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Reviews of Lake Forbes Motel

3.5 out of 5
Lake Forbes Motel
8 Junction Street, Forbes, NSW

Reviews

8.4

Very Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 179 out of 432 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 189 out of 432 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 40 out of 432 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 15 out of 432 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 9 out of 432 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

7.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Shirley

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Warren

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Lake Forbes Motel serves a purpose. Stop and go... the property is old and does need maintenance, but it's fine for an overnight stay. It's been 3 years since we last stayed here and it's definitely worse for wear!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Michael

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Michael

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Close to town and lake
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kerry

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Biggest room space.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

James

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

2/10 Terrible

Oksana

Business traveler
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Sorry, I give it to you 1 but its actually -0. Awful experience and bonus of this tory is they stole my perfume. I arrived on Monday at 3 pm. From 8 am until 5 pm next day I was at work and they clean my room (I don't know what for because i was in the room for less than a day). When I found someone stole the perfume owner said just check your bags its maybe there. After that situation they stop cleaning my room for another 3 days. They don't have gel shower in the rooms only hair condition, no blanket, flat, thing pillows, noisy, messy, super old. Highly, super highly I'm NOT RECOMMED YOU this place. I'm ok with old style or no gel shower or pillows but when people steal something its huge concern for me. Very sad.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We stayed in Room 8, nice and bright. Also enjoyed a dip in the pool. Noise from the Newell was blunted by closing the bathroom door. A nice park & lake across the road.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Kevin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

2/10 Terrible

Manoj Shrestha

Business traveler
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
My room no was 20 at the end corner/ 1. No staff in reception to check in, u need to figure out how to call staff while u already in reception. 2. They have free wifi, only to show. Never works. I need to upload data from field and need to have stable connection for Remote Desktop connection, really regret booking this hotel. I explained my problem to reception guy but no solution and no apology. 3. Everything can be heard what’s going on next room and room upstairs. 4. Very big noises of vehicles, u can’t sleep well if u r not drunk. 5. Not enough onsite parking. 6. Room musty smell. 6. Leaking taps. Many more you will find
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Judy

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Adequate for the price
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Neville

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Murray

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice and clean. Good shower, hard bed!
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Katrina

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Gordon

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Good
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joye

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Aaron

Business traveler
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Rating was very misleading. I don’t know how people rated it 10/10 unless they were false ratings. Very basic motel. More like a backpackers.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

James

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The room was clean, and beds firm. If you are just looking for place to sleep this is it. Comfort on a budget. The TV just displayed the local channels. The AC was not Reverse Cycle. But across the road was a park for the kids to play in. It was just a hop across the river to get into the town centre. There is a small pool on the grounds. But I slept very well. Refreshed and ready for a long day on a motorcycle.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

2/10 Terrible

Morgan

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Air conditioner would not heat, ambient temperature outside that evening was 4 deg. Complained in the morning and requested refund - not given. Wouldnt put my cat in this place.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Kim

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The room had a bad smell and the taps in the shower and sink ran all night. Also the people upstairs were very loud. Good location but not great to stay.

2/10 Terrible

Luke

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Absolutely terrible. Would not recommend. Lady at the front counter rang me at 4:30 while I was still driving and threatened to cancel our booking. When we arrived she was rude to us. The room was terrible and not very clean. The aircon was disgusting and my partner and I were both sneezing the whole night and the rest of the next day. The room did not look like the photos. This was a very negative experience and I tried to get a refund however I wasn’t successful
Response from Ritu Sharma on Oct 9, 2023
Dear GuestThanks for feedback. We are tried to call you,Your given card was declined. We just want to make sure you were arriving.It was a busy day and Guest were asking for Room.When you were arrived,we were already with expedia,They told me that we can cancel your booking but we wait for you untill 4.30, Not cancel your booking just message to confirmed,Which time you will arrive.Sorry for inconvenice .

10/10 Excellent

Teresa

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from Ritu on Sep 29, 2023
Dear Guest Thanks for visited in our Motel.See you again.

2/10 Terrible

Mark

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Dated smell
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Doug

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness
Nice lake side location but noisy old rattler aircon and defective telly. Pretty close to the Newel highway so pretty loud truck noise through the night.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Leslie

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Giselle

Traveled with group
Liked: Amenities
Our overnight stay at Forbes was fine we expected a standard motel room & thats what we got. It was clean & the beds were comfortable. The heating worked fine however there was no heating in the bathroom the tiled floor was freezing & the bathroom was extremely cold forst thing in the morning👍
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Craig

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Called on Wednesday to pay prior and was told it was done from a company card …Get there Saturday and was charged on the spot from a personal card which left me out of pocket for the weekend and until I could chase up …. They told me that I should chase up the booking company or claim it back however I was still out of pocket til that could be done .. Then after more pressing to say you said it was sorted three days prior then was told ‘not understanding what you are saying … not sure as we cannot do that’. Totally poor customer service and don’t think I will return there
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Kerryanne

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Nellie

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Elaine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Cameron

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We only had one night here but it was easy to find and the family room was spacious and clean. Everything we needed!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

4/10 Poor

Jim

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Really basic facilities, uninterested check in staff
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

4/10 Poor

Mark

Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
It was old and out of date. The air on/ heater was 40 years old and did not hear the room. It was 4 degrees overnight and we froze. The bathroom sink was stained and gave the impression that it was dirty. There was only a double bed which was uncomfortable and hard. Overall not impressed wouldn’t stay there again.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Thomas S.

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joshua

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Glenn

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

Lawrence

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The room was small and noisy with an old style air con that had seen better days. The bathroom was dated and small. Seven steps up from ground with no lighting. Old furnishing both in the rooms and lying around outside. The beef was an old inner Spring that was not comfortable. Very difficulty to move around in the small bathroom. Not disability friendly at all.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Room was clean..booked on the way there..left early. Very convenient all round..😃😃
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Nadia

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Friendly staff, clean!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ron

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Check in was cheerful and helpful
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

8/10 Good

Fay

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Leigh

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
From the moment we arrived Colin was very accommodating and friendly. We had 2 vehicles with trailers and Colin went out of his way to make sure we didn't have to park on the street even though we were happy too. The room was clean and tidy. Very professional place and we would stay again for sure.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Janet

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
So very clean, lovely host, perfect for what we needed
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Richelle

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great location and friendly management
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Neville

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Certainly a pleasant surprise
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Craig

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Karen

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Really liked this property, best position opposite lake and park. Easy walking distance to shops, lovely management, very friendly. Happy to recommend.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Anne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
So close to town!! Lovely and quiet and lovely management!!!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023