I am an avid Trip Advisor user and often base my decisions on stays thanks to the reviews but I feel that the place we stayed was so different from the general reviews.

After having stayed at some exceptional small country town accommodations this was a massive disappointment. The staff were very friendly and the location is good and grounds seem well maintained but the rooms were appalling. I agree with some of the recent reviews wholeheartedly - this is not a luxury stay. There were stains on everything to the point I wouldn't even shower and use the towels. The sheets and bedding were marked and the rooms old and do not look well maintained at all. There was even a cockroach running around in one of our rooms. Unacceptable! To use another reviewer's comparison..... it was like a cheap backpackers hostel. I get the impression though that this is the standard for the Alpine area.... but a venue shouldn't be charging as much as this and positioning itself as luxury when it really isn't.

We did eat dinner there and breakfast and I thought it was good but overpriced compared to what we got elsewhere. I was embarrassed upon leaving that I had suggested this place to my guests - and that I had positioned is as being a luxury farm stay..... it really wasn't.

We stayed there for a night and came away from the whole experience a bit disillusioned, if not outright disappointed.

The pros
• Well located straight on the Alpine way and easy to locate.
• Close enough to Jindabyne for evening meals etc.
• The grounds looked reasonably well maintained and looked attractive.
• Half-decent sauna and indoor plunge pool. It was not heated when we were there and was freezing cold (with a dead insects happily floating around).
• Reasonably friendly staff member.
• Afternoon tea (cake) arrived 30 minutes but it did arrive and was OK.
• Did not eat breakfast so cannot comment.

The cons
• Our room was downright appalling. Don’t be fooled by the website. This ain’t no luxury farmhouse.
• Spider webs in the room and spiders on the bed!
• Tiny TV with half the channels missing. The outside TV was fine though.
• Stained drapes in the bedroom.
• Stained towels. No “fluffy towels” as promised.
• Tiny room with barely enough to move about. We stayed overnight with one bag and could hardly move around the room without banging ourselves into everything. I shudder to think what would happen if we had foolishly decided to stay for a week.
• Bathroom was woeful. Tiny bathroom (really tiny) with on old commode, ridiculously small sink and a shower cubicle (more like a small box) with an exhaust pipe with so much filth and dirt that I am quite amazed how anything gets sucked in it.
• Mouldy, smell throughout the room which gave us both headaches.

Maybe it was the room we stayed in. Maybe we had unrealistic expectations seeing the website. Maybe it is the snowy mountains area where everything is a massive rip-off. But we could not wait to get the hell out of here. It seemed like a night straight out of a cheap backpackers hostel. Only, I would not pay upwards of $160 for a night.

Not good enough.

This place would be heaven for a ski trip in winter and we understood it is always fully booked in wintertime. But we visited in december, low season but not less interesting. The Snowy mountains are a good hiking, biking, horse riding attraction in summer as well!
We had a very relaxing stay with just the right easy listening modern pop music on the background while enjoying a very good cooked breakfast and dinner prepared by Zoe and her friend. Step outside and your in nature alpine surroundings.

We stopped at Cooma Info. centre looking for special accomodation after the drive from Sydney. They pointed us to the Farm.

What a magic place! Beautiful comfortable acc. with a Breakfast to match. Thanks again, a wonderful place to stay, a must reccomend.