This is a nice, homely, family-run business. You get greeted by the owners son, who is friendly and unintrusive. The rooms are standard fare for a cheap motel, but more positively have electric blankets (essential in Victorian winter!). The breakfast is very basic, but fresh and "free" of charge. The overall cost was less than other similar motels in the gorgeous town of Nhill. Pretty good overall experience.

Approximate cost: $85

These guys have a sign out on the street saying "dry cleaning - 3 garments for $18". I went in with three garments and the lady wrote me out a slip for $18 as per plan. However, upon collecting my clothes, the price had mysteriously risen to $29. The bloke told me it was because "the dry cleaner charges it, it's not us" (?). He then back-tracked and said he'd "be happy with $20". I took out my eftpos card and he then changed his mind again, and said he could only give a "discount" of $20 if I paid him cash!!! As I had no cash, he ended up randomly plucking $25 out of the ether as the cost - which I paid just to get out of there. He said as I left, "next time I'll give you another discount"... however, this one was a price inflation for starters, and, more pertinently, there won't be a next time!! On the plus side, the cleaning was up to scratch. Phew...

This place served us STALE poppadums - astoundingly brazen. This was on the day of a funeral, and we had hoped for a nice fresh meal. We could hear the waitress and the chef yelling from the kitchen after we rejected the stale food... Not good. In contrast, the Japanese restaurant next door is undoubtedly the best restaurant in Ballarat!

Approximate cost: $15

Unfortunately today the staff at Say Cheese tried to sell my wife some fetta which was reduced in price from $10 to $8.45, on account of it "not having many days left". As it turned out, its best before date was 8 days earlier!! It is never good to sell week-expired cheese to anyone, especially not people in the medical profession...