A reply to S. M. A. Rombouts's (2006) comment on the article 'Gaussian quantum Monte Carlo methods for fermions and bosons', which appeared in Physical Review Letters 96 as article number 188901 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.188901). The original article by J. F. Corney and P. D. Drummond (2004) appeared in Physical Review Letters 93 as article number 260401 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.260401).