We loved Chantel's amazing property at Balnarring. It's spacious, beautifully fitted out and decorated, and a real pleasure to spend time in. It's also perfectly located, with the Balnarring village shopping centre literally a minute's walk away. It is also perfectly central for all the wineries, restaurants, stores and attractions that the Peninsula offers.
The lounge areas (both of them) are huge with ample seating, enormous TVs and a super convenient pair of work desks in one of the rooms that came in handy when we had to do a little work while we were away.
Bedrooms are good sized and two include walk in robes, with the master also having a modern en suite with a fantastic rain shower. The kitchen is very generous with a large induction cooktop and oversize oven, large fridge and walk in pantry. Chantel thoughtfully provides all the basics including plenty of extra rubbish bags, cling wrap and the like. There's a 4 slice toaster, kettle, Nespresso machine, and more cutlery glassware and tableware than we could possibly need.
We also loved the generous welcome basket with lots of fresh fruit, bread, muesli, coffee pods, a bottle of wine and more, and there were eggs, butter and fresh milk in the fridge.
Outside it has an amazing undercover al fresco area with brilliant outdoor barbecue with more burners than I could count, all integrated into a nice outdoor kitchen area with bar fridge. This area was lovely to sit out in and relax.
The outdoor area includes a veggie garden, grassed area with kids cubby house and a beautiful garden. The heated pool was also great, and we enjoyed swimming even when the weather turned a little cold. (And when we had a small issue with the pool, Chantel had the pool company around with 45 minutes of our enquiry.)
Chantel is definitely the best host we've come across (and we've had some great hosts). She's generous, responsive and nothing is too much trouble. We can't recommend her enough as the perfect host. We can't wait for our next trip.