Russell Scott Backpackers Hostel

Bargain for a comfy bed...

Liked: The cereal and bread left out for us to help ourselves to. Good for a late night snack before sleep and for morning. Also great location even though moved to King Street

Average

Liked: Location
Disliked: The kettle was very dirty inside. Close to rusty. Need replacement.

Boiling hot and very uncomfortable

Liked: Location
Disliked: Windows couldn’t be openedWalls not plasteredFire alarms brokenDirty bed sheetsUncompleted building work throughout

Very good

Liked: This was in a great location in the city centre and very close to the train station. There was a bus you could take to the bus station. The kitchen was clean and useable. There was lots of toilets and showers.
Disliked: They were in the process of renovating so had construction things around. The dorm was very small and felt very squished with no space for bags. I didn't love the showers because you couldn't control the temperature or pressure and they were very small.

Exceptional

Liked: Phil is a really kind and helpful

Very good

Very poor

Exceptional

Creepy.

Liked: Location.
Disliked: When we arrived the manager made it out that it was such an inconvenience for him to check us in. He was rushing us up the stairs because he had to ‘turn the light off’ and exclaimed that he was in the middle of something so had to finish it before checking us in. He was drinking a can of fosters, which we thought was completely inappropriate. He was quite creepy, asking what time we were leaving, what we were doing last night and just questions that didn’t need to be asked. The place is also completely different to the pictures because we got an email saying how we had to be moved to a different place as the original place had been demolished (reviews from 3 months ago also say the same thing). The hostel was a construction site. The toilets hadn’t been fully built yet (exposed wires and panels) and the room wasn’t as we booked it to be. We booked a double bed room and got given a tiny room with just a bunk bed in it. He also lives in the room next to where we slept which made us feel uncomfortable. One of the worst aspects of this place is that the room doesn’t lock from the inside + the manager knows all of the codes to all of the rooms so could very easily have gone into the room in the night. It smelt horrid and the carpet was so dusty. I had a bit of a cough but it’s gone from annoying to bad. There was meant to be a deposit that we had to pay but the manager didn’t take it because we were going to be up so early as he ‘wouldn’t be awake at that time’ but when I went to use the bathroom in the morning, he essentially followed me in there. When we left he was like ‘be safe’. which is such an odd thing to say.