Eating out at sports clubs.

When you move around with house sitting, one of the places to find is a good cheap place to eat out. We don't go out much for dinner, but will sometimes have lunch out, and finding a place that has a good price and a good meal can take a while.

Australia has a fabulous network of sports clubs right around the country, and many of them have excellent dining rooms. Its a bit of trial and error at first to find one we like, but we generally ask someone in the local shops. Where we are at the moment, we have been going to the Helensvale Bowling Club. They have large facilites, a large dining room, and good cheap food.

On Mondays and Tuesdays they have a pensioners discount, and lunch is $4.00 each. It's almost impossible to get anything like that these days. In the past, meals at pubs and clubs used to be cheap, but the costs have gone up alot everywhere. This club has a selection of meals, pork chops, rissoles, sausages, ham steaks, beef, chicken etc, with mashed potatos or chips and veges. It's not a huge meal, but certainly enough. At nights they have their $10 specials which also are terrific value.

Like most clubs, they also have a bar and coffee bar, along with a large area of comfy chairs. A coffee and cake is not expensive and if you are a member you get a further discount. As we are in this area for a while we have joined this club. It only costs about $5 per year, and it also gives you access to all the other sports clubs in Aussie too. Its a great system they have here.

 

This seems to be quite a large bowling club, there are 21 greens. You can see the clubhouse in the background.

 Like all these clubs, it has a room full of pokie machines if you want to spend a few dollars. So if you are house sitting on the northern end of the Gold Coast, you might like to try this place for lunch. Its almost immediately opposite the Helensvale Community Centre, close to the Helensvale Westfield mall.