City Resort Hostel

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103-105 Palmer St, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Added by Jopie, at 15 August 2016

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• Anonymous

  04 December 2017

  Good place if you like cockroaches and crackheads. Avoid

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• Anonymous

  02 December 2016

  I have stayed at several hostels across NSW and Victoria over the past few months and this is by far the best one i have been lucky to find. The manager is very kind and always smiling. The reception and staff are very helpful. The people are all really nice and friendly. The kitchen is clean and full of cutlery. I love the free coffee in the morning.The rooms are always clean (as well as having a fridge/freezer which most hostels don't provide). So far this is the best hostel i have been at. THANK YOU CITY RESORT

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• Anonymous

  28 October 2016

  I wish I could give this place zero stars. Do not be fooled by the name. We booked a specific room at this hostel, one that supposedly had its own bathroom. When we arrived, they had given our room to someone else. They then gave us a key to a new room which, upon unlocking the door, already had someone in it too. They were very disorganized. They finally found a room for us, which did not have its own bathroom (there was one across the hall, which was extremely dirty and had a gaping hole in the window that looked like someone threw a rock through it.) It was winter when we visited, getting down to probably 40 degrees Fahrenheit (approx. 4 degrees Celsius), and they provided nothing but sheets. Maybe this is the norm for hostels, but that's pretty sad for the winter months. No heat or anything. After wearing our coats and shivering through the night anyway, and getting little to no sleep, we couldn't stand to stay another night. It was very run-down and dirty. We did not feel safe even walking on the floor of our room without shoes on.
  Not a good place for kids; scary people were staying there and the place smelled like mold and smoke.
  We tried to get a refund; they did not comply. We finally came to a (very disappointing) agreement and they still did not give us as much money back as they agreed to. It took multiple calls to them every day for about a week to get the money.
  Overall awful experience. Our stay was back in June and I am still repulsively thinking about it.

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• Anonymous

  15 September 2016

  September 2016 The hostel has had a change of owners and the new manager has put a lot of work into making the rooms and the rest of the hostel nice and clean. New paint and linen and the rooftop is awesome. Really nice manager too

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• Anonymous

  03 September 2016

  Best to avoid. No ventilation. Facilities are below standard

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• Anonymous

  22 August 2016

  Pretty disgusting and not really that cheap considering how disgusting it is. When I stayed there, there were stalactites of slime hanging from the second floor bathroom. Rooms have broken windows or leak when it rains (if you are on top floor - I stayed in several rooms). Massive number of cockroaches and by the time I left, bed bugs were endemic.
  
  Kitchens were filthy, bedrooms disgusting, single rooms have only shower but you still have to use the vile shared toilets. Place smells very bad at times. However bed sheets were perfectly clean and fresh - so that is something!
  
  That being said, I stayed for way longer than I would ever normally have due to the people. Bit of a party hostel at times and I wouldn't bring your kids here (though people did). Good to party on the roof, though it was shut down by 10pm every night due to previous idiots.
  
  Expect an absolute dump with potential to meet fun people and you should be ok. It apparently has been renovated so may be a bit better than when I stayed there.

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