Although Magnolia House is very well appointed and comfortable, we would never choose to return there.
You can't tell from the photos, but Magnolia House is situated right on the main road through Healesville, and it's in a body corporate with the other tenants in very close proximity. The road noise is pretty clear from inside, so if you're wanting a quiet get-away, I would go elsewhere.
And if that noise wasn't enough, a digger arrived at 8am on the Saturday, completely wrecking our sleep-in.
Although everything seemed clean at first, within an hour we found 2 cockroaches in the bedroom and ants in the ensuite bathroom.
The worst part of the whole experience was that the owners refused to reimburse us for the interruption to our stay. Caroline said that the digger was there because of one of the other tenants, and it was meant to be there later in the day, not 8am. She had only been advised one day before we came to stay, but still didn't bother to pass this information on to us.
Caroline claims to be sorry for the interruption to our weekend, but the only way we can benefit from her apology is to spend more money going back there to get 20% off. Why would we do that?! We paid a lot of money to stay there the first time, and we did not get the peaceful stay that we expected. It feels a lot more like "sorry-not sorry" to us. You might not be responsible for the choices of the neighbouring tenants, but you are responsible for your guests having a good time and getting what they pay for!