Stayed in unit 3 for an overnight stopover on our way to Ningaloo and it was more than adequate for our needs. Found Kalbarri to be a beautiful quint little place that was worthy of more than the single night we spent there with Reef villas in an ideal location to access all amenities
Stayed 3 nights in unit 3. 2 bedrooms upstairs with 3 beds and linen. Upstairs balcony. Garden on ground floor with tables shade and BBQ. Well maintained including the pool. Bathroom and shower on ground floor. Lots of birds. No Ocean View. On side street. Parking in the back garden.
Run down motel and is currently under sale.
We found that the keys were being held at the real estate office only when we arrived onsite and found a note on the window of reception.
The room was in a need of tlc and the only items supplied were towels, no soap, shampoo, toilet brush, tea making items, milk & 1 roll of toilet paper between 4 people for 3 nites!!
Has 3 1/2 star rating!
Gardens overgrown and everything in a sad state or repair.
We left a day early as so very dissatisfied and disappointed.
Sad to see the same complaints from two years ago still haven't been addressed. Half the lights in our villa don't work, or work intermittently, or are hanging out of the wall. The old evaporative air conditioners are barely hanging in the wall, one of them was literally held together with silver duct tape. There is a new r/c air con in the master room but we didn't need it because the place is so draughty with the un-sealable louvre windows, which also meant we could hear the conversations of our neighbours three houses up the road at 1am. There's holes in the paper thin walls from door handles, and the upstairs floor is so noisy you can hear people in the neighbouring villa's just walking around. The garden was in such a state that the man staying in the villa next to us decided to do the weeding and run the retic. He then had to call the real estate and complain just to get someone to take the rubbish away because the waste area out the back was overflowing. Parking is at the rear but our unit key only opened the front door, a total pain when you need to unload small children and gear and have to hike it all around to the front. The beds were clean but the dishes, cutlery, and pots and pans were dirty. We had to wash everything before we could use it. There is no soap provided, even just for washing hands. And there was a distinct aroma of cat urine by the window in the second bedroom.
Free laundry was a huge bonus. Safety gate for the stairs was good for our small children. Linen was clean. Bathroom clean but dated. Didn't use the pool. Nicole the now ex-manager was lovely and helped where she could, but as each unit is now individually managed by either a real estate agent or the Visitor's center there is a lot of confusion and difficulty in getting maintenance issues sorted. It was cheap, and reasonably clean, but I wouldn't stay here again.
Stayed here 7 years ago and this place was beautiful, well maintained and well kept gardens it was such a sub tropical place to stay at. The Villas were lovely and cool in summer and the units were so very clean you just wanted to have a holiday in lush green surrounding Gardens with well kept units. Sad to see on return back to these units they are very run down, have been let go with no care as well as being dirty. But did get to learn that management at Reefvillas has Just changed, knowing this the place is on its way back under new management is wonderful news. Hopefully The place will once again sparkle like it did 7 years and have the good feel it used to have!
