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Lamplighter Motel

3.5 star property

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Monash Terrace 3 Bedroom Apartment | Laptop workspace, blackout drapes, iron/ironing board, bed sheets
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Monash Terrace 3 Bedroom Apartment | Private kitchen | Fridge, electric kettle
Hair dryer, towels, toilet paper
Property grounds

Reviews

6.0 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Parking included
  • Restaurant
  • Air conditioning
  • Breakfast available
  • Bar
  • Laundry

Explore the area

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1440 Dandenong Rd, Oakleigh, VIC, 3166
  • Place, Chadstone Shopping Mall
    ‪15 min walk‬
  • Place, World Series Paintball
    ‪2 min drive‬
  • Place, Holmesglen Institute
    ‪3 min drive‬
  • Airport, Melbourne, VIC (MEL-Tullamarine)
    ‪37 min drive‬

Room options

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Laptop workspace, blackout drapes, iron/ironing board, bed sheets

Classic Double Room

  • 247 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Laptop workspace, blackout drapes, iron/ironing board, bed sheets

Classic Twin Room

  • 247 sq ft
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Twin Bed

Classic Twin - Upstairs Room

  • 247 sq ft
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Twin Bed

Classic Double Upstairs Room

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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About the neighborhood

Melbourne

With a stay at Lamplighter Motel in Melbourne (Oakleigh), you'll be within a 5-minute drive of Chadstone Shopping Mall and Monash University. .This motel is 9.7 mi (15.5 km) from Rod Laver Arena and 10 mi (16.1 km) from Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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What's nearby

  • Chadstone Shopping Mall - 15 min walk - 0.8 miles
  • World Series Paintball - 2 min drive - 1.0 mile
  • Jack Edwards Reserve - 2 min drive - 1.0 mile
  • Holmesglen Institute - 3 min drive - 1.5 miles
  • Waverley Basketball Club - 4 min drive - 1.7 miles

Getting around

  • Dandenong Station - 14 min drive
  • Oakleigh Station - 14 min walk
  • Melbourne Airport (MEL) - 40 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Hungry Jack's - ‬5 min walk
  • ‪Vanilla Lounge - ‬12 min walk
  • ‪Caravan Music Club - ‬9 min walk
  • ‪KFC - ‬7 min walk
  • ‪Kalimera Souvlaki Art - ‬9 min walk

About this property

Lamplighter Motel

Lamplighter Motel offers 25 air-conditioned accommodations with hair dryers and irons/ironing boards. Televisions come with cable channels and DVD players. Housekeeping is provided daily.
Make yourself at home in one of the 25 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and DVD players. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Conveniences include phones, as well as electric kettles and irons/ironing boards.
Enjoy Asian cuisine at Balloons, a restaurant which features a bar/lounge, or stay in and take advantage of the room service. Continental breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
Featured amenities include luggage storage and laundry facilities. Free self parking is available onsite.
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Balloons - This restaurant specializes in Asian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Room service is available.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Dial-up internet
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • Daily continental breakfast available for a fee: AUD 5 to 15 for adults and AUD 5 to 10 for children
  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Restaurants on site

  • Balloons

Family friendly

  • DVD player
  • In-room refrigerator
  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)

Accessibility

  • No elevator

More

  • 2 floors
  • Smoking not allowed

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided
  • Blackout drapes

Bathroom

  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • 0-inch TV with cable channels
  • DVD player

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle
  • Refrigerator
  • Room service

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Heating
  • Iron/ironing board
  • Laptop workspace
  • Phone
  • Window screens

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: 8:30 PM
Early check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open Monday - Saturday (9:00 AM - 9:00 PM) and Sunday - Sunday (10:00 AM - 6:00 PM)
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
For any questions, please contact the property using the information on the booking confirmation
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for continental breakfast: approximately AUD 5.00 to 15.00 for adults, and AUD 5.00 to 10.00 for children

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

National rating

This property has been awarded a star rating from the Australian Star Ratings Agency, Star Ratings Australia.

Property is also known as

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Lamplighter Motel Reviews

Reviews

6.0
Rating 10 - Excellent. 41 out of 387 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 109 out of 387 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 101 out of 387 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 62 out of 387 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 74 out of 387 reviews

6.0/10

Cleanliness

6.2/10

Staff & service

4.4/10

Amenities

5.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

Verified

8/10 Good

Jackie

Liked: Staff & service
For the price and location was a decent stay. Comfortable beds, accommodating staff. The room was big enough for two people.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Roy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Free parking
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022
Verified

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Amenities
i have stayed before and have come back over the years. They let me check in early and, when i lost my pasport in the room they went and found it!
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024
Verified

8/10 Good

Jackie

Liked: Staff & service
Good for a one night stay in a no fuss accommodation. The motel is not the most modern but has a comfortable bed, with a nice shower with a mini fridge in a spacious room. It can smell like cigarette smoke but it is older so to be expected. I will stay here again. The staff are friendly & accommodating.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2024
Verified

2/10 Terrible

phil

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Disgusting

Blood on bathroom floor, smelt of cigarettes, do not ever consider this fleapit,
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Pradab

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room old the people staying there are noisy some have dog
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Wasif

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Smelly property
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024
Verified

6/10 Okay

Simon

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Could do with a spruce up around the area
Stayed 1 night in May 2023
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Anthony

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Permanently closed. Yet still able to book on this site?
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024
Verified

6/10 Okay

John

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Just ok
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Julianne

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This motel is nothing like the pictures, it is dirty and filthy and not looked after at all … There were food pieces on the walls in the bathroom like someone had vomit in there and missed the toilet all together, the floors all were dirty and stained. Curtains were ripped. This motel has loads of people living there permanently. We had no choice but to stay there for the night as we got there late…. We slept on top Of the blankets in our clothes.
Ripped curtain
Front diir
Curtains
Bathroom door
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Peter

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Felt very unsafe with the condition and people hanging around.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Adam

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Unsafe and horrible. We will never go back
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2023
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Diann

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Do yourself a favour and never stay there and take it off your website it’s not what your advertising l have never been so scared in my life at a motel we ran out of there forfeit our money
Verified

2/10 Terrible

amber

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Smelly and noisy during the night, few homeless people shouted and the door can’t close properly, it’s unsafe.
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Eileen

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Is this used to house the rejected members of society? Not a wink of sleep with the fighting/noise.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2023
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Isabella

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Terrible and unsafe
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023
Verified

6/10 Okay

Christine

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room had a musty smell and smelt of cigarette smoke. The shower was old and dirty.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Mike

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was dirty, unclean
Stayed 1 night in May 2025
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Richie

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is one of the worst motels I’ve ever stayed in. Filthy, stunk and they stuffed up our reservation. Next time I think I’ll stay in a bus shelter if I’m struggling to find something. I cannot recommend anything less than I recommend this shi$hole.
Verified

2/10 Terrible

phillip

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
there were bloodstains on door will never stay there again deffinetly not covet freindly took photos would like to send to health board
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Kylie

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Do not stay here. Dirty, unsafe, no staff around. Worst experience ever. We did not end up staying.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023
Verified

6/10 Okay

Ronald

The yard was partly occupied by a couple of wrecked cars. Each night there was a loud conversation going on above my room
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2022
Verified

6/10 Okay

Leeanne

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Whole place smelt of smoke and toilet wasnt flushed smelly
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Greg

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This motel is no longer part of Golden Chain group. Carpark is filthy. Room we had did not in any way match the photos on website.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022