Our guests enjoy country hospitality so we always check our emails twice a day so we can answer any enquiries.
All our cottages are self-catering. There are enough provisions in the pantry to get you through your first breakfast (and a fair bit more) and the rest is up to you. The pantry is stocked with light foods, pasta, soup etc. Depending on which direction you enter you will go past the Cambewarra local Post Office shop or The North Nowra shopping centre/tavern.
The North Nowra shopping centre is located about 10 kilometres away for more supplies. On arrival, revive with a fresh coffee from supplied ground beans, enjoy our hospitality with a bottle of (dubious quality – we’ve run out of Grange) wine, cheese biscuits and a loaf of Trev’s yummy homemade bread.
Our rates are the same all year as we do not hike them up for long weekends or school holidays. The minimum stay is two nights and for long weekends three nights. Easter has a four night minimum stay. If you would like to stay longer give us a call and we can negotiate a deal.
Our special couple’s one bedroom and one bathroom deal of a two night weekend.
Mid week couple one bedroom, minimum two nights booking.
Extra people or bedroom in The Stables or Wisteria Cottage please call..
No children in Heron’s rest due to adjacent dam. Children in The Stables and Wisteria Cottage additional charge, please call.
Just to make it perfectly clear a booking for a couple is for one bedroom and one bathroom only. If you want two bedrooms and/or bathroom for a couple there is an extra charge.
When you make a booking for a cottage you have exclusive use of that cottage. There will be no one else booked into the remaining bedroom.
Check in time is usually 1pm and checkout 11am but these times can be varied depending when the next booking is to arrive. On arrival revive with a fresh coffee with your own ground beans, enjoy our hospitality with a bottle of (dubious quality – we’ve run out of Grange) wine, cheese biscuits and a loaf of Trev’s yummy homemade bread.
The showers do not have water saving heads so you will get plenty of water. However, the showers do have a six minute timer on them. After all, the water comes from a tank and we all have to save water. There is a small “use and replace” wine cellar in Heron’s Rest and The Stables. You are welcome to the wine on the proviso that you replace the wine you drink with the same wine or that of an equivalent quality.There is coffee grinder, a slow cooker, a rice cooker, fry pan, and a barbecue. Enough for you to enjoy your meals in all cottages. There are 1000 thread sheets and pillow cases. Towels are supplied. The fully equipped kitchen comes with a dishwasher (in Heron’s rest and The Stables), microwave oven and a fridge. There is also an outside bbq.
Water comes from a rainwater tank so there are no nasty chemicals although Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District says you should be warned of this.
Tapitallee is located South West of Berry and just over the hill South East of Kangaroo Valley both about 20 minutes away with no traffic lights. It is a beautiful area with many attractions such as wineries, ceramics, orchids, bonsai, slab timbers, Bundanon and Riversdale. We are also close to the Berry Markets on the first Sunday of each month. The Kangaroo Valley markets are close by. We are also located only about a 40 minute drive from the Beautiful Beaches of Jervis Bay, where you can fish, surf and do all the other wonderful things you do at the beach without having to pay a fortune to stay close to it. Some time ago The Stables at Tapitallee was included in the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend 52 Weekends which reviewed holiday accommodation in Australia and New Zealand. The honest part of this review is you can’t pay to get into it. Reviewers book in anonymously and if you make the grade they write a review.
If you put Tapitallee Lodges into Google Maps your phone will take you here. We find it easier to come down via the Princes Highway. Just send us a text to 0411 871 611 with your ETA and I’ll try and get the bread ready for your arrival.
