Vue Grand Hotel
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Vue Grand Hotel is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Queenscliff, offering a charming environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
While staying at Vue Grand Hotel, visitors can check out St George the Martyr Anglican Church (0.1 mi) and Uniting Church (0.1 mi), some of Queenscliff's top attractions.
As your “home away from home,” the hotel rooms offer a flat screen TV, a refrigerator, and a minibar, and getting online is easy, with free wifi available.
Guests have access to a rooftop terrace, express check-in and check-out, and outdoor furniture while staying at Vue Grand Hotel. In addition, Vue Grand Hotel offers an on-site restaurant, which will help make your Queenscliff trip additionally gratifying. And, as an added convenience, there is parking available to guests.
During your visit, be sure to check out one of Queenscliff's popular oyster restaurants such as 360Q, Queenscliff Brewhouse, and Scullys Oyster Bar and Grill, all a short distance from Vue Grand Hotel.
Looking to explore? Then look no further than Queenscliff Harbour (0.4 mi), The Rip (0.4 mi), and Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop (0.1 mi), which are some popular Queenscliff attractions – all conveniently located within walking distance of the hotel.
Enjoy your stay in Queenscliff!
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The building itself retains the graciousness of a bygone era, and there's a quiet area where you can relax with a book or a drink (if you tire of the balcony!)
There appeared to be quite a few people in town over the weekend that we were there, and the price seemed to reflect this, given that the although the rate we paid can’t be said to have been unreasonable (after all, we did agree to it!), it wasn’t in the “bargain” category either,
Firstly be very careful if you book this hotel through a 3rd party booking site as the room you think you getting is not what you have booked. We booked a spa room with a seating area. We only booked this room because we wanted a smoking room. When we got there we got a spa room with a chair and it was a no smoking room!! When I enquired I was told that this was the room I had booked and that the hotel was non smoking. They said they frequently had problems with 3rd party booking sites miss selling their rooms.
The whole hotel seems to be very tired or maybe this is the style they are going for.
The good parts are that the girl on reception (I think her name was Alice) was lovely she could not have been more helpful. Everything that we needed: hangers, extension lead, iron she got for us without any problems and with a smile on her face. The guys serving breakfast were also lovely. Great customer service from all you guys well done.
Also the spa bath was great.
What a disgrace, this beautiful heritage building deserves better…. just like the patrons who have wasted their money and precious time staying and eating here.
Disinterested and overwhelmed staff who are clueless to the word “hospitality”. Junior wait/bar staff being told to “get outta the way” by head of bar is a terrible thing to witness. No wonder those staff members are then oblivious on how to interact with their patrons.
The tower “nonexistent” bar is a good place to view the beautiful surrounds and have a quick drink out of your plastic cup, apparently no glass allowed up there, but strangely stubbies were?!
Shame the shade umbrella was broken, but hey we all need more damaging UV rays.
The evening dinner in the Grand dining room was underwhelming, overcooked meat and bland desserts. If you order cocktails as an aperitif, your told to go into the bar and get it yourself!
Unbelievable.
Breakfast…OMG what a joke, you could feel the anger and annoyance from every guest that came into the dining room. It was almost comical watching people’s expectations change from bewilderment to anger over the nonexistent food, no bread for toast, sad looking scrambled eggs and overcooked bacon!
Best thing about the experience was the Nespresso coffee machine at breakfast…they at least have standards.
The room was just plain Sad.
Door handle came off in the bathroom, could easily get locked in there, and that would be worse than a Cruise ship cabin confinement!
No wardrobe with hangers, no ironing board though why bother iron your clothes, it ain’t fine dining here.
No blanket if you find the doona insufferable hot or fancy a thinner or thicker pillow.
Oh well, there are other places in Queenscliff that actually take pride in their hospitality and want repeat business…go there!
We booked for the dinner in the Dining room. Highly disappointing to pay $200 for an very average dinner. Seems the staff is provided for the catering company. We waited for an hour to get the first course.
This hotel needs a serious renovation and a concept. It could be a beautiful and amazing experience but the Vue Grand gets away with it as most overseas tourists would never come back anyway.
Extremely disappointed, that what was meant to be a highlight of Mums trip to Australia was such a bad experience.
First....the bad..... what we paid for and what we actually got for our money didn't quite gel: the room at a glance looked lovely, certainly it was clean but look closely and everything in the hotel was somewhere between a little and very tired. Also, some things we expected to be there just weren't. No shower cap (for the bathroom), if there was a hair dryer, we couldn't find it, the TV reception was somewhere between poor and non existent, the bar(s) were closed, there was no breakfast of any kind available (we stayed Sunday night) there was no ice in the fridge (it contained only 2 milk capsules) and the shower recess was a cramped plastic step-in.
The GOOD! The view of course!! There's not a better place in the town to survey the surrounds, both beautiful and interesting. Climb the narrow stairs to the rooftop bar (i did mention that it wasn't open for service) and the amazing view softens much of the disappointment generated by what's wrong. The king size bed had high quality linen and the bed, although creaky (to match the floors!) was very comfortable indeed. The split system (heater) was sufficiently quiet that it didn't disturb our sleep. The hotel oozes old world charm and at its best, if there were 20 "kates" working there with all of the hotel's functions optimized, it would be a remarkable experience and well worth the cost: as it stands, in our experience, it fails the "bang-for-buck" test.
Room on ground floor was dark with no ambiance at all. We paid for a spa room so was pricy. The bathroom was cold and uninviting , so didn't use the spa except for a shower, located above spa bath, had to climb in. There was no restaurant or bar which we knew about. However we had 2 teabags, plus coffee and earl grey teabags and 3 sachets of milk. I would have thought a couple of packets of biscuits would not have broken the bank! As no restaurant a couple of packets of cereal and milk would have not gone astray for breakfast and more teabags. hey ho, anyway at least the bed was comfortable and that's all I can say as a positive, although it was like sleeping in a morgue so dark and miserable.
have travelled the world and this comes very close to the worse we have stayed in.
Staff good - Cate helpful when the air conditioner didn’t work and she was able to reset it. She gave us batteries for the TV remote, but it still didn’t work.
We booked through booking.com, and it seems that the less desirable rooms, are given to the customers that book through this website? Unfortunately, we did not get the relaxing visit that we thought we would in Queenscliff.
We did ask to move rooms when we arrived, but were told that we would have to pay another $165 approximately.
This room should surely come with a disclaimer that it joins the dining room and that there will be noise and that the curtain can’t be opened, due to the fact that it looks straight into the dining room - the bottom part of the window is frosted.
Disappointing.
The breakfast was the biggest let down. Firstly the food serving trays were empty and were not topped up regularly, which left many of us standing around by the table and waiting for the staff to bring out more. Even this took forever when you have a small window for breakfast and check out is at 10am.
Very poor selection, dry scrambled egss and hash browns..
The staff need training, very inexperienced trying to appease angry guests waiting for containers to be topped up.
Will i go any??? Most likely not.
The hotel is Grand and the main Dining Room is magnificent.
But you need to lift up your game.
The room was warm, comfortable and spotlessly clean. The food in the restaurant is top quality, and the warmth of the staff is beyond anything we have ever experienced. Darrel and Kate ensured our doomed weekend was saved, they bent over backwards to ensure we were provided with anything we needed.
Forget the Airbnb. We will book again at the Vue Grand - thank you Darrel and Kate
"It’s seen better days and really needs a kick along, just can’t see its worth the money to stay."Read full review
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