We stayed at Peppers Bale for 4 nights in December 2010 after previously staying at Peppers Salt in 2010. Both are fantastic for a relaxing family holiday but Bale is more exclusive and the appartments are huge.

At Bale, the full sized kitchen and laundry are a bonus, especially on a family holiday. The free movie library (available at both resorts) is fantastic with both recent releases and some old favourites.

The buffet breakfast at Season restaurant is included in the tariff and offers all the usual suspects and is perfectly adequate to satisfy everyone's tastes.

All in all, a great choice for a relaxing family holiday at a reasonable cost.

I have thought for a long time before writing this review, in fact I was waiting for a questionaire over the internet as is normally sent after all of our previous stays at various places but this didn't arrive. I didn't use the suggestions form at the hotel on check out as there wasn't time.
We stayed in a 3 bedroom apartment. Our group consisted of a very good friend and her adult daughter, myself and my adult daughter.
I tried several times to make a reservation by ringing Peppers. For various reasons I wanted to actually talk to someone at the resort to ask a few detailed questions. I left several messages that weren't responded to. Eventually I decided to book through the direct website and because I had been waiting for a phone call from the resort which never happened by time I booked instead of booking a two bedroom apartment we had to book a 3 bedroom one as the two bedroom apartments were booked out.
Eventually my phone call was returned but too late, this was of course very concerning to us.
The positives:
Check in: was very smooth, no problems.
Check out: again very smooth, no problems.
We were given an apartment on the third floor with ocean views for which we were very grateful.
The apartments were absolutely spotless and also very spacious.
There was no noise what so ever from other guests.
The negatives:
One BIG negative was on the Saturday and Sunday morning of our stay we had to wait for over half an hour each morning in a queue for breastfast.
When I mentioned this after the first day to Ibrahim he did say we could have room service breakfast and that there were over 500 guests staying in the Peppers resort so that was to be expected..
Firstly the room service breakfast is quite limited especially as regards to hot food so that really wasn't what we wanted and secondly I understand Peppers is a huge resort but when you are staying at Peppers Bale and you are actually paying top dollar for a secluded, luxury resort, this really isn't good enough at all. The fact that Peppers was at top capacity should not be the guests problem, there should be adequate arrangements made for Peppers Bale guests.
The food choices were varied once you were allocated a table but it was ABSOLUTELY chaotic.
The other negative and this isn't a huge one is that the lounge really needs to be replaced in the unit we stayed in, it was quite stained which happens at the beach, but as I said should be replaced. Apart from that the apartment was beautiful and we felt that we were staying in a lovely, quiet, relaxing beach house.

We have pretty high standards for accommodation when we travel and we were impressed staying here. The apartment (2 bedroom) is HUGE with good sized balconies and high end appliances. It's exceptionally clean and modern. Room service food is pretty average, but not terrible, kinds meals were actually really good, in fact my wife preferred those and ordered them instead for herself. Free movies was a great addition. Bale was a definite oasis, quieter and a little higher end than the other part of the resort. Their lobby had a really nice feel to it and the christmas carols were very pleasant.

A couple of things we feel they could stand to improve:

1) Checkout was very very slow. It was the holiday period however so some leeway can be afforded them in this regard. (We used the bale checkout)
2) Internet was HORRIBLY slow. I ended up using my cellphone as a wifi access point in preference to using the provided facility, This is something they need to immediately rectify.

The beach is handy, and there is a park which is nicely tended. The salt area is nice, hopefully even more development will occur there. Kingscliff as an area did nothing for us.

The pool area was nice, Not too noisy, I wish we had noticed the BBQ area sooner!

Just stayed in a 2 bed resort room on the lower floor and found that it had everything we wanted. We booked it through lj hooker so it was privately owned. We weren't dissapointed as it had flat screen TVs in all 3 rooms and a BBQ on the balcony which overlooked the car ark and park. We had front row seats for the last Xmas carols, what a bonus. Our 2 young kids loved the pool the park and the bike riding paths, not to mention the new pub children's room. The restaurants across the park are great, particularly Fins, though the all of them serve fantastic food.
We will definitely be back again and again. And did I mention the shopping at Kingscliff for the wife?