Grand Central Backpackers

Perth

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Address	379 Wellington Street, Perth Western Australia, Australia Map
Price	dorms ( $ 18.00 day / $ 112.00 week ) Other room prices on above website

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3 Average from 3 Ratings

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Comment by marie suardika thomas, australia / indonesia

May 2009

Central location
me and my husband stayed at this hostel in a double room. the room was neat tidy and clean the staff were nice -- always said good morning to us when we left to go get breakfast. its a nice old building in a great location, across the road from the train station. we will be staying there again. if you want to stay somewhere that is nice and quiet, stay in this hostel.

Comment by Gavin, England

April 2009

Good
On the surface it is a really bad hostel. The facilities are poor, its not really that clean, and there are some strange guests staying there. However with the right people this place can be amazing! You can do pretty much whatever you want and it has a very kind of hippie vibe with people sitting around playing guitars and smoking weed (yes i do believe the third floor has a lot of weed hidden away) but how cool is that?! I dont know many hostels where you can go up to a empty floor of a building and make your own entertainment. Of course you have to be careful of stabbings (there was a stabbing), constant fire alarms (fire brigade was there once a week at least), strange guests (i do believe some of the locals staying there are from the nearby mental hospital). But all in all a very crazy atmosphere and very memorable, go there and make your own fun in a very unique hostel!

Comment by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, Norway

March 2009

Hell on Earth!
I was stupid enough to arrive in Perth without a booking anywhere, and the only place with vacancy was "Grand" Backpacker Central. For just over 60 AUD I got a single room, which was all even they had available. I would have preferred a more economical dorm bed, but that was just not an option. In retrospect, I'm actually glad I did not end up in a dorm there. I had a look inside a couple of them, and they were just filled up beyond belief with foreign students not traveling, but living there. With all the scraps of food, dirty laundry, and empty bottles that come with that life. The bathrooms were dirty and/or not operating. And if they were operating, you would still have to carry your own toilet paper, as there was never any of that present. The only plus I can think of is that it was actually fairly quiet at night, and that the girl in the reception smiled when cash was handed over. The third floor in the building is off-limits. I'm not sure whether it's because the owners run a marijuana plantation up there, or because the walls there are about to crash down. "Anyone caught on the third floor will be evicted," a sign says. I assure you my impression of the "Grand" is not likely to be faulty. The reputation of the place reaches all the way to Broome and Melbourne. "You poor thing!," strangers would tell me and pat me on my shoulder when I told them where I had stayed in Perth. Stay anywhere else but here! In a pinch just a few dollars more will get you a decent hotel room somewhere in the same area.

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