Black Forest Motel

We arrived here late at night after being booked in by another motel. The room appeared ok on first glance, the bathroom was clean, but once we moved in we found that unfortunately nothing else was. The floor looked like it hadn't been vacumned in weeks, the bed had hair on the sheets, the side cabinet and clock was covered in dust and the tray that held the glasses was full of dirt and dust. We didn't use the glasses! The owner was friendly and showed us where to get breakfast in the morning, that was great, plenty of ingredients to choose from, although once again the cleanliness let it down. Just because this motel is mostly used by groups of men working away from home, doesn't mean the owners should let their standards drop. This is an older motel and the price reflects this, and if it was clean there wouldn't be any problem with it. Unfortunatly, we will not be back.

the location and clean.

This motel was one of the best that we have stayed in. We arrived about 11AM (check-in is 2PM) and asked receptionist Margaret if it was possible to leave our bags there and have a key. Otherwise, we would not be able to check in till about 7PM. She happily put us in unit 11 which has a larger than normal ensuite a good size room. It included a Queen bed and a King Single bed. If it was my motel, I’d have just a Single bed rather than a King Single in the room so there would be a tad more room to allow an extra chair. You basically need to be lying in bed to watch the TV which looked like it was about a generous 47” size. The only real negative we found was the excessive brightness of the overhead lights and particularly the bedhead lights. This motel has a separate and very well equipped self service breakfast room with a BBQ area at its rear, all part of the tariff. There were ten different options of breakfast cereals, eggs and nicely lean bacon in the fridge. If you are one who likes a big breakfast and has the time to prepare it, a full breakfast would probably cost you over $30 in a local cafe. The motel is only about 60 mts from the Black Forest Way, but not much traffic uses it at night and we were not conscious of any noise once in our room. The photo that comes up on-line appears to be from the balcony of the Royal Hotel in Daylesford, not the Black Forest Motel.