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Bundaberg Backpackers & Travellers Lodge

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Address	2 Crofton Street, Bundaberg Queensland, Australia Map
Price	$21 per night /$130 per week

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2.1 Average from 38 Ratings

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Comment by Benjamin, Bordeaux, French

October 2009

The worst hostel in australia
It's 170 dollars for a week. You cannot stay one day. They have told us we would be able to find a job here easily, but more a hundred backpackers are waiting for a job sometimes for a couple weeks. Hard work and not well paid. Rooms, Bathroom, and kitchen awful! It's so dirty.

Comment by Ali, British

October 2009

Terrible, had more fun sleeping rough
It was a terrible hostel, the rooms were so cramped with bunk beds i couldnt open the door properly, smelt horrible, barely any cleaners or anything clean about the place. Only good thing was the big living room and sky channels on the TVand the mcdonalds nearby! Would not recommend this place to anyone! as i said, had more fun and comfort sleeping on a park bench one night!

Comment by Backpacker 94, English

September 2009

It was good about fifteen years ago
I stayed there just when Bruce and his wife were running it about fifteen years ago. They were a lovely couple and the place was clean and you were never short of work. Sounds as if the place has gone really downhill.

Comment by Mark, Dutch

September 2009

I've had better days in a wine cellar
Some pointers to bring you up to speed. Free internet but you should bring your own laptop when staying at bustop building. Shabby halls and rooms, smelly. Bedbug infestation in many of the rooms (complaints of bites from both main building and TV room. No value for price. My advice, go there, connect yourself to the socket -- shocking

Comment by Sabina, Germany

May 2009

Awful, sh*t, terrible, horrible, and whatever!
the worst place i have ever been. Eugene the owner is a rude bastard. you get eaten by bedbugs. the rooms are smelly, because the air conditioning is not working and there are no windows. they charge 170 AUD for this sh*thole! I was kicked out because I asked Eugene whether I will finally get a job, after two weeks being at a standby list! Do not come here! just wasted time, money, and energy!

Comment by Brain, UK

April 2009

Terrible
Easily the most rude staff I have ever meet on my travels. was never made to feel welcome here and all the backpackers inside seem too scared to enjoy themselves or have a laugh so the atmosphere seems always gloomy. The work here in bundaberg seems little if any and you're only likely to get a good job once you've been at the hostel for a few weeks and paid them a few hundred dollars in accommodation, which is nowhere near worth it. Do yourself a favour and dont here to work or play as there is not much of any.

Comment by nuria solé, spain

February 2009

Not too bad
I'm not quite sure about the place. Don't remember much. I was too busy meeting people. They had quite strict rules -- and everybody tried to actually miss them. They would have us working for three days and four off. You can imagine how little money we did. Anyway, the funniest thing is that the owner's name was Bruce Willis! at least the owner in 1999. He and his wife used to run the place. they were an old couple, sweet enough to me. Made really good friends there. sweet memories.

Comment by foximus, irish

December 2008

Absolute sh*t hole
Hell, maybe worse.

Comment by Dawn, Canada

December 2008

Rudest owner in the world!
We hadn't even asked the front desk for accommodation and the owner was already telling us to get back on the bus and f*** off -- worst temper. We asked to use the phone and he told us this place was private property and we were parasites. Do not enter the door or you may get your head bit off.

Comment by Anonymous, Australian

September 2008

Bad
Yes it is riddled with bedbugs, the roof does leak, and the owner is rorting every possible dollar out of each backpacker by taking every opportunity to kick them out before the end of their stay so that they do not have to refund their accommodation fees and then they can re-let the room to some new unaware backpacker.

Comment by phill adams, british

September 2008

Worst place in world, ever
i stayed there for two months, work is ok but the way the place is run is a disgrace. eugene is slightly psychotic, one minute he will be talking to you normally, next minute he's tearing into you or someone else for something as little as laying on the sofa? One day some guy passed out (start of a bad flu), then laid on the sofa when eugene came over looking pissed off saying "oh whats the matter with you" -- im ill and just passed out. "oh i dont like this at all, all you people being ill, so you going work tomorrow?" -- dont think i can. "well you're taking the piss now! if you dont work tomorrow then there may not be anymore work for you." next morning eugene was told to take him to the doctors, he drove him halfway and made him walk the rest of the way and make his own way back. Also no drinking rule, which is fine except he drinks all day at reception? thats not a spite comment, just fact.

Comment by Matt, Canada

August 2008

Ugh
Like the previous poster mentioned, the cleaning lady is very kind, unlike the owners. They tell you there is work, when in fact its more a ruse to get you to stay so you can pay a nice hefty $170 a week. Oh and get this, some person from outside the hostel decided to come into our room, and steal two of the other guy's room and steal their wallets and room keys in the middle of the the night. I was lucky that nothing of mine was stolen (except a toothbrush) but even after that incident the owners weren't bothering to get a new lock on the door. (this was in room four of the main building).

Comment by Flora, England

August 2008

Always good to see a smiling face early in the morning from the cleaner! She is always polite and says hello and good-bye to everyone always making us feel at home. Even when we go to work it's have a good day. But then theres the owners Kate and Eugene! I dont feel welcome and for three days i wasn't put on the work roster, not even on standby. I was completely forgotten about! Eugene is an arrogant pig who whenever he opens his filthy mouth is either being sexist or prejudiced against homosexuals! Kate tramps around with gold all over her, but they're not worried about mould in the ceilings, water running down walls when it rains! Never go there.

Comment by Heli, Estonian

June 2008

Awful!
I agree with all those ones who have described this hostel as the most awful one they have ever visited! Bedbugs; awful, rude, arrogant Eugene (i hate that man); too warm rooms (without windows and air conditioning only sometimes working); and not much money after slave work.

Comment by Ruth, Canada

June 2008

If you want to be eaten alive by bedbugs, this is the hostel for you
I am a current resident of this disgusting place and I can tell you one thing -- even if you have to sleep outside with no blankets, no work in the pouring rain with only tomato sauce packets and dry instant noodle to sustain you, it would be far superior to this f-ing hellhole! The owner, Eugene, is by far the worst, most arrogant, disgusting, pathetic excuse for a man I have ever met in my life. He is also extremely perverted, giving some of the male backpackers porno videos and mags, always making sexual remarks towards them (most often to do with homosexuality) and in one instance, watched one while he slept (we have witnesses). Ok, on to the next thing -- bedbugs. Me and my boyfriend have been eaten alive while we sleep for the last three weeks, have been telling the owners about it since then, and still nothing has been done about it. We keep being told by Eugene that the exterminator will come and that we should move to another (more expensive) room but the other owner (his wife, Kate) says that we need to keep our bags in the room to be cleared out as well. This point is completely understandable and helpful as we don't want to be bringing the little critters to the next hostel we stay at but when we mentioned what his wife had told us to Eugene he started yelling at us, saying that we should have everything sorted out by now. It's just so frustrating to have to deal with someone so ignorant! I could go on and on about this place and the owner but not right now. Hopefully we'll be able to leave very soon, wish us luck.

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