Adelaide Backpackers and Travellers Inn

We had booked this place just bcos our 6am Kangaroo Island pickup was just 200 mts away and although it mentions as bagpackers, but also advertises as motel. But I wish I had read some of the reviews, everything about this place is BAD. Even if the accomodation was far from my pickup point, at least stay would have been good! 1. The reception is only open for 5 hours daily and no support afterwards (they dont mention this when booking and you see it only when arrive there). 2. The place overall is filthy as said by other reviewers. They will not change towels or bedsheet for your entire stay. Overall the building is old and rooms needs mojor renovation. 3. The service is pathetic. There is an emergency mobile number but no one responds to that. There is not even soap in the toilet! 4. Our room heat pump wasn't heating and when I called reception in the morning, the manager or owner said he will look into it. But when we returned in the evening it wasn't heating and reception was already closed by then. 5. There is a nightclub next to this building and they play club music till 4am on weekend, so you cant even sleep in peace and no escape as the club is right next door! By now 2 days of our 3 day stay was over, we realised that the management is highly dishonest. But while you are on a trip, you dont want to waste time fighting with motel management. So we were just relieved after our 3 days stay. Will not recommend to anyone visiting Adelaide!!

I booked this sight-unseen when I couldn't get into the (spacious, comfortable) official YHA. The dorm was crammed with 6 bunk beds - there was barely room to put your bag down. The kitchen was also too small, badly understocked with plates and cutlery but overstocked with insects. There were not enough bathrooms for the number of people they had staying there. There were holes in the walls that needed filling - the place just hasn't been maintained properly, (or cleaned as far as I could tell). I accept that it's a cheap backpackers and you get what you pay for, but I have stayed in much better places for the same price.

Staying in this hostel felt like featuring in a horror movie. To start with, the receptionist made it very unclear of how to get into the hostel when we arrived late at night and there were no night staff or phone number to call. The building constantly had the worst smell and looks to never have been cleaned before. There were hairs, filth and someone’s dirty clothes and towels in the bathroom that had remained there for the entire of our stay. We actually saw the ‘cleaner’ wiping the bathroom with toilet roll. In the whole hostel there were only 2 toilets/showers (unisex). After travelling for over a year, this is the worst hostel I have stayed in and I would have left if all the other hostels weren’t fully booked. DO NOT VISIT!