BUG review
Albury’s YHA hostel is a good quality accommodation option although the complex also includes motel cabins and caravan sites so it doesn’t have a proper backpackers’ atmosphere. It is a clean and well-maintained place to stay with facilities that include a guest lounge with a TV and basic kitchen facilities plus a swimming pool and barbecue area. It is in Lavington in Albury’s northern suburbs.
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Price Dorm bed $36 ($32 HI/YHA) Double/twin room $70 ($63 HI/YHA) Prices are in Australian dollars and are inclusive of all taxes.
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Bunk house in a caravan park on a big loud highway 27 September 2006
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Regent Honeyeater
saw things this way
Maintenance
(4)
Cleanliness
(4)
Facilities
(3)
Atmosphere
(1)
(Review ID: 851)
The Hume highway is the main road transport corridor between Sydney and Melbourne, it gets heavy truck noise all night. Albury is currently getting a huge bypass built around it which will reduce this problem. The hostel is in a good location, its well run & safe but it's got no atmosphere: its 5km north of Albury itself (an interesting city). The historic Albury rail way station is Victorian era, huge & worth a look see: the colonial governments couldn't decide which guage to run so they each did their own thing & make passengers swap trains there for decades (this is fixed now). If you decide to stay here try to avoid hanging around the Motor village: go into Albury to eat: it will be more fun & there is a nice old 30's cinema with some Deco features in the main shopping street.
