Melanka Backpackers Resort

Their rooms are very small and not very clean. They have no lift. They only have one toilet and three showers for ladies who stay in the same floor. The shower room can't hang your clothes and wash up stuff.

sh*t. stayed there for one night and was the worst night of my life! Some druggies came into me and my mates room and kept us there asking for drugs and threatening to kill us. how these people were allowed in the backpackers i dont know. later i found out they had broken into other peoples rooms and stolen things like passports and flight tickets. after spending most the night in the police station giving a statement, we were offered a free night in the hostel for our troubles which we kindly told them to stick up their arses. this is no lie, i would recommend that no one stays at this hostel!

No problems with this hostel at all. Didn't encounter any of the problems written on this page. Good location, right opposite Greyhound, 5 min walk to town, great party bar and clean rooms. I paid 20 bucks and got a 3-bed dorm.(Rather than 16 bucks and got a 10-bed that a certain other establishment gave me). All good as far as I'm concerned. Rooms were clean, as was linen, as were the showers and toilets.

I just left Alice Springs and stayed at Melanka's. I think this place was great, the staff were always entertaining us and keeping us informed of local events, the bar was awesome, cheap drinks, cheap food and lots of it, the atmosphere was friendly and relaxed. The place looks freshly painted and the rooms and bathrooms were spotless. I would definitely recommend this place to others.

Too big. The pub is great though, and after the tour to Uluru we had the best party with our group there!!

Nasty. The rooms feel like cells, it's noisy, there are not enough toilets, and the kitchen was getting renovated at the time I was here so we had to cook on camping stoves outside. The pool is not particularly clean. It's big, unfriendly and dirty.

Cheapish rooms but dark and grotty. The bar was a good laugh and a general meeting point for backpackers in the area which was the only plus side to an otherwise dirty place.

This is the most unhygienic, dated, rank hostel I've ever stayed in! The beds are like cots and the windows have old manky [dirty] sheets slung over them for curtains. The pool is full of all sorts of crap. You can't even enter the kitchen because of the vile smell, and if you do dare to go in there it's filthy and the tea towels are brown and sticky. Also, if you want cooking equipment, even just a spoon, you have to pay a $5 deposit for 1 hour's use, and if you go over you get charged. The bathrooms are full of hair, they're dirty and you have one toilet per floor. There must be about 60 people on each floor. Staff are useless. Do not stay here!

I only stayed there for one night. I didn't find it too bad. There's not much to do in Alice, and we had just gotten back from safari so it was good to get a good feed and sleep! The bath and shower room was communal, though. I didn't like that, and there were only two working showers!

This place had very small and dirty rooms! The reception was not very friendly or helpful. The 24-hour access works only if your pin code for the door works. However, that does not happen often so you are dependent on someone else opening the door. The hostel has a really nice pub and the place has the image of being THE place to stay in Alice. It was okay for one night.

I stayed 3 nights, it felt like 3 weeks. The bathrooms were dirty, I slept with lots of Bed Bugs, the laundry didn't work, the rooms were small and dark, and the kitchen facilities were poor--you have to rent out all the utensils. The pub next door is very noisy; you don't have to be in it to know whats going on! The staff were friendly, though.

There is no heating in the Winter so it was very, very cold when I stayed here. The bathrooms are pretty poor, too.

Two words: Bed Bugs. I spoke to a lot of people who stayed here and the vast majority were the lucky recipients of multiple bites.

It's a big place, but with small rooms, too small if u ask me. Not much of an atmosphere. But the rooms are clean. Nice bar/pub where u can play drinking games with your ayers rock tour crew... not everybody's piece of pie...