Carinya Village Jindabyne

Room was cheap, but it should be cheaper for shared, small and decrepit facilities.

This place is hilariously bad it felt like an abandoned school camp in a horror movie or something. We stayed in a two person bunk room where the heating didn't work (eventually worked out this was because the filter hasn't been cleaned in probably years so was just blowing cold air until removed), and if you want to use the toilet or shower you have to walk outside in 0 degrees into a freezing cold shed with a single shower and toilet. The area outside this shed smelt horribly like sewerage. Since we were freezing we thought we'd go hang out in the advertised room with fireplace but there is no wood or anything to light fire with so it was also freezing. This was also about 200m walk across a muddy paddock to get to. Also no staff on site that we saw at all during our stay. If you want to cook food there is a single microwave outside also 200m across the paddock. The room had a mini fridge but it froze everything inside it solid so I had to throw out the salad and vegetables. If I stayed here again it would only be in one of the self contained cabins not the bunk room which was equivalent to camping but a lot more expensive. At least we got a laugh about how strange the place was. I think it was probably great 40yrs ago and left to go downhill since.

The property was quiet as it is out of town. They provide good wi-fi as there is no mobile phone coverage. The room itself was as advertised, but the facilities advertised in the listing clearly stated private bathroom. There was only a public bathroom which was a tin shed with a toilet cubicle & a shower cubicle in each of the men's & women's. The water to the handbasins & the drinking water taps froze overnight so there was no access to water from these taps.

Great setting. Helpful staff. The beds in my room only had foam mattresses, which were a bit uncomfortable. I would recommend these be upgraded to inner spring mattresses.

TV didn't work, no internet, beds were crap, no heat in the bathroom or toilet area, rubbish around the grounds. I remember being taken there as a child. I was to a certain extent relieved to see nothing has changed, same buildings, same people, there, and in the surrounding Jindabyne area... I remember.