Name: Great Aussie Backpackers
Address: 174 Victoria Street, Sydney, Sydney, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Rating: 6

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Potts Point - Kings Cross

William Street

Hayes Theatre

Harry’s Cafe de Wheels

McElhone Stairs

Yellow House

Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Neild Avenue Maze

Cook + Phillip Park

Royal Botanic Gardens

Aboriginal Fine Art Prints

Hyde Park

Sydney Opera House

Wildlife Sydney

Sydney Aquarium

Darling Harbour

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Bondi Beach

Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport

Sydney Harbour National Park

Manly Beach

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Stayed in this hostel for a few weeks, great people living there, a nice clean hostel but the receptionist Daniella is a one of the most rude and evil people I have met in my whole life, couldn’t recommend this hostel enough if it wasn’t for her, after hearing all the complaints about her from other long term stayers and almost everyone I have spoken to about the hostel, I am very surprised action has not been taken against her. Something needs to be done as this hostel has great potential and she is losing business for the hostel.

Rude receptionist

I spent almost 2 weeks in this hostel and met the nicest people there. The atmosphere was always great and I felt very welcomed by all the longtermers who stayed there for many months already. My dorm (room 4) was very nice with a nice balcony. The bathrooms were clean and the staff at the reception was very nice and helpful. Now the bad thing: the manager of the hostel Daniella is the worst hostel manager I ever met. She is very moody. One moment she is the nicest person and the next time she yells at guests. She even kicked out longtermers in the middle of the night without giving any reasons and called the police multiple times for guests being too loud in the TV room or smoking outside. It’s sad that this hostel is destroying its potential with one person. 

Good Hostel but worst manager

Today I was hanging out near the kitchen was knocked off the ledge and I was put in a dustpan brush and then put in a carrier bag and thrown out the back door into the alleyway without any explanation? They even called 3 police officers on me who tasered me for no reason. Stinky place.

Thrown out

Hostel looks nice from the inside. But we got greeted by rude staff that treated us like prisoners. We have been travelling the whole east coast of australia and understand that each hostel has rules that we need to follow. However, the way they communicate anything feels like prisoners and you get punished for everything. For example if we leave the door open of the room because its too warm then each of us gets a fine of 10 AUD. 2 toilets and showers for 3 floors. Quite disappointed as the hostel is well located and looks nice. We went to wake up hostel after this which was a lot better and such friendly welcoming staff.

Not really to be recommended

DON'T STAY HERE. The staff are friendly until you need something or have a query then they become disrespectful, blunt and unhelpful. I had a few reasons to complain, firstly I was over paying for my room (by 70 odd dollars) 'because I booked it early' compared to other people getting the exact same room. I Understand New Year's Eve and New Year's Day would be expensive, and I have no qualms with that at all. After all, that is the two nights I wanted to book and the reason I was in Syndey. But to stay on those days I HAD to book 5 nights at the extortionate price even though after the 2nd the price went right down as these are just see as 'any' night now the nye celebrations were over. That said, I was still paying more than 70$per night extra (110$ per night In total) for a  bunk bed in the exact same room others were paying as low as 30$. I know this becuase I spoke with my room mates and couldn't believe it. I went to speak with the manager named Bruce and he just spoke down to me as If I was stupid. I felt absolutely robbed, especially because the 'deluxe' room had absolutely no circulation, smelt bad and was hotter than a sauna. The shower was hot and cold; hardly deluxe. And if that wasn't enough, my food was stolen from the fridge. Easily one of the worst places I've stayed in the entirety of my 6 months trip. Absolute rip off. Most unsatisfied.

Smelly over-priced room, unhelpful statff

I have stayed in this hostel for a most of my stay in Sydney, there are amazing people there and it’s great for long terms stays. There is one member of staff who is the most awful, rude and vile human being put on this planet, she has upset me and many of the other members living in the hostel. She will call the police on you for anything eg, standing across the road chatting with friends, do not stay here because of her actions. Would completely recommend this place if it wasn’t for her weird and disgusting gestures towards paying customers.

Rude staff

Don't go on that backpack. The atmosphere and understanding is very good with the other backpackers, but only one person destroys everything. Daniela, the receptionist. She is a terrible person who keeps making problems with everyone here. She hated room 9, and managed to get kicked out 6 people (out of 10 !!!!!) in the room at 11pm !!! The police came because a complaint for too much noise was filed by the neighbors, and all these people had to find a way to leave (at 11pm!! Daniela could not have tell earlier they were going to be kicked out??!!). Some had done nothing at all, and were not even on the surveillance videos. Others were on video (and not in room 9) and were not fired. Weird, isn't it?
Don't go there, you'll have problems because of her too. She destroyed all the great stuff in this hostel. Cheers

Don't go there. Demon Daniela reigns

Genuinely the worst place I've ever stayed. Left at 4.30am to go to the airport 6 hours early rather than stay any longer. An absolute kip. Zero care put into the place. No staff on hand overnight. Joke.

Disgrace

This Spanish-speaking woman at the desk literally insulted me and my friends. Saying that people like us are "disgusting", and i quote her words, "it's always the same with people like you". She went as far as to refuse to talk to my friend who didn't do anything except being foreign. This is simply unacceptable and i hope that measures have been taken against her. Her only job is to be polite and fill in forms, and she can't even do it properly. 
On the other hand, the other person at the staff, a middle-aged man, was perfect with us all along: Giving us advice on which beach to go to, and public transports. Such a sweetheart. it's incredible that these two people are on the same team !

racist staff

Me and 2 of my friends turned up at this hostel and was greeted by a lovely elderly gentleman. He then proceeded to call what I assume is one of the managers who was rude, blunt and not welcoming. After a brief conversation about room availability, she flat out refused to accept our booking if we did it online as she said "I have lots of people waiting and I can't be bothered to do any more paperwork".

We then left and moved to another hostel. 

This hostel looks nice from the outside and in, however the flat out disrespect of the staff was enough to take our business elsewhere.

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