Partridge House at Glenelg is in no way connected to the 70's TV show. Its not the home of the…read morePartridge Family and there is no multi coloured bus parked anywhere within the vicinity - although it would be fun if there was. Rather Partridge House is a beautiful old community home, originally built in 1899 for a Mrs Elinor Varley. The house is today set amidst stunning gardens and grounds and is used these days predominantly as a venue for weddings. Partridge house can also be hired for all sorts of events and is home to various community groups and organisations. If you're looking at hiring the venue, it will seat 80 people for a sit down function or can take 130 for a cocktail party. Take special note of the fountain in front of the house as a location for you photos. It was donated to the owner by former Adelaide Mayor and state pollie, William Townsend back in 1877. Fast forward a hundred years or so to the early 1970's, in fact around the same time TV's The Partridge Family was making it big, and there was talk of demolishing Partridge House and using the land to establish housing. Thank heavens, the then Glenelg Council decided to buy and restore the historic site instead. The beautiful gardens and grounds are open to the public every day, but the house is closed.

Partridge House is a wonderful relaxing place have events, catch up with friends and family or to…read morejust sit in peace and quiet and and enjoy the sunshine. Weddings are quite popular here in the Summer time. Dogs are allowed too. The gates are locked at 10pm every night.

Major Fail! Where to…read morestart? We recieved a flyer in the mail promoting the new Glenelg Club. It stated that it does breakfast on Saturday's, kids eat free Saturday and kids can run around on the oval. Perfect, or so we thought. Got there and there was seating outside but no shade, meaning we had to sit inside as we would've been burnt to a crisp out there. The kids couldn't run around on the oval as there were guys out there getting ready for a cricket match. Totally understand that it's a sporting venue, but don't advertise that the kids can run on the oval if they can't. Then we tried to order and were informed that kids only eat free during lunch and dinner (it didn't state this on the flyer, or on the sign in their dining room). It was only 15 minutes before the lunch menu started so when it hit 11 we again tried to order for the kids. We were then told (by the same lady as before) that kids only eat free during dinner. So not impressed. Clearly it's a scam designed to get people in the door. There are 6 items on the breakfast menu, one of which is an avocado bruschetta. I tried to order this but was told they had run out of avocado. Considering there was only 1 other table full in the whole place I don't think they had just run out. Having a limited menu is fine, but if you're going to have a limited menu you need to have it all available. Between us we ordered 4 breakfasts, 2 eggs florentine and 2 bacon and eggs (one with extra bacon). 1 of each came out after about 15 minutes. The extra bacon on the bacon and eggs was missing. We were waiting for the other 2 meals before starting. After about 10 minutes the waitress offered to put our plates under the warming lights while we waited. I asked how long the other meals would be and she went to check. We were only a couple metres away from the kitchen pass so we heard the conversation. Waitress: "How much longer will the eggs florentine be?" Chef: "Was there another?" So of course we started eating since they had to start from scratch on the other meals. This is a plus (and the only one from the whole experience) the food was actually really tasty. Flavours were good. Too bad my poached egg was hardboiled, not slightly overcooked but completely rock hard! After another 15-20 minutes the other 2 meals finally arrived. The extra bacon that had been ordered for the bacon and eggs ended up on the eggs florentine. The poached egg on that dish was cooked perfectly. The scrambled eggs on the bacon and eggs were stone cold though. She must have cooked it first and then left it sitting there while she did the eggs florentine. There was also only 1/3 as much scrambled egg as there was on the first dish. There was no consistency at all. There was only 1 chef on and she was on her mobile phone while she was cooking. It looked really unprofessional. There was no difference in size between a cappuccino and a mug of cappuccino and the 3rd cappuccino didn't show up until we reminded them about it. The whole experience was so so disappointing. I really wanted to love The Glenelg Club, but it was a trainwreck! It could be so good, it's got great potential, but it has a long way to go to even be considered okay. The flavour of the food was good, and the prices were very reasonable, but everything else needs to be majorly overhauled. I won't be going back there anytime soon. I hate to say this, but don't waste your time or your money.

Bay Function Centre is a local venue, attached to the Glenelg Football Club and is used for a wide…read morevariety of private and football functions. It caters comfortably for over 200 guests and provides quality sit down and cocktail menus.

Honestly, I preferred Magic Mountain, its predecessor, though that probably had a lot to do with…read morethose childhood memories of me never actually going there. Well, I did once, but I didn't go on any of the waterslides, which was a shame. In a way, this is just a pale imitation of that once great structure that used to sit on the foreshore like a pile of ... mud. Yeah, that describes it beautifully. I guess, though, this does look better, but it just doesn't have the charm that the Magic Mountain had.

Using cards instead of tokens is the only world my kid will grow up knowing. And while the…read moretransition is easy for him, for me it's having to choose between whether the money on his card will be based on time spent playing, actual monetary value, or playing on some things but not others. This mental calculus was made easier by the lovely person behind the counter who asked a few questions about what my kid was interested in playing, how long, and then we just paid for whatever based on her recommendation. The kid then tried his hand at some ticket-prize games before making his way upstairs to the arcade games. This is where I discovered that my kid is scarily fantastic at that Terminator shooting game. ??? A little over an hour later, we exchanged his collection of tickets for some gross sticky hand trinket and then tried some mini golf. It is by far the smallest (by size) course I've ever played on but it was nice - in view of the beach and outdoors. Would I come here again? If it was raining. Honestly, not a bad way to spend some indoor kid time.

I wish i could leave a review with more than one star. My stomach is in turmoil. The staff at this…read moreestablishment are not firing on all cylinders. Starting with our arrival our reserved table had not been properly cleaned. We had to aproach an employee to ask for the table and chairs to be re-wiped before we could sit. After paying for our plates we headed over to the open buffet section. The first thing i noticed is that the plates provided looked clean at first glance, however if scraped with a nail or utensil i can guarentee debris would come up. NEITHER the plates around the buffet nor the bowls around the desert bar had been properly cleaned or disenfected. After finally finding some clean plates after sorting through the stack. We grabbed our food and sat down to eat. After a meal that even our 11 year old family member deemed to be poor quality, the food either being under or overcooked, we decided we would not be coming back. Towards the end of the night i noticed the evaporative air cooler vent above our table had been leaking and dripping water due to a fault. (None of the other identical vents in the resturaunt had this issue) This had been dripping and falling INTO the food over the course of the night. When one of our party memebers reported the issue to the staff, the manager was notified. The manager then came out and viewed the problem and proceeded to walk away without speaking to us. Considering we had eaten contaminated vent water, we did expect the staff to at least adress the issue with us. We had to ask for the manager several more times before the staff cared to organise it. The staff were rude and dismisisive, at one point one of my party members had a staff memeber audibly laugh and smirk at him for being upset after eating contaminated and possibly dangerous substances. Once the manager came out she tried to tell us it was just clean water and minimise the situation. We had to explain to her that when evaporative vents leak like that they are always contaminated and filled with debris and bacteria. Fortunatley we were compensated for the meal costs, but if the watermark wants to buy me some ant-acid to deal with the aftermath of thier establishment that would be great. Dissapointing considering this place used to be a reknowned establishment.

Years ago, before I was even allowed into pubs, this used to be a really popular nightclub. I have…read moreno idea what it was called, I just remember that we would hear about it all the time. I'm not sure if it has always been known as the Watermark (namely because I rarely, if ever, went there - though I do remember coming here with a friend once for a couple of games of pool). However, on New Years Eve, when I made my way down to Glenelg, I decided to go an check it out again. It was certainly quite packed, and the bouncers seemed to have their hands full making sure there was no trouble. Anyway it is a pretty classy place, and quite nice, though not a place I would give a high rating for. Their gaming room literally looks like a casino, and they do have a nice beer garden that looks out onto the marina. However other than that there wasn't all that much that stood out about this place.

Stayed here in a Ocean View room with balcony. I found that it was more suited for one person. As…read morethere was one robe. Snacks for one and so on. The water pressure was amazing in the shower. We ordered room service that was actually really nice very filling. The bed was amazing. Very comfortable. The spa was great but would be better suited if the pool was heated more. And the roof was covered was cold sitting in a hot spa. We did how ever find a hair on the towels in the bathroom but aside from that our stay was nice and was nice to get away.

So many times have I been here for wedding receptions so it was a nice change for a bride-to-be to…read morehave her hens night starting off with an Afternoon High Tea. A glass of sparkling white was served to everyone at our table and the delicious trio plate of delectables were soon eaten. There was plenty of food to go around.