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The Hostelz.com Review
HI - YHA Ayers Rock - Voyages Outback Pioneer Hotel & Lodge Hostel offers a lot of different things for different types of travelers. The main bar offers a relatively cheap barbecue-your-own service, where you can buy different kinds of meat you cook yourself, and you can have access to the all-you-can-eat pasta, salad, and dessert bar. For the more discerning traveler, the main restaurant offers pricey buffet breakfasts, and buffet dinners with local meats such as kangaroo, emu, and crocodile. If you're looking for something quick you can get ready-made sandwiches, burgers, fries, pizzas, and other snacks at the kiosk, open for lunch and dinner. Otherwise, for the traveler on a real budget, the facility offers a large kitchen (with supplied utensils, fridges, and freezers), for you to cook your own food that you may purchase at the relatively cheap supermarket in town.
The Location
The hostel is located in Yulara, about twenty minutes from the airport. However, hostel guests are offered a free shuttle, which is coordinated with all incoming flights -- it brings you right to the hostel, as well as around the other hotels, supermarket, and restaurants every fifteen minutes. The centre of town is walkable from the hotel.
Rooms and Bathrooms
The hostel offers large, single-sex dorms (for twenty people) and smaller, mixed dorms rooms (for four people), as well as private rooms with shared or private bathrooms. The dorms share clean bathrooms, with separate single shower rooms. The dorms are pretty simple, but air-conditioned, clean, and comfortable.
Common Spaces
There is a great bar that gets pretty lively in the evening, with people barbecuing, playing pool, drinking beers, and listening to a live band. In the evening the hostel gets social, but during the day people are out touring and it's pretty quiet. There is also a large, pool with lots of seats and lounge chairs to relax in the sun. There is also a common room, with a TV, internet access (at cost), a small arcade, and a small book exchange. A secure luggage storage service is provided for free, with a staff member watching the bags at all times. Nearby, there is also a camel farm, which gives reasonably priced and fantastically guided camel tours and rides.
Summary
Overall, the hostel is an enjoyable, albeit expensive, place to stay. But everything is pretty expensive in Uluru as it is completely isolated (it's four hours from the nearest city, Alice Springs), so they can charge what they want. However, it is completely worth it to spend a few days in the red centre, seeing the world's biggest monolith, Uluru, and walking in the amazingly red sands. The hostel is clean, the staff are helpful, and the facilities are great. The staff provide excellent touring advice as well, which makes booking tours simple so you can relax and not worry on your vacation.
The Location
The hostel is located in Yulara, about twenty minutes from the airport. However, hostel guests are offered a free shuttle, which is coordinated with all incoming flights -- it brings you right to the hostel, as well as around the other hotels, supermarket, and restaurants every fifteen minutes. The centre of town is walkable from the hotel.
Rooms and Bathrooms
The hostel offers large, single-sex dorms (for twenty people) and smaller, mixed dorms rooms (for four people), as well as private rooms with shared or private bathrooms. The dorms share clean bathrooms, with separate single shower rooms. The dorms are pretty simple, but air-conditioned, clean, and comfortable.
Common Spaces
There is a great bar that gets pretty lively in the evening, with people barbecuing, playing pool, drinking beers, and listening to a live band. In the evening the hostel gets social, but during the day people are out touring and it's pretty quiet. There is also a large, pool with lots of seats and lounge chairs to relax in the sun. There is also a common room, with a TV, internet access (at cost), a small arcade, and a small book exchange. A secure luggage storage service is provided for free, with a staff member watching the bags at all times. Nearby, there is also a camel farm, which gives reasonably priced and fantastically guided camel tours and rides.
Summary
Overall, the hostel is an enjoyable, albeit expensive, place to stay. But everything is pretty expensive in Uluru as it is completely isolated (it's four hours from the nearest city, Alice Springs), so they can charge what they want. However, it is completely worth it to spend a few days in the red centre, seeing the world's biggest monolith, Uluru, and walking in the amazingly red sands. The hostel is clean, the staff are helpful, and the facilities are great. The staff provide excellent touring advice as well, which makes booking tours simple so you can relax and not worry on your vacation.
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
December 2011
Their Description
HI - YHA Ayers Rock - Voyages Outback Pioneer Hotel & Lodge Hostel Details
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Location/Contact| Address | Via Yulara Drive, Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, Australia |
| Location | •Bus: Interstate buses drop at reception • Plane: Complimentary airport shuttle |
| Website | www.ayersrockresort.com.au |
| Telephone | +61 (8) 8957-7888 or +61 (3) 0013-9889 |
| Fax | +61 (8) 8957-7615 |
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
This place is way overpriced. I paid thirty-three bucks for a twenty-bed dorm, but they were clean, quiet, and not at all busy. My block was right next to the bathroom block, so I had no concerns here. I could see that it may be a bit of a walk for people further out. Toilets are sometimes cleaned more than twice a day. Put it in persepective, some hostels don't even clean once a day. The bathrooms are large and clean. The bar and bar-b-cue are also very expensive -- sixteen bucks for a burger to cook yourself. The kitchens and communal areas are also fine as well. Greyhound will drop you right off and pick you up at the doorstep, so no walking. There are no other options except camping for backpackers, so like it or lump it. — DRW (2006-05-23) We stayed at the budget option of the Ayers Rock Resort — the Outback Lodge! And it was simply terrible. The Ayers Rock Resort holds a monopoly in the area, so you are obliged to pick one of their five accommodation options. Therefore they can hike up prices as much as they want (we paid $82 for a "budget room" which we shared with two other people, and that had no en suite facilities!) and also as there is no other competition, they can afford to keep their standards low!
The room we stayed in was more than just basic. It consisted of two bunk beds and that's it. Nothing else. It wasn't particularly clean either and when we discovered some miscellaneous stains on our sheets, it took the reception more than 30 minutes to get on the case! The bathroom/showers were a good walk from our room and were shared by other guests staying at one of the more up market "sister" hotels in the resort, who would just pop by for a drink or dinner. So the bathrooms would get absolutely disgusting by the end of the day. And they only clean toilets twice a day so you have to put up with all the dirt for hours at a time! Ayers Rock gets infested with flies in the Spring/Summer and so does the resort area, but management doesn't seem to care. There are no signs of combating them anywhere in the resort, even around the 5 star accommodation or the restaurant/bars areas.
The "housekeeping" staff (as it is pretty much standard in Oz) are "gap" year students — i.e., 18 to 25 year olds who want to earn some cash while they tour the country and drink themselves silly in the meantime. So, although most were friendly, they couldn't care much about the job they do so don't expect any "real" service, i.e.: the rooms being cleaned to any acceptable standard, etc.
In a nutshell, I wouldn't choose to stay here ever again. Not in the resort, let alone the so-called "Outback Lodge" itself. I'd rather camp in the Outback than pay some monopoly that amount of money they clearly don't deserve! And for the horrible, horrible service they provide! — Tatyana (2005-11-20) I really enjoyed my stay here. The staff were really helpful and the bathrooms and the kitchen were really clean. The bar serves cheap food throughout the day and at night there is a barbecue where you can buy your own meat and cook it yourself. There is also a free shuttle bus that runs to the small shopping center and to the airport. Greyhound buses also drop you off right at reception! — Anonymous (2005-10-16)