The name itself should have been a tip: a motel called 'Destiny' with the restaurant attached called 'Rendezvous' screamed '80s vintage and never ever renovated'. This place near the Nambucca river, looks like an oasis from afar, but when we picked up the key and entered our room we were hit in the face with the stench of mould and damp. Several spots were evident beneath a hurried mismatched paint-job. We opened the doors and turned the aircon on full in the hope of dispelling the eye-watering smell, but it did little. Another warning sign: the towels and washers were not hotel white (you know how hotels use white as a guarantor of cleanliness? maroon is a good colour for hiding stains, and that's the colour of the towels at Destiny); the toilet, despite wearing a paper 'cleaned' sash, reeked of urine, and had pubic hairs and grime around the base; there were stains and holes from termites along the bottom of the loungeroom wall. We looked at each other in horror -- could we actually sleep here? The town was clearly full due to the time of year, so it didn't look like we would have much choice. Perhaps if we pointed out the stench of mould, the owner would apologise and give us our money back? Wrong. We don't like complaining, we never do it usually. More the kind to put up with things, but at $140 a night we felt the condition of the room was beyond the pale, and a health-hazard. The elderly man at the front desk looked at us kind of balefully and said "impossible! can't be mould! we've had the rooms sprayed for bacteria and what-not" to which we replied "well it really stinks and that's what it smells like". "well I'll get them to spray it again with a room freshener". we couldn't quite believe what we were hearing, but we just went back to our room. In ten minutes another much older man shuffled up to our room with some Glen 20 in hand, walked through the door, claimed he couldn't smell anything but with a resigned air at our apparent fussiness, sprayed the place down with sickly sweet room freshener to mask the odour, then shuffled out again. Being mid Xmas and NY in a coastal town, we stayed, as there was nowhere else to go, inhaling both the chemicals of the freshener and the mould, and trying to just laugh about it. Woke up with a terrible headache though and got out of there as soon as we could. No wonder the owner has a Mercedes (which he pointed out to us when we first walked in). he's saving a fortune on cleaning and renovations, and charging suckers through the nose to stay in his dump. Its a health hazard. Avoid at all costs.

We stayed here only for one night, enough!!! The room was quite big however the service is not pleasant at all, very rude. The toilet was filthy, disgusting, revolting, with urine everywhere even we called to reception to ask for someone to clean the toilet and the cleaner was even more rude.
Not recommended at all.

my partner and i stayed here overnight the place was lovley and clean the rooms were lovley and the garden was tranquil with animals and birds we even got a late checkout would recomend this to anyone overnight or a week long holiday.

I have stayed at this motel previously on trips up and down the coast and had no complaints, however the last time was several years ago.On this occasion the room was grubby with laminate peeling from the shelves, bedlamps broken and mismatched and even an empty crisp packet on the floor. Blankets were stained - thank goodness I had a doona in the car. The grout in the shower was mouldy and the tile floor looked as though it needed a scrub. The exhaust fan in the bathroom rattled and banged and sounded as if it was about to fall from the ceiling. Our request for management to attend to this was treated as an unreasonable expectation.
The hot water in the shower was strong and plentiful however did not drown out the noise of the fan.
It appeared that little had been done to the property since the first time I had stayed there 15 years ago. If I had not been so tired I would have left and gone elsewhere.