Over the years I have used this service I have been very impressed mostly. 99% of the time the drivers are an absolute pleasure. Sometimes they can take a while to come but that may be the phone service I don't know & they are still a world better than most. Great local service. Wouldn't know what to do if they were not around.

It is VERY difficult to find a good massage therapist who both knows what they are doing & has the physical strength & enthusiasm to help a stubborn case like myself. Yaser is fairly new to the industry but has the enthusiasm and knowledge required to make a big impact in Wollongong & the Illawarra region. He knows trigger point therapy & takes direction well. As someone who requires very strong & sometimes painful treatment, I have been to a ridiculous amount of massage therapists locally in an attempt to find someone who can assist me. That being said, I have nothing but praise for this bloke. Until recently I think he was having a promotion of $50 per hour. Not sure what his price is in the new year. Even at $60 or more (which is still relatively cheap for the industry), he is well worth the money. By far one of the best massage therapists available at the moment in the region.

Approximate cost: $60

Really great first impression. I saw Theo. He is an absolutely lovely bloke. Great practice. Lovely staff. They have a massage therapist there, which I have not had a try yet with, they do acupuncture and seem to offer many different services under one roof - which is VERY convenient & much appreciated. They offer orthotics too. They were a bit more expensive than the last place I went though but they work in Wollongong & Warilla too which is helpful. I have since also been to the Warilla practise. They are all VERY professional and highly recommended.

Approximate cost: $65

One of Wollongong's very few OBGYNs. He is a very good choice for anybody seeking assistance with their pregnancy. He works with Dr Coleman, who my grandmother tells me is also very good (as he did a surgery for her prolapsed bladder). Dr Davis has a pretty good bedside manner for a doctor, really cares about his patients, their babies & is extremely good at what he does as well. He has a very good reputation as being the neatest for c-section scars & I can tell you this is true for me. I have had both a natural & a c-section delivery with him & he was great (not really a scar at all). I think he can be pretty difficult to get into as a new patient but well worth the effort. Think it was about $2000 gap last time which was charged mid pregnancy.

Approximate cost: $2000

Until I found Oh Darling Beauty I felt a bit like a beauty refugee. My old nail lady had retired & no where I went had delivered the results I was after. Then I found Stacey :-) - She really is so good at her job. I get Gel nails on my fingers & toes. Other places I went to would do the gel okay but would never properly do my cuticles or a proper scrub or exfoliant during a full pedicure. I went to several places (even very expensive ones hoping that if i paid through the nose, someone would eventually do a good enough job, they didn't). They really were life savers here. They have since helped me with skincare & brow waxing. They are a bit out of the way but they really do seem to care more about the result you receive than other places who just have recently out of beauty school & quite disinterested girls working there. Good prices too compared to a lot of other places.

Best place for skincare products. I save at least 20% a time. For Guerlain skincare which in Myer may cost you $240, on there it's $120. Not every thing has savings like that, but shipping is free and each time you use the service, you get a bigger discount up until it bottoms out which i think is over 10%.

A Wollongong staple. These guys are a place to go where you will always get good food and service. Over the years they have never reduced their standards while still remaining pretty affordable. My favourite is green curry as it has lychees in it and I always get the duck.

Approximate cost: $15

We always liked Tony's Chicken Shop for regular take aways, but we it came to our son's baptism, we decided to have them cater. They were so helpful and the prices were a lot better than other places. They delivered on time and the bloke who helped us place the order sat down with us and was really helpful. I would highly recommend them for catering. I think the bill ended up about $640 or so, but we had about 40 people.

Approximate cost: $10

The staff are great. There is one older lady in particular that I was always glad when I saw, she explained things in more detail to me etc. They have better prices than another place I used nearby & they are linked with the OBGYN I saw with my last two pregnancies. Parking is pretty crumby but it's worth it to go there.

Approximate cost: $100

I went here to get new carpets & they were the first place I looked at. I thought the carpets were nice & the people very friendly but surely I could get cheaper elsewhere (just because it was the first place I went). Anyway, after a whole day of running around with a one year old, getting comparative quotes, i found that these people had blown everyone else out of the water. I have been kicking myself that I could have just gone with them first & saved myself all the hassle. They are REALLY lovely people here!!!! Could not recommend them more highly. ;-)

Approximate cost: $3000