My friend and I stayed at the Manor House over this previous weekend. We did not check the trip advisor reviews until after booking and became rather nervous about what we were gettting ourselves into, but I have to say we were more than pleasantly surprised. The room was clean, spacious and well stocked, the location was wonderful, and none of the issues raised in previous reviews seemed to happen to us at all. We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. The only one thing that I would bring to that attention of staff would be that a $500 bond is more than exhorbitant for a three night stay, and that yes, double glazing would be effective in some of the more rear-facing rooms. Other than that, however, I would advise anyone to stay at The Manor House.

Our stay in July 2011 was extremely disappointing. We had a 3 bedroom apartment at the rear of the building. The apartment was tiny with an exceptionally small living area, the door to one bedroom was unable to be closed as the beds filled the room entirely. The quality and condition of the apartments was very poor - tired paintwork, dented refrigerator, hooks hanging off walls, grubby tiling in bathroom. Noise from the train tracks at the rear of the building was instrusive, with no double glazing on the windows or balcony doors. We booked for 7 nights and left after 3 nights. As soon as we saw the apartment we indicated that it was not of sufficient quality but the reception was exceptionally unhelpful.

My Occupation requires a lot of travel internationally and within Australia.  One of the uncertainties of this is: What will the accommodation be like? Good, reasonable or poor?

Accommodation is the key element of Travel (apart from getting there & back).

I would highly recommend the Manor House in South Yarra; having been staying there and at the previous Avoca Street location for the last 20 years, it really is my home away from home.  I spend around 40 nights annually in Melbourne over about 8 stays, and wouldn't stay anywhere else.

The rooms are all superbly maintained by an exceptional group of people, who will always do the extra things to make a traveler feel at home.  Small things like getting an extra baking dish (the units are all self contained) or an additional milk, or another bottle of wine.

With secure parking and 24 hour staffing you cannot pass up on the Manor House.

Terry Jones
Director
Back Bay Clothing Australia

We stayed at the manor house recently and checked in late as we got a late flight in. The guy at reception was rude making jokes to me and my friends that were not funny!
When we finally got to our two bedroom apartment it was tiny! We had no room to put our bags and to
Top it off we woke up at 7am to trains and busy traffic! Defiantly not 4.5 star Apartments. More like a 3 star. On the bright side the receptionist that was on duty the next morning moved us to a better room. The location is ok but for $240 a night, it is defiantly not worth it!!