Islay House - Red Room

Staff couldn’t be more welcoming and hospitable! Delightful stay in a very comfortable room! Lovely to have a beautiful breakfast included!

Extremely welcoming hosts and a lovely room with everything we needed. Highly recommended.

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Beautiful character, comfortable bedroom and we felt very welcome to use all the downstairs rooms and the garden as if I was in my own home

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Breakfast was modest in range (Continental) but the most amazing quality, bread freshly baked in-house, fresh berries/yoghurt/muesli and orange juice, topped off by the best barista coffee I have had in a long time. Nearby cafes could provide for those wanting a more substantial cooked breakfast but this was perfect for my needs. The hosts were really charming and had their own interesting stories to tell, a creative (TV producer) and a daredevil (motorcycle racer). You can see that they are proud and passionate about their historic house and its surrounds. The room was very comfortable, perhaps a little on the sparse side for some (e.g. wood floors, no TV or bar fridge), but full-on with historic charm from the nineteenth century, including sitting room and dining room downstairs decorated for the period, I loved it. The bed was particularly comfortable. Location was good, in a quiet part of town but just a short walk to the restaurants, bakery, pubs etc that Woodend is known for. Even the Parkrun through the beautiful Campaspe River parklands conveniently started directly across the road.