Cairns Hostellit

Miinukset: Really nice place with friendly and helpful staff' well equipped kitchen, and nice areas to relax as well. Located in a quiet spot very close to the train station. Recommend for sure!

Plussat: Has a lovely homely feel and cool hippy vibes. The staff were really helpful and lovely as well

Miinukset: You have to pay for air con

Plussat: Wifi is really good. The equipment in the kitchen is great - enough dishes and pots and a large selection of spices.

Miinukset: You had to pay extra for the air conditioning in the room - $ 1 for 3 hours

Plussat: Conveniently located to Cairns Central Bus Terminal

Miinukset: User pay a/c

Plussat: Atmosphere really cool and laid back Staff extremely nice and helpful Kitchen big and nice Bathrooms good Walking distance to the centre Rooms quiet clean You do feel nice and relaxed

Miinukset: Airco for pay (1$ for 3hrs) but fans are good enough really

Plussat: Easy to come and go. Facilities are quite good.

Plussat: Loved the beds! Super comfy and I liked the privacy screen. Also liked the big lockers.

Plussat: I had a private room and it was very clean! The location is great too. Lots of restaurants nearby and the docks are only a ten minute walk.

Miinukset: There’s a second floor bar. I stayed on a weekend and they blast music until 2am. I don’t know how it is during the week. I had early mornings each day so it’s a good thing I had ear plugs with me, or I would’ve gotten very little sleep.

Plussat: Rooms were spacious and clean. Very friendly staff and many facilities.

Miinukset: The kitchen could have been more clean.

Plussat: Cleanest hostel we’ve stayed in Good WiFi Good breakfast Free hotdogs one night Checked in at 04:30 Comfy bed Light and plug at side of your bed Wouldn’t stay anywhere else in Cairns

Miinukset: Guy who checked us in at 04:30 didn’t really seem to know what he was doing. Put us in the wrong room. This was rectified and we were given an upgrade in the morning.

Plussat: Rooms are fine, bathroom is pretty big. Good location. USB charge points at every bed which is handy for travellers etc. Lockers in room but no locks (can buy locks at reception for $5). Bar area/lounge area is nice. Enough space and different types of seating.

Miinukset: Breakfast “included” wasn’t very appealing. Some orange juice and cereal. Kitchen overall wasn’t very organized or clean. Pillows are really uncomfortable. Shower is really strong but not in a nice way, it nearly hurts to shower. Pool looks really dirty. The reception staff when we checked in were not friendly at all. The girl stayed on her phone and barely looked up at us. Just told us to come back at 2pm to check in as we were too early. She let us keep our baggage in the storage room but other than that she didn’t interact with us. Found the staff in general not very friendly. You could tell they were casual workers and were very cliquey with other workers.

Plussat: Amazing Staff, local bar is perfect to meet people. Local Events make it easy to get in touch with others.

Plussat: Comfy bed, good AC and ensuite bathroom.

Miinukset: Party every night, loud music. People really inconsiderate. Extremely dirty kitchen.

Plussat: We were right by the downtown across from a grocery. The rooms were clean. Bath was nearby and clean. Optimal for us. If fact we would be back there in a heart beat. The kitchen was well apointed to prepare whatever we needed. Shuttle available.

Plussat: We arrived at midnight at the airport and arrived the place at around 12.30am. We contacted our arrival time at the time of booking and received the reply from the owner that he has arranged us to enter the facility at the time, which was very helpful. I was worried about the shared bathroom but it was clean. The place was made of traditional wooden style of Queensland building surrounded by many green plants. The room was with the air conditioner and refrigerator.

Plussat: Got a good sleep. Bed was supportive and comfy. Bedroom was clean and spacious and bedspreads colourful. Air conditioner was modern and effective. Liked the high ceilings and freshly painted appearance of walls in bedrooms and bathroom. Bathroom was clean and modern. Kitchen was modern and clean. Rear bedrooms were quiet. Manager was friendly. Nice building/wooden floors. Relaxed feel. Not a rowdy party place.

Miinukset: No place to put shampoo/conditioner and soap in shower so had to place on floor. Bedroom lock was hard to open with key. Noise carried between rooms. Had to lug heavy suitcase up stairs. Disliked pillows Fridge was old. After supermarket shut at 9pm, there were no takeaways close by and open on Sunday evening to buy dinner. I felt unsafe walking alone in the dark looking for one. (I'm being picky here. Geckos is clean, comfortable and good value for money.)

Plussat: Gecko’s was extremely clean, not just in the room but the common areas and the shared bathroom too. It was a nice, quiet place to get a decent night’s sleep.

Miinukset: N/A

Plussat: Great private rooms with good ac’s, excellent for hot summer days. Great location and staff, very quiet and chill atmosphere. Great for quiet holiday!

Plussat: The air conditioning was very nice.

Miinukset: Nothing

Plussat: Had a very pleasant experience at Geckos Backpackers. Friendly staff, very clean, comfortable and in a great location. Would highly recommend to anyone staying in the area

Plussat: the staff was so great that really makes you wanna rate them well. they accommodate everything to make the guest happy.

Miinukset: rooms were way too hot. need to step up with the air conditioning.

Plussat: Everything. The owner was very friendly and helpful.

Miinukset: Nothing

Plussat: Budget double rooms are really good value A/C works really well WiFi is good Free breakfast is really good, continental with pancakes Kitchen is big and always really clean Free hourly shuttle to the esplanade

Miinukset: Music loud until midnight every night and loud at breakfast, no one wants to listen to house music with their cornflakes at 7am The hostel is basically a staff hostel for mad monkey so guests can’t even get a sun bed or fit in the pool because staff are just lazed around everywhere

Plussat: Private rooms were good value for money

Miinukset: Food poisoning from the on-site burger bar

Plussat: Staff were very friendly and extremely helpful. Meals and food very good value. Bus service to port and centre vg

Miinukset: Would have preferred to be ensuite

Plussat: We had a private room with shared bathroom. The room was perfect, and the aircon was great. They have an amazing free shuttle bus that takes you to the center and brings you back. Also if you go early in the morning to do the great barrier the free shuttle takes you to the pier. That was a great surprise. Best kitchen equipment after 3 weeks traveling around Australia. Free delicious pancakes everyday! Staff super nice and friendly! We came back to the same hostel after 4 days in the daintree forest.

Miinukset: I still don't understand how the hot water for the shower works... so I had a few cold showers, I wish It could be indicated before you get naked into the shower, that you need to go upstairs to switch on the hot water.

Plussat: Friendly staff, small clean room, free shuttle, good parking

Miinukset: Too many flies in the kitchen area.

Plussat: Location was good, about a 7 minute drive from centre bits. Bed was comfy - rock hard pillows though. Air con was a life saver. Staff were all helpful and most were friendly. Free breakfast was available and the shuttle every hour into town was super convenient.

Miinukset: Mozzys galore in the bathrooms/showers! Not the hostels fault exactly but as there were no nets it was really difficult to shower without getting bitten.

Plussat: Kahden hengen hotellihuone oli erittäin hyvälaatuinen! Allasalue oli viihtyisä. Hostellin järjestämät juhlat yms. yhteinen tekeminen oli hauskaa! Oli mukavaa, kun jokaisessa kerroksessa oli keittiö ja oleskelualue.

Miinukset: Aamupala ei ollut laadukas. Hostellissa olisi voinut olla ikäraja, sillä välillä (muutaman kerran vierailuni aikana) allasalueella oli paljon vanhempia miehiä.

Plussat: Location is great, close to the Esplanade waterfront & lagoon, and any number of restaurants. Plenty of entertainment all within walking distance.

Miinukset: This is a club & party hostel. If you want one place to sit around, get drunk and club all night, stay here. If you think you're going to meet anyone, go elsewhere or get a good night's sleep... move on. Club is below all the rooms and runs all night. And everyone who stays here just wants to be in the club, so people stumble in & out of the rooms at all hours, yelling & screaming in the hallways, and if they do manage to get in the room with their key, they will vomit, scream & leave. Would never stay here again.

Plussat: Yes

Miinukset: Nothing.

Plussat: Loved the room, atmosphere, facilities and lay out of the hotel. The room was a huge size, private balcony, lovely bathroom and shower. Clean and tidy, maid was lovely and couldn't do enough for us. Shame the kitchen on our floor was being decorated so out of order. Entertainment on an evening was good fun, is a very young atmosphere and crowd but still able to have fun and cheap drinks offered everynight! Some nights are free champagne and entertainment each evening.

Miinukset: One of the female staff on the check in desk was grumpy and clearly didn't want to be there!

Plussat: Great location, cheap meals each night

Miinukset: Hosts could be pretty sexist - do it with banter so they get away with it - but it is very behind the times with treating women with any respect - would say if your 25 or older don’t stay here average she is 18 - at 28 I felt ancient! Could do with curtains around beds and explaining more about what facial the hostel has at check in. They just give you your key and that’s it.

Plussat: This place is heaven for a backpacker on the pull, a solo traveller looking to get up to no good. The whole place is geared around going hard and then going harder. Amazing pool, cheap drinks, in house laundry you can access it is indeed all heat. Everything but a break from the people you are staying with. As a 24/7 party- amazing, for private or friends accommodation- go somewhere you can sleep.

Miinukset: I can’t imagine this place existing anywhere else, jelly wrestling Wednesday, Pole Dancing Thursday, Wet T shirt club Sunday.... where are we? The gated community nature of it means people don’t leave

Plussat: We had an amazing time at Giligan's! The hostel is in a great central location and is within walking distance of everything (grocery store, restaurants, tourist information). Our room was great, we stayed in a 8 bed mixed dorm and found it to be very spacious. There were lots of activities that kept us busy and it was great to hang out by the pool. Staff were very helpful and accomodating, and the travel agent out the front has great deals and ideas for sightseeing. Would definitely recommend staying here!

Plussat: middle of Cairns, if you love to party all night in the club its amazing

Miinukset: if you want to sleep don’t go here! music is really loud till really late

Plussat: Very clean, chilled hostel and very friendly

Plussat: Great location

Miinukset: Timer in the aircon. It gets really hot in there during the day

Plussat: Everything like in description, staff super friendly and helpful

Miinukset: Air conditioner was too cold and not possible to turn off, no mirror in the shared bathroom, the door of our room looked a bit destroyed

Plussat: Absolutely nothing

Miinukset: Everything. Blood stains on floor. Did not feel safe at all. Was meant to stay 3 nights but checked out after 1 and payed to stay some where else. I recommend not to stay here

Plussat: Good vibes, clean, great friendly staff