BUG review
This big clean hostel on Deakin Avenue has extensive facilities that include a bar and a swimming pool plus a big kitchen, a big TV lounge with a pool table and free internet access (including Wi-Fi) and a laundry. Accommodation is in four and six-bed dorms and most rooms have en suite facilities.
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Booking restrictions
Minimum one week stay
Price Dorm bed $140 per week Prices are in Australian dollars and are inclusive of all taxes.
The place is clean but the owners couldn't care less and the work they find you is questionable 7 January 2010
Pros:
Clean, average kitchen facilties, decent common room
Cons:
The staff couldn't care less, they find you work but you'll be lucky if it counts torwards a visa
ifawilkinson
saw things this way
Maintenance
(4)
Cleanliness
(4)
Facilities
(2)
Atmosphere
(2)
(Review ID: 12975)
The place is clean and tidy, no complaints there. The kitchen is also acceptable and the common room has a TV and some places to sit and even free internet, painfully slow internet but hey its free.
The problem lies with the staff who run the place, they just simply don't care. Its a working hostel and to be fair they found me work straight away that would, according to the hostel owner, count torwards the 3 months of farm work I needed to extend my visa. Anyway after working a day or two, I asked the person for who I worked whether the work will count and he said no because he pays cash so it doesn't go through the books.
So I got another job through the hostel, again no problem in getting the work but again it was a joke. We had to get up early to catch the bus, which would then turn up hours late, the work paid pretty much nothing and there was plenty of stories of people not being paid and not getting their visa's signed.
From the people I met I believe girls who stayed at the hostel did ok for themselves as they got steady jobs in factories processing fruit etc but from my experience the place was a joke, some nice people in the hostel but that doesn't help when its ran by people who are no help to you.
