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Bus Stop Backpackers Details
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Location/Contact| Address | 66 Targot Street, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia |
| Location | Right at the Bundaberg bus terminal site on Targo Street. |
| Website | None (if you know the URL of their website, tell us and we'll add it) |
| rossandangela@hotmail.com | |
| Telephone | +61 (7) 4151-8186 |
| Fax | +61 (7) 4151-3355 |
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
Don't stay here We were there during the flooding a few weeks ago (December 2010) and when we arrived we panicked and booked into the first hostel we saw which was this one -- ERROR. Not only were we required to pay $50 deposit each (usually around $10 across the east coast of australia) the owner gave us a room with NO WINDOW as we were staying there for only 2 nights (he caters more for workers, despite the word backpacker in the name). The room with filthy (it smelt of urine, had no fresh air or light as there was no window, the carpet was black with stains when it was supposed to be blue), the kitchen had too few pots/pans for the number of people there, there were also no clean towels to dry up after washing up. The owner refused a refund on the 2nd night when we wanted to move and everyone we met there disliked him and the place. The whole town also had a negative opinion on him. The hostel in the end got flooded by flood waters (he deserves this) but he left it until the very last minute to move people out (trying to make all the money he can at the risk of other peoples lives/personal property). DO NOT STAY HERE. — Thomas, , England (2011-01-14) The owner is a real prick Every bad thing you have read here is true, everything. I cant understand why The National Harvest Guide people give you his number for work in Bunderberg. There are so many other better places. Eugene ripped me off. I also dont know why that man has not been beaten by angry backpackers. all i can think is if Karma is real, he is in big trouble!! — Anonymous , british (2010-09-08) Worst place ever this hostel has to be the worst place ever. The owner Eugene lies about having work when really he just puts you on a standby list and pretends there is work. He is a pathetic racist wanker. They do not give you work as promised the rooms are filthy with no windows the kitchen is covered with roaches and the living room had a mouse please avoid this hole. It is absolute torture. Please please avoid horrible place with no work. DEPRESSING and Dirty. — Daniel S , Irish (2010-07-29) Doesn't deserve the 1 star its a filthy, smelly hellhole run by evil cocksucking pricks namely Eugene (the owner) and the night manager!the first thing that happened here was with a couple of dutch guys, they were friendly, nice guys and had got work through the hostel after 3 weeks on the waiting list. unfortunately after waiting for 3 weeks they had run out of money and were unable to pay rent until they were paid from the work, 2 days after there rent was due, it was obvious they weren't going anywhere but instead of waiting until they got paid eugene the owner took there passports and backpacks, called the police on them and said that if anyone talked to them they were getting kicked out with them! WTF??after that we were drinking in the park away from the hostel and were told that if we were seen in the park drinking like that again we were to be thrown out. i believe this is because eugene hates backpackers so much that the sight of us having fun made him furious! soon after that my friend was in the kitchen 20 mins after hours, and the night manager came out and lost it with him. as my friend was leaving he kicked the door (not hard) and the night manager threw him against the wall and held a fork to his neck shouting at him!!it was crazy!! i was kicked out the next day with him. dont go here if your life depended on it. i made less than 400 dollars during my 4 week stay here, 4 x 170 = 680, thats a loss of 300, it just aint worth it! there just exploiting backpackers as they know we need to do this kind of work in order to get 2nd year visas and they can get away with it. dont let them get away it, dont stay here!!!!!! — Anonymous , ireland (2010-07-25) Worst hostel ever This hostel is unbelievably gross. You pay $180 per week for a dorm room and of course you have to stay for a week if you want to be put one the waiting list for work. You can also go out in the middle of the night and sleep on blue chairs and then in the morning, when the workers leave and one does not show up, you get his place, which does not happen every night, of course. People really do that because they are desperate to find work. It is disgusting. There are bedbugs in the hostel and ants all over the place. Do not come here, you will regret it!!!! I am stuck here for another 5 nights. oh, they justify the room rates with the free internet! There are two computers and the internet is terribly slow. DO NOT COME HERE!!!! — Nicole , German (2009-11-06) 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. — never again (2009-09-28) 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! — Beichtvater , German (2009-08-17) Bad, bad, bad Nothing has improved. — sweetness and light , Ireland (2009-07-03) 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. — Lorna , Scottish (2009-06-23) 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! — Never ever go to this hostel!!!!! , Australia/ Italia (2009-01-22) 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. — BRANDON! WORST HOSTEL EVER WITH A DICK HEAD MANAGER! , CANADA (2009-01-13) 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. — fuck my life sucks , england (2009-01-04) 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. — Chris , Welsh (2008-11-06) 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! — Claude , Mauritian (2008-10-30) Unfit for human habitation!! Paid for 1 week but stayed for 2 nights. would have gladly paid more to leave this dump!! the owner, Eugene, is possibly the rudest person i have ever met and treats his 'guests' like idiotic little children. I'm surprised the annoying little man hasn't been found in a skip yet!! he will kick people out for the smallest reason and there is nothing you can do, no refunds are given. the man probably gets triple income by selling his rooms 3times a week cos he's kicked someone out. avoid this place like the plague. — Chris Brearley , British (2008-07-20)