Reviews of Penny's Backpackers

6 Stafford Street, Dunedin, New Zealand 9016

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75.1%

50 out of 78 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Penny's Backpackers'

Atmosphere
72.0%
Location
76.8%
Facilities
77.6%
Cleanliness
68.0%
Staff
77.6%
Value
75.2%
Safety
78.4%

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

Žiga Pavlič

26 January 2010 Žiga would recommend this property

Liked: Close to center,Big kitchen with free coffee, big living room.Berry is a fine fellow, local guy guiding the tours and helping with local advices.

Disliked: Žiga left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

24 January 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Nice kitchen, good location.Watch out for the bottom step. We fell 3 times.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

04 October 2009 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: loved free internet

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

42.9%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 40% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 20% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 20%

Customer review

28 July 2009

Liked: Staff at check-in were far from competent. The hostel was generally poor, very cold and not a comforatable place to stay at all

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Catherine Leach

15 July 2009 Catherine would recommend this property

Liked: fantastic kitchen

Disliked: Catherine left no negative feedback.

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

Vincent Forrester

25 June 2009 Vincent would recommend this property

Liked: Free Internet! And a lovely cosy lounge area, and friendly, helpful staff.

Disliked: Vincent left no negative feedback.

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

Heidi Shirley

03 June 2009 Heidi would recommend this property

Liked: homely, friendly, warm, nice people

Disliked: Heidi left no negative feedback.

68.6%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 60% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 80%

kelly henson

19 April 2009 kelly would recommend this property

Liked: this place is ok if you want to stay for 1 or 2 nights, the bathrooms smell really bad, its up a hill quite abit out of the centre, there are at least 2 good hostels that are right in the centre which are also the same price

Disliked: kelly left no negative feedback.

88.6%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 80%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 100%

B. Sybille Melzer

09 March 2009 B. Sybille would recommend this property

Liked: great friendly stuff, good offers for less money, they are not only intereseted in your money, but more that you are comfortable and can see waht you really like to see! highly recommandable!!!

Disliked: B. Sybille left no negative feedback.

94.3%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 80% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Saffron Allnutt

30 January 2009 Saffron would recommend this property

Liked: spacious rooms, free internet and homely feel

Disliked: Saffron left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

12 January 2009 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Service and facilities are excellent with friendly and most helpful staff. Location is good and easy to find. We would recommend it any time.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

25 October 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Great to have free internet, DVDs, very friendly and helpful staff. I've seen some bad reports about Penny's but I found absolutely nothing to complain about.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Nicole McGrath

27 August 2008 Nicole would recommend this property

Liked: Good sized communal areas and newly decorated

Disliked: Nicole left no negative feedback.

97.1%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Customer review

12 April 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Steve Kirby

29 February 2008

Liked: Good location

Disliked: Steve left no negative feedback.

80.0%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 60% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 100%

Monica Paunkoski

06 February 2008 Monica would recommend this property

Liked: very comfortable furnished,cool staff,everything was fine except the bathrooms were catastrophic...

Disliked: Monica left no negative feedback.

42.9%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 40% Facilities - 40% Safety - 40%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 40%

Customer review

28 January 2008

Liked: only the location in town, and free internet but no limit and it's often the same in the place

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

94.3%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 80% Facilities - 100% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Katharina Hammler

03 January 2008 Katharina would recommend this property

Liked: location, HUGE common areas, FREE internet

Disliked: Katharina left no negative feedback.

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

Linda O Dwyer

01 January 2008 Linda would recommend this property

Liked: Big, clean kitchen. Free internet, large lounge room, good location.

Disliked: Linda left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

14 December 2007 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The hostel is house in a Heritage Buliding

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

02 November 2007 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Staff were great and really helpful with everything. They went out of their way to assist. The setup was great, and it had a great size kitchen and atmosphere. It had more to offer than other backpacker locations(according to friends descriptions).

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

patrick daly

30 September 2007

Disliked: patrick left no negative feedback.


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