Corner Lakefront Drive & Te Anau-Manapouri Road, Te Anau Tel (03) 249 7737 or 0800 4 TE ANAU Websitewww.teanau.info
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This place is in a lodge in a holiday park. It is very well maintained and offers a wide range of facilities, including laundry, spa pool, sauna and a barbecue area. The dorms are neat and spacious with new carpet, and bathrooms are clean. There is also a large well equipped kitchen, laundry facilities, internet access and a good lounge area with Sky TV and a log fire. It is a few minutes outside the town centre.
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Price Dorm bed $25 ($22 BBH) Double room $62 ($56 BBH) Twin room $60 ($54 BBH) Prices are in New Zealand dollars and are inclusive of all taxes.
A clean, friendly and comfortable hostel. 19 March 2009
Pros:
Situation, maintenance, security, cleanliness.
Cons:
The people who don't leave the kitchen clean, on occasions.
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(Review ID: 12670)
A clean, friendly, relaxed and well maintained hostel in part of a larger complex. A short walk to town, but the lake and DOC's office is just across the road. Tracknet, the bus service, is part of it, and makes travel arrangements easy.
Miserable, institutional suburbia; dully functional and prisonlike 25 February 2008
Pros:
Clean, easy to find, sometimes has space
Cons:
A prison
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(Review ID: 7939)
This "hostel" consists of endless lines of barracklike doubles and "cabins" jammed shoulder to shoulder, each equipped with paper-thin walls and heavy, slam-prone doors. The obvious assumption is that everyone staying here is a scumbag: in some of the kitchens, you have to pay to rent cooking utensils because obviously you'd just steal them otherwise. (The signs make this clear.) The staff is curt and barely civil. Although SB is clean enough, their kitchens are no better than any other hostel's, with the mandatory nonfunctional can openers and dull knives. Stay here only if everything else is full; me myself, I'd rather have a real hostel.
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Big hostel, great location and friendly staff 23 December 2004
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(Review ID: 12470)
This is a great hostel well located. Staff were awesome. It wasn't too busy when we were there, so we had no complaints about noise, etc. Given the nature of the corridors, this may be a problem during busier times, though
