Reviews of King Street Backpackers
197-199, King Street, Melbourne, Australia 3000
119 out of 147 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'King Street Backpackers'
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| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 100% |
Customer review
With my spouse / partner
Backpacking / gap year
22 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: Good location if needing near the station. Friendly night staff on reception and the free breakfast is nice extra - is basic but more than sufficient. Good to have lockers in dorm and seemed secure to get to the dorm areas
Disliked: Large dorm was quite messy and not a lot of room.
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 100% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 100% | Value - | 100% |
Anne Clarke
With friends / other travellers
Backpacking / gap year
20 January 2012 Anne would recommend this property
Liked: The staff at King Street were really friendly and the free pasta night on Wednesday was a great treat!!
Disliked: Anne left no negative feedback.
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 60% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 40% | Value - | 40% |
Severine Probst
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
13 January 2012
Liked: Kitchen facilities are a plus
Disliked: Air condition is too cold, can not be switched off or steered individually. There's a lot of noise on the floors (even the doors shut with a noise) - sleeping is almost impossible.
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 40% |
Customer review
With my spouse / partner
Backpacking / gap year
12 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: Great location, friendly and helpful staff. Free meals, and great services.
Disliked: Not the cleanest, nowhere to store luggage so everybody had their stuff everywhere, and it is on a nightclub street so pretty noisy on weekends but that was expected, just bring earplugs.
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 40% |
Customer review
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
25 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: breakfast
Disliked: lots of long term stayers & not great atmosphere
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 80% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
City break
Work / volunteering
25 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: The staff were easy to get along with, and it was close enough to most locations or transport.
Disliked: Apart from the free meals, there wasn't much else to do there
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 80% | Value - | 80% |
Philip Alex
Alone
Events / festivals
22 November 2011 Philip would recommend this property
Liked: 2 mins walk from Southern Cross Station!! Can't get any better than that.
Disliked: Noisy on the weekends from the clubs nearby
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 80% | Value - | 60% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Events / festivals
21 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: the location. so easy to get to.
Disliked: maybe a little expencive
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 100% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 100% | Value - | 100% |
Pei-Fen Hsieh
With friends / other travellers
Sightseeing & culture
11 November 2011 Pei-Fen would recommend this property
Liked: Close to coach station, it' good for people who need to catch the early aircraft like me. Friendly and clean.
Disliked: no
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 100% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 100% | Value - | 100% |
Customer review
With my spouse / partner
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Visiting friends or family
11 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: Great hostel atmosphere with a good breakfast every day
Disliked: Security of items wasn't great but they do warn you and if you feel that your items are insecure then you are welcome to put them in the hostel backroom or lockers.
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 80% | Value - | 80% |
Brendan Grant
Alone
City break
Events / festivals
Sightseeing & culture
Visiting friends or family
31 October 2011 Brendan would recommend this property
Liked: Very well organised with excellent, friendly, and helpful staff working there with good sense of humour. Very central and close to southern cross station
Disliked: The shower wasn't that great, hard to keep your clothes from getting wet in that small cubicle, and the pillow was a bit too big. But these were very minor things, and otherwise overall was an excellent hostel, highly recommended
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 100% | Value - | 80% |
samantha costelloe
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
26 October 2011 samantha would recommend this property
Liked: Love this hostel! Stayed 3months and then back for a quick stop. Very central, free food a few times a week, great common area, Friendly staff, they don't close the kitchen at night
Disliked: It's pretty expensive, n they don't organise any activities or nights out. But good common areas make it easy to meet people, would definetly reccomend
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 80% | Value - | 80% |
Customer review
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
23 September 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: Close to the centre of Melbourne. Lots of offers.
Disliked: The street has a few stripper clubs on it!!
| Atmosphere - | 40% | Staff - | 80% | Facilities - | 20% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 40% | Value - | 40% |
Anne van Steenoven
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
05 September 2011
Liked: Good location
Disliked: Weird people hanging out here, who stay permanently I guess. Dark rooms and bad smell in the corridors.
The property's response is...
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 60% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
City break
11 August 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: central location
Disliked: Was very noisy area with nightclubs and street noise until early hours on the Sat night
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 100% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 100% | Value - | 100% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
28 July 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: It was very clean and the room i stayed in was huge. They easily could have crammed in more beds but didn't.
Disliked: Everyone who lived there seemed to be working full time. I didn't meet as many other travelers as I have at other Hostels
| Atmosphere - | 40% | Staff - | 40% | Facilities - | 40% | Safety - | 40% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 20% | Value - | 40% |
Customer review
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
15 July 2011
Liked: Good location, close to Southern Cross Station.
Disliked: Small rooms, not very clean, no heater pretty cold in winter, lamp at my bed was not working, wifi internet was very expensive ($3 per hour). The bathrooms were flooded after someone used the shower. Thin walls, pretty loud at night.
| Atmosphere - | 20% | Staff - | 20% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 40% | Value - | 40% |
Customer review
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
19 June 2011
Liked: close to airport bus
Disliked: way too small and cramped, tv lounges are a tv not connected properly and a decrpit sofa for 2 .noisy; had to get adrunk evicted nite I stayed; very poor, some of stafff uninterested
The property's response is...
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 60% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 60% |
KELLY LIEU
Alone
Visiting friends or family
15 June 2011
Liked: Its location. That was mainly it. A very easy walk from Southern Cross station if you're coming in via SkyBus.
Disliked: The rooms are a bare basic. In the dorms, you can't really decide who you're sharing with and sometimes there are a few creepies out there. Rooms didn't appear particularly ordered. In mine there was a pair of old undies floating about which was a little urghhh.
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 100% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 100% | Value - | 100% |
Customer review
Alone
Sightseeing & culture
16 May 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: free breakfast...& close the station
Disliked: They don't have a lift.If you have heavy luggage,please think before....
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 60% |
Lee Hoe Yung
Alone
Sightseeing & culture
06 May 2011 Lee Hoe would recommend this property
Liked: Great location
Disliked: Cleanliness
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 100% |
sarah fishleigh
Alone
City break
01 May 2011 sarah would recommend this property
Liked: Nice dorm, I had the 16 bed one but they do it well like it is almost two rooms really and I was able to sleep without any problems getting woken up by people who were coming and going. I loved how each bed had it's own light so you could read if you wanted to or turn it off if you wanted to go to sleep. Nice and warm, nice clean and crisp sheets. Good that had breakfast, although basic, free dinner on Wednesdays!!! Good location, close to everything.
Disliked: Bathrooms could probably do with a bit of a scrub down but not too bad, internet wasn't really very accessible but there were lots of cafes in Melbourne so no biggy. No real complaints.
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 80% | Facilities - | 100% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 80% |
Customer review
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
27 April 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: very nice
Disliked: somtimes a little noseiy
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 100% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 80% | Value - | 100% |
Emilie Roger
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
City break
16 April 2011 Emilie would recommend this property
Liked: its location and the friendliness of the staff
Disliked: the kitchen is not well arranged for the breakfast
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 100% | Value - | 100% |
Customer review
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
14 April 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: Friendly, helpful staff, some free computer use, and location, location, location!
Disliked: Lounge and kitchen space can get somewhat cramped when a full house.
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