Venus Hill B & B

Venushill was well set up. Clean, spacious, comfortable and well-located. The breakfast provided was very good and the kitchen facilities provided good options for the stay. Don't expect good phone or internet connectivity inside the underground apartment - it is 'under ground'!

Yeah it was niceish but average, didn’t come close to expectations.. $250 per night you would expect somewhat high standard. We enjoyed the experience of an underground apartment but majority of accommodation in Coober pedy gives you that experience. Have to admit, the caretaker while the owner was away - not his fault but didn’t know what he was doing. No greeting, no knowledge of tourist stuff in town, was put in different room than expected, breakfast included was 2 apples, 2 bananas, half a loaf of rock hard out of date bread, 2 mini cereal packets (1 out of date) and a million traveller jams delivered on arrival. Aircon was a pedestal fan, had to ask about wifi which was under the verandah at main house up the hill. Our room was next to messy construction site and gear for another room, had to ask for more fruit at least considering we’re there for 2 nights and stuff was expired. He delivered promptly and apologised though. Bathroom had no sanitary bin and half a roll of toilet paper, and roof not fully closed off to the rest of the unit with no ventilation. Beds in second room were covered in rock falling away from roof and through vent so had to move the bed on second night to stop getting woken up by it. No cooking utensils so had to use all our own kitchen camp stuff. Didn’t even want to ask about laundry service at this point. Note behind the door told guests not to “whinge”.. if we asked for things every time they came up we would be walking up and down the hill all day plus the caretaker was hard to locate when needed.

What an amazing place. Comfortable, spacious, quirky. If you want a true underground experience you can’t go past venushill. Comfortable beds and couches and the view out the front of the property at sunset and sunrise is astonishing. A great breakfast of cereal, fruit and bread for toasting. We loved it and will talk about it for a long time.

On the way to we stayed in the donga like accommodation. It was clean with decent air conditioning but oh wow the views from this place are amazing. Decided to book the underground accommodation on the home leg we just loved it. A great experience. The host were friendly and interesting dug the place out themselves. The breakfast supplied was all we wanted. My only gripe is there was not enough cutlery which did not bother us as we had our own. Mike did mention people knock stuff off, but you should check prior to guest arriving. Will certainly stay here again. a little out of town but sure worth the little drive.