The Gatehouse provided the perfect getaway/hidey-hole for me to escape to being one who works six days per week at all the wrong hours of any day among a large number of people of diverse backgrounds! And so the Gatehouse fostered the essential environment for me to unwind and enjoy some much-desired and very rare 'me-time'.
The accommodation is very comfortable and has everything that one could need to have a private, self-contained holiday: Heating and cooling in every room; Security; Foxtel Premium; bathroom with seemingly endless hot water and intense pressure adjacent to the bedroom; toilet both upstairs and downstairs; dishwasher; clothes dryer; kitchen; library; and access to a rear lane-way for convenient departure to an adjacent street.
It is in close proximity to the Glenferrie train station providing a 15 minutes maximum journey into the CBD (approximately 10 minutes walk from the Gateway downhill. Enter the station via the arcade on the east side of Glenferrie Road).
Also it is only a 6-7 minute walk to the Glenferrie Road shopping and dining precinct where you will find some fantastic restaurants, cafes and other niche food vendors including Sashimi and Sushi specialists; Greek, Vietnamese and Malay restaurants; bakeries; chocolatiers; shoe and fashion shops; book vendors; a movie cinema; Army surplus suppliers; specialist meat and seafood purveyors; and both Woolworths and Coles for fresh food and groceries.
The bed in the only bedroom is divine. And there is a wardrobe to hang and store all of your stuff. To top it off their is also a TV/DVD in the bedroom too...
I must finish by saying this: The Gateway, while being a detached and private unit in a very peaceful, leafy, cobble stoned suburb of Melbourne, is not what you first think it is... It is in fact an extraordinarily appointed double story unit cum museum displayed with the esoteric taste and furnishments and the artistic expression of a very local fashion and decor designer with quite a random and extraordinary affinity with rust, relics, orchids, plaster, garden succulents and raiment... And that is just the half of it: The library area is seemingly appointed by another of equal brilliance but from the intellectual pole versus the artistic pole.
I would recommend without hesitation that anyone wishing to visit Melbourne stay here...
Sincerely, Glenn