DingoBlue Backpackers (Bundaberg)

Hell
All I say is if you want to stay in a place where you pay 155 dollars a week to live in a bedbug-infested hole, then this is the place to go! There were maggots in the kitchen, quite understandable when it was never clean, rat in the TV room, your personal items being stolen (food and drink). This place never gets cleaned! There was hardly any work. and when there was the pay wouldnt even pay the rent! Management were stoned and pissed twenty-four/seven. They caused constant fights, the Hostel was more like a fight club, as everyone joined in with the brawls! I would never recommend Dingo Blue. We didnt feel safe there as there was no security and it was left wide open at night! The star rating doesnt have a zero, but if it did Dingo Blue would barely deserve that! All in all it was a dump! i wouldnt recommend it to my worst enemy!

Don't Even Bother
Well when i first got there (Feb. 2008 to March 2008) i thought it was alright. However i came to learn that the manager was a complete tosser who spent all his time drunk in his room. The place was never clean, and if you tried to clean, the place would be a complete pigsty within ten minutes. I woke up one morning and came downstairs and there was about two hundred maggots underneath one of the vans which were making their way around the place. There was always fighting and i don't mean people yelling, i mean brawls. These always involved one or more of the guys bashing people up because they felt the need or felt threatened by another male group. It was quite pathetic. However there was some absolutely wonderful people that I met there and I think it was worth all that crap to meet the people.

Not very good, or clean
I'm sorry to say that in a world where "cleanliness is next to godliness," this place is "a cellar dweller from Hell." DingoBlue, while I was staying there was in desperate need of a clean, and it needed to be aired out to get rid of the smells. As there was no staff on the premises at night, drunken guests broke into the fire alarm box, and kept setting the alarm off all night,and playing with the speaker system. Still, it was cheap, and I suppose that I got what I paid for. I do not recommend this Hostel.

DingoBlue is a good backpacker hostel -- when I was there in Sept and Oct 2006 they had three different jobs available -- cherry tomato picking, zucchinis, and corn packing. It's hard work and pay is not so great but the atmosphere is worthwhile. Although it says there is breakfast included there was not, but we did have a bbq every Friday. You must remember to wear some really old or secondhand clothes and enclosed shoes for work so that you don't get dirty and for the cherry tomatoes you will definitely need a pair of gloves because tomato leaves stain your hands and takes weeks to wash off. You will need to take at least a two litre bottle of water with you for work. There are only four showers, so you will have to be quick off the mark to get in there before everyone else after work. I spent a lot of time complaining about Bundy while I was there but looking back on it, I had a good time there and believe that you would too.