Lake Forbes Motel

Recent Reviews: 126

• User:Tony S

  Trip type: Friends getaway

  Disgusting dirty place

  24 Oct 2025

  Disgusting dirty hotel. Stay away. Outside my room was a large bucket of cigarette butts and two large trolleys of dirty laundry. When I asked the receptionist who could hardly speak a word of English, she told me they were the cleaners cigarette butts. There must have been six months worth. Then when I entered my room there were used milk containers on the bench. The two garbage bins were full of rubbish from the last guest. The shower had the last guests soap and face washer sitting in the soap dish. I was lucky to get clean sheets I suppose. They need to sack their cleaner if he or she thinks it's acceptable to leave a large bucket of butts right at the entrance to the rooms with all the dirty laundry. We checked in at 6 pm so they had been there for a long time.

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• User:mbraendler

  Trip type:

  18 Jul 2025

  'Dear guest, your booking has been cancelled'. This was an email from Lake Forbes Motel via Booking.com just days out from our expected arrival. I had made the booking for 4 adults back in April for the date of Fri July 18. I replied via the site saying , 'no we wish to keep the booking'. Another email arrived some days later and on the day of our booking I called the motel. I was simply told, 'there has been a double booking and we have cancelled your booking'. How did this happen? Did someone book before me way back in April? Highly unlikely. The person I spoke to wasn't apologetic at all. No assistance was offered in finding suitable accommodation as a replacement. Instead we were left with a couple of hours left before dark to scramble and find somewhere in another town. I would have expected a phone call from them to inform me of the situation, not an impersonal email. Might I suggest you look up the words 'hospitality' and 'customer service'. I have traveled the world and Australia for over 40 years and this was the worst examples of that.

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• User:Jane B

  Trip type: Couples

  Horrible experience.

  12 Mar 2025

  Don't expect a welcome smile! Unusual business practices. I booked this 8 months in advance for the Elvis Festival and was asked for a 50% deposit, which I thought was unusual, but paid by card. More unusual was that on arrival 8 months later the incredibly rude receptionist demanded that I provide proof I had paid because they had 'lost the receipt'. All very stressful and upsetting. I was never asked for ID. Despite my repeated requests I never received a proper receipt for either of my payments, which is problematic if you need them for tax. The internet didn't work. The bathroom was dirty with mould on the shower curtain. Outside the room was a large plant pot full of cigarette ends. There is a lake view if you cross the road and walk a bit, but not from the room. I could not recommend this motel, and will not return.

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• User:Debbie H

  Trip type: Couples

  Well it’s gutreaching and terrible plus they’re idians so there you go very nasty rude arrogant and not tolerated

  02 Feb 2025

  Well the rooms are totally unacceptable the beds are broken I sat on the bed it went crack on the floor it went the bathroom is infected with crawling insects no towels provided no toilet paper and bingo sheets have holes in them the light hanging above the bed is cracked the carpet is saturated with oily stains all over plus the microwave when I opened it had a lot more stains in my opinion this motel is totally unacceptable disgusting and utterly pathetic so Travellers I am warning you never to return to the motel and by the way managers are Indians who are very rude arrogant pathetic rude nasty should not be able to be employed there Indians what do you expect

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• User:Jenni R

  Trip type: Friends getaway

  Big no thanks

  16 Jan 2025

  Noisy from trucks on the highway. There were no teaspoons. The fridge was barely cold. Popcorn from a previous occupier under the bed spread, so not confident the rooms are cleaned after every use other than the basics. Bright light outside windows on automatic until 1000pm - after being on the road since 5am, not appreciated. We awoke after a dreadful night to discover our luggage had been stolen from our car overnight. Won't ever stay here again

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