BUG Review
This hostel is in a great location, facing the ocean just off the main street in the town centre. The dorms are mostly single beds in large A-frame wooden rooms. Some have a balcony with ocean views, the others in the back have no windows at all. They are all air-conditioned and clean, though the bathrooms are looking a little tired. They sit above a centre courtyard full of shops and inexpensive restaurants, which opens onto covered street side tables. It is a very laid-back and comfortable place to stay. The travel desk at reception has everything you need.
Price Dorm bed $25-30 Double/twin room $110-120 Triple room $150 Prices are in Australian dollars and are inclusive of all taxes.
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Reception Open 7am-8pm daily; late check in available with prior arrangement
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Pros:
At least the walls in the twin room is painted.
Cons:
Appliances i.e Air-con, washing machine; and toilets are run down. Kitchen is dirty and no utensils!
backpacker2007
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This is by far the WORST backpacker I've lived in for the years of backpacking in Australia. Firstly, we were greeted by very rude and unprofessional staff members for check-in. It was shocking to find that we have to climb up flights of stairs to go through a tunnel of brick walls to get to a door that indicates our room cluster. As we walk in to further locate our room, we were appalled by the condition of the toilet that we passed by. We were shocked as we opened our room door. It has a strip of small windows near the ceiling on one wall condusive for a washroom and a smaller window on another wall. The room is merely large enough to have a double bed, a bedside table and a plastic garden chair. Air-conditioning is in the previous walkway, and we suppose that one small home air-conditioner is meant to provide cool air circulation to all the rooms in that one cluster through the small strip of 'washroom' windows near the ceiling. Outside on the dirty joined veranda, we found broken down washing machines. In the kitchen, dirty cutleries and plates were piled around the sink and utensils are in limited supplies for such a large backpackers accommodation! There is lack of space to prepare food. The kitchen is speechlessly filthy.It was impossible to sleep at night with doors that closes with a bang! People were going in and out the whole night and we could hear the loud music from the pubs on the main street. The entire night was filled with doors opening and closing loudly. It wasn't really fault of the other backpackers, it was the faulty door springs.There is lack of privacy in the double room too. Without air-conditioning, it was not possible to not open the windows for air circulation, however, then we could hear our neighbours conversations. Heed our advice, DO NOT STAY in this backpackers. Go to Magnums or YHA on the main street, we lived there after our cruise instead of coming back to Airlie Waterfront and it was an absolutely different environment and comfort level (MUCH MUCH BETTER with air-conditioners in each room, much cleaner and newer toilet and kitchen facilities). I hope the details portrayed how grossed this place is. I crossed my heart that all mentioned above is true and not due to some misunderstandings with the rude staff members, who also left us standing at the counter for a long time waiting for some travel, cruise advice.
Pros:
the views
Cons:
tooo many stairs & not clean enough bathrooms
rubylee
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There were too many stairs, the bathrooms were never clean and didn't have a fan which meant when you finished your shower it was like a sauna. The common fridge was abouyt 20 years old and was rusting.
Pros:
Some good advice on Whitsundays
Cons:
Overpriced, cramped, no air-conditioning, etc, etc...
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$60 a night for a "twin room" - in reality a breeze-block box barely big enough for two single beds, plus no air conditioning, no lockers, and no windows - was far, far too much.The only redeeming feature was some good advice about trips around the Whitsundays, hence 1 star. Otherwise it would be a big fat zero...Do NOT stay here unless you have completely run out of other options.
