Crash Palace Reviews

Fantastic hostel in great location. Staff are extremely helpful and friendly, often referring to you by name making you feel at home. Rooms are cosy and warm in winter and hostel is spotlessly clean. Couldn't fault it, loved my time here!

A great hostel, central location and really helpful staff!

Excellent hostel with great and helpful staff. Very good location minutes away from a big supermarket and the tourism office so great for transport. Would recommend to everyone.

Really good vibe in this hostel. Close to Pak'n Save. Very nice staff.

Good location. Friendly staff. Poker monday and Wii Olympics Tuesday was real fun.

The owner was really friendly. The free spag bol was also a bonus!

Awesome hostel. Staff an other travellers were very friendly and helpful. Made for an ace experience!

Nice friendly hostel. Good location and staff. stayed in a10 bed dorm which had plenty of room. No lack of plug sockets either.

Rotorua was a bit of a disappointment after all of the other wonderful places we had been to in NZ. The Crash Palace was excellently located and clean enough, but had a bit of a grungy feel to it and added to our general grey mood about the city! The staff were very nice, knowledgeable and helpful. When you book a room, try and find one away from the kitchens or you'll have to deal with a lot of unwelcome smells. If you want a quiet night - the rooms overlooking the sauna are not for you!

Great location, right downtown with cafes, spa & shopping to walk to. Very nice small private room. Bathrooms were average. Would stay here again.

Mud tour with Wee is really nice & its price is ok, especially because the money is for a good purpose.

I really liked to stay at the crash palace. A lot of free stuff and a nice athmosphaere!!

Great central location. Single private room was nice!

Older style hostel friendly staff quiet

Great hostel. The bed are not ultra-confortable but the staff is great with a lot of free things (free BBQs on Sunday, free pub crawl...)

The staff is efficient but not overly friendly. There are two kitchens, one on the ground floor and one on the second floor so there is room to put the food in a fridge. The inside tables in the ground floor kitchen are very wobbly so you almost have to eat at the outside which is great if it's not too cold. The 8-bed dorm was fine but it is too bad that the bedroom doors click when closed from the outside. The hostel is close to a grocery store and is a very nice walk to the waterfront.

The location was good and beds were comfy. The kitchen was well equipped.

This is a great place to stay when you are in Rotorua. Great atmosphere and they take the time to schedule activities every evening for the guests. I would highly recommend this place.

Highly recommend-my lover and I stayed here, staff are very friendly and helpful (booking us horse rides and drawing us maps to help us fin romantic restaurants, etc) best place we could have stayed in rotorua!

It was a very good hostel, centrally located, although I wish there were lockers in the dorm rooms. There were lockers downstairs in the lobby, though. The bathrooms were big and modern, and there was a lot of common space areas to meet other backpackers.