Bus Stop Backpackers

Bundaberg

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Address	66 Targot Street, Bundaberg Queensland, Australia Map
Price	$21 pp a/night $130 pp a/week

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1.7 Average from 18 Ratings

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Comment by never again

September 2009

Wanna try living in prison?
So for all the people who want to do fruit picking during their trip in Australia, never come to this hostel. No windows in rooms, the owner is so rude and his main goal is to make money by telling you yeah you'll get a job quickly. It's very easy to get kicked out from the hostel (at the end of the week if you try to store your luggage in the hostel for the day before taking the bus, he'll kicked you. Plus, it's very expensive for a backpacker 170 dollars, everything is f***ed, the kitchen is so disgusting, the rooms smells, only five shower and very dirty showers. The only positive point is -- you can meet great people there and they'll have the same opinion about the hostel. If you want to try a week in prison, try the bus stop backpackers it's worse than hell.

Comment by Beichtvater, German

August 2009

One Star is too much. Every prison is better
This is not a Hostel! Its a new way to make money from Backpackers. If you call them they say, come around we have work. You arrive and find yourself on a standby list on place fifteen. Then go to your room and find a cube without windows, one shower, and toilet for over ninety people and a dirty kitchen. And its cost $170 to 180 a week, and if you get kicked (what is very easy) you dont get anything back. You don't get work here. So if you dont like someone send him to this hostel!

Comment by sweetness and light, Ireland

July 2009

Bad, bad, bad
Nothing has improved.

Comment by Lorna, Scottish

June 2009

Keep away! It's terrible!
My boyfriend and I stayed here for four weeks in Jan. 2008, it was the worst four weeks of my life! The hostel was disgusting -- it had cockroaches in the kitchen, bedbugs, only limited air-con, no work even though we were promised lots. Do not stay here. The owner is a money grabbing swine who only cares about getting his rent. If you have any sense run away while you still can.

Comment by Never ever go to this hostel!!!!!, Australia/ Italia

January 2009

This hostel is terrible and the owner Eugene is a con artist and liar!
This hostel is totally terrible! Eugene the owner is a total con artist! When we arrived via greyhound we saw "Bus Stop Backpackers" and laughed and thought, thank god we are not staying in that dump and so we went across the street to book in to the place directly across the road from the station. He he told us we'd have work, booked us in, and had us pay, and then when it was too late took us across the street to Bus Stop! I was horrified by the state of the place but i tried to remain optimistic about the work -- no such luck! Our room was 180 dollars each for a tiny little jail cell! We had no windows in the room and air con is only allowed on from 7 at night till 3 in the morning, and with one setting, freezing not to mention if you open the air con its filthy and black so you can easily get sick from breathing in the dirty air as I did! I got a job on my second day and the farmer liked me and said that I can go back, however after that he (Eugene the manager) told me that the farmer said I was fired and gave my job to someone else that had just checked in that day! So I only worked four hours in the whole week that I stayed there! Little did Eugene know that I had the phone number of the farmer and when I called her, she said that she wanted me to work there again but Eugene said that I had a new job! My boyfriend worked two days outta the week, like twelve hours labour that was sup[osed to be paid by the hour rate and his pay, he only got $65! In Australia the minimum rate you can be paid for seasonal work by the hour is $16, so again this is illegal! The owner is very racist and rude and there was this one guy kicked out for doing the dishes and leaving the tap running. He was kicked out and Eugene kept his weeks rent and also his $50 deposit! I talked with many people there and they said that they are not getting work and know they are being ripped off but are too afraid to do or say anything -- if you even complain politely to Euene he will become very aggressive and kick you out keeping your deposit and key money! This is Australia, not some third world country! Just because you are not Australian does not mean that you do not have any rights here! You are entitled to be treated fairly and this hostel is not fair and its not right!

Comment by BRANDON! WORST HOSTEL EVER WITH A DICK HEAD MANAGER!, CANADA

January 2009

Worst hostel, dirty, and the owners are liars
i arrived at this hostel and we went it and they was the d*ck head manager. he told us to pay the money and then he would tell us all about the hostel so we did it. he sent us across the street to a jail cell and it was disgusting! the kitchen has no knives there are two stoves and only one grill really works. the pool table is f***ed as well with the table tennis and foozball table. well after about five days of not having work and having to wait on the standby list, me and my friends decided to drink some goon. we arrived back at the hostel at about 4:45 a.m. and the kitchen was supposed to be open at 4 a.m. but was still closed so we made a bunch of noise for a couple minutes and then waited for the night manager to come and open the kitchen. she came at about 5 a.m. the next morning i woke up and they were kicking us out for abusing the night manger, which was a huge lie. we did not even talk to her. they just wanted to make an excuse for kicking us out. but anyways do not ever go to this hostel! bottom line it is a sh*thole with managers that treat you like sh*t and are complete assholes.

Comment by fuck my life sucks, england

January 2009

Kill me now
ok so as i write this i am on free internet. this by far is the only thing that is (free) so from the start. you will pay all your money up front and then be told that there is no work for a few days -- tick, tick, tick, and still no work. i am not a terrorist but if i had a bomb i know where it would go. we move out and have lost over 350 bucks between me and my mate. Please, please, listen. you dont have to be here. he will lie so look around.

Comment by Chris, Welsh

November 2008

This is the worst place on earth!
To be brutally honest, the hostel itself is not the worst thing about it. It's the owners. They are horrible. Unbelievably rude and appear to completely hate backpackers. Why they bought two, yes you read it right, two backpacker hostels I will never know. They lure you in by having the reception in the nicer of the two hostels. We drove past the Bus Stop Backpackers and thought there was no way we were going to stay there. Then after we had paid they told us we would be staying across the road in the one place in Bundaberg we really didn't want to stay. Try a little further up the road.

Comment by Claude, Mauritian

October 2008

F*** the owner!
I was kicked out of this backpack three days after getting there. This guy is a douche bag. I want to sh*t on his face, all I did was play ping pong with someone who wasn't from the backpack. The owner wouldn't give me the money difference as I had paid the whole week stay! If you want to find a job don't go there either! Trust me! Bus stop backpackers sucks!

Comment by Laura, Germany

June 2008

Worst place ever!
This is the worst place I've been to so far. the owner is the biggest dighead I met in Australia. The only thing he cares about is to get as much money as possible (from you!). Therefore he even does a lot of illegal things! Do yourself a favour and don't stay at this place (dirty, smelly, disgusting).

Comment by Geraint Jones, Welsh

May 2008

Great
I stayed here for six months and had a great time. the owners are great and really look after you! Fruit picking isnt fun but you can have a good time here. well advise to go. good experience!

Comment by paddy-traveller, ireland

March 2008

Ok
Ok hostel, but air conditioning only working between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. is a joke. when you spend twelve hours working in 30-degree-plus heat, one would like to come home to a cool room, especially since there is no windows in room! cleaner is a bit of a fascist, always barging into room threatening people. Lack of work when i stayed there due to the rain. Rent was expensive, $150 a week in dorm room, especially if you worked two days per week meant you saved no money.

Comment by JC, Belgian

March 2008

Very very bad
The worst hostel in Bundi. the owner is a bad man he tries to make money for everything. during my two-week stay, approximately ten people were kicked out for reason like have alcohol in the room (not even drinking), don't get up for work, and no refund and loss key deposit (which is $50!). be warned. There are other nice backpacker there.

Comment by Guy, British

February 2008

Could be so good but is so very bad!
I'd been warned about this hostel form the start and wasn't keen on going -- i regret staying there now! The rent has inexplicably gone up from $130 to $160 a week in the past few months and the new owner doesnt seem to have done much to warrant the increase! Half of the hostel was being fumigated for bedbugs whilst most people probably took them over to the other side! The owner changes his personality for the tiniest thing -- he seems like a nice guy but is happy to screw you over at any chance. I was kicked out for drinking in the hostel. (This isn't allowed and i was outside the building but still.) It bemuses me as i was one of about thirty people drinking that night and no one else was asked to leave. I was told i had been making my own rules by not working (i had been sick for two days!). The rooms may be air conditioned but it's only for a few hours a day, the DVD library does not exist, and in the short time i was there work was not readily available! I would strongly advise against staying here - there are much nice places in Bundaberg!

Comment by Rachel

April 2007

I stayed here for four months and it was the best place i've stayed in all over australia. emma was always friendly, sue was nice as long as you were willing to work. it was ideal as long as you're not out to booze up all the time, and save money. the place was always clean, and the people there were more than fantastic.

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