Newington Apartments

Stayed here a couple if times now and its never disappointing. Perfect little apartment and great location behind the pub for food.

Great location. BEWARE of the pub/restaurant next door. I had septic shock from a meal in this location.

The room was spacious and clean.

There was a lot of loud music coming from the pub across the room till late at night.

A tv remote operated both tv’s which was quite frustrating. You turn up the volume on one tv, the volume on the other tv goes up as well. You change the channel on one tv, the channel changes on the other. We ended up using our laptop instead as another device and watched on only one tv.

The two skylight windows in the room right above the bed was a drawback as it provided too much light at night and in the morning forcing you to wake up earlier than intended. It’s definitely not a preferred option if you want to sleep in.

The beds were soft and saggy. Very uncomfortable!

Simple condiments such as salt and pepper was was not provided.

Overall, a pleasant experience

Located behind the Bunch of Grapes Hotel, the Newington Apartments are a block of fairly new motor inn style apartments.

We stayed for 1 night with 2 kids in a twin queen room.

The Good:
- nicely fitted out
- convenient to the attached hotel, which can deliver meals to your room
- wifi is reasonable
- warm in bed area of apartment
- price is reasonable
- decent little kitchen
- allocated car space.

The not so good
- it can be a little noisy being so close to the pub. We didn't find it too bad but it was a quiet Thursday night
- the door had a terrible draft, making it very cold to sit on the couch
- there are skylights directly above each bed, so if it is a full moon or daytime you will likely struggle to sleep
- the bed was very soft/saggy. Not great for comfort
- Bin in our apartment wasn't emptied and had some smelly old food in it.

Modern bathroom and two good-sized tv's. The room wasn't ready on our arrival after 2pm and it was a little noisy being so close to the hotel/pub across the parking lot. There weren't enough dishes nor seats at the little table for the four of us and the lounge chair under the seat was quite disgusting and looked like it had never been cleaned. The beds were comfortable but the doona cover kept coming detached. I've definitely stayed in worse places but overall this wasn't good value for money and next time staying overnight in Ballarat I'm going to try somewhere else.

Our experience with Newington Apartments has been nothing short of amazing! Beautiful apartment with excellent facilities (aircon, dishwasher, microwave, stove). Our host Elysia was wonderful and super helpful! Shopping centres are close by (Aldi, Maxies, Woolies) and the pub next door will deliver food to your apartment. We will definately be coming back here and I highly recommend it!

Clean comfortable good sized rooms and priced accordingly well located in relation to the city centre Lake Wendouree and Sovereign Hill would've liked to stay longer and would happily stay again only downer was some rowdy neighbours but can't fault venue