think it shouldn’t of happened .. in all honesty I wouldn’t stay here ever again and I wouldn’t of stayed here in the first place but the pics online are deceiving"

Sapphire Palms Motel

"As soon as me and my family arrived I noticed cockroaches coming from the fridge and on counter top . When my kids wanted to swim in the spa it was FREEZING !! I had to pay an extra $30 for them to turn the temperature up ! The next day I boiled the kettle to make noodles and when pouring water into them there was a cockroach that had come out with the water . They could hardly speak any English and when leaving they tried to keep room key deposit and when I tried explaining she went back into room checking the sheets and the room to see if we left any mess , like it's a room key deposit not dirty room deposit. Will NEVER BE STAYUNG HERE AGAIN !! ID RATHER PAY MORE FOR LESS"

Lavender House Bed & Breakfast

"We comforted ourselves by deciding that this was probably the closest we'll ever get to staying at Faulty Towers. Lavender House is run by an elderly couple in their own large home, with Linda playing a kindly version of 'Sybil' and John playing the grumpy & nosey 'Basil'. Basil generally spent his energy criticising Sybil (and women generally) rather than trying to make us feel welcome. The apartment was clean and tidy with comfortable bed but poorly equipped kitchen (with a sign reminding us to clean up after ourselves). The sliding doors to the verandah and (interrupted ocean views) were were salt-sprayed and murky. The main disappointment was that the outdoor spa was not part of the Honeymoon suite but located on another deck accessible to all guests and only available between 5-9pm or by special arrangement. When we asked to use it Basil grumbled that it wasn't warm, it needed to be turned on with 12 hours' notice and we hadn't warned him in advance. We had to take the top off ourselves and we tried it out after a few hours heating. It was tepid but fine on a hot day and might have been better later that evening, but he announced we weren't allowed to use it more than once a day. The next day it was still barely luke-warm. In my brother's room there was a noisy old fridge (my brother turned it off the second night to get a better sleep) and strong cooking smells in the morning. Our cooked breakfast was cold when served the first morning but much warmer and nicer the second morning. The locks on the doors and arrangement of air conditioning were gerry built and difficult to use. There is a large building site next door but luckily it wasnt noisy the days we were there. Disconcertingly Basil seemed to spend a lot of his time keeping an eye on us. He complained of never getting a holiday although it was Sybil who seemed to do most of the work. We tried to be pleasant guests but we felt fairly affronted overall. I think we paid about double what the the accommodation was worth."

El Lago Waters Hotel

"Good to stay if you don’t get any other cheap options."