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Reviews of Elizabeth Hostel

1.5 out of 5
Elizabeth Hostel
490-494 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, VIC

Reviews

5.6
Rating 10 - Excellent. 23 out of 223 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 41 out of 223 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 66 out of 223 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 45 out of 223 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 48 out of 223 reviews" "

5.6/10

Cleanliness

6.8/10

Staff & service

4.8/10

Amenities

5.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

5.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Michelle

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
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Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Anh Chuong

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Hostel location is easy to access in city center. Staff are friendly.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

2/10 Terrible

Carl

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
If price is your only concern then by all means stay. Expect no amenity. No towels, no toilet paper, loud music being played late at night and noisy guests moving around constantly. At least they could install some sharps bins so loose needles weren’t put in random places
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

2/10 Terrible

shane

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
bewere
dont stay there the fire alams were taped up so not working the sheets unwashed looks nothing like photo no paintings just graffiti smell was not good the noise of squeaky doors and footsteps lasted 3 hours 2 were at a pub for dinner and checked out had to go somewhere eles
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Jack

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very crowded and dirty, even by Hostel standards. Cheap and affordable for a quick overnight stay though.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Sabyasachi

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Justin

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

Megan

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joshua

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Alexander

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Colin

It was ok
Stayed 4 nights in May 2023

6/10 Okay

CLYDE, Reno

Liked: Staff & service
Good location for I wanted. Nothing fancy basic. Have stayed there in the past. Would stay there again.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

2/10 Terrible

Nikola

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Please do not stay here. This place should be condemned, it is absolutely disgusting and I can’t even begin to describe the smell. I walked in and walked back out again. I’ve since spoken to people who have had items stolen and the management are aware and just let it happen. Please pay that little bit more and go somewhere else
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

2/10 Terrible

Bianca

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This place is riddled with bed bugs, it smells horrible and when we turned out the lights, glow in the dark tags were on the walls. Don't go here!!
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

6/10 Okay

Christian

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness
Rough as Toast
Showers were amazing. Toilet not so. And Residents that Rent out the Dorms on a weekly Basis are Extremly messy and Noisy. They smoke at the Front Door, and it drifts up Hostel Building and comes through the Windows.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Fletcher

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
This was a very cheap hostel in a great location. You definitely get what you pay for but I’d definitely come here again if I was on a budget.
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2023

2/10 Terrible

Helena

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The photos on the web are not at all like the hostel. Broken handles in bathroom's and the looks likeno care is taken with all the graffiti on the walls. Bathroom smelt of smoke. It had permanent resident's and kept awake the second night by drunks having an emotional fight. I felt unsafe.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Friendly staff 😊
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

4/10 Poor

Andrew

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Run down hovel. Room condition was beyond bad. Patched walls, power points loose in walls, condition generally terrible. Door on room barely closed it had been broken and repaired so many times. Toilet facilities horrible. Broken seat, water flowing from toilet onto bathroom floor and excrement caked everywhere. A toilet on an Indian train would be better. Noisy to the point of not being able to sleep. Drunken yahoos outside on the street carrying on all night and sketchy drug/drunk or otherwise unreasonably noisy fellow patrons. The only positive thing to say it was a roof over my head. But otherwise no safer, quieter or pleasant than being on the streets
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

4/10 Poor

Kate

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Smelly and unclean
This place is in a perfect location, BUT it is the smelliest, unclean place i have ever stayed! They only positive things i can say are: comfortable bed, free cold water bubble and location.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023

8/10 Good

Nicholas

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2023

4/10 Poor

Yuxin

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2023

4/10 Poor

Valter

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
i like the room, and the bathroom all others I didnot like
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2022

2/10 Terrible

Damian

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Turned away even though we had a reservation. Extremely dirty, used iv needles in view in reception.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2022

4/10 Poor

Casey

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very uncomfortable couple of nights at the hostel. Lots of long term tenant, who are drinking and loud and the bathrooms stank and were not cleaned in the 3 days/2 nights.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2022

4/10 Poor

Peter

Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2022

8/10 Good

Stephanie L

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

2/10 Terrible

Byron

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

8/10 Good

Anh Chuong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hostel is clean. The staff are friendly. It locates in the heart of Melbourne city.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

6/10 Okay

Kendall

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Bathroom wasn’t the cleanest. Room was ok but I had a mouse staying with me. Very noisy at night, had tenets yelling at 3am.
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2022

2/10 Terrible

melisa

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Chose to stay here for a couple of night as it was budget friendly. But it smelt of stale smoke, and cabbage. Ladies shower door broken, and the smear of blood on the wall of the loo betrayed a second rate cleaning schedule - It was there when we arrived, and still there as we were checking out two days later. I felt unsafe. There was fresh offensive grafitti each day, and my partner reported that there was fresh vomit in the sink in the men's on our second morning though, so there's that. I got told to "F-Off" by a stranger after filling my drink bottle in the communal kitchen. The kitchen facilities seemed OK though. Was a bit of an experience and memorable, but will not repeat. The check in was easy, and the desk staff were genuinely lovely people... But the vibe of the place was pretty sleazy. Hope this helps someone avoid our mistake.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2022

6/10 Okay

Ray

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

Louise

Liked: Staff & service
Staff were very friendly and helpful. Very basic facilities, my room was clean so no worries there. Needed air plugs to get a good nights sleep as the floors were wooden and sometimes the neighbours were a little noisy. Great transport links to the trams.
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2022

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
There was smoking in the room next door. The condition of the premises was not great. For the price this stay was OK.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021

4/10 Poor

Gregory

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Expected More for the Price
After booking a Double Room with desk and refrigerator upon check-in I was assigned a room with 3 double bunk beds, no desk, no refrigerator. The room was on the top of four floors with no lift - a challenge with luggage at the best times. Returning to reception to hopefully correct the room allocation mistake, the receptionist said that was the correct room after which I showed her the listing in Hotels.com which she said was outdated (the listing is the same on all sites)and after a series of phone calls I was allocated the room I had booked. I cancelled the remainder of my booking and have chosen to stay at The Village Melbourne which is far better value & standard for about the same price.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2021
Response from C on 28 Nov 2021
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you, we will try our best to improve.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I located this hotel on Wotif.com, I start stay on 12 July 2019. I stayed continually for 24 months.
Stayed 17 nights in Jun 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It just proves that accommodation selected intuitively can be exactly the boost you were looking for.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Craig, Illawarra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property was good clean & cheap. A pleasant relaxing stay, despite a couple of small hickups shopping with things now clear - Very impressed with the overall control in the Australian public environment. Finally they have found a way to secure the situation to make it safe to have a look around.
Stayed 14 nights in Jun 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location, easy check in, great value
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Location
Location is great, value for money would stay there again.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Poor Lighting, smelly room, unhygienic bathrooms. Was a budget booking,so, cant expect too much. good central location though
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

6/10 Okay

Orlando

No clock radio, very basic small rooms. Fair value backpacker option, good central city location for the budget conscious.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This place was so bad we booked another hotel and moved immediately. We had booked a private room and there were still used condoms in the bin, and everything looked grotty (we didn’t even sit down). The toilets were broken, dirty and lacking toilet paper. DO NOT STAY HERE.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

2/10 Terrible

Yew Weng

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

4/10 Poor

Alireza

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019