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Aquarius
44 Queen Street, Southport
Bus 700, 702, 703, 704, 706, 707, 709, 715, TX2
Tel (07) 5527 1300 or 1800 229 955
Website www.aquariusbackpackers.com.au
BUG Review
Aquarius is a very well maintained hostel with a pool and spa, an outside tropical themed bar, and comfortable TV lounge. The dorms are modern and clean with new bunks and nice carpet and the bathrooms are also very clean. They offer free barbeques and courtesy pick up and shuttle service. Southport is a bit farther away from the action, so it is quieter here, but they take part in the big hostel parties in town where guests get free drinks, food, and entry into nightclubs.
Price
Dorm bed $26-32
Double/twin room $85
Prices are in Australian dollars and are inclusive of all taxes.
Credit Cards
MasterCard,Visa
Reception Open
7am-midnight
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Last Update:
December
1, 2008
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Very clean hostel, uncomfortable beds, small rooms, tiny kitchen and boring., July 25, 2007
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Reviewer: larajf from UK
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It's very clean. The TV is big.
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It is miles from Surfers'. It gets very boring there, the beds are terrible.
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This is a good hostel if you want to be in Southport, if you are working for instance. But not if you want to be in the middle of things. You have to get a bus into Surfers, which can be a wait.
The hostel is very clean and some of the staff are lovely (Tom, Dave). The atmosphere though is very boring. There is nothing really to do and it is a small hostel, so people can be quite clique. Most of the time I was there the TV was always on.
Also there is not really anywhere to sit and eat your food. There is a small table that will fit 4 people, or you can sit outside in the bar area, not nice if you don't like fag smoke. You can't eat in the lounge though, as the numerous signs tell you. You may also end up eating in the dark if the TV is on and they want the lights of.
The beds are uncomfortable, although they give you plenty of blankets. The hostel is also on a main road, so there is a fair bit of traffic noise, even at night.
One good thing is that they have balconies, lovely to sit in the sun and read your book. Too noisy to chat on the phone though.
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The best Hostel i have stayed in!!!!, May 22, 2006
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Reviewer: Offinoz from Hawaii
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Clean, Great Staff, Great Partys, Great Atmosphere
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The Sofas are toooooo comfy
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I Had the best time at this Hostel... its the best ive stayed in ive been in oz 10 months now and travelled nearly all of it!!The Staff are Fantastic, Freindly and they love to party!!!!The Hostel is really Clean, and new they have a huge swimming pool, BBQ and a Bar what more could you want!!The Staff arrange activitys everynight.. the Clubs Crawls are awsome!!!!!!Nothing but great things to say.. was an awsome experince...
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Abrubt and rude sums it up, January 12, 2006
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the hostel is very clean and faclitlities are ok and I didnt mind the fact it was out of town, but the Manager is very very rude. There is no excuse. I was really disapointed with my stay here and I ended up checking out within a day. I still had a good time in surfers tho (in another hostel). I wish I had read these reviews before I checked in.
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Very clean hostel, October 22, 2005
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This hostel is increadibly clean, the double rooms are spacious, bathrooms are ok, the kitchen is well equiped and there are over 200 dvd's that you can rent with no cost/deposit. The reason we have given this 4 stars and not 5 is because the live in staff and permanent residents take over the communal areas too much.
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They sold my room, March 1, 2005
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Booked this hostel online through their only website the night before securing with a credit card. On turning up at the hostel to be greeting by a guy who was not friendly to be told the room had gone. A female then informed that the email with my booking had come in late so the room had already gone. I asked why they didnt call me on my mobile, they claimed they tried but I have messagebank so they could have left a message! Needless to say not impressed after a long drive, they did offer to phone round but I declined. Pretty poor be wary of what purports to be realtime online booking but clearly is not
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Terrible - Nov 2003, April 21, 2004
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I agree with a previous review - the owner of this place needs a course in customer sevices, she was rude and the rest of the staff were not much better. The room was clean but I found a sink covered in blood in the ladies toilet one day. I would not recommend at all.
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I would recommend this hostel as the place to stay on the gold coast. Although its not in the centre of Surfers Paradise the hostel has a regular minibus to surfers and the local bus runs all night.