Pines Country Club Motor Inn

I stayed in Shepparton for business recently...This motel has the most gorgeous frontage. It is immediately welcoming to a traveller. Locally owned, you will receive great customer service at the desk. The rose gardens are exquisite and well-maintained. The grounds are well-maintained... the pool area is something special. Tall palms grow around the outside area of the pool, there are sun lounges and picnic tables under shelter. Outside the pool area there is a swing and a slide. The room is neat and dated ... but initial impressions are as one would expect. The bathroom size is really generous. The TV is not one of the latest TVs and for me that was a personal favourite as I knew how to use it. Sadly, my experience changed when I went to bed. Firstly the mattress and pillows were so firm that I was unable to sleep... I moved off the master bed to the single that was slightly better. The beds could really do with an upgrade. But to compound the issue I was having with the bed.... the next few rooms held people that were known to one another... .they decided to sit right outside of their rooms and talk- loudly. I tried to close them out ( god knows I needed to - the conversations were banal) but alas I could not. To give the motel some credit there is the pool area that was nearby that they could have moved to and continued to talk. They were so loud I could not sleep... I was struggling between being exceedingly uncomfortable and noise. The group continued until well after 1am because I could hear them discussing the time. So I only had a couple of hours sleep and stayed exhausted all day. If the motel changes the mattresses and pillows I would highly recommend it ( regardless of how rude my neighbours were) but... for now, the lack of sleep did me in.

Super clean, quiet and not far from town centre. Good value for money. Friendly hosts!

Motel was a 25 minute walk from restaurants. Construction at the entrance was a minor hassle. Bed was very soft, not good for my back. As with so many Australian motels it was tired with cracked tiles, but still presentable. To make it easy for future guests the TV has to be turned on by the switch on the panel by the bed, then the remote is effective and even though it looks like the key needs to be stuffed into the light switch it doesn't - and makes no difference to the TV function - or anything else.

Clean, friendly and great location