We had our wedding at caves house yallingup in Nov 2011. The setting is absolutely gorgeous, It suited our vintage feel garden wedding perfectly.

The food was fabulous, all our guests commented on how wonderful the 'wedding food' was and such big serves. The staff were just amazing and really helped our special day run smoothly.

The bridal suite is lovely and big, with a huge balcony perfect bridal party photos.

After driving down from Perth City and having driven and toured all day through the Margaret River area, we tried our luck at the Caves House Hotel,(November 7th 2011). There weren't any rooms available in the original hotel so we booked into a room in the Seashells Lodge, part of the estate.

The suite of rooms was amazing. Modern ,fresh,clean and spacious. Our substantial verandah was nice and deep and we had privacy from walkers and people passing below. The outdoor furniture was lovely. The room had wonderful views of the park & trees below.

My only comment/complaint is about the shower. The floor of the shower is level with the bathroom floor and there is a gap between the door and the floor, which meant the bathroom floor flooded each time we used the shower.

We had our evening meal in the original hotel and while the surroundings were excellent, the diners looked as though they were part of a motorcylce gang convention as did the serving staff.

I think the staff need to smarten up and look like professional hotel staff. Baseball caps worn low over the face is not a good look. The male and female staff had multiple facial piercings & all, including the men and women were heavily tattooed.

The restaurant lets the hotel down, we were served pub food and charged fine dining prices.

Inspite of the restaurant, we had a very relaxing & enjoyable two day stay.

Do not stay here unless you have sensorineural deafness. Admittedly we booked a "wotif secret hotel" deal, but it was for a 4 star room, $170 for the night, set in 4.5 ha of tranquil landscaped gardens.... so you do not expect to be in a room directly above the bar full of rowdy drunks, with not a shred of insulation, and Gen Y staff that could not give a s@&$! The hotel is greedy and is taking advantage of people who expect some basic decency from the hospitality and tourist industry of Australia which is extremely overpriced compared to the rest of the world. I am booking all future holidays overseas!

Wotif mystery deal in margret river gives u a $200 room directly over a pub barwith a juke bok under your bed. Do not click wotif mystrty deal marg.ret river under any cirstances