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Reviews of Sydney Central Backpackers

2 out of 5
Sydney Central Backpackers
16 Orwell Street, Potts Point, NSW

Reviews

5.2
Rating 10 - Excellent. 4 out of 60 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 11 out of 60 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 18 out of 60 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 11 out of 60 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 16 out of 60 reviews" "

5.4/10

Cleanliness

6.0/10

Staff & service

6.0/10

Amenities

5.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

5.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Kirsten

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Micheal

Privet room good to get if couple bit expensive if cheaper be better
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

2/10 Terrible

Scott

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

RICARDO

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ashleigh

Liked: Staff & service
I was impressed with the friendliness of the staff, and cleanliness of the shared areas - bathroom, kitchen and lounge was in a reasonable state. All over, it was great value for money I'm really pleased I stayed here.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

4/10 Poor

Sonja

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
There was a warm greeting, warm shower, clean sheets. This was overshadowed by filthy conditions, misguided management when dealing with overbooking beds drunkenness and ignored my request for a quieter room, but in the same breathe upgraded for free two other people for free but asked me to pay for the upgrade. I'll avoid this hostel in my future travels. It has left a bad feeling of being unable to handle all clients needs for safety and a decent night's sleep or requests for an upgrade to avoid police being called out to remove drunken load/ rude poeple
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2023

2/10 Terrible

Lucas

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Don't stay here unless it's your last option. Expensive, dirty, weird smells all around, mainly humidity and piss. No lockers in rooms and just one socket.
Stayed 7 nights in Nov 2022

8/10 Good

Orlando

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Superb! Funtastic place
It is a practical accomodation in the center of everything. I will definitely come back for it
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2021

8/10 Good

Eloise

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
My boyfriend and I spent a good time there, we had the breakfast for free and it's a very quite place!
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2020
Response from ADE on 24 Dec 2020
Thank you so much for your kind response Have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year

6/10 Okay

Russ, Wollongong

Liked: Amenities
It was ok! Room was very simple...as in a bed and a fridge and a pedestal fan and nothing else...but it did the job. Couple of cockies getting about, but that didn't bother me. Might bother some other customers though...
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Advertised Queen size bed was actually a double. Nice atmosphere
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Staff & service
Unfortunately we didn't stay here because the location was impossible to get a parking spot to unload our bags. The surrounding areas felt unsafe and as a result we booked accommodation elsewhere
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019
Response from Ade on 27 June 2019
thats unfortunate as we have parking available for a discounted charge and the area is quiet safe now maybe next time if you like

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Free fridges in rooms
Good location, but just a bit small kitchen and TV area. Good to have a fridge in your room and windows.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019
Response from Manuela. on 1 May 2019
Thanks for your feedback! Hope to see you again soon

10/10 Excellent

ian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Brill
Very good booked another week
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2019
Response from Manuela. on 2 May 2019
Thanks for extending your booking with us.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
nothing unique. clean room but the cleaners are disgusting, shouting at all times of the day.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2019
Response from Manuela. on 2 May 2019
We have talked to the cleaners to address this issue. Thanks for your feedback.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
this hostel is the best in sydney but there are two areas where it can improve, first one is the rudeness of one backpacker who emptied the garbage bin in my room, rude woman and they need to do something about the kitchen, it is small and cannot handle too many people, I would suggest staggering breakfast, certain rooms at a certain time.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Staff, Great Location!
Friendly staff, great location - good facilities - it was a little hot, but the hostel did provide fans - a good stay, the local area is amazing!
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019
Response from Rebecca on 6 Feb 2019
We are happy you enjoyed your stay and appreciate your review! Thanks for staying with us and we hope to see you soon.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lots of Fun, Great Location, Friendly Staff
Great friendly staff, great location, good rooms & breakfast
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019
Response from Ade- Reception on 5 Feb 2019
thank you for your review glad you had a good stay hope to see you again and we would like to offer a discount to your friends and family just mention Ade when they book direct with us Regards Adrian

4/10 Poor

Linda, Hobart

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No air conditioning. Broken fan. Water pipes very loud. No water pressure. So hot that we had to sleep with the window open on to the street where people party all night. Cleaners left our room unlocked multiple times.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018
Response from scb on 13 Nov 2018
Dear Guest, We are sorry for the inconvenience, we will try to improve everything.

2/10 Terrible

Mavis, Qld

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not nice. Blankets not washed and dusty. And noisy
Not nice at all. Blankets dirty and dusty. Carpets dusty. Toilets dirty. No shower rack. Noisy all night. Doors slamming. People running in the hall way talking loud all night. Only had 3 hrs sleep. Wownt reccomend and wownt stay there again.
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Nice enough
The room was okay but there were mini cockroach type bugs all over.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Avoid at all costs
Unsanitary with cockroaches and other pests throughout the property.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

2/10 Terrible

amanda , brazil

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Terrible hostel.
The room was really bad, the bed was making too much noise, don't have anything in the room. The breakfast, terrible! Just bread, cereal and butter, ridiculous they announced that have a breakfast included. The crew, very rude, and when the girls were cleaning the kitchen, they start to talk about the people on the hostel, with aggressive adjectives, in Portuguese, thinking that just they speak portuguese. but I'm Brazilian and I understand everything, I stay very angry with this. The bathroom is terrible, the shower is a door with no place to put towels and clothes. Very bad place to stay.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
enjoyed the charactor and history of the place , great staff
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

8/10 Good

yaling

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice one just hard to find it.convience to all walking distence
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

2/10 Terrible

Hoi Nga

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Just don't stay there
The room is dirty, tiny, smelly noisy , no ceiling fan, no aircon, not enough sockets, no lockers. Other guests talk loud in the corridor in night, they party on the ground floor at night and noise goes into the room. Bathroom very small and sink is stuck, no toilet paper. Trust me, just don stay there, ever worse I stayed. The staffs are quite friendly.

6/10 Okay

Mef, Brisbane

Disliked: Room comfort
Lots of steps - good for younger travellers
plenty of opportunity to do your cardio workout, with all the steps you climb to reach the hotel. rooms were okay but no air conditioning meant it was really hot (we stayed there in January).

6/10 Okay

Shahin

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Unpleasant stay
Average rooms - good for back packers only.

4/10 Poor

Karen

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Well it not so good experince actually the toilet is smelly not clean enough and the wifi every 3 mins shots down.. But the location is very good near from everything and very accesible.. And the restaurant and bars are everywhere its a busy street

6/10 Okay

M, New Zealand

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Okay for backpackers; careful if you have a car!
Important: If you have a (rental) car, don't let the price lure you! The backpackers offers no parking spaces (which was my mistake for not realising earlier) and I had to pay a whopping $65 overnight at the closest parking. With the total cost I could probably have spent the night at a really nice place instead. If you're into serious backpacking, youngish and want to mingle, this place should be perfect. For all others it's probably too loud and not really comfy. Had the pleasure of one of those Australian cockroaches in the room as others reported. Not terrible but not reassuring either. Okay for one night if you can't find anything else.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cramped, dirty and noisy
Overall the hostel is in a good location and is one of the cheapest around. You get what you pay for. It's extremely noisy and doesn't look like it gets cleaned regularly. I stayed in a 4 bed female dorm which didn't have enough space for 4 backpacks. There's no lockers to put valuables in and I found the hotel staff very blunt and unfriendly.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Jeffrey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good central location to train stop. Close to bondi beach!

2/10 Terrible

wegins, uk

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Poor hostel
Roaches . ... loads of noise which is to be expected but room doesnt provide any protection from ten german bombers in thr air at all times ... Also got charged twice for my stay .... i did get refunded i think overall there are much better hostels in sydney

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

4/10 Poor

Sarah, Melbourne

Disliked: Staff & service
Lack of service
Had been asked three times if I was given a key to my room which I didn't and then I had to go and ask for linen that was not already in the room. The room deposit was never returned to me when checking out. Will not be returning back to this backpackers.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Full of twenty something drunken back-packers but, it's central to everything and cheap!

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Overall good value for money
Good location, free wi-fi and breakfast, generally clean, cheap rates for a night in Sydney. Good deal if you're a backpacker

10/10 Excellent

CHIWEI, Taiwan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location and clean
Everything is good, room and bathroom are all clean. And it just takes within 5mins to train station. But the kitchen is always crowded.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Reasonable hostel in the area
Reasonablely priced room, hostel wasn't too noisy. A few nice restaurants nearby. Found a few cockroaches on our first night in the room which wasn't great but not much after. Toilets and shower were in view of the front entrance which was offputting. Free wifi doesn't reach the private rooms.

8/10 Good

Ben

Great hostel for the price!
Excellent people staying at the hostel - had an absolute ball Everyone so nice and friendly

8/10 Good

CHOI

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
샤워 따듯한 물 잘 나옵니다.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
바퀴벌레가 있어요...
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2018
Response from Eden - reception on 22 Jan 2019
Dear Guest, We are sorry for the inconvenience, we will try to improve everything.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Não é hotel
Precisa melhorar muito, sujeira, cheiro não é dos mais agradáveis.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2018

2/10 Terrible

Simone

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Muito ruim
Hostel em péssimas cobdiçoes, sujo, fedido... banheiro nao foi limpo nenhum dia (compartilhado). Recepçao funciona das 06:30 as 21:00 entao se o check out for feito em outros jorarios nao tem ninguem para atender e devolver os 30 dolares de seguro da chave. Transfer nao foi nos buscar no aeroporto mesmo tendo ligado e combinado tudo assim que desembarcamos. Muito ruim! Não recomendo.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2017

2/10 Terrible

JJJJ, AU

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
모두가 다 별로
엘리베이터 없고, 바퀴벌레 너무 많습니다. 매우 더러워요. 침대, 주방, 모든곳에 바퀴벌레가 있습니다. 바퀴벌레때문에 환불 절대 안됩니다. 자판기가 망가졌는데, 경고문 하나 없습니다. 10불짜리 지폐 넣으면 10불어치 다 사야합니다. 공항셔틀도 일처리가 매우 별로다.
Stayed 6 nights in Dec 2017

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Epäsiisti huone, lavuaarit tulossa, töykeä ja epämiellyttävä henkilökunta
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2017