The hotel's own brochure rates itself as 4.5 stars, but 4 is definitely the maximum possible, and a generous rating at that. I stayed a week on a business trip, so didn't want or need to use any of the leisure facilities. But, as a relatively frequent visitor to Perth, this hotel would be low on my list of places to stay for a holiday. I only stayed here because it was relatively handy to my place of work for the week, and because it had been a long time since I last visited (1995), so I was curious.
Nevertheless, the ability to take oneself for an early morning walk along the beach every day proved to be a welcome bonus, so I was pleased with my choice, and would return for that alone.
As it happened, I was accorded a couple of notable favours. Since I require broadband internet access from my hotel room, I called the day before my arrival to double-check the situation. (The website I had booked with simply noted "internet access" was available, but when I checked on the hotel's own website it became clear that this could mean dial-up! (And in this day and age in an up-market hotel!!)). I called the hotel, and discovered my reservation, admittedly at a discounted rate, had me in a "standard" room, which was dial-up only. I expressed my disappointment, said I wouldn't have booked if that had been made clear, and was promptly upgraded to a superior room that had broadband, and for no additional cost. Given the cost of broadband access, however, that was not altogether surprising.
Still, I confess I did enjoy my upgraded room (1814), especially after comparing notes with my colleague, who was given the sort of room I guess I might have been given otherwise. He described his room as "tired" and with no outlook, while mine was clearly recently refurbished, pleasantly so, and with knock-out beach and coastal views. Speaking of internet rates, A$25/day is highway robbery, but I have always found that a polite request to the front desk (especially if one is staying a full week, as I was) results in a discount being applied, as was the case for me. So: no complaints from me re the front desk staff!
The only minor grumble was that the room featured one of my pet hates: the only way to plug in my laptop involved crawling on hands and knees under the desk, and I had to unplug the desk lamp since the other power-point was occupied with the plug for the in-room router, which, strangely, was dangling under the desk, hanging only by its network and power cables. Most bizarre. (But quite tidy compared to what I saw in my hotel room the previous week in a Holiday Inn in Orlando: see the photo in that review for a true under-desk horror.)
Breakfast was decent: $20/person for continental all-you-can-eat is pretty fair, and the selection was abundant and diverse. The in-house "Dome" chain coffee shop, part of the same building complex, also does a pretty good breakfast for a slightly cheaper alternative.
The only other strangeness was the towel count in the bathroom. On various days I was allocated either 2, or 3, or 4 towels. Guessing how many towels I'd find each evening on my return became one of the distractions of an otherwise routine week.

Much of the advertising refers to this as a 5 star hotel. The mangement admit is lost a star last year and, believe me, it could lose another this year. We anticipated a de-luxe stay in a 5 star resort hotel to conclude our extended stay in Aus/NZ. Hmmm...a sad disappointment.

I could write in even more length and detail but these are the main things that made this a poor hotel choice for our 5 night stay in late March.

Hugely busy reception for Sunday afternoon check-in but only one, not
too happy, receptionist. Duty manager appeared to be hiding in the office. Throughout our stay, reception staff levels appeared to be in
inverse quantity to the actual demand.

The room was in the worst location possible - the South side of the East wing - and had a significant layer of dust on glass surfaces. It
did not have sun at any time, faced into the strong "Freemantle Doctor" winds, overlooked the main road to the city and was opposite the noisiest bar/nightclub in Scarborough. All these factors rendering the balcony unusable. By the way, the advertising refers to
"generous" balconies - don't you believe everything you read.

Breakfast was a complete farce with dreadful service and poor attention to detail all stemming from inadequate staffing. The buffet was more expensive than our four star hotel in Circular Quay, Sydney and far worse quality.

The recurring breakfast problems caused us to entirely avoid the restaurants which may or may not have been a good thing because Scarborough is seriously short on decent restaurants.

What is good? Apart from one specific receptionist, all the staff were a delight but sorely stretched by the understaffing. The pool area was excellent with a good pool bar and bar man. The location is the best, right on the beach and the upper floor views are spectacular.

My first wrestlng match with the grim receptionist did, two days later, get us a change of room to the North facing side of the West wing. The new room was sunny and bright, sheltered from the wind, with a far superior view and reasonably far away from the street and main road noises. Interestingly they are all the same price and the Duty Manager did admit that our first allocation was only ideal for one night business type stopovers. My second discussion, this time with a Duty Manager, resulted in a vast improvement at breakfast where a restaurant manager actually appeared - pity it was our last breakfast.

Probably we would not stay again and we certainly would not unless the room position was crystal clear and the staffing levels addressed. I suggest you look around Hillary's Harbour it is in another class in every respect except for the magnificent beach.

We loved our stay at the Rendezvous. The motel staff were brilliant. They were extremely helpful and friendly. Nothing was too much trouble. The views from our room was the absolute best. You could look right up and down the coast. We watched the sunset from our balcony. It went down the horizon, no clouds, nothing to get in the way of the perfect sunset. There are 3 bars and 2 restaurants here. One of the bars is an English pub which opens onto the street. Scarborough Beach is about 20 minutes out of Perth and 25minutes from Freemantle. There isn't much at Scarborough Beach but driving in Perth is fairly easy, although the street directory is sometimes not quite accurate.

All in all, a 5 star motel but rated 4 1/2.

Hotel room was basic and clean. Beach view was amazing, although barely anyone actually used the beach during our short stay there so that gave us the impression of it being a quieter area. There was not much going on at all actually in the surrounding areas so that was a downside of staying here. Transit to the city centre was fine. Pool at the hotel is great. Would recommend if you like being by a quiet beach, otherwise I'd probably recommend a livlier beach area or even stay near the city centre. (Maybe the place is more lively during peak summer months as we were there in February but we walked in the surrounding area and it is mostly residential)