St Kilda Beach House. Reviews

Rooms are dark, only one bathroom for 10 bed dorm, reception area not very welcoming. Should of booked me an airport bus but didn't - did get my money back though.

Loved it!! Met some great people, mixture of people working and travelling, great either way. The rooms are good and you get free breakfast every day.. the bar is good fun and theres a wicked night for backpackers on the rooftop every friday which is the best night out i found! The staff were nice too and really helpful... i reccommended it to my friends :)

I extended my stay!! Staff were great.. so friendly and helpful!! Rooms are clean and bathrooms are wicked, so big! Kitchen is small but managable and they serve great food in the bar, thanks Jimmy :)

Staff are soooooo rude. Girl asked where I was from and I said I was Australian she made up a load of garbage story about them having a 7 night minimum (others had just checked in for 1 night). Literally refused to let me stay past the 2 nights I had booked. It's overpriced anyway and I was bitten by BUGS in bed. I met some cool people there but they need female only rooms as it was a bit much being only 2 girls in a room full of drunk guys and a mouse. Not enough lockers.

This is perhaps one of the worst hostel stays I have ever experienced across my many years traveling across Australia, Asia and Europe. Not only was the cleanliness significantly below par, the music beat thumped through h walls well into the early hours of the morning. If these conditions were not enough, I was left with an unpleasant reminder of my stay at the St Kilda Beach House for a full week following, with a significant bite on my leg that led to an infection. I would not recommend this.

We (3 girls) stayed in a dorm with 7 guys who were living there, when we went in to the room we didnt know which beds were free as the linen from the previous persons was still on the beds. We had to go to reception with the dirty linen and get new linen and make the beds ourselves. The room looked like it hadn't been cleaned in weeks, the smell was horrific (think dirty feet and rotten eggs). Couldn't get out of there fast enough.

This hostel was so bad we actually left 1 night before we were due to check out, Even though we had paid upfront. Rooms are dirty, Kitchen is too small and filthy. there is a nightclub on the roof that becomes the staff's priority once it opens and its like the hostel guests are an inconvience. Terrible terrible place.

it's good location plus lovely staff... good one!

Really great stay, it was quiet in our room- although i can imagine some rooms get a lot of noise because of all the bars. It was cleaned every day and we even got an extra large room for the price of a normal one! Thumbs up! nicest hostel I've stayed in! and I've travelled quite a bit!

Essentially this is a nightclub with a hostel attached. The main problem is: any time there is a theme night on in the nightclub, any backpackers staying in the hostel are automatically expected to play "second fiddle" to the hallowed paying guests attending the club. the result is you're treated as a second class guest whilst at the same time being kept awake by the clubbers' partying. I've been told there are much better hostels than this one - I suggest you look for them.

There were some bugs in the bedding which caused rashes to all of us who stayed.

It seemed like the staff didn't wanted to work there. To much noise. Party in the bottom and party on the top. I reckon it's a perfect place for kids who just want to be wasted all the time, but for others, not so good. I had a hard time sleeping on the first floor because of the bar and all the noise.

Being put in a room with people who had been staying there for weeks and had made the place filfthy was not something we enjoyed at all, probably something they could work on is keeping an eye on the cleanliness of the rooms which house backpackers for long periods of time and maybe actually cleaning the bathrooms? Also we were overcharged $120 AU because the room rates went up on our second night there, but instead of just charging us the extra $16 dollars we were charged for two extra nights.

the hostel was great! They were very accommodating with storing our luggage. The bar has amazing food and a great atmosphere!\ The only downside was that the room was between the bar downstairs and rooftop club upstairs so it was noisy and hard to sleep with the different music coming from both sides.

The noise was unreal from downstairs you could hear music untill the early hours! and the bouncers in the pub down stairs were very unreasonable!