Reviews of Maze Backpackers

417 Pitt Street, Sydney, Australia 2000

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63.5%

242 out of 390 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Maze Backpackers'

Atmosphere
67.2%
Location
87.2%
Facilities
60.0%
Cleanliness
46.4%
Staff
67.2%
Value
60.0%
Safety
56.8%

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77.1%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 60% Facilities - 80% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 80%

Helga Resstel de Medeiros

With friends / other travellers

Events / festivals

23 January 2012 Helga would recommend this property

Liked: Great location in the middle of the city and close to Darling Harbour

Disliked: Bathroom could be cleaner, rooms are tiny

71.4%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 60% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Events / festivals
Sightseeing & culture

15 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Good location.

Disliked: Bathrooms not very clean, shower floors a bit gross. Climbing up to the top bunk was a bit of a challenge .

40.0%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 40% Facilities - 40% Safety - 40%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 20%

Klaus Schupritt

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

14 January 2012

Liked: Located in the heart of the city

Disliked: - double room very small and has not been cleaned (someone else's rubbish in the bin) - bathrooms were dirty (I have been staying in a lot of hostels but this was definetaly the dirtiest one!) - the building is old and really needs some renovation

57.1%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 60% Facilities - 40% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 60%

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

City break
Sightseeing & culture

10 January 2012

Liked: The location of the backpackers is very central

Disliked: If you have no problems with people singing and shouting all night long, if you like smelly old carpets soaked with puke, if cockroaches are your favorite animals, the Maze backpackers is THE place for you! Ok, they advertise it as a party hostel. My bad. That's what you will get.

54.3%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 60% Facilities - 40% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 60%

Juan Arturo Klassen

Alone

Sightseeing & culture

10 January 2012

Liked: location, near to restaurants and transport facilities

Disliked: a noisy and dirty place, a lot of drunken people, very small rooms

77.1%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year

09 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: there is a really good vibe at that hostel, socialising with others is not difficult and as it is located at one of the main streets in Sydney CBD there is really good nightlife in walking distance. I would recommend it and stay there again.

Disliked: I didn't like that there is too less laundry possibilities given in relation to the amount of rooms. But that's just something which shouldn't influence your decision of staying there.

51.4%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 60% Facilities - 40% Safety - 40%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 40%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year

05 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: location

Disliked: not very clean

100.0%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year

03 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Lots if events arranged

Disliked: No breakfast or free wifi - false advertising!!

60.0%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 40% Facilities - 80% Safety - 60%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 60%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

02 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Took me half an hour to check out. At one point was 4 staff behind the counter but none of them offered to help were busy with other things other than servIng at the front desk. The cleaning process is to wipe a towel across whatever is being cleaned toilets, sinks, floors and kitchen not very hygienic actually made me not cook within the facilities the whole time I was there. In saying that I do think you get what you pay for n for the price if your ok with not eating in it's actually not that bad.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

62.9%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 60% Facilities - 80% Safety - 40%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 80%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year

02 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: partys, dinner, activities organised every day!!

Disliked: mattresses= sooo bad, but a week after I left they were getting new one, so should be fine by now :)

82.9%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 80%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing

13 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Brilliant location, fun atmosphere, not too noisy (as we'd feared), free drinks vouchers were usable, free weekly meal.

Disliked: Room was a bit small, the usual Oz internet rip-off, upstairs bathrooms were a bit grubby, had to wait over an hour to check-in.

The property's response is...

80.0%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 60% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 100%

katy leggett

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year
City break
Sightseeing & culture

12 December 2011 katy would recommend this property

Liked: The hostel had lots of different things on to do every evening and the kitchen wasn't too dirty.

Disliked: Our room was right next to the main road and the windows were very thin and draughty so we could hear lots of music from the bars and traffic noise. I also didn't like the fact that they made us have two keys even though my partner and I wanted only one key. They said it was their policy for us to have a key each which is a little pointless.

45.7%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 40% Facilities - 40% Safety - 60%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 20%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

10 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: nice atmosphire

Disliked: for 28 dollar, even for sydney, it's not worth it couse exept for bed they don't really give yo anything

74.3%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 60% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Sightseeing & culture

09 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: great location

Disliked: bathrooms not very clean

100.0%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Abdihamid Bile

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year
Work / volunteering

09 December 2011 Abdihamid would recommend this property

Liked: close to every where :)

Disliked: i don't have any coment!!

25.7%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 20% Facilities - 20% Safety - 20%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 20%

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year

08 December 2011

Liked: Little at all... spent no time there.. had to pay for a key deposit and everything...

Disliked: There was vommit down the wall in the room, bed matress was beyond burst and damaged.. sheets unclean, foul smell, poor toilet facilities.. A disgrace of a place..

62.9%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 40% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
City break

06 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: the linen

Disliked: it was to big for me. and in the night it was never dark in my room.

91.4%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Partying / nightlife

04 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: very clean, friendly helpful staff, quiet

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

88.6%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

04 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: This was a really fun place to stay. I thought it had a lot of character and charm and the location was great.

Disliked: It is an older building that they worked at keeping clean, but it was not always in the best shape. Some of the showers were cold, but ask the other guests and they'll tell which ones to use.

62.9%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 20%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 60%

Richard Watson

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Business / conference

04 December 2011

Liked: A busy cheap hostel with helpful staff in a great location.

Disliked: dirtiest rooms I have ever seen in a hostel, no power points in rooms, poor security and not a lot to do. Couldn't wait to pay a bit more and go back to my previous hostel. The staff were nice though and I met some good crew so not too bad if good location is your priority.

62.9%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 80% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

Partying / nightlife

04 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: It was cheap.

Disliked: Bed was a little uncomfortable, I could feel the springs!. And the toilets in the morning were very dirty.

91.4%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

01 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Location was very helpful in the way that most things that we wanted to see and do were walking distance away. The activities that went on daily were always exciting and provided a little extra bonding between all of the interesting people staying at the backpackers.

Disliked: One of the things that they advertise is a free meal some nights. However on the nights that this happened they would always seem to underestimate the amount of people staying at their backpackers and would therefore be short. This just meant that the people that waited in line for lengthy amounts of time, ended up with a very small amount in comparison, or nothing at all.

60.0%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 40% Facilities - 40% Safety - 80%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

MARTA BECAN

Alone

Family Holiday

01 December 2011

Liked: CENTER OF THE CITY

Disliked: Too many stars - heavy luggage, I don't know what was wrong with internet - I spent 5 AUD for nothing

100.0%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

katy kirzynowski

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture
Work / volunteering

26 November 2011 katy would recommend this property

Liked: they upgraded us! clean, helpful front desk staff (the girl who also works at worldsquare hostel).

Disliked: literally arrived 11.30. slept and left at 7am. wish we could have stayed longer

74.3%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 80% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 80%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Events / festivals
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture
Visiting friends or family

25 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: location.

Disliked: could have been cleaner.


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