Flinders Backpackers

Best Hostel you’ll ever get. Extremely affordable. Staff will jump at the chance to make your stay pleasant. Awesome workspace upstairs with a cafe. Dorms are even greater if you’re above level 4, where it’s all been renovated. Plenty of privacy, and always clean.

The rooms are good, place is clean, in general is a nice place, is the third time I stay here and always rates good. This time putting 2 stars because even though they do tell you it might be sometimes noisy because of the location, I believe they should tell you once you arrive, that one side of the hostel is facing a night construction from 11 to 3am, so you could choose maybe to pay more and move rooms or even get a discount if you have a room on that side of the hotel

Best hostel in Melbourne, very clean, all the people were very lovely, great location, really affordable and great facilities inc. shower, toilet, cafe, laundry and pool table! Only reason why room got 4 stars is because the hand dryers were loud and kept waking us up throughout the night. Will be back again!

My experience here is only as I went in to drop off some things. The vibe was good especially having travelled around the world and used plenty of hostels. The staff were super helpful and friendly and amazingly protective of people staying there as one of them thought I was trying to figure out about a person who was staying there :) Keep up the great work!

A nice hostel in the center of the city. The location is perfect because nearby a train station. The hostel is quite huge but the kitchen was big enough for us to cook without too much people. We went there during a quiet period which had probably helped. Our room was clean and the beds confortable.

Friendly staffs with nice location. Went to solo trip and everything's good here. Also they do house keeping every morning around 11 and even sanitize the locker. They offer various events every day including free walking trip on cbd. There's no hair dryer so bring it with you. Or buy one from k-mart. I'm looking forward to stay next year again with my friend again. +it's only 30aud for a night so it's definitely not that comfy. I felt like I'm getting allergic due to dust while staying but it couldn't be better for a hostel which costs 30aud/night. Also there're rats on the reception floor and gets little loud on friday night coz theres something like party night every Friday so just go stay hotel if you wish it to be better.

The rooms are really basic, and truly smelly. When we open the window a whole new world opened before us. The oxygen was literally different. We were at a 2 bed-room, but we can already see that the bigger rooms would be a lot worse. On a Friday night you can listen to the music downstairs (we were at the 7th floor, luckily, but even there). To be fair, on Saturday night it was quiet and we could rest properly. The hand dryers of the restrooms are a nightmare, because you can hear them from your bed (and we used earplugs, imagine). The mattress is certainly uncomfortable, and the pillow is not the best. I mean, you can sleep on it, but still… let’s not be hypocrite, for 28€/night is slightly fair. However, we saw the cleaning staff working, doing an actual great job in the restrooms, and corridors. So we believe the attitude of the guests is what decrease the general feeling of tidyness - Especially since the hostel only admits people from 18-35 years old. The common areas are a good side of this hostel, because they are cool and they do a lot of activities through the week. The best thing would be the café (photos attached). We had breakfast on a Saturday morning, which is probably the reason why it was empty, but it is so freaking cool! Besides, Bad Bunny as a BSO is a plus. We came afterwards for a coffee at noon and bathing the sun it’s such a delight! The laundry is big and functional. Overall, the ventilation is a room for improvement, as the hallways have different smells (11th floor-cigarette, 7th floor-sweat, 3rd floor-food and alcohol), even though in the morning the clean and you can smell the bleach. On another side, the staff has been thoughtful, friendly and efficient. To be honest, we booked it because in ‘Booking’ this hostel has 8,1 in reviews (not so fair, I believe, we would rate it at 6). But you should also check out the reviews here in Google Maps… this was our learning.

Reviewing as a solo traveller. I stayed there for a week in a 4 beds females room. Pros -reasonable price. -great location. its in like the central of the city. close to trams, flinders train station, woolworth, coles, etc. -friendly and helpful staffs. -no bedbugs. what a relief. i was super scared there were gonna be. -my room was small but the bed and smell were quite ok. didn’t smell bad inside. comfy and wasn’t cold during nights. the cleaners would come clean the room on every mondays. Cons -slow lifts. -free wifi is sometimes slow around common areas. -always hear ppl talking loudly in french and spanish when they played pool. -a bit messy kitchen bc ppl are always cooking their whatever white ppls food. idk. -thin walls. you will always hear someone closing doors or talking in the hallway or outside of the building on friday nights. -free hair dyer is only on 11th floor bathroom, i had to go upstairs every morning. annoying. -a little hard to control water temperature when showering. it got too cold or too hot, no in between. -white girls use bathrooms and toilets like SUPER gross. i have no other words. they didn’t flush. there’s a chance lucky you will see poopie floating like ~peacefully~. they threw toilet papers on the floor after using. some didn’t care to fold their sanitary pads. also didn’t care to sweep hair into drains after showering. Best and cleanest time to take a shower is around 9.00 am bc the cleaners would come clean the bathrooms around that time on every single days which was nice, otherwise i wouldn’t be able to stay. No free breakfasts but i’m ok with that. Best thing was that i had nice and friendly roommates that were always quiet and respectful to each other. its like heaven for an introvert. I had a pleasant stay bc of them although it was just a week. Amy, Brooke, Alex, whatever ur all doing, i wish you the best of luck. -Kat