Name: Swansea Backpackers
Address: 98 Tasman Highway, Swansea, Swansea, Swansea, 7190, Australia
Rating: 6

Smoke-free property

Garden

Television in lobby

All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)

No elevators

Reception desk

General

Family room

Linens

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Wheelchair Accessible

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Laundry

Luggage storage

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Common kitchen

Vending machine

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

English

Polish

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Barbecue grill(s)

Billiards

Hiking

Fishing

Barbeque

Recreation

Free parking

Parking

Beach/pool towels

Pool and beach

Playroom

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Kids

Pets Not Allowed

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Nine Mile Beach

Waterloo Point

Swansea Backpackers

Swansea

We enjoyed our stay. Friendly manager and staff, the kitchen is is clean and handy, the living room is spacious and cosy, and the hostel is situated right next to a bakery, a restaurant and a bottle shop. On the top of these Chris is a very lovely guy - we recommend this place!

Very nice stay!

The new owner Chris is very helpful and friendly. Place is clean and lots of space to chill. Kitchen is big and many equipment. We slept in our Campervan, outside was quiet and good atmosphere. Even if your just up for a hot shower for 5$ - you're welcome here!

New Management, cozy place and nice atmosphere

This hostel has only recently come under new management. You are greeted straight away by the lovely owner. The place is so clean and tidy. Kitchen is great with lots of space. Bedrooms are clean and so comfortable. Toilets and showers are also kept very clean and tidy.
There is a real homely atmosphere to the place. Definitely one of the better hostels I've stayed in.

Lovely Hostel

I cannot leave a review without a star, so I apparently have to give it a star! DO NOT STAY HERE! It is revolting, dirty and we had to leave after one night because we could not even shower or cook in any of the facilities, they are so unhygienic. Absolutely not COVID SAFE AT ALL! would not offer a refund and was very rude. The office, you could write on the walls with dust, there was bloody tissues on the floor in the woman's toilets, hair all on the walls in the shower, toothpaste spit on the walls. I am not that fussy but this was absolutely disgusting. Also I was so cold in the bed at night. You have to make your own bed, the sheets are about to fall apart.... Absolutely do not stay here..... I will be reporting this place as i don't feel it is safe hygienically! 👎

Horrible DO NOT STAY HERE

I booked this trip with my daughter. She would stay in the room. I would stay in our van. We arrived to find no one at reception. 
One of the visitors, who happened to be inside at the time, had to let me in.

The whole premises is so revoltingly unhygienic and in need of repair, that we had to leave after our first night of a three night stay. I realise times are tough for many businesses at present, but there is no excusefir parking huge rubbish bins outside the bedroom doors, and the amount of dirt that was everywhere in the hostel. I've stayed at many budget places, and that is not a reads for built up grime.
See photos. 
Ps. The manager was very rude to us when we rang to pololitley let him know that we just could not stay. No refund was given for two nights. 

Don't do it.

I wanted to stay here, really. But Tasmania locked down its borders and I couldn't visit (from the closest mainland state, Victoria). They refused to issue a refund or even offer travel credit.

You can be sure I will not be staying here once your border reopens. There are many other accommodation providers more deserving of my tourist dollars.

Spirit of Tasmania and the other accommodations we booked with were a class act. Never mind what their booking or cancellations policy stated, refunds were issued. I will remember and try to support them once we are allowed to travel again!

Looks like I dodged a bullet after all

Kitchen:   Rubbish bins (Otto bins), 2, in kitchen full and overflowing while cooking dinner.  Not emptied till later that evening.  No detergent, had to ask for some.  No tea towels and no racks to hang them.  
Room:  Bedside lamps had no globes and overhead light very dim.  Couldn't get globes, they brought in a standard lamp.  
Bathroom:  Little privacy in shower, the partition between showers is low, not very comfortable if privacy is preferred.  The shower wet almost the whole floor.  No bench to put things.
Signage:  ALL signs had some sort of error, grammatical or spelling
Price:  Expensive.  Cost more than each of the 2 country pubs we stayed in on previous nights, and they provided included breakfast and NO rubbish

Spend as little time there as possible

It’s an unusual place. Good price but undecorated rooms. The person at reception was drunk but friendly. We had to make our own beds and the mattresses were old but comfortable enough. It’s right next to a drive-in bottle shop which doesn’t make a very good first impression and out the back is a camper van graveyard which adds to it. But on the plus side there were two other families staying and it generally had a nice feeling amongst the guests.

Strange, friendly, grim

This place could be great but it needs maintenance and it’s filthy.
Mattresses are looking grimy, pillows the same. We found bodily fluid on our doona on arrival. It was gross. The replacement was just as sad. 
Filth on a very high scale. Bathrooms disgusting & no deep cleaning happens anywhere! 
No light globes in our bed lamps or outside.
Everything broken, dirty or smelly. 
We only saw one other person here & I wish we had read some reviews before committing (most other places were full hence we got stranded here) 
Nice dude running the place but something terribly wrong somewhere... keep driving! 

Sad & dirty

Service: 1.5/5 - not easy to get an extra if you are cold which you will be. Bathroom and communal areas dirty.
Price: 2.5/5 - expensive for what is essentially a hostel.
Room: 1/5 - like a prison cell. 
Location: 4/5 - this is the only thing this place has going for it - the car park is better than the interior.

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