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The Hostelz.com Review
Mildura Oasis Backpacker Hostel is a working hostel nearby the city centre of Mildura. They will arranged you job as long as you stay here for long term but unfortunately the pay rate that they offer now has been changed to by contract instead of by hour. It only takes five minutes to walk to most shops, restaurants, and cafes. There you can find all the big supermarkets including IGA, Coles, and Woolworths.
The Location
Its location is good, as it is not far to go to most of the fast food shops or big supermarkets. Its around fifteen minutes walk for you to visit the Murray River.
Rooms and Bathrooms
There are few double rooms and the rest are four- to six-bed dorms. Most of the dorms are with a single bathroom inside. It's only your luck if you have been sent to another side of this hostel where the four dorms are located where you have to share two washrooms and one bathroom for around eighteen people. Cupboards in most of the dorms are broken and the air-conditioner will turn off by itself every single two hours automatically. It's really bad that you have to wake up and turn it on again in the night in this kind of hot weather.
Common Spaces
There's a small swimming pool but actually not many people will swim here. Besides is the kitchen but it's too small when the hostel is full with the hundred-forty backpackers this place can hold. There are not enough utensils in the kitchen (and the ones they have are broken). The gas knobs are broken as well. They don't have wireless here but only two computers in the kitchen. Next door is a TV room with a pool table inside.
Summary
It's overall not really a bad place to stay if you just want to visit and look around in Mildura. But don't expect too much if you wish to earn and save some money here for your next trip. And the staff can be rude, especially after they get drunk.
The Location
Its location is good, as it is not far to go to most of the fast food shops or big supermarkets. Its around fifteen minutes walk for you to visit the Murray River.
Rooms and Bathrooms
There are few double rooms and the rest are four- to six-bed dorms. Most of the dorms are with a single bathroom inside. It's only your luck if you have been sent to another side of this hostel where the four dorms are located where you have to share two washrooms and one bathroom for around eighteen people. Cupboards in most of the dorms are broken and the air-conditioner will turn off by itself every single two hours automatically. It's really bad that you have to wake up and turn it on again in the night in this kind of hot weather.
Common Spaces
There's a small swimming pool but actually not many people will swim here. Besides is the kitchen but it's too small when the hostel is full with the hundred-forty backpackers this place can hold. There are not enough utensils in the kitchen (and the ones they have are broken). The gas knobs are broken as well. They don't have wireless here but only two computers in the kitchen. Next door is a TV room with a pool table inside.
Summary
It's overall not really a bad place to stay if you just want to visit and look around in Mildura. But don't expect too much if you wish to earn and save some money here for your next trip. And the staff can be rude, especially after they get drunk.
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
January 2009
Their Description
Mildura Oasis Backpacker Hostel Details
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Location/Contact| Address | 230-232 Deakin Avenue, Mildura, Victoria, Australia |
| Website | www.milduraoasisbackpackers.com.au |
| Telephone | +61 (4) 0734-4251 |
| Fax | +61 (3) 5022-8200 |
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
EXTORTING BACKPACKERS! I have never written a review for any hotel/hostel I have stayed in previously however good or bad but I feel that the severity of the way this hostel treats its occupants, warrants a warning to anyone thinking of staying here. DON'T! The saga begins before you even arrive. We phoned the hostel to inquire about the likely hood of a room but more importantly work. We spoke to a lovely lady called Eve who informed us there would be 3 spaces available and that work would take around 2/3 days to find and would entail either picking grapes or watermelons consistently for 3/4 months. This turned out to be a complete lie and we waited for 2 weeks before any form of work was available, never even seeing anyone called Eve or hearing of a water melon crop in the area. No staff of any importance were available throughout the day to request further information about work. You had to wait until 4 o'clock to crowd around them and beg for work along with another 50 backpackers in the same situation. The 2 gentlemen available to speak to were Vince and Frankie, unfortunately 2 of the rudest most unhelpful almost cretinous humans I have ever met. It seems every week they would promise that the grape season would start the week after effectively encouraging people to stay for an extra week EXTORTING another $150 from them. I appreciate that they are not in control of the seasons but apparently this happened 5 weeks previous to our stay and continued once we left. When work was available it was on a pepper farm and lasted 4 hours for one day only; know one minds working hard to earn money but at $20 a box, with a box taking around 1 hour for 3 people to fill there was zero scope to earn any money let alone enough to live. The gentleman who owned the farm was called Nittan (using the term "gentleman" extremely loosely). He never paid anyone for the work they completed on time if at all; as he kept no records of who worked and when; using the excuse of you were never here to not pay you! One of the guys managed to do a weeks work for him and is still owed around $500 to this day. There is work available in the area of Mildura at other more legitimate hostels some even having more work than they have residents in their hostels, even when at capacity! The only reason I can assume this hostel is incapable of getting work for residentS is that with they're holier-than-thou attitudes they loose contracts with farmers very easily. In response to the garlic work comment below, i asked about this work and the contract has now been lost. Surprise surprise! We left after foolishly staying longer than a week, the hostel had they're $300 rent and were more than happy for us to leave; along with the 25 others that saw the light that day. They are fully aware that however many people leave they will be able to replace immediately with a new batch of positive hard working back packers looking for money and/or their 2nd year visa. I could continue to discuss stories of our stay here but i would smash up my laptop in anger at the memories. Do not stay here, you will not work, you will not have a good time and you most definitely will be wasting your money!! — Anonymous , UK (2012-02-10) Great hostel, great parties, great jobs!!! I visited oasis twice once when I was just working to get my visa extended and then again after I smashed the coast, I was broke and called vince from Brisbane -- he told me to come back, he would help me out and he did, even though it was off season and not much work was around he got me working!! When not working I had some great parties there from just a few beers at the bar to beach parties -- Friday nights at the setts, doms and o'malleys, so Many great nights. The friends I made at oasis I still keep in touch with now and one of then Irish paul was actually the best man at my wedding!!!! To sum-up, I had a great time at oasis and I would have no problem recommending the hostel to all backpackers visiting mildura!!!! — Scottish Michael ( mad mike ) , Scotland (2011-09-19) Best Place I came to Mildura and I stayd for 4 weeks somewhere else and then I moved to the Oasis Backpackers because a lot of people told me thats the place where you have to stay and I'm agree -- it is the place to be. I spent the most of my time (12 month already) in Mildura and at the Oasis. I just left for couple of weeks to travel around and then I came back. The first time when i arrived the owner promised me that I can start working in a factory and only 3 weeks later I got the best job every -- I mean a really good job. The money was awesome and I stayed 4 month and i saved more than 5000dollars -- it was worth to wait for only 3 weeks -- I met a lot of friendly and lovely people I just enjoyed to stay at the Oasis. And then I came back for 4 month and as soon as I arrived I got another good job at the garlic factory and i saved a lot of money again. I don't understand the people who couldn't save money or just a bit. Most of them spend the money for alcohol and going out but then its their own fault. For me, Mildura and the Oasis Backpacker is the place to be and like my home. The equipment and the rooms are good and the outside area is really nice especially at the summer. I do really like it. I would definitely come back if I could. — Carol , Germany (2011-08-25) PLEASE DONT DECIDE TO COME HERE, YOU WILL NOT SAVE MONEY!!!!!!!! When you arrive to Oasis backpackers you find out that rent has to be paid on a Thursday by 5.30pm so if you arrive at the weekend or earlier you will have to pay $150 weekly rent and then also a $50 deposit which may only be 5 nights accommodation! You are promised "GOOD" jobs when you check in and also that the pay will be good but in reality you are either put on the waiting list or onto the many illegally paid jobs that everyone else has already quit! A lot of the jobs are paid cash in hand so you can not claim any tax back after you have left and also many many people are earning 60 DOLLARS A DAY FOR 8 HOURS WORK! one guy $160 for 24 hours work, another guy $320 for 40 hours. And then the are not actually seeing the money for another 2 or more weeks which is then always less than it should be. When the next rent is due you then have to pay $6 dollars for every time you worked to pay for the work bus, so if you are lucky enough to have worked 5 days a week you will be paying $150 + $35. If you are late with rent you will be charged $20 and also if you want to check out you can only do this on a Thursday or Friday with 2 days notice, if you don't you lose your $50 key deposit and it goes into the owners back pocket! But as soon as you tell the owner you are leaving he takes you off the work list even if its just one day!!! I have never been to a working hostel like this place, you are treated like slaves and the owner is only interested in taking your money and giving you false promises about work! The hostel amenities are actually ok, but the kitchen has no oven, no freezer, 2 chopping knifes, and about 6 frying pans for over 100 guests when the place is full so obviously you are waiting a very long time to cook!
There is one "GOOD" job that everybody tries to get onto, it is well paid and there are lots of hours available! There is a waiting list but this is just a bulls@!t attempt by the owner to show that everything is fair. A guy waited 2 and a half months to get onto this good farm and then was fired in his first week for no reason! Luckily I had enough money to leave but there are so many people in this hostel that can not leave because they are only getting enough money to pay their rent and food bills. Even if you are desperate I beg you not to come here -- maybe consider somewhere else other than Mildura. — Jay , England (2011-01-05) TOO BAD We waited for job a few days then we could get it. But it is not good farm so we got just $50 for all days.We must pay $6 for bus. We have known this work so we worked very hard and quickly. But we couldn't make money. After we waited work few days again. We must pay $150 for 1 week rent. But we couldn't get $150 for a week. It's problem. On the phone call host say you can do good job at soon. Where is good job? When can we get good job? Who can get good job?
Just lost $150 every week. — Ai , Japan (2010-02-21) Really bad hostel So we arrived in Mildura on a Thursday to stay at a worse hostel than Oasis, an got a room in Oasis on the Friday morning, being told that work was available from the next day, Eva told us lots of things that turned out to be untrue. We had work on the Saturday, grape pruning for $25 a row (approx 70 trees), we earned between 2 of us, $75 for 8 hours work! We didn't work on the Sunday because our roommate kept everyone awake having sex all night, and the following week we earned about $400 between 2 of us, which it turns out we never were going to get paid for, 5 weeks later and we still dont have the money, they told us we would be paid the next day, then the next day, and Sami and Vince really weren't helpful just saying it wasn't their problem. We didn't work for a full week, and was still expected to pay the rent!! We finally got onto the garlic factory the "best job" for 1 day as they took us off because we told them we were leaving, when I questioned Sami about it he had the worst attitude and we had a huge row, so I rang Vince and he just hung up on me. We worked 5 jobs whilst at Oasis and only got paid for 2 of them, its ridiculous, we are still waiting for over $500! Dont go there, the management are d*cks, its run like Vince is part of the mafia, the kitchen is full of flies and always dirty, the utensils are all broken, no oven! the air conditioning goes off every 2 hours, and the room is cleaned by a woman who sprays nice smelling stuff on the carpet! the rooms have bed bugs and some people had to share beds and still both pay full rent. We got our deposit back but we lost a weeks work, I saw a girl lose her deposit because she was 5 minutes late to check out because of the amount of people checking out, they only give you one hour to check out! they threaten loss of deposit over everything! Its a noisy, dirty hostel that I would suggest you dont go to! — Becks , english (2010-01-17) Really, really bad Do not go to this backpacker! They promise you to find a job, a good job. We work in a farm, picking leaves in vineyard. We earn only 50$ per day for eight hours of work, just enough to pay the rent. The farmer paid us the first week, the second week we never heard about him anymore. We didn't get our money. Vince told us that is not his problem, his work is just to find a job for us! The first week my friend and I had to sleep in the same bed and pay the rent as we had two beds! We both gave 50$ deposit for two keys, but we only got one key, they've never wanted give us the two keys. Every day, they told us that we would have a good job paid per hour, but we've never got it. A factory supposed to open and hired fifty girls, but it has never opened. We have to say on Tuesday that we leave on Friday or you lost you 50$ deposit. While you tell that you are leaving you lose your job, they don't allow you anymore to go to work! The check out is only on friday, you can't leave before or you lose your nights. You have to leave the backpacker at 9 a.m. and they don't allow you to stay in the backpacker even if your bus is at night. Our check out was a nightmare. They enter in our room at 7 a.m., we were tacking a shower, and asked us to leave the room if we want our deposit! Horrible. You don't have all your deposit back because they deduct 6$ per working day to pay the bus! Really bad experience, and Vince is vicious, every time that you go in his office pay your rent, he talk about your physique. If you are a cute girl you get the chance to get a good job! He asked a girl to earn 500$ if she spend an hour with him. Just don't go! — KD , FRANCE (2009-12-10) Nasty owners The day we arrived Vince got us work for the next day and for the first week things were really good! But while on a job, i started talking to the farmer about the possibility of moving on and that is when things changed! The next day I got pulled off my job (all because i told the farmer i was thinking of moving on -- hadnt decided for certain! -- and he told Vince) so if you do stay, i would recommend that you do not tell the farmers your future plans -- considering they are grown men they act like little gossiping girls! I would also recommend forfeiting your deposit and not letting them know that you are planning on leaving, by doing this you are likely to earn more being on a job than your $50 deposit! After telling Vince that we were leaving he started to sulk like a baby, wouldnt talk to us and when I asked about how I was going to get paid for the job he pulled me off he said that he didnt care and wouldnt give me the farmers number! Its a shame that they have to turn so nasty, my boyfriend and I were really enjoying our stay there until we thought about leaving! But we had been warned about Vince -- it is common knowledge in the place that Vince turns into a nasty piece of work after you tell him that you are leaving the following week! Although we only lost out on a weeks work, our final week was awful, we felt like we were in a prison and being punished for wanting to leave! The place itself is quite nice with a pool and a nice lounge area but the kitchen is a mess, the gas cookers are not working correctly, there is no oven, and all of the utensils are broken! — DO NOT STAY HERE!! , England (2009-12-10) Do not stay in Oasis Eva who promises everyone work is never even in the hostel. for the three months i was there i think i saw her once, she hasnt a clue. She is just lying to people everyday. i was told i would be working straight away. It took three weeks of nagging before i got work. Vince is possibly the biggest money grabbing w***ker i have ever come across and a disgusting pervert. Nobody gets the 50 dollars deposit back -- he just comes up with excuses to scam you out of it. Apparently if you give two days notice you're meant to get it back, which i did. when i was checking out he told me i wasnt getting it back and started roaring abuse at me for no reason. he was completely out of order. The bottom line is please dont stay here, they will without any doubt rip you off and promise you work when there really isnt any. — Di , Irish (2009-10-30) Nightmare in Mildura! Do not go there! When we first rang up we were promised work straight away, Eva (The owner) doesnt stop talking on the phone making you think that the place is amazing and there is loads of work (But there actually wasnt). We landed there on the Thursday and we got work the next day (That was the only day of work we got in the week we stayed there) we made 35 dollar each! We kept asking for work and were promised there would be a job coming up soon (Vince just fills you up with sh*t to get money out of you). When it is almost Rent Day they come round telling you they might have another job coming up the day after Rent Day so you will pay and stay in the hope of getting something. We eventually left, lost our deposit of ($50 each). Which according to others you dont get back anyway as they always find an excuse to keep it. It sounds as if I've hated my entire stay in Oasis hostel but it isnt, we had lots of fun and parties but we just never got work. You would have to be loaded to stick it out there for over a month as your funds run out very quickly when you party all the time and dont work. Oasis workers are all a bunch of w*nkers! — Not Impressed , Whatever (2009-10-20) Just don't In fairness, in general I had a great time in Oasis, but that's only because I met loads of great people and made friends with people from all over the world, but after all that's something you'll get whatever hostel you go to. The owner Vince is the biggest w*nker I've ever met, just like most of the hostel owners I've met he only care about his money and he's willing to do whatever it takes to get money out of poor (literally) backpackers. Also he is the biggest pervert I've ever met. Unless you're a girl, preferably a good looking one, you're not likely to get an hourly job, and actually you'd be lucky if you get a sh*t job. A lot of lads I knew were waiting for weeks to get on a job and even then they would have trim trees or cover vineyards for maybe 80c a tree. That's nothing really! Rent is super expensive comparing to what you get they've got poor amenities -- no oven or freezer in the kitchen! There's a tiny pool and a nice bar and TV room which are really nice and during summer the best fun you get is getting pissed at the bar. All in all I'd recommend you to pick another hostel as this one will just rip you off and you'll and up ever poorer. I've stayed there for three months and saved 1000$ and I had a good job. Just Don't. — Nikki (2009-08-10)