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The Hostelz.com Review
The Dingo Blue Backpackers is a working hostel. If you see this hostel for the first time you could think "oh no, I don't want to stay here," but after a while you would like it. The hostel is very simple, not so fancy like others in town -- but that is what makes the hostel so special.
The Location
Bundaberg is known as a harvest town, ideal for backpackers. The hostel is right in town centre, opposite from the train station. Internet cafes and everything else are in walking distance, as is an IGA supermarket -- bigger supermarkets are a bit further, but you can still walk to them.
Rooms and Bathrooms
This hostel has only two- to four-bed dorms -- perfect if someone has to get up early. The rooms have shelves, a fan, and rolling blinds. The mattresses are not amazing but ok. They have a girls and a boys toilet near the rooms and a bathrooms near the kitchen. The bathroom cleanliness is ok during the day, but when all the people come back from working in the field, it gets dirty. They provide soap and a hair dryer. They have four showers and two toilets in the bathrooms.
Common Spaces
This hostel has a huge kitchen with a walkable fridge. In the fridge there are cages that you can lock if you have a padlock. In the kitchen there are also boxes for food provided, which you can lock as well. The kitchen has two microwaves and two stoves with ovens. They provide crockery and cutlery -- but not enough because they get always stolen. There are a few pots, pans, and tea towels (you'd better have your own stuff). The cleanliness of the kitchen is all right because a cleaner comes every morning. There is also a TV in the kitchen and a separate TV room with a DVD player. Outside are some tables and benches and two hammocks -- very comfy. There are also washing machines.
The Dingo Blue Backpackers is a very social hostel, you meet friends very easily -- this is very good if you are alone. Drinking is only allowed at the weekend, but nobody is there in the afternoon so every day they drink goon wine and beers. But still the people are quiet.
Summary
The hostel can be quite dirty. The rubbish bins are overfilled and dirt from the workers' shoes is everywhere. The kitchen and bathrooms is cleaned by a cleaner but the rooms, corridor, and the TV room are not. After a few days, two backpackers worked there for free accommodation and after they cleaned, it was amazing -- nice and tidy -- and also the backpackers themselves got cleaner (they put their stuff away after they cooked). We stayed there three weeks and enjoyed it very much. The other guests are very nice and there is enough room to sit and play some games.
It's great if you just want to work and stay somewhere in small rooms and find some nice people the hostel. However, it is dirty and lacks enough cutlery and crockery.
The Location
Bundaberg is known as a harvest town, ideal for backpackers. The hostel is right in town centre, opposite from the train station. Internet cafes and everything else are in walking distance, as is an IGA supermarket -- bigger supermarkets are a bit further, but you can still walk to them.
Rooms and Bathrooms
This hostel has only two- to four-bed dorms -- perfect if someone has to get up early. The rooms have shelves, a fan, and rolling blinds. The mattresses are not amazing but ok. They have a girls and a boys toilet near the rooms and a bathrooms near the kitchen. The bathroom cleanliness is ok during the day, but when all the people come back from working in the field, it gets dirty. They provide soap and a hair dryer. They have four showers and two toilets in the bathrooms.
Common Spaces
This hostel has a huge kitchen with a walkable fridge. In the fridge there are cages that you can lock if you have a padlock. In the kitchen there are also boxes for food provided, which you can lock as well. The kitchen has two microwaves and two stoves with ovens. They provide crockery and cutlery -- but not enough because they get always stolen. There are a few pots, pans, and tea towels (you'd better have your own stuff). The cleanliness of the kitchen is all right because a cleaner comes every morning. There is also a TV in the kitchen and a separate TV room with a DVD player. Outside are some tables and benches and two hammocks -- very comfy. There are also washing machines.
The Dingo Blue Backpackers is a very social hostel, you meet friends very easily -- this is very good if you are alone. Drinking is only allowed at the weekend, but nobody is there in the afternoon so every day they drink goon wine and beers. But still the people are quiet.
Summary
The hostel can be quite dirty. The rubbish bins are overfilled and dirt from the workers' shoes is everywhere. The kitchen and bathrooms is cleaned by a cleaner but the rooms, corridor, and the TV room are not. After a few days, two backpackers worked there for free accommodation and after they cleaned, it was amazing -- nice and tidy -- and also the backpackers themselves got cleaner (they put their stuff away after they cooked). We stayed there three weeks and enjoyed it very much. The other guests are very nice and there is enough room to sit and play some games.
It's great if you just want to work and stay somewhere in small rooms and find some nice people the hostel. However, it is dirty and lacks enough cutlery and crockery.
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
October 2008
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DingoBlue Backpackers (Bundaberg) Details
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Location/Contact| Address | 11 Burrum Street, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia |
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| Website | www.dingobluebackpackers.com |
| Telephone | +61 (7) 4152-0100 or +61 (4) 8813-9175 |
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
NEVER STAY HERE i arrived at dingo blues or dingo zoo as it should be called after speaking to the manager and been promised loads of work i arranged to be there at 11 at night and for sumbody to let me in well there was nobody to let me in and i had to sleep on a bug infested couch, the rooms were terrible and hadnt been cleaned in years and were full of bedbugs, the kitchens were even worse and so were the bathrooms, i worked all the first week and didnt get paid as the management said they lost my bank details and that i would just have to manage, i had 7 dollars in my pocket and got little sympathy of the managers, when it came to payday the following week i had been underpaid be nearly 300 dollars and was told i would just have to wait for it, luckily i booked a coach the same day and left without paying rent, there are some amazing people there but that is it and bundaberg in general is a hillbilly town. STAY AWAY. — josh , england (2011-05-20) The worst hostel we have stayed on. We stayed there between 21 March 2010 and April 9 2010. It was not a good experience. There was hardly any toilet paper and NO soap on the bathrooms. The two bathrooms in the hallway was broken, and where not fixed! The place was dirty, and that is understandable when they only have one cleaning lady. The room we stayed in (Room 10) was infested with bedbugs, despite of being cleaned before we moved in. There was hardly any work, and the work we got was sh*t! Despite of all the bad things, there is a SUPER social atmosphere and the people there is awesome! But for 175$ a week, you don't get a lot. The kitchen has only 4 fire pits for between 20 and 80 people. And there are no kitchen stuff!!! So we would not recommend it to anyone! — Jon & Sune , Denmark (2010-04-11) Zero Maggots stoners and theifs, if you want to have all your food and belongings stolen, than stay here, if you like eating in a kitchen that would be cleaner in a 3rd world country than stay here. Its the worst most unmanaged place i have ever stayed in and to say that i paid 155 a week to stay there, or maybe we got trapped there, as we were gtd work and never got any, only for our acc bill to run up, but saying that, i have met life long friends there. — Anonymous (2010-03-10) One of the best places to stay in Bundy Dingo Blue is under new Management since October 2008 and they really turned this place around. This is a really nice place to stay. Had a lot of fun here and made some good friends and money. Good location within walking distance of CBD. There was a great atmosphere especially at night when everyone sat around outside. As with many hostels it can really depend on the people staying whether you like it or not. Loads of work in the right season. A courtesy bus takes the backpackers to and from work each day. All of the rooms are four-bed rooms. The kitchen is very big, well equipped, and comfortable for many people to cook at the same time. There is also more than enough storage space for food. Checkout time is flexible. Guests catching a late bus or train can stay at the hostel during the day at no extra cost. One of the best places to stay in Bundy especially if you are working to get the Second Working Holiday Visa. — Juliane , German (2009-01-15) Hostel sucked but the people were cool! When I first arrived in this hostel I had to convince myself that I wasn't dead and this wasn't hell, but after the initial shock I appreciated Dingo Blue's because I convinced myself that if I could endure back breaking labour during the day and come back to a dirty, urine-stenched hostel at night I could cope with anything! Luckily I met a few really cool people so if I can take anything from that experience it has to be that, also just as the place was closing down the manager asked me to paint the hostel, including the boot room, which I did. — Jagon , English (2009-01-08) 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! — Anon , Aussie (2008-04-21) 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. — Ash , Aussie (2008-04-09) Shocking Me and two mates were looking for a new experience and what we got was a filthy hostel. There was no free breakfast in the morning even though they say it. On some days we would finish work and the transport would not come for about 2 hours. There wasnt anyone in charge there at night which made people run amuck. You can only have a drink on saturday night as well. I would suggest going here if you wanted to wreck a period of your life. — jrad , australia (2008-01-08) 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. — Nick , Kiwi (2007-08-17) 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. — Gemma (2006-10-17)