LisaMDL
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The Lakes Resort is mostly still ‘living’ in its year of establishment, 1985, but it’s JUST dipping a toe into the water of the 2020s! We just hope it takes a bigger plunge and upgrades even more! Specifically, we couldn’t try the Tunki restaurant as it wasn’t open on the Sunday night we were there but we peered in and it looked really nicely recently renovated. And if it serves good food then great, as West Lakes has next to no dining options! |The great thing about this hotel is that all rooms (I think!) face the lake so it’s a lovely outlook. The trouble is that you don’t really want to sit on your balcony in the heat when your aircon split system unit is blowing boiling hot air onto you!! |We had a spa room and the bathroom (and everything in the room really) had a quite dated appearance but it wasn’t awful, just plain with quite a few scuffs that could be easily patched ….and it was musty to start with, until the airflow improved. So really, it felt too expensive given what else you can get around that rate that’s far newer in appearance. The shower definitely needs regrouting to make it a bit less gross!! And $4 bottles of water in a $320 room - one day hoteliers will wake up and stop operating with a rip-off mentality, and ‘treat’ their guests with appropriate basics!! They made up for it with the very good included breakfast though. Good choices, quality and portions. But included wasn’t, say, a cappuccino but an ‘airline coffee’ in 80s conference hotel clunky style cups and saucers…it really had me wondering if I had fallen down a black hole in time. Modern looking mugs from Ikea cost 50c don’t they!!!!The breakfast dish creations WERE surprisingly modern though, and although the banana and fig bread looks a little charred in the photo, it was excellent. |All that said, the place seemed very well patronised and quite full the night we stayed, so they obviously attract clientele, but it just wouldn’t be hard to improve in many small ways.
