Notes from the host
Maroondah
SUMMARY
This pet friendly house is in Melbourne's Eastern suburbs, in Kilsyth,
amongst the Mount Dandenong Ranges, Croydon, Montrose, Ringwood,
Boronia, Bayswater, Lilydale, Mooroolbark, Mt.Evelyn, Chirnside Park,
The Basin, Heathmont, Warrandyte and Wonga Park, and the Yarra Valley
wineries.
THE SPACE
This glorious, single-level modern 3 large bedroom house has all your
comfy furniture, bath towels, linen, doonas, rice cooker, utensils,
cutlery, crockery, Chinese rice bowls, chopsticks, wine and champagne
glasses, and essentials. Just bring your personal items.
— This house is ideal for everyone. Families, singles, couples,
business travelers, groups, insurance, wedding guests, honeymooners,
interstate, overseas or busy local city guests can relax in the fresh
air here.
Your family and friends can stay here comfortably.
LIVING AREA
The whole house has central heating and split system cooling available.
The large living room with full length windows, faces south and lets
in plenty of natural light and is open with the dining room and
kitchen.
The lounge room and dining room has air cooling and plenty of room
to move. There are 2 large comfortable couches to relax with the
home entertainment, including DVD player the wall-mounted LG 50 inch
TV. It has Youtube and free Netflix, streaming thousands of movies,
documentaries, TV shows and kids movies for cosy nights and wet days.
There is a supply of books and family movies and a Nintendo Wii game
console and some challenging games.
* Free high speed wireless internet is available all the time. (WiFi)
KITCHEN
The kitchen, which faces the large private garden, has plenty of
natural light and room for cooking. There is a stove, oven,
microwave oven, dishwasher and lots of cupboards with cooking pots
and pans. We provide fresh milk, tea, coffee, biscuits etc.
3 LARGE BEDROOMS
We supply high quality Sheraton bed covers and pillow cases and all
linen and doonas and covers. There are coat hangers in the wardrobe.
All the beds and mattresses are supplied from Snooze.
— The first bedroom has a KING SIZED bed and a wall mounted 50 inch
Samsung smart TV and split system air-conditioner and ceiling fan
and full length mirror.
— The second bedroom has a KING SIZED Bed and a wall-mounted TV and
2 full length mirrors.
— The 3rd bedroom has two comfy real single beds. Up to 6 people
can stay here comfortably.
BATHROOM
The bathroom has a bath and a shower. The toilet is private and next
to the bathroom in a separate room with its own door. — There is a
supply of shampoo and soap and high quality bath towels, face towels
and mats.
Next is the large laundry with a supply of detergent.
OUTDOORS
The large fenced garden, is secure and pet friendly and is the
perfect outdoor space for you or a family to relax. Enjoy the 3 gas
burner barbecue under the large covered veranda. The fabulous large
outdoor dining table set has many comfortable outdoor chairs.
Fences keep pets secure in the garden with easy access.
There is a car port, with easy access via a wide drive-way allowing
free parking for 4 cars. More cars can park in the wide and quiet
street at no charge.
GUEST ACCESS
The house is wheelchair friendly with only two steps up at the front
door.
**The appearance may vary from the photographs shown here, due to
upgrades, specific requirements of patrons and repairs.
We are always upgrading to provide improved comfort for our guests.
**
This house has polished floors for the living room, dining room,
kitchen and hallway. The 3 bedrooms each have a comfy carpet.
Guest interaction
We will arrange to provide you with a key.
If possible, we will welcome you at the house and show you where
everything is and how to use it. Once you know everything we will
leave you to enjoy your stay. Feel free to contact us any time.
Neighbourhood overview
It is an easy drive of less than 40 minutes to Melbourne City.
The Mornington Penninsula beaches for an uninterrupted drive of
45 minutes via Eastlink.
From the house, it is a 4 minute walk to the bus stop for transport
everywhere and Croydon Train Station.
The train takes 40 minutes to Flinders Street in the City of Melbourne.
This home is close to The Dandenong Ranges, with everything they have
to offer, including views of the whole City of Melbourne, Olinda with
the Gold Medal winning pies from the very popular Pie in the Sky
restaurant, the Cuckoo all-you-can eat Bavarian buffet and live German
music and singing. Sassafras has the popular Miss Marple's restaurant
serving the delicious Sunday Best desert. Next door is a tea house,
selling all types of tea and ancient and modern tea pots and chocolate.
You will enjoy the Flippin Pancakes restaurant.
Of course, there are many more specialty restaurants, cafes and gift
shops. Enjoy bush-walks, such as William Ricketts Sanctuary which is
made of hand carved statues and is a stimulating walk with ferns and
native forest around.
National Rhododendron Gardens and for the florists among us.
There is fruit picking in season, including cherries and strawberries.
Other natural delights include waterfalls and One Thousand Steps.
The list goes on.
The Magnificent Yarra Valley is nearby, and hosts many wineries
clustered together, including the famous Domaine Chandon Winery, and
Rochford Winery.
The Yarra Valley Dairy is always busy with cheese tasting.
"Life is for living, wine is for sharing. Life is covered and relaxed."
Puffing Billy is a private steam train running daily tours through the
Dandenong Ranges and forest.
The house is a 3 minute walk to Churinga Shopping Centre, which has
Australia's largest 3 supermarkets, called Coles, Woolworths and Aldi.
Next block has a 7-Eleven convenience shop, open 24 hours, and local
cafes and retail shops and a homewares gift shop and Babyswim.
Opposite is a park with a footy oval.
It is a short walk to the BMX bike track and Dorset Public Golf Course.
5 minutes drive from the house, is the local famous Hahndorf chocolate
cafe, with a children's big playground next to it.
Swinburne University, Croydon campus is only 3 minutes away from the
house, by car, or a 30 minute walk.
This lovely house is in a residential neighborhood.
For this reason, we expect you to respect the neighbors privacy,
please.
From our street, turn right at Colchester Road, and drive for
3 minutes to the Canterbury Gardens Shopping Centre.
As well as many cafes, Woolworths supermarket is open 24 hours, 7 days.
Other retail shops are the Kilsyth Club.
Turn right onto Canterbury Road and drive a few minutes to the
Heathmont Golf Park, which has mini-golf.
It is 5 km to Maroondah Hospital and the new Ringwood Eastland Shopping
Centre which is large and is just at the beginning of Mount Dandenong Road. This has cinemas and department stores and lots of cafes and restaurants and retail shops and supermarkets. We are a short walk to the Bram Leigh wedding reception center.
OTHER
We have the whole house thoroughly cleaned and disinfected
professionally after each guest leaves.
Please don't wash any of our linen and towels when you check out.
We will disinfect them all.
This lovely house is in a residential neighborhood. For this reason,
we expect you to respect privacy.