The best thing about Cannon Street is its location: directly across the street from Adelaide's Central Bus Station, and a short walk to supermarkets and central Adelaide. But the building has obviously been converted from an old warehouse and has the resident creaks, squeaks and creepy crawlies that go with that. If you want to be woken up at six in the morning by two other backpackers shrieking and spraying bug spray all over their beds, Cannon Street is the place for you!
There's free continental breakfast, cheap Internet, a pool table and a ping pong table and a cozy enough TV room, plus a big cavernous area with tables and chairs to just hang out in. The place is quite large and you may find that the kitchen and bathroom are quite a walk from your room. Kitchen is small but adequate. The bathrooms have none of the extras that make staying at a hostel easier (no vesitbules for the shower, so you may be wandering around in there naked). The worst part about the hostel is the rooms themselves: the best one can say about them is that they're fairly large, but atmospherically they're lacking; there's no lockers or any other way of securing your belongings, and a lot of the doors don't lock automatically, so that may be a concern for those who are security conscience. The ladders to the upper bunks are hard to climb, and the mattresses are too thin to shield your body from being prodded by the wooden slats underneath. If you're in Adelaide in winter, blankets are an extra $1.00 per stay.
The hostel does have a large travel agency out front to help you with your plans for moving onwards or around Adelaide, and they've got a house bar where you can get meal discounts and free pie; it's fairly social, so if you like bar specials and can put up with the odd bug and the sound of rain pounding hard on the tin roof in the common area, this may be the hostel for you.
— Exklusive Hostelz.com Übersicht
November 2005
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