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✓ Big kitchen, open 24/7 and came with plates and cutlery
✓ Central - walking distance to shops and harbour
✓ Lockable storage spaces in rooms
✓ Good wifi (ish)
✓ Reception open 24/7
✓ Adjacent to Scary Canaries, lively bar with reasonable prices and entertainment
✓ All female rooms available
✓ Good laundry facilities (it had an iron basically!)
ⓧ Temperamental keys
ⓧ One very slow lift
✓ Good kitchen facilities, didn't have to put a deposit down for cutlery
✓ Sociable courtyard area for late night drinking
✓ Entertainment put on at the hostel itself most nights
✓ Next door to Aldi - cheap dinners!
✓ Five minute walk to beach
✓ Reception open 24/7
✓ Swap or sell events put on
✓ One minute walk away from shops and main bus-stop
✓ Some ensuite rooms
✓ Had a jacuzzi
✓ Balconies
✓ Free wifi in the lobby
ⓧ Mixed toilet and shower rooms
ⓧ Kitchen closed at 10pm
ⓧ No mirrors in room
ⓧ Had to go inside and turn music off at 10pm
✓ Very cool and relaxed atmosphere
✓ Got to see a lot of wildlife...
✓ Had it's own pool and volleyball court
✓ Had tepees to sleep in
ⓧ Dirty toilet and shower rooms
ⓧ Had to rent cutlery and plates etc
ⓧ Very small and crowded kitchen
ⓧ No electricity, lighting etc in the smaller group of tepees
ⓧ Temperamental zips on tepees
ⓧ No night time entertainment
ⓧ About a 15 minute walk into town, 20 minutes to the beach
ⓧ Shuttle bus is always late and can only take a small number at once
✓ Ensuite rooms
✓ Rooms had their own fridge, balcony, clothes airer, TV and full length mirror
✓ Had a pool, jacuzzi and tennis court
✓ Two minute walk to shops and five minutes to beach
✓ Had an arcade downstairs
✓ Reception open 24/7
✓ Came with extra bedding
✓ Laundry room on every floor
ⓧ Wifi didn't work in rooms
ⓧ Beds were slightly unstable
ⓧ Hallways smelt damp
ⓧ Very basic kitchen and not many seats in dining area
ⓧ No entertainment put on
✓ Ensuite rooms
✓ Good wifi
✓ Good bar downstairs - reasonable food and drink prices
✓ Big kitchen
✓ Reception open 24/7
✓ Gave guests free pasta/rice
✓ Had a book exchange
✓ Ten minute walk to shops and twenty minute walk to lagoon
✓ Right next to main bus and train terminal
ⓧ No bag storage in rooms
ⓧ Cramped rooms
ⓧ Had to rent kitchen utensils
ⓧ Couldn't alter air conditioning - very hot room
✓ Reliable shuttle services
✓ One minute walk to shops and ten minutes to beach
✓ Had multiple fans in each room
✓ Put on a free BBQ
✓ Good wifi
✓ Had a pool
✓ $5 menu five days a week
✓ Put on day activities - rope swing, coastal walk etc
ⓧ Bedbugs in some of the rooms
ⓧ Reception closed at 7pm
ⓧ Sixteen bed rooms with only one toilet and five plug sockets
ⓧ No lockable storage in rooms
ⓧ Not many kitchen facilities for the amount of guests
✓ Spacious rooms
✓ Ensuites
✓ Lively music every night
✓ Amazing wifi - able to download and stream movies
✓ Cheap laundry facilities
✓ Has a book exchange
✓ Reasonably priced meals
✓ Two minute walk to shops and five minutes to beach
✓ Have a pool
ⓧ Cooking facilities from the 1940s
ⓧ Temperamental door locks
ⓧ Expensive wifi
ⓧ Have to ask for dinner sets at reception
ⓧ Reception closes at 7pm
ⓧ Rooms come with cockroaches and lizards
Agnes Water - Southern Cross
✓ Free wifi
✓ Free breakfasts
✓ Free hot drinks all day
✓ Gorgeous grounds with a lake, horses, dogs, hammocks, BBQs
✓ TV room with DVDs
✓ Ensuite rooms
✓ Book exchange
✓ Free computer room
✓ Five minute shuttle bus to shops and beach
✓ Has a pool
✓ Free dinner sets and cutlery
✓ Fans in rooms
ⓧ Rooms don't lock
ⓧ Have to rely on the shuttle bus to get into town/beach - not walking distance
ⓧ No laundry facilities
ⓧ Wifi doesn't reach the rooms
Airlie Beach - Base Backpackers
✓ Ensuite, five bed rooms with own kitchen area
✓ Large communal kitchen with joint TV room
✓ Next door to the Down Under bar
✓ One minute walk from the lagoon
✓ Ten second walk from the shops
✓ Cheap laundry facilities
✓ Single/double beds available
✓ Plenty of room for caravans and camper vans
✓ Pool with hammocks
ⓧ Can only access the luggage room every half hour
ⓧ Wifi didn't stretch to the rooms
Magnetic Island - Base Backpackers
✓ Built right on the beach, two second walk away
✓ Different events and themes for each night
✓ Reasonable dinner and breakfast menus
✓ Own pool and plenty of hammocks
✓ Clean communal toilet and shower blocks
✓ Gorgeous views
✓ Airconditioned rooms
ⓧ Wifi doesn't stretch to rooms
ⓧ Rooms often found with ants and cockroaches
ⓧ Shops and attractions quite far away - bus needed
ⓧ No TV/chill out area
ⓧ Small kitchen
Mission Beach - Scotty's
✓ Ensuite bedrooms
✓ TV room with free use of DVDs
✓ Wifi that reached the rooms
✓ Large pool
✓ Peaceful
✓ Had a 'backpacker shop' in reception for single items of food - e.g. one slice of bread
ⓧ Had to wait for the shuttle bus to get to the shops
ⓧ Lots of mosquitos and dragonflies
Cairns - Gilligan's
✓ Large, modern rooms with ensuites
✓ Kitchens on every floor
✓ Has a gym and huge pool
✓ 24/7 reception
✓ Large laundrette
✓ Different events each night - e.g. ladies night, jelly wrestling etc
✓ Central to the shops and restaurants
✓ Has own bar and nightclub
ⓧ Electricity in the kitchens turn off after 10pm
ⓧ Can't control the air-conditioning in rooms
ⓧ Loud music plays into the night
Melbourne - Nomads
✓ Free wifi on ground floor
✓ Two minute walk from city and main shops
✓Clean rooms with fans and big beds
✓ Single toilets and showers on every floor that LOCK!
✓ Reception open 24/7
ⓧ Small kitchen
ⓧ Only two picnic style tables to eat on
St Kilda - Base
✓ Ensuite bathrooms
✓ Lively bar downstairs
✓ Two minute walk to the beach
✓ Located near all shops and restaurants
✓ Big, clean kitchen with TV room adjoined
Manly - Manly Backpackers
✓ Two minute walk from the beach and shops
ⓧ Some rooms are joined together with balconies - anyone can walk into your room and trying to sleep in those rooms is impossible with the noise
ⓧ Broken and very unstable bunk beds
ⓧ 'Free wifi for 24 hours' that never actually worked
ⓧ Only two washers and dryers for over 100 people
ⓧ Reception closes at 7pm
ⓧ Very loud music every single night in the courtyard
ⓧ No AC in rooms
ⓧ Dirty bathrooms
Manly - Manly Bunkhouse
✓ Free wifi
✓ Big, comfortable dining area and TV lounge
✓ Big, comfortable beds with pillows more than an inch thick
✓ Bathrooms and kitchenette in every room
✓ Big lockers in all rooms
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