Elephant Backpacker Melbourne Reviews

Alarge impersonal hostel. The toilets were really dirty.The walls did not go to the ceiling so you could hear everyone in other rooms.The kitchen downstairs was a mess.I would,nt stop here again unless last resort.

No selling in the room... No comment!

Location is excellent. Very friendly staff. Value for money.

excellent location

This hostel is in an excellent location and the staff was ok, but the kitchen-laundry-internet lounge was horrific, full of cockroach. The rooms...i´ve stayed in a single room, but it was like if I slept with 10 people in the same room. It was imposible to sleepbeacuse of the partitioned walls (and the bad education and lack of respect of the people. Also, ther was not any power point in the room.I can not recommend it to anybody.

basic but clean and secure...location excellent next to cafes, city and metro

The kitchen is the most disgusting one I have ever seen.

The hostel is very cheap, so you get what you pay for. I just wanted some place to sleep for a couple of nights, and that was what a got for a little amount of money.

Really convenient location - I only stayed for about 6 hours to shower and sleep between a flight and a train - but it made it really easy to walk out the door into the station to catch my train. The partitioned walls didn't bother me at all - but i can imagine sleeping in would be difficult. The bathrooms were clean enough, and the guy on duty at the desk was friendly. I even ended up with a room to myself (in a 2bed female dorm). thumbs up generally

Value for location - could not be better. Strange hostel - walls only go half way - but the promo did say! Try to keep bathrooms clean and I did not bother cooking as next laneway full of cafes that were cheap and good. For price and location RECOMMEND

Stayed here 1 night. The location is very central. Good security & clean. Rooms small & basic but good for the price

I was there only one night but even for one night it was awful! I wouldn't go there another time... The rooms have no roof so it is open and totally noisy. The good points are only the friendly staff and the excellent location! However, I would pay a little bit more or have a longer way to the CBD before I would visit this hostel again.

FRIENDLY SERVICE

Rooms without a ceiling are no rooms and cleaning does not mean to push the dirt around but Elephant seems not to know about such things or they don't care!

it was the best located hostel we could have found :)

The room was very good and clean. I only think that there are not enough bathrooms. There are 5 bathrooms for at least 60 people. And the girl behind the desk wasn't so nice.

This hostel was by far the worst budget accommodation I have stayed in. There really was too much wrong with this place to describe here, but to put how bad it was into perspective: there was a sign in the bathroom (among dozens of catty advisory signs throughout the hostel) that read "please make sure pee and poop (feces) go in the toilet." If a hostel has to STATE that, you can imagine how awful the rest is. Save yourself the stress and choose one of the many other budget hostels available.

Cheap and a really well centered location.

If you don't plan on sleeping its great, as the walls don't reach the ceiling it is basically one long room with partitions. Not the friendliest place - a lot of warnings saying what not to do, how not to behave, what will get you evicted and what will get you fined. Would not stay there again, a lot of people say you get what you pay for but for $19- I would have would have got more sleep on a park bench.

The whole place is looking dirty and run-down. The kitchen and toilets are an absolute disgrace. The room partitions do not extend to the ceiling which means that you can hear everything going on in the adjacent rooms.