Located in one of Melbourne's most fashionable precints, The College Lawn Hotel offers friendly, clean and comfortable accomodation above a traditional Australian Pub. Close to major events, clubs, beaches and shopping strips.
The College Lawn is placed in a convenient location, just minutes from Prahran Station, trams and buses making it easy to access the city as well as many beaches. It has a clean, comfortable, friendly atmosphere making you feel right at home. This excellent hostel situated above a cosy pub makes it a social and inviting place to stay.
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The Location
Located a mere five minute walk from bustling Chapel Street, and perched above a 'locals bar' and technically seperate restaurant-bar, the College Lawn Hotel offers a cheap alternative to those who want to visit purely for the nightlife. That is what you'll find here, scores of backpackers seeking a party and company. There are a few using the hostel as a base while they work or seek employment, but for the most part the crowd seems to be looking for fun.
Rooms and Bathrooms
The rooms house 8-apiece, they are not the best kept, but are far away from being the worst at $25/night. They are fairly clean, they are typically messy (typical party-backpacker conditions). Unfortunately they are the best part.
The kitchen left us wondering if anybody had used it since a great big fry-up several weeks before, apparently so, by brave or bewildered souls, who knows? A sign was pasted to the window, threatening a loss of deposits for all if the kitchen was not kept tidy, perhaps that ship sailed some time after the fry-up.
The bathrooms weren't altogether too bad, except all the toilets have at least one broken surface each. The showers worked.
So did the taps.
The mirror was doing a remarkable job of being in one piece.
Common Spaces
The hostel doesn't offer much in the way of common space. There is a couch in the front hall, a staircase in the back which leads to the bar downstairs, which is where most congregation within the hostel itself seems to take place. The kitchen could probably serve as a place to share, if it wasn't such a damnable mess.
The bar/restaurant has big TVs that show sports (including, to my delight, English Premier League Football). There is a pool table, and a very nice outdoor sitting area. There are regular deals on food, the steak meal for $14 (as of Jan 2015) was pretty good, and one can see that they at least care about the restaurant's kitchen.
Utilities / Other
The hostel offers a washing machine and dryer, woe unto the fact, that they are in the kitchen.
They also have Wi-Fi, but as anyone who's bounced around hostels for any amount of time knows, the connection is somewhat... Unreliable? Slow? Occasionally nonexistent? There's a word I'm looking for here... Oh yeah - Godawful. But it is there, and useless Wi-Fi is practically a proud tradition of backpacker hostels by now.
Summary
In reality, the hostel offers just about everything you need provided you are in Melbourne to party, to live cheap (relatively speaking), and you consider the clean kitchen to be a modern extravagance, and the holes in the toilets to be a polite reminder of the fragility of life in general - fodder for very late night deep and meaningful conversation, should you be so inclined.
For this purpose I give the hostel 3/5
T Cups
2015-01-17
Very cool
great place. great people, clean, good food and Grog. food stores near, no internet as of 3-08, maybe now a real local pub.
James Carlyle
2008-12-19
Hawaii,USA
Description
Location and Contact
Location
Map
Address: 36 Greville Street, Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The College Lawn Hotel is listed on the following booking sites:
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www.collegelawnhotel.com.au
Phone Number:
+61 (3) 9510-6057
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Facilities and Amenities
Party Hostel
Solo Traveller
Bedsheets
Towels
Wi-Fi in Lobby/Commons
ATM
Bar
Credit Card Payments
Entirely Non-Smoking
Food/Restaurant
Hot Showers
Kitchen
Laundry
Pool Table
Checkout: 10:00 (10 AM)
Curfew: No Curfew
Lockout: No
Maximum Stay: 1 month
Minimum Stay: 1 night
Open Dates: All Year
Reception Hours: 11.00 am to 11.00pm
Size: Medium (30-60 beds)
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