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Home away from home!!!!, March 25, 2006
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Reviewer: Pascale from Germany
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You are among friends immediately!!
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The Yellow Sub is simply the best hostel ever! As soon as you enter through the green door you feel welcome, at home and among friends. You get to know everyone very fast. If you have questions Judy, Santosh and Tanja are more than welcome to help you...I spend Christmas and New Years Eve there and I wasn't homesick once! After about 3 months I'm finally leaving the Yellow Sub to go on travelling. But let me tell you - there have been so many people that simply got stuck there for far longer than they'd planned because you just feel so comfortable there and don't want to leave...The rooms are nice, facilities good, pool table and pool entertaining and the help for finding work is great!!!I've met so many nice people there and had such a great time... If you want to experience the same - go to the Yellow Sub!!!!
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By far the best hostel in Australia, March 19, 2006
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Reviewer: waelkyrge from London, UK
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The willingness of the staff to help people they do not know
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one day, you have to leave
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For a few months I drove all the way around Australia. I stayed in dozens of hostels. Out of all these hostels (and I have within the last few seconds decided that I will, within this statement, include all the hostels I have stayed in throughout my travels around the world over many years) the Yellow Submarine was the best. There is something magic here; something that you will remember forever. Stay more than a few days.
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They will find you work, and have fun in the meantime., March 6, 2006
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Reviewer: suepettit from Dublin, Irleand
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Excellent work contacts, location, pool, friendly staff.
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Mosquitos, small laundry area
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As you walk along Quay Street in Brisbane, you will pass the usual selection of YHAs and Let's-pack-em-in-til-they-can't-breath-but-can-still-pay types of hostel. Whence you happen upon The Yellow Sub, you truly submerge yourself into its sub-topical garden environs and release yourself to the community of long-stay workers and envied holidaymakers, who, for whatever reason, have chosen this special little hostel to rest their heads a while.
If you're there at the right time of day you will get to meet Judy, the matriarchal owner who props herself up at the helm. Judy likes to get to know you. Especially if you plan on staying a while. That's one of the first things you'll notice about The Sub, they like to know everyone who is staying there, after all, this is a home away from home. I immediately liked it here.
When I mentioned I was looking for work, within hours I was proudly toddling off to my new job as a market researcher. I was slightly deflated to learn from my fellow guests later on that night over a very generous glass of box wine that I was not unusually talented. If they say they'll find you work, they will. The Sub has been open for many years and thrives on it's work contacts. Employers know and trust them. And best of all, this job club is free.
The facilities are pretty basic, but clean and well-maintained. And I have to admit, to have a swimming pool in the middle of the city is absolute luxury. You have a choice of large dorms (the largest being a 9-bed), or small four-bed dorms to choose from. Twins and doubles are also available and you can work for free rent if an envied position arises.
When I was there, the manager in Judy's absence was a dapper, smiling Indian man by the name of Santosh. It was he who all but took me by the hand, and gave me the grand tour, stopping occasionally to introduce me to some of the long-term stayers who were lolling by the swimming pool or whiling away the afternoon at the pool table. I was amazed that four hours later, Santosh not only remembered my name but asked me how work went. When you are used to getting lost in the cattle marts that are The Palace Backpackers or somewhere like City Backpackers, this was truly refreshing.
Mosqutoes and the odd possum sighting aside, The Sub seems to provide a haven for both workers and overnight guests in the middle of Brisbane. I wish them all the best and hope that one day Judy & co decide to spread their wings further than Brisbane.
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best hostel ever, August 26, 2005
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I spent 2 months in 2001 in the Yellow Sub and still now reading the reviews makes me feel home sick to this unique hostel. I met so many awesome people there, we had so much fun..it was great! It' s a hostel for everybody who wants to stay a longer time at one place where it never gets boring.
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Terrible Place, April 4, 2005
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Sue, London
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Unfortunately I paid for 2 nights before I actually saw the place in all its' glory, and I looked on longingly at the YHA up the road. Yes, the staff are friendly, but it's dirty, the tables are sticky, the tables are at an angle so it's difficult to eat your food, and there is peeling paint everywhere. I've travelled up the west and east coast and this is the only backpackers that I can honestly say I hated. Sorry guys, but this place is rank!
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1st Class Hostel, September 16, 2004
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I stayed in this hostel for 3 weeks, whilst doing some work in Brisbane, The place was spotless and the staff and especially the owners were the best...friendly, helpfull and got me work in 2 days
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The worst hostel, September 12, 2004
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I don't know how this place ever got 4 stars. Its horrible. We stayed in a tiny double room that had stained sheets and a hole in the wall that had been covered over with tape! The communal areas are bad too - the tv room is a corrugated iron shack and the showers/toilets lack any privacy. We stayed one night and got straight out of there. Even the tourist acommodation booking service at the transit centre told us they do not book people in at this hostel - ask yourself why!
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Couldn't Be Better!, May 8, 2004
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I stayed in the Yellow Sub twice during my year in Oz, it was the first place I stayed and the last before I flew home. I couldn't have asked to stay in a hostel with a better bunch of people. Everyone was super friendly, Judy and Ken were great and Tess was the best!! This is the sort of hostel where you feel welcome the minute you walk in the door. Its not too big so avoids that "anonymous" feeling that you find in places like The Palace. Very handy for town and the transit centre and also for the Fiddler's Elbow across the road. I met some great people here, most of who I'm still in contact with and we had some hard core punch nights! My names up there on the wall near the kitchen along with hundreds of other happy backpackers! This place rocks!!
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