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2 out of 5
Sydney City Hostel
701 George Street, Haymarket, NSW

Reviews

6.2
Rating 10 - Excellent. 11 out of 145 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 49 out of 145 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 48 out of 145 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 19 out of 145 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 18 out of 145 reviews" "

6.0/10

Cleanliness

6.6/10

Staff & service

6.6/10

Amenities

5.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

8/10 Good

Dana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
very good location, very friendly staff and nice rooms. Thanks
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019
Response from Stephanie on 11 Aug,2019
Thank you and looking forward to your return

8/10 Good

Allan

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019
Response from Stephanie on 11 Aug,2019
Thank you and looking forwarding to your return

6/10 Okay

JK, Haymarket, Sydney

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff are great, friendly. Bathroom tiles are mouldy. Structure of the building is so old and unsafe. There are big cracks already in the cement wall. Bunker bed (upper side) is dirty and dusty).
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Haili

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Feels like home
Good stay, friendly staff, spacious room, had TV in room also. Kitchen/dning area feels like home, it was great.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location - buzzing area of Sydney
The location is amazing - the only thing the hostel needs if a few more bathrooms (and maybe one for girls only)
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Great location - thumbs up
Great location - female room 2 is great
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good - but good be more female-friendly
They need a separate bathroom for women, but otherwise a nice place Good location, friendly staff
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

david

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Construction 🔨 sucks, but ok place!!
Ok
Stayed 8 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

david

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Building SYDNEY!
It's not going crazy here because of construction 🔨
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

david

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
View is shocking!!
Luv construction 🔨
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place for a good price
I highly recommend this place, it's close to everything
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018
Response from Stephanie on 21 Oct,2018
Thank you for giving the great review on our hostel

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Suitable for family
The hostel owner Stephennie is very friendly and helpful, giving a lot of information about eating and visiting around Sydney. The hostel is suitable for family, safe,quiet and clean. I took my two kids for holiday and just wanted to get a tidy and convenient place to sleep. The hostel with such good location and reasonable prices is what I was looking for. Stephennie also kindly kept our luggage for whole day when I checked out. Thanks Stephennie.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2018

6/10 Okay

Alison, nz

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
The room and facilities were very clean The staff were nice I would not go back because the unisex bathroom had a light curtain between the hall and bathroom which blew in the wind allowing people to see in. The shower cubicles did not have any room to turn on the shower without getting wet nor to take your clothes off and store them in the dry. Therefore you had to strip off in full view. I did find a single shower down the hall afterwards which I could have used that had plenty of room.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Handy to Central railway
Hotel was built in 1893 so is very old. It is a hostel so had a veryity of cheap travellers there. Some of the dirty young lazy people should never have left home. Had road works outside my window on the first night until 4am.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very very basic
The price is right - but perhaps not for what you get. Bathrooms not clean, not able to lock shower door, kitchen old and dirty, breakfast - white bread toast, jam and butter that had been used for weeks, cockroach dead on stairs that was not removed during our whole stay, curtains and window filthy. Also a dead cockroach under the bed. One thing that was very good was that the sheets and towels were clean and nicely presented. Also the staff also were extremely nice and accommodating, however, I would not recommend this place. There are other back packers with clean share bathrooms for a similar price and location.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018

8/10 Good

Macy

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Cleanliness
Good overll
Good ovrall
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018

4/10 Poor

Gigi, Queensland

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Great location but that's about all.....
I stayed at the Sydney City Hostel for three days. From Friday until Sunday. The room was reasonably clean, quite dusty though. The window would not close, it was jammed open about 10 cm. I asked staff if they could close it but it wouldn't close due to the external work (painting) happening outside. My concern was cockroaches and mosquitoes would come in throughout the night as there are no screens. The power point in the room was not attached very well which I believe is a safety concern. The hallway carpet stinks and needs to be removed. The showers were mouldy and were unclean. The shared kitchen was okay and clean but dishes (clean and dirty) were left on the sink all the time. The worst part about the kitchen was the smell of cigarette smoke and other smells which came in through from the small balcony area next door. Loud heavy metal music was playing each night in this balcony area as well. There is no recycling at all in the Hostel. This is shocking for me as I am hugely concerned about our planet. I have sent an email to the manager of the Hostel asking why they do not provide recycle bins for guests to use.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2017

8/10 Good

Gs, Nz

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location
Classic backpackers dig ... Very helpful staff and reasonably priced
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2017

6/10 Okay

James, Mildura, Victoria.

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Great location but hotel not for everybody!
Great location. Breakfast was offered, but only corn flakes available. I preferred other options (thank goodness for nearby supermarket!). Second floor toilet and showers barely tolerable. Anyway location and cost outweighed those negatives.
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2017

6/10 Okay

Debbie, Central Coast

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great location. Cheap room that sufficed.
You get what you psy for. Don't expect much though breakfast was poor.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

8/10 Good

Matt, Melbourne

Liked: Staff & service
Affordable backpackers close to Central Station
You are obviously getting what you pay for, but I've certainly stayed in worse places. Very basic facilities even for an individual single room with shared bathrooms, but I was just after a place to sleep really &this was fine for what I needed.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
OK cheap room
You get what you pay for

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
You get what you pay for.
Friendly staff, less facilities (I stayed in a shared 4-bed dorm, can't expect more). Otherwise bathrooms were clean and room was okay. Not bad. Would recommend for a cheap stay in CBD.

4/10 Poor

Aidan

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Good location comes at a cost.
The hostel was ideally located for our weekend convention. Short walk away from a lot of nice places to eat and from the harbour. Unfortunately the state of the hostel is very shoddy. The bathrooms don't drain well so there is always a wet floor for hours after someone has showered. The rooms are pretty small (which is what your paying for really) but were comfortable enough for the short amount of time spent in there.

2/10 Terrible

Not fussy too, Au

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Please do not book through wotif or anyone else.
This hostel is a disgrace! The people who run this hostel have no care for peoples safety. The rooms, showers and toilets are disgusting. We refused to stay even one night. Wotif refused refund as did hostel management.PLEASE DON'T STAY HERE YOU'LL RUIN YOUR HOLIDAY. P.S I HAVE REPORTED THEM TO AUTHORITIES REGARDING ELECTRICAL HAZARDS AND LACK OF HYGIENE.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No hot water!
Great location, good price, bit noisy outside but to be expected in city centre. Room quite clean and bed quite comfortable, with clean sheets. Shared bathroom had no running hot water - both morning and evening! Thank goodness it was a warm day! Went to get a glass of water in shared kitchen late at night and dirty dishes, cups, cutlery all over the place - really filthy. It was cleaned up in the morning, though. Good solid construction so couldn't hear any other guests. We stayed in family room no. 3 and there were a couple of large nails sticking out of the floorboards in the middle of the room. I was barefoot so could have injured myself really badly. We covered them up.

8/10 Good

Ray, Orange

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
budget accom in the CBD
it's right there, next to Central, at Chinatown. It is budget accommodation in the centre of the City.

6/10 Okay

Angela, Port Stephens

Liked: Staff & service
You get what you pay for
Old building. Very basic. But it was clean and the staff were very friendly and helpful. Worst part was road work below our window all night. Might want to check if the road works are complete before choosing to stay.

8/10 Good

chocolate , regional NSW

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
nice stroll to the city centre
our room was very basic, small the showers are suitable for very skinny people who can whirl around like superman in his phone box, to get changed into their clean dry clothes

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Will stay again
very friendly staff, very clean and a great central location. Great size family room for the price.

6/10 Okay

Lena, Australia

Liked: Room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Affordable and convenient - Close to city & Market
It has been very good, the people are very nice and friendly. The general areas are kept clean, though is still quite dirty. Just a few things could really make it much better and lighter. The rooms have been warm and linen is provided with a small breakfast, tea and coffee. Bonus!

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The rooms were filthy with splats all over wall and crumbs on sheet ( and a pube ) so obviously don't change sheets . Black mould covering bathroom walls and soap scum ext . Beds lumpy and they don't wash mink blanket so smelly and gross . No real welcome or goodbye just a grunt . Kitchen fairly clean

6/10 Okay

56 y.o. woman, Newcastle, NSW

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The Essentials Were Clean, But...
It's very basic old-style pub accomodation. I had a double bed to myself with shared bath; on George Street, an easy walk from Central Station. The receptionist was kind and pleasant. 20 dollar room key deposit, returned on departure. I am confident that the pillows, the sheets on the bed and the towels were clean. Not so sure about the blanket on the bed: I didn't let it touch me or my belongings. The mattress was thin but ok for one night. The floor was clean. The moulding along the floor was thick with dust. There was a large, new, effective fan I used and a small flat screen tv I didn't. The ceiling in one of the 2 toilets on my floor was water damaged, stained and crumbling plaster. The basin and the toilet were clean. I didn't use the shower; it was shared on a mixed gender floor and felt way less private than I'm comfortable with. For both sets of showers, a plastic curtain covered the doorway to two shower stalls with doors, and there was another, also clean basin. I was only there for one night, so that was ok, but I wouldn't be comfortable with that situation if I'd've stayed longer. The public spaces weren't well presented. The kitchen needs a thorough scrub. I washed my teacup before (and of course, after) I used it. Mostly for student & backpackers. You get what you pay for: it suited my purpose for one night.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Noisy but very Center location.

6/10 Okay

Brendan, Melbourne

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The hall way creaked when walked upon

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Real backpackers not clean
Bugs in butter five day beead and not very clean rooms

8/10 Good

Thong yong, Malaysia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location
Great location. Within chinatown n central railway station. Walking destination to major tourist areas. Has common access comouter usage.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very basic room in city centre
This accommodation is adequate if you are just after a bed for the night and nothing else. It was close to Central Station and venues we needed to be at but we avoided using the bathrooms, opting to use gym showers elsewhere. Toilet door didn't seem to lock. Showers only had curtains and doors were open to the corridor. Lots of noise from street below. Sash window was hard to open and close and had no fly screen.

2/10 Terrible

T, Brisbane

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No aircon, not clean, unhelpful staff, run down.
I booked a private room with 2 single beds for me and a mate a week before arriving. When I turned up they gave us a double, even though it clearly said on my reservation that I wanted 2 singles. When I told them this, they said that they didn't have two singles available., "why wouldn't you ring and tell me before I arrived that you didn't have any available rather then leave this to be a surprise when I turned up?" I asked, to which they where clearly confused, could not answer me and continued to make no attempt to rectify the issue. Nonetheless, it was a lost cause dealing with the person behind the counter so we went to the room to drop off our gear and found even more issue - see below: 1. There was no aircon in the rooms, and the window wouldn't open far enough to allow much of a breeze in so it was quite stuffy. 2. The power-points in our room where coming off the wall - probably not too safe! 3. The bathroom, shower and kitchen facilities were not inviting. 4. The buildings' maintenance and upkeep appeared to have been neglected for quite sometime. I would not recommend this Hostel to anyone, I was fortunate that I was only there for one night.

10/10 Excellent

jaymes, melbourne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Booked at the last minute as my stay at another location had expired - friendly and helpful staff, clean amenities and couldn't be in a better location - right near central station.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Avoid
Great Location. Disgusting Hostel.

10/10 Excellent

Pei-Hsuan, Taiwan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good
good!!!!

6/10 Okay

Sweets, Mel

Close to the city
Loved the fact that breakfast was included! Other hostel inmates were friendly.

8/10 Good

brad, gosford

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
It was fine
Bed was comfy, room was clean. Bathroom could use a little prettying up but everything did its job

10/10 Excellent

Pei-Hsuan, Taiwan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good
the bathroom is very clean:) and the staff is nice.

4/10 Poor

Anna, NSW

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good location but
Floor clean, dirty walls, hard bed. Couldn't use fan too thick with dust to turn on. Floor had been varnished and the smell gave us all a headache and nausea.People in courtyard kept us awake nearly all night. Toilet did not flush, shower had no soap or any other toiletries.

2/10 Terrible

Lisa, Newcastle NSW

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close to everything but very dirty.
The room was grubby I was given sheets that had stains that looked like blood. The blankets were putrid and the bathroom was also filthy. The ad said shampoo and conditioner available and there wasn't any. You get what you pay for though and it was cheap. Hotel staff were friendly. Will spend the extra next time though to have clean linen and amenities.