Secret Garden Backpackers Sydney

One of the worst hostels I have ever stayed in. The receptionists are incompetent and disrespectful (particularly Tara). They take guests’ clothes and leave them in a basket for anyone to take, and throw away personal belongings without permission. They even threw away my bag containing headphones. The hygiene is appalling, with rats and cockroaches everywhere. Rats run and squeak in the garden at night, yet nothing is done. Rooms and bathrooms are filthy, with virtually no cleaning. Terrible

Little congested. The individual rooms don't have separate washrooms/toilet. Not flexible for even half hour late checkout. Lockers seem inadequate. With 8 people or 12 people in a room the air inside room can get congested as there seems to be no air conditioning and there is no facility to open the windows in room 11 (where I stayed). So overall great for the budget but inadequate facilities. Kudos however to the kitchen facilities available.

Very affordable, probably wouldn’t stay here again. Not very many bathrooms, shower + toilet on different floors, not a lot to do in the area. Staff didn’t have a lot of information on the events hosted BY the hostel. Safe, nice duvets for the room, although kinda worn down (carpets torn up, stained ceilings). Totally fine place