Ocean sounds is a beautiful, spacious house with a brilliant ocean view located a 5 minute drive outside Apollo Bay and a 2 minute walk from the beach. Myself and my family rented the place for 4 nights over Christmas and thoroughly enjoyed our time there. Although it is certainly on the expensive side, it was worth it given the location and size/comfort of the house and its amenities. Because Tanja and her family live there, I thought the balance of feeling like you're staying in someone's home, while not having too much stuff in the way, was perfect. The house is well decorated and the pantry was supplemented with cooking supplies and condiments, but there was also plenty of room for our own things.

Tanja was extremely helpful and always responsive to my emails, and visited soon after our arrival to check things were ok. Overall, our experience renting the place and staying there was excellent.

My only issue was that, although the place was generally very clean, it seemed the cleaning could have been more thorough - some parts of the floor were dirty and some crockery food-stained. It wasn't a huge problem, but given the cleaning fee one would expect everything to be spotless.

Overall I certainly recommend Ocean Sounds to anyone willing to spend a little more for an outstanding summer vacation on the Great Ocean Road.