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BK Hostel

Auckland

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Address	3 Mercury Lane, Cnr. Karangahape Road & Mercury Lane, Auckland North Island, New Zealand
Price	Twin Share: $25/night,$29/night Single:$40/night, $45/night Check Current Prices by Date Here

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Their Description

Features

Kitchen
24 Hour Free Hot Showers
Pool Table
Washing Machine (laundry)
Lounge / Common space
Travel information provided
Phones (public or in room)
Elevator/Lift

The Hostelz.com Review

BK Hostel is clean and friendly -- it's very tidy and well maintained and the staff are very helpful. The bathrooms are modern, clean, and functional. It is a pretty quiet place -- not a party atmosphere. There is a kitchen, laundry, TV room, book exchange, internet, and a pool table. The building is secured and you can only get in with a room key or by pressing a buzzer. There is an elevator in the building if you require.

The hostel is located on K Road, and is a fifteen-minute walk into the middle of the city. The walk back to the hostel involves a big hill. Directly outside the hostel you will find many shops, bars, and restaurants.

BK Hostel is on the corner of Mercury Lane and Karangahape Road (K Road). To get there from the Airport catch the airbus and get off at the first stop, which is the corner of City Road and Symond Street. Walk back uphill a small block to Karangahape Road, and turn right down K Road. The hostel is three blocks down K Road, on your left. It is above a "Subway" sandwich shop. The entrance is on Mercury Lane. If you are coming from the Hobson Street Bus station, go left when you come out of the bus station and go up Hobson Road until you get to Pitt Street. Go left at Pitt Street and go up the hill. When you get to the top of the hill you will be on K Road, and the hostel will be in front of you across the road.

— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
October 2007

Ratings & Comments

4 Average from 6 Ratings

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Comment by T, UK

July 2009

Great!
This hostel is lovely, very clean, and modern. There is an entertainment room room with a widescreen TV and DVD player, books/magazines, and a pool table. You can rent DVDs for a $5 deposit, which you can get back. Kitchen is quite a good size, bathrooms are clean, and there are laundry facilities. Staff are friendly and willing to help. Area is ok, about a twenty-minute walk from harbour and along the way there are plenty of shops and fast-food places. Hostel is also across the road from a Starbucks! There's not a Subway there anymore!

Comment by Em, British

February 2009

Good
This hostel was really nice and cheap for Auckland. The rooms, kitchen and bathrooms were nice and clean, the staff really friendly and stayed up for our very late arrival. We were staying in a double and paid a bit extra for a window and the room was nice. However, we were there at a weekend and I have never stayed in a hostel so loud. Some kind of nightclub seemed to be right underneath us and it went on until 6am so loud that I could even hear it with my earplugs shoved right in and the duvet over my head. A room without a window might help thi but for this reason I would not recommend staying over a weekend. A shame becasue it was a nice hostel, and walking up and down Queen street into town made you very fit!

Comment by Andrea, Argentina

October 2008

Best Hostel Ever!
So far this is one of the best hostels I have stayed at, it is clean, safe, the staff are completely friendly. I have stayed at this hostel twice this year, and if I am going back to Auckland I wouldn't doubt that I would stay there again. The rooms are really clean, you can choose either with windows or without windows, which will have an effect on the price. The only bad thing you might find, which I did not mind at all, is that it is close to a fire station therefore you might hear the Sirens every once and then. The kitchen area it is a bit small -- it has two kitchens one on each floor, but I have never had problems to use it. every time I went into the kitchen I was able to use it and there was no one at that time. I would completely recommend this hostel to stay for a few nights or even for a few weeks. They have a pool table in the common areas, an lcd TV, a great collection of DVDs as well as a shelf for book exchange.

Comment by Kim Ling, Malaysia

September 2008

Simple, clean, and safe
We stayed here for two nights in September 2008. This hostel is quite centrally located, albeit in a "shady" area. There is a pub downstairs, and further along the road there are many adult-shops. It does not look safe for a single lady traveler to walk along the road at night. The setup is quite old and shabby, but the rooms are clean, with new paints. The bathroom is clean with a separate shower door in each shower cubicle that keeps the outside area dry, for changing clothes. In the third floor where we stayed, the ladies washroom only had two wash sinks, which I think is too little. Security here is good because you need to have an access card to go into the building. I hardly see any other guests in the hostel, except for a few when we were entering the building, so there is a lot of privacy here. Con -- There is no free parking available.

Comment by Maureen, USA

December 2007

Very Good
Stayed in a double room for two nights, and it was pretty basic but very clean. All the walls in the place were white, but the doors were painted different colors. It did feel a bit sterile and I didn't run into many other people. But this can be a good thing depending on what you're looking for. it was very quiet and BK was the first hostel where I felt like I actually had some privacy. Bathrooms were, again, clean. If you're looking to meet people this probably isn't the best place. Felt a lot more like a hotel than a hostel. Pretty good location, only about a five-minute walk from downtown. You can store your luggage here for $5.

Comment by Niels, Germany

May 2006

The hostels location is central, but in an shabby area. Inside it is very clean. A bit too clean. All the walls are painted white, which works for the narrow corridors and makes the rooms bigger, but it gives the whole place a touch of a hospital. The employee was very nice. His english wasn't to good, but he was very friendly and tried his best.

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