Kalgoorlie Backpackers Hostels

Kalgoorlie Hostels

This is a complete list of all known hostels in Kalgoorlie. If you know of a Kalgoorlie hostel that isn't listed here, please use the "Add a New Hostel" link at the bottom of the page.

HI - YHA Kalgoorlie Hostel - Golddust Backpackers

"Gold Dust is the best place to stay in Kal by a country mile if you are back packing, and / or looking to get work on one of the many mining or drilling companies in and around Kalgoorlie-Boulder. I stayed here for over 3 weeks on and off in April/ May during my 3 month employment on a drilling rig, and had a great time. Liz is a first class manager (and stand-in mother !!). She will even try her hardest to get you work if she can. The place is clean, has decent internet access, a pool...

Kalgoorlie Backpackers YHA Hostel

"I worked here five and a half years ago. It was a very friendly place. A lot of the people who stayed here worked in Kalgoorlie, so it had a real family atmosphere." … Bus: 750 metres to stop. Daily buses to Perth and Adelaide. Westrail bus to Esperance three times a week. Train: 750 metres to station. Rail to Kalgoorlie seven days a week. Free pick up to the hostel. Plane: 5 km to the airport … A Hostelling International (HI) Hostel … 166 Hay Street

Nomads Gold Inn

147 Hannan Street

Kalgoorlie Travel Tips & Suggestions

Comment by Anonymous

I moved from Perth to Kalgoorlie more than two years ago. I agree that it isn't really a place you'd want to come for a holiday but I am pretty offended that people call us rednecks as most of us are the furthest thing from it. I'm from inner city Perth and most of the people I know and are friends with are from places other than Kalgoorlie in the first place. In fact 5% of our population is from New Zealand and another large proportion from South Africa. We are not rednecks -- it's just a few who give us a bad name.

Comment by Perth girl living in Kal

I find that others that come to the town and slag it off have no real understanding about this town. I am twenty-something from Perth who came with my boyfriend to this town to "get ahead." The money is excellent and housing reasonably cheap compared to Perth.

Comment by Shazza&Sluzza

Kalgoorlie -- well what can we say? It's a small town that parties ten times harder than any other. Living it up trailer trash style is the way to go. There are four boys to every girl -- we are not going anywhere too soon! Grab yourself a Kalgoorlie miner, and you can then wave goodbye to any intentions you may ever acclaimed of entering the workforce.

Comment by Kalgoorlie Realist!

I hate Kalgoorlie! It's the pits! It is a place full of greedy miners whose goal in life is a five-metre wide plasma TV, three beer fridges, and three enormous 4WDs parked on the driveway! All they live for is now and they are some of the most arrogant morons on the planet!

Comment by The runner

Go to Kalgoorlie and let it all hang out. I ran naked passed the three brothels and came very near to being busted by the cops. Work is easy to find, and the night life is amazing. Keep your Kalgoorlie storeys to yourself as the real world might have a problem with it.

Comment by Mark

Kalgoorlie is a great place to visit, but hard to work in. You will have the time of your life if you do not take yourself too seriously. If you’re just passing through and thinking of spending a few weeks there watch your drinking because you will drink your travel money.

Comment by Crazy Trevor

There's a bakery which opens about 4 in the morning on the other side of the tracks of the train station and the town. If you get in to town at a weird hour it's a couple of streets from the train station and a life saver. Passing through and want an ice-cream? Gelare's Jamaican choc rocks. Gelare is on the main Street in front of the Tourist Info Centre. P.S. Kal is famous for two things, gold mining in which tonnes of cyanide are mixed to sleuce the gold from the ore, and the town's brothels as all of the rednecks that work on the mines sites ... you know.

Comment by Paula

Kalgoorlie is a place you'll either love or hate. I loved it. It was my home for only 3 months but will always be a part of me.

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