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Dougies Backpackers
111 Davidson Street, Port Douglas
Tel (07) 4099 6200 or 1800 996 200
Website www.dougies.com.au
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Dougie's is a great place to stay in Port Douglas. It is near the beach and not far from town. The air-conditioned dorms are set in large sturdy cabins in tropical gardens and have a relaxing atmosphere. It is very clean. The kitchen is part of the central common area, which has wide spaces and soft lighting, wooden beams and plenty of games and activities, including an internet room upstairs. There is a jukebox, plush seating and a large TV plus an outside bar and swimming pool with hammocks and a barbecue area. Management are pleasant and helpful and they offer guests free use of bikes and fishing gear hire, free laundry facilities, free barbecues on Tuesdays and free pickup from Cairns.
Price
Dorm bed $27 ($26 HI/YHA, VIP, photo from home), $140 per week
Bed in a stylie (dorm tent) $23 ($22 HI/YHA, VIP, photo from home), $125 per week
Double/twin room $80 ($78 HI/YHA, VIP, photo from home)
Camping $14 ($13 HI/YHA, VIP, photo from home)
Prices are in Australian dollars and are inclusive of all taxes.
Credit Cards
MasterCard,Visa
Reception Open
7.30am-6.30pm; check in until midnight
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Last Update:
December
1, 2008
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This place was the worst hostel visited in over 9 months of travelling around Australia!, March 26, 2008
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Reviewer: chanm from Europe
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Dirty, no atmosphere and far away from the town centre
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This place was the worst hostel visited in over 9 months of travelling around Australia! Their web page is telling "great location in the town of Port Douglas" well let me tell you.....20 minutes walk!!! 
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laid back place to chill - nice change from Cairns, December 18, 2006
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Reviewer: Michele from Las Vegas, NV
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Great pool and kitchen, great staff
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Dougies is great change from Cairns - they have great facilities and the staff is pretty helpful...they have a shuttle that'll pick you up in Cairns and bring you back to catch the bus to your next destination but it doesn't run every day so ask for the schedule..and the bus drive gives you a tour along the way - nice touch!
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We loved everything, February 15, 2004
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We loved the rain on the well laid out gardens and the toads, lizards and the lost mud crab that played on the paths. The chicken things that noisily announced morning were great too. The staff were very efficient but also relaxed and friendly. We were just allowed to be ourselves and enjoy our time. What more could you want for a break away. We found that northern queeensland is so beautiful in January and we can not wait to go back for another trip. The pet bird and spiders were cool too! Ka kite ano
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Dougies is where people go for 2 days and never leave, November 16, 2003
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I went travelling up the coast of Oz last year for 6 months. Port Douglas was my final destination before flying home from Cairns. We stayed at Dougies as part of a Cape Tribulation tour for 2 days. I loved it straight away, spacious, green, friendly and a great place to meet people. There was a clean, outdoor pool surrounded by grass and trees with hammocks. The large kitchen was open to a fantastic bar and seating area. We had a brilliant evening playing pool and table football and the staff were amazing. You instantly felt part of the crowd. The champagne train every Sunday was a little sugar cane train which headed to the Sunday markets at 10am. You were plied with babycham and it was all free. There was a little tame budgie at reception and a fearless bandicoot racing around the place at night. Everybody there raved about the hostel and I ended up changing my return ticket home twice so I could stay a month. I am still in touch with most of the friends I met there and we often discuss a Dougies reunion. It was an awesome hostel and I loved my time there. Everybody who goes to Dougies wish they could stay longer and some lucky ones get work and stay 6 month or longer. Full moon beach parties, pool comps and bbqs are regularly organised and you couldn't fail to have an amazing time. I would love to go back there one day.
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Live the dream at dougie's!!, November 11, 2003
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Came to Port Douglas for a week and stayed four months-which after arriving was the usual story with everyone here. Arrived in mid June which is peak season-have a feeling that this is the best time to get here. There's SHED loads of work around and the hostel is busy so there's a good buzz to the place.Me and my friend are older than the average age of backpackers (31!) and we still felt like we fitted in with the wide range of ages and nationalities at this hostel.The owners-Steve and Heather are the most caring, laid-back and non-money grabbing owners I've ever met.Only warning is the cheap bar. It'll get you going back every night for the booze, pool and table football.Ended up camping here as well-after vowing never to camp in Aus-and lived in a tent very cheaply for four months. Nice little camping community at the back of the hostel.Port Douglas rocks with it's chances to go sailing, beautiful beaches, river with croc's in which you can spot if you hire your own boat out, and nearby Mossman gorge for river swimming.Go!
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One of the best I have stayed in, September 8, 2003
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Great friendly and relaxed hostel. Good facilities, close to the beach, clean and super tidy, great fun bar and the best hostel staff I have ever come across. So many hostels are like 'give us your money and keep out of the way', At Dougies I was made to feel like part of the family right from the start. Super place!
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Noisy and awful sponge beds, but friendly staff, August 27, 2003
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The beds were made of sponge and I had an awful night sleep due to back pain from the dip in "mattress" and noisy bar next door. All this for AU$65, what a bargain.
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Great place to stay, Great staff, January 17, 2003
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This is a not so expensive (relative to Port Douglas) and nice place to stay. The staff is extremely friendly.
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A BIT LIKE "HOTEL CALIFORNIA", November 29, 2002
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BEING IN TROPICAL NORTH QUEENSLAND, DOUGIES COULDN'T BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN RELAXED. I COULD GO ON ABOUT ITS LOCATION IN A LUXURY TOURIST RESORT, OR ITS PROXIMITY TO WHITE SAND, REEF AND RAINFOREST, BUT ITS TNQ, SO THATS EXPECTED. WHAT WAS NOT EXPECTED WAS THE LEVEL OF CARE SHOWN BY THE STAFF. IT SEEMED THAT IT WAS AS IMPORTANT TO THE STAFF AS TO YOURSELF THAT YOU HAD A GREAT STAY. I WENT FOR 3 DAYS AND STAYED FOR 5 MONTHS. MISSED OUT ON DOING THE ROCK AND WA COS I COULDNT TEAR MYSELF AWAY FROM THE PLACE, THE PEOPLE, THE ATMOSPHERE, THE BAR, THE POOL, THE HAMMOCK, THE CHAMPAGNE STEAM TRAIN (GOT TO BE TRIED TO BE BELIEVED), THE FREE BARBIES, THE POOL COMPS.............."YOU CAN CHECK IN ANY TIME YOU LIKE, BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE"
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