Oceania House Hotel

Location: 39 Jalan Pantai, Bantam Village, cc

Star Rating: 3 Stars

Property Type: Hotels

About this Property

Policies

Check-in: 02:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Check-out: 12:00 PM

Amenities & Facilities

• Offsite parking discounted rates available
• Non-smoking rooms
• Air conditioning
• Room service
• Family rooms
• Free wired internet
• Self parking (surcharge)
• Offsite parking discounted rates available
• Internet access
• Japanese garden
• Covered parking
• Accessible train station shuttle
• No accessible train station shuttle

Rooms Available

• Triple Room with Private Bathroom

  The triple room provides air conditioning. The unit offers 2 beds.

  Max Occupancy: 3 (3 Adults)

  • Air conditioning
  • Cots

• Double Room with Sea View

  The double room provides air conditioning. The unit offers 1 bed.

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Air conditioning
  • Cots

• Deluxe Double Room with Sea View

  The double room features air conditioning. The unit has 1 bed.

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Air conditioning
  • Cots

• Double Room with Private Bathroom

  The double room offers air conditioning. The unit has 1 bed.

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Air conditioning
  • Cots

• Triple Room with Private Bathroom

  The triple room provides air conditioning. The unit offers 2 beds.

  Max Occupancy: 3 (3 Adults)

  • Air conditioning
  • Cots

• Quadruple Room with Private Bathroom

  The quadruple room provides air conditioning. The unit offers 2 beds.

  Max Occupancy: 4 (4 Adults)

  • Air conditioning
  • Cots

Guest Reviews

• Carter (7/5): -
• Joanne (10/5): -
• Rishelle (10/5): - The location was superb and very quiet More communication is needed when you first arrive to let people know someone is meeting them with a sign so you know what to look for.
• Steven (9/5): Relaxing and quiet. - Location and history. There is so much potential. Deferred maintenance of grounds.
• EDWARD (10/5): Perfect Getaway - Beautiful estate house full of history. Rooms were clean and well kept. I loved the oceanfront location surrounded by all the greenery. There were also complimentary bikes and kayaks available for use. Special thanks to Jodie the groundskeeper who was such a delight to be around. She made me feel extra welcome and well looked after.
• Robert (3/5): What a shame! This house is charming but lacks adequate maintenance and resources for its guests - The space available for what I didn't like is limited, so additional information will go in here. Oceania House once the Clunies-Ross home, certainly exudes charm, has a beautiful outlook to the bay, and deserves its heritage listing, but is dysfunctional and more like an expensive under-facilitated, under maintained hostel in the way it presents for its clientele. The available meal catered for, on application, for us at the beginning was a very basic fish and rice dish in a cardboard container and not Malay style curry as expected. If the government acquires property of significance (the surrounding "botanical gardens" for instance), it has an obligation to maintain it with suitable funding and effort if it is to be used as a selling point. Any serious application for preservation is not even close. The serious lack of appropriate, urgent and ongoing maintenance lets it down significantly, making it unworthy of the room rates or a high score. The large grounds need essential maintenance and more than one person looking after them and the house. The $15 per bag additional fee to cart bags other than hand luggage from the airport to the ferry as there’s no room on the bus is a rort. The entry hall is very grand but smelt musty. The bricks around the patios and entry are irregular, many dislodged and unstable and are a potential a trip hazard. There are 4 family rooms with ensuite, two more are doubles which have a shared external bathroom. A double room with a shared facility is expensive. The shared bathroom creates a bottleneck when showering or toileting collide with other guests and there is no alternative. The fan in the bathroom needs replacing as it rumbles, scrapes and rattles like a charging infantry. There seemed to be no guest laundry available. The kitchen is completely unsuitable and inadequate for the number of guests potentially staying. The stove is a small, two hotplate electric plug -in, kept in the cupboard. It is way too small for 12 guests having breakfast or any other self catering meal together. There is only one toaster, and one microwave which is inadequately powered to be shared. There is not enough cutlery, crockery or glasses to go around and the chairs and eating tables are a hotchpotch. The large bedroom doors are enormous (and charming) but the squeal and thud for example, in the Sidney room, when opening or closing it is enough to wake the dead and could be fixed. The advertising includes the so called botanical gardens as an attraction. They are in a major state of neglect as are the derelict buildings within, and the falling down perimeter walls, with signs placed on them stating “beware: danger of collapse” (and they are falling down) or non-existent in places. It’s full of weeds, bamboo and overgrown vines, and vigorous figs.
• Marco (10/5): Exceptional -
• Barbie (9/5): Heritage Hotel. - A beautiful heritage hotel and room in a lovely secluded location, but walkable to the village. The room was massive. Antique furniture was situated all around the house. It needs more attention to the outside as in seating, relaxation areas.
• Tess (8/5): A gloriously quiet and restful location. - The breakfast prepared by Paula was fabulous! Great selection of cereals, fruit, fresh island coconut, amazing overnight baked oats and the best scrambled eggs on sour dough toast ever. Connecting to the internet was impossible. The laptops, iPad and iPhone XR couldn't connect at all. The iPhone 13 could connect but as it is a work phone, the federal government security restrictions on using it on publicly available WiFi networks prevented any of the apps from opening to protect client data. Impossible for work purposes and this was a business trip.
• Moss (9/5): Superb - PAula and Greg are amazing hosts. They guided me through my stay so I enjoyed much that was available, never a dull moment, but certainly some quiet times where you can relax and contemplate. I will definitely stay there again and bring others to share this beautiful experience You must be aware that it is very remote and therefore comms is limited to wifi where available
• Sharon (5/5): A fabulous stay made perfect thanks to JP and Leah and the luck of our timing. - Oceania is fascinating as is the history of the islands. The guest rooms are generous and the current caretakers, JP and Leah were fabulous. Location is perfect. Oceania is located on Home Island, a muslim population, so no alcohol on the island (you can BYO) and if there is a death in the community all plans, tours, service, shops etc close for days. There is currently no warning about this from Oceania management. There is no phone reception at Cocos and limited Wifi, we had no wifi for the first day and limited after, that could be an issue for people who need to maintain contact with others. While the rooms were beautiful the bathrooms were run down and dated, for $250 a night you expect the toilet to flush. Communication from management who reside in Melbourne could be better, but the hosts on the island were great.
• Patrick (9/5): Fabulous - Beautiful building in fantastic location. Lots of charm and history. Very welcoming, warm and friendly staff. Lots of helpful advice/ tips from Leah & JP. Some renovations due to- particularly with bathroom facilities and WIFI unreliable.
• Paul (9/5): Superb -
• Martina (7/5): Good - The location. The views are gorgeous. It felt a bit like a hostel with the share of the kitchen facilities. A few more comfortable garden/beach furnitures would have been nice to (more lounges and cushions for the furnitures). Also the kings room we stayed in was great and spacious, a bedside lamp would come in handy.
• Terry (10/5): Exceptional -
• Diana (7/5): Good - The history and location are great. The building is exceptionally beautiful. We had a wonderful trip to Horsburgh Island and turtle watching thanks to Halim. The facilities are tired and need renovation. The cooking facilities limited, eg only 1 saucepan. More information should be given about the limited food alternatives to self catering and lack of alcohol on Home Island.

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