Geckos Backpackers Reviews

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69.5%

Overall Rating

Based on 9 customer reviews. 5 out of 9 customers would recommend.

Reviews

100%

WJohn Barnard
Alone

Posted on 11/03/2013

Liked: Nice pool and would come back here again

Stayed on 21/11/2012 Recommends

94%

Dave Mathews
As a family with children

Posted on 29/01/2013

Liked: Very friendly, free Wifi and AC, clean toilets and showers

Disliked: Towels not provided

Stayed on 23/01/2013 Recommends

51%

Customer review
With friends / other travellers

Posted on 21/11/2012

Liked: Location

Disliked: Manager is unfriendly and has a short temper. Bed in double room had a sagging old mattress with wire springs that dig into your shoulder and hip. 'Free breakfast' is a con to get you in.

Stayed on 14/11/2012

66%

Customer review
With friends / other travellers

Posted on 18/11/2012

Liked: Staff is very friendly and helpful. You can ask them for anything. Also the free 24 hr wifi is amazing! It's also a very quiet place, perfect for resting travellers.

Disliked: The place could use a mak over, especially the showers. The manager is doing his best though. The showers and toilets should be cleaned more often, because the tend to get very dirty in the evenings ans afternoons. Also, some new cuttleries (especially cups and plates) would be nice. The old ones have melted a bit.

Stayed on 16/11/2012

86%

Tiffany Lavia
Alone

Posted on 01/10/2012

Liked: It is a really quiet place; has a good, clean and tidy kitchen; and a nice quiet relaxed atmosphere; provides a free dinner voucher at Gilligans.

Disliked: The matteresses are somewhat uncomfortable; the owners need to invest in new pillows and linen as they are really old that even op-shops would discard; although the weather was warm, warm blankets need to be on offer.

Stayed on 25/09/2012 Recommends

20%

Customer review
With my spouse / partner

Posted on 31/08/2012

Liked: nothing

Disliked: don't go to this place, it is the worse ever in Australia! It is far from center, dirty (toilets and room), full of many bugs (ants, cockroach, geckos...), doesn´t have bath towels, building very old and uncare, you ear everything from others rooms, the recepcionist is extremely arrogant... ahh and doesn´t have any breakfast, just cereals (on the website it is said to have).

Stayed on 30/08/2012

57%

Sophia Wächtler
With friends / other travellers

Posted on 06/08/2012

Liked: looks nice from the outside

Disliked: dishes are really dirty, rooms have only beds, nothing else (no chair, table...)

Stayed on 01/08/2012

66%

Chris Munro
Alone

Posted on 24/06/2012

Liked: Right next to the train station. Nice and quiet.

Disliked: The other side of the train station from the centre of town where all the action is.

Stayed on 22/06/2012 Recommends

86%

Customer review
Alone

Posted on 14/03/2012

Liked: Very clean and quiet.

Disliked: no wifi

Stayed on 22/02/2012 Recommends