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We booked a Riverview Balcony Villa at the Berri Hotel via the Riverland revival voucher scheme from SA Tourism. We found our stay overpriced and were not impressed, considering what we paid. First the good bits. Location - we were located right opposite the River Murray The view was lovely. As was the weather The villas are fairly new and of good size, with seperate living & bedroom with a good sized bathroom with walk-in shower. 2 tvs handy wireless phone chargers next to the bed. Replenished daily “mini bar” (a few cans, water and chips nothing much! Didn’t get the mini wine replaced for some reason!) The food served at the dining room of the hotel was all nice and even though very busy was served quickly. (Book for dinner) The restaurant staff are a mixture of nice polite and helpful to rude and insolent. Tip - despite there being a scan order and pay facility on the tables (and in the rooms) it doesn’t send the orders. It will take your money! The staff know this but for some unknown reason they have not put any signs saying do not use. Apparently it’s your fault when you use them! And a big inconvenience to the staff when you do! Breakfast is included in the stay but only certain items from the menu. You can upgrade some items. But a difference of $3 on the menu becomes $4.50 on the till! You also get served tea as a cup of hot water and an opened tea bag sachet! No teapots or sealed sachets apparently. There is a pool, however it had the same goose/duck droppings in it for the entire 3 days we were there! So the area is not cleaned! Yuck! The Riverview villas are in blocks of 4 units. 2 up and 2 down. Would be nice if they had doorbells. They have outside lighting but if left on would stay in all day as they do not have light sensors. Not very energy efficient No recycling bins anywhere again not very green! The rooms are sp****ly furnished with low quality flooring. A sofa bed with no bedding. A kitchen with only cutlery (we had to buy a knife to cut things) no cloth to wash up or clean or spare bin liners. A microwave but no bbq. The dinning area was a sad looking table and 2 chairs. The room lights were either all on or off. It needs a side table and a lamp. There is Air-con in both the living and bedroom but no remote. Which was irritating at night having to get out of bed to turn it on/off. The sliding door to the balcony had a very flimsy poor quality lock. There was a missing light globe in the bathroom. The most annoying thing was the toilet. After each flush someone had to go outside and reset the pump. After twice going to reception and waiting to have it reset I asked the maintenance man what to do and did it myself for the rest of our stay. Why we were given the room with the faulty toilet (there were others available) or not moved, when it was reported is beyond me! A fully functioning toilet is an essential feature! By far the biggest disappointment was the price. When we booked the price appear

The staff at Big River and Earth restaurant could not have been more helpful, friendly and professional. Room and bistro are also top class.

When you look at the website of ”The Renmark Country Club” you can be forgiven because looks can be deceiving the long tree lined entrance with Kangaroo's blending in with the rural surroundings as you drive to the reception area ,we had found memories of similar views in UK leading to Georgian type Mansions which are open to public views, but when you see an old dated & rather dull entrance, which matched the reception & greeting we were subjected to the memories was quickly erased, our stay had been prebooked by well meaning friends, We were given the key which was the basic advertised room sighted was very old & dated & needed a major renovation an old ”Teac” 32” TV hung of the wall wires hanging down , the advertised WI-FI well clearly not in basic rooms? & the bed OMG!! was like sleeping on a Trampoline But the worst thing in any room is units were ”Cockroach's & other crawlies” live there are plenty of we had extra unwanted guests in our room our suspensions high-lighted A can of insect spry was supplied????, we can only speak of our room but we did speak to other guests one stated there TV did not work? an other with similar not happy in general surprisingly all the venue was full & & the Restaurant had a private function? locals who play Golf possibly don't need the use of the units we're well travailed & even one star for this place is being generous for us don't even look at the place plenty of other better Motels /Hotels cleaner & better presented.

Very disappointed in state of cabin for the price. Was a standard cabin but still expect more for $155 per night. Cabin needs a full Reno to bring up to standard. Both two seater lounges were very worn & floor in front covered with black vinyl after sitting on. All fixtures in bathroom were loose & mixer tap pipes connected wrong so cold was hot & hot was cold. Could be dangerous for kids. Only saving grace was great shower & very comfortable beds. Even the tea towel left was thread bare & holy & 1 small milk for 3 people for 4 nights a bit stingy plus 1 tube of shampoo & body wash hardly enough for our stay. Great time was had visiting surrounding places of interest & the park itself was one of the best we’ve seen with lots to do for families. Would I return to a cabin stay? Probably not. Return comment I got from management was that it was a standard cabin & should come back & try a better upmarket one, but will pass on my concerns to maintenance. Maybe I could’ve been offered a discounted stay & would maybe consider another stay but no such offer was made.

The hotel is very general, the conditions of the motel are not flattering, living in a house facing the street, the sound insulation is very bad. After living for a day, I changed the hotel.