Hostels in Melbourne
I went backpacking back in 2002-2003 around Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand and had really good experience of staying in hostels. You hear some nightmare stories from time to time of people getting bed bugs, people snoring loudly, people invading your privacy etc but I had no bad experiences at all.
My favourite hostel was in Melbourne, a hostel called the Exford Hotel which was a proper laugh, full of people up for a good time. Me and my mate were travelling with a couple so they got a room for the 2 of them, whereas we went for a 4 person room because it was cheaper. The 2 other room mates were real part animals and the benefit of the hostel was that there was a pub/bar downstairs complete with pool table and juke box and the bar seemed to be open 24 hours a day.
We had many a good night having a few too many beers and blasting out Oasis on the juke box to remind us of our roots. We even got kicked out of the pub one night for playing too much Oasis, but they took it on the chin and let us back in the same night! We were in Melbourne to coincide with the F1 Grand Prix and saw David Coulthard win the race that year.
If you’re going to Melbourne and are on a budget you can do far worse than the Exford Hotel.
