We wanted two rooms to stay for a night near Ballarat, and while Graebern isn't cheap, staying in their two-bedroom suite (which looks precisely like the website) worked out much better than booking two anonymous motel rooms. You'll never even see the owners if you stay here, but there's breakfast in the fridge, bread in the machine and chocolate and a flask of port by the door. The kitchen is remarkably well equipped, the beds are comfy, the jacuzzi is (just) big enough for two, and it's a short hop to the center of Buninyong for supermarkets and places to eat.

Downsides: dishwasher was broken, so we had to do the washing up by hand, and the soundproofing isn't too great -- we could clearly hear the guests upstairs. The totally hands-off management approach also means that resolving any problems would be hard.

We had the surprise of some lovely bread baking for us when we arrived. We found it very clean and everything we needed. lovely and quiet. Thankyou! Take your bikes...only 10 ks into Ballarat along a bike path.

We spent our wedding night at this Bed & Breakfast and would highly recommend it to any one. The unit was clean and welcoming, they had even put the air conditioners on for us as it was close to 40 degrees that day. They had fresh bread baking in the bread maker and a lovely range of breakfast foods for the next morning. Upstairs the main room was lovely with complimentary choccies and port for us to enjoy and the bed was huge and really comfy- and we even had PayTv in the bedroom. Overall a lovely place to stay and relax after a big wedding day

Very nice accommodation 6 kms from Ballarat. 3 self contained apartments. Owners live off site so we took only key that was in the key safe and let ourselves in. Provisions for breakfast and home baked bread were promised on arrival but there was no sign also no milk for a cuppa. Couldn't call as our cell phone had no coverage (rural location) and no phone in units. Upon checking out wed left a note to say what about food we did not receive (it is a B&B after all). I then received an email accusing us off entering wrong unit and because it was our 'fault' - tough! I replied politely stating there had only been one key (or do all keys access all 3 apartments?) and it was hardly good PR to blame the guest and then got another rude email so gave up at this point. I suggest they supply phones in the apartments as there is no contact from the owners at all. Also they advise they have internet but we required a password and there was no information as to what password was so could not use. I would not recommend this place to anyone after our negative experience of owners with an attitude. If they'd refunded us say $20 AUD I would have been very happy but instead received a barage of abusive emails. Gives Victorians a bad name. This is I might add a property with a 4.5 star rating.