Rowan Brae Historic Guesthouse

It is not a guest house it is a room in a house Clean quiet room but you do interact with no one

It was ok. Clean but the carpet was shabby and the sewer was blocked so we could not use the toilet! We contacted the owner thinking that there could have been some compensation but there was no reply. A bit of a shame.

Good value for money. Whilst close to the Great Western Highway and train line didn’t really notice it. Walkable distance into Blackheath shops. Very comfortable bed. You won’t speak to any staff at all, self service and checkout through lock box.There is some basic self service breakfast if you want to eat in with cereal, juice and bread. Some all day slices and cakes available to guests is a nice touch. The dining room is tiny and there aren’t any real common facilities. The laneway to the property is shared and looks a bit ordinary Overall this is a good value for money stay,nothing flash but does the job well.

Rowan Brae Guesthouse was the perfect place for a mountains retreat. Beautiful character-filled property in a quiet location, very close to Blackheath village. Room was spacious and cosy. Lovely reception / sitting area with breakfast provisions as well as cakes and treats available all day. Outdoor spaces and gardens are beautiful too & would be nice to sit outside in fine weather. A wonderful find. Will be back.

This is a lovely property my room overlooking the garden and the main historic house was delightful, a very good quality self service breakfast and also a delightful and also a delicious range of cakes and biscuits for morning or afternoon tea island out. Over two days we never saw any staff or management, While this has little impact on our stay it was the only negative for us.

It’s all self checkin & self service for breakfast. Never saw a staff member. It was excellent 2 day stay. However disappointing that the room wasn’t serviced on 2nd day.

Where to start? The room was grubby, the carpet looked like it hadnt been vaccumed in long time. The bed was actually broken, and the mattress sunken. The sheets were very old and thin, and the pllows lumpy and worn. The gardens were lovely but there was nothing to sit on outside except some hard metal chairs. The breakfast was really basic: totally DIY, with sliced bread out of a packet, stale cereal, horrible coffee pods, never enough clean crockery. Parking is a struggle when the place is fully occupied. And there is no housekeeping. All this at the price of a decent hotel room. But the thing that really annoyed me - this is supposed to be a guest house. When I go to a guest house I expect to be treated like a guest. Which means someone greets me, pops up occasionally to make sure all is ok, makes one feel welcome. At RowanBrae it's self check-in. At no stage did the proprietor(s) make any kind of appearance, so we might as well have been staying in a motel - which would have been half the price and I dare say more comfortable. I simply cannot fathom the glowing review this place seems to attract.

Place was full of character with complimentary food, John kindly let us leave our luggage there while we went hiking after checkout and before our train back to Sydney. Room was spotless with fresh flowers when we arrived.

Wow wow wow A true hidden gem Lovely gardens, beautiful history on the walls and the set up for breakfast is sensational. We loved it so much, we stayed an extra night. Close to Katoomba Easy walk to restaurants and pubs.