Name: Vancouver Backpacker Guesthouse
Address: 7020 Gray Ave Burnaby,Gray Ave, Burnaby, Burnaby, Burnaby, V5J 1B9, Canada
Rating: 5

Smoke-free property

Heating

All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)

General

Non-smoking rooms

Rooms

Laundry

Services and amenities

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

Parking

Free parking nearby

Pets Not Allowed

Pets

Location

At the hotel

Queen Elizabeth Park

TELUS World of Science

VanDusen Botanical Garden

Coal Harbour Sea Plane Base

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver Playhouse

Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Vancouver Central Public Library

Harbour Centre

Orpheum Theater

Canada Place

Vancouver Art Gallery

Robson Square

Waterfront Centre

Christ Church Cathedral

Vancouver Convention Centre

Granville Island Public Market

Vancouver Aquarium

Stanley Park

Vancouver International Airport

Capilano Suspension Bridge

Boundary Bay Airport

Museum of Anthropology

Abbotsford International Airport

Bellingham International Airport

Vancouver Backpacker Guesthouse

Burnaby

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

10-beds

11-beds

12-beds

13-beds

14-beds

15-beds

16-beds

17-beds

18-beds

19-beds

2-beds

20-beds

21-beds

22-beds

23-beds

24-beds

25-beds

26-beds

27-beds

28-beds

29-beds

3-beds

30-beds

31-beds

32-beds

33-beds

34-beds

35-beds

36-beds

37-beds

38-beds

39-beds

4-beds

40-beds

5-beds

6-beds

7-beds

8-beds

9-beds

king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

2-bedrooms

3-bedrooms

4-bedrooms

5-bedrooms

6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

SCAM AWARE!

I’ve canceled my booking because owner want to charge me extra 6% for reservation. They confirmed my cancellation but as soon as I left 1 star review about their customer service they sent me message and said they gonna charge me anyway even if I didn’t stay in this sh!t place. Immediately blocked my credit card and informed bank about potential fraud activities!

Avoid this place at any reasons!!!

Scammers! Be aware!

This is the most complicated check-in in the world, EVER. They charge a deposit on your card, but bring cash, the nearest ATM is a block away. So, you eventually pay after getting cash and this is where it gets interesting. Instead of the standard handing over the key like other hotels and hostels, they have invented their own system. It is crazy. If you love escape rooms or the crystal maze, you've come to the right place. After paying, you WhatsApp the owner. I was tired and texted, ouch. He then texts the lady standing next to you at the hostel to check you've paid. He then sends you a pin code, you may have to wait about half an hour or more. The fun is just beginning. You then walk a block to another house. The pin is for a very elaborate key lock. You will have to watch a YouTube video on how to get in. What are they guarding you ask? I'm afraid you will be disappointed. The cleaner must also struggle to get in. Rather damp and rather basic and definitely not worth the trouble getting in. You will laugh in retrospect, although not at the time when you have travelled for 8 hours and are very tired. I hope the owner abandons this crazy system soon! Pay, get key, hello?!

Crazy check-in, not worth it.

Me and my partner recently stayed in this house during our 5 day trip to Vancouver. Immediately after arriving we were forced to solve the puzzle of where our room was and how we were supposed to get a key. We eventually found a way to connect to WiFi and contact those who ran the house. After being redirected to a completely different property, we than had to search again for our room. After multiple calls we found our room. At first glance the house didn't seem awful. The lock on our door was broken and would get stuck. The dishes were also dirty and there were not enough for the amount of people living in the house (only two plates and four people).  Immediately after laying down you realize just how thing the ceiling is. Loud stomping was causing dust to fall on my face for hours and screaming was heard from 11pm-7am. Neither me or my partner were able to sleep that night. After expressing how awful the experience had been, the workers refused to believe us. They sent messages to the people upstairs who denied being loud, and despite the fact that my whole house was up all night (not just my room) they said it was untrue. Don't waste your money on this place, these people do not care about the customer and only care about themselves.

DO NOT STAY HERE!

I sleep their 4 nights it really nice to sleep at big house to join room with other traveler, it good location near shopping mall you can find eating in Mall and super market in mall or it have mart just in corner of road. But it is hard to contact the host of house because we don't know who is clearly, I communicate by Line and Whatsapp for the change my stay. 

It nice guesthouse near big shopping mall in Vancover

Super horrible payment Sistem. I booked through Hostelworld Wich is an amazing page for hostel bookings but after I did it, they tried to make me give them my credit card private information telling me that my credit card was invalid (what it was a lie, cos the bank accepted the booking payment). Hostelworld provided me protection and helped me to get over the problem. But they are really bad on all.

Bad payment experience

It looked as if they had turned a family apartment into something ment to be for people, but I felt like a Rat (greetings to all Rats, with all my love!) and I'm a Horse (dixit Chineese Mithology).

Rats are inteligent. However, greedy Rats exist. 
Horses are beautiful. However, they can bolt.

It Happens!

Hapy Chineese New Year, the Year of the Dog.

With all my rage,

    Josep

P.S.: thank you for your information on where to go shopping. I knew cheapest places and I got to try Dragon Fruit.

Nightmare

This hostel feels much like staying at a relative's house, which has plusses and minuses. On one hand, the atmosphere is informal and friendly. But, like at your aunt's house, door locks aren't a priority. We're all buddies, right?

No. The $30 / night price lured in students, but it also brought in creepy middle-aged men.

Several of the publicly-accessibly keys opened the door to my room (a private room, not a dorm). The only bathroom with hot water had no lock on the door at all. There is no staff on-site--all the keys are stored in a lock box. Major safety issue.

This property has potential, but the owners need to put some work in. Cleanliness leaves a lot to be desired. A scribbled note on a curling paper sign in the bathroom ("no hygiene -- no courtesy -- no thank you!") said a lot--and they didn't even bother to take this down or print a new sign! They just left it there, indifferent: "Yeah, what do you want for $30?" Okay, but the owners then can't expect me to recommend that anyone stay there.

I echo a previous reviewer's comment about the toilet paper. They give you two rolls with your reservation and you are supposed to truck it back and forth with you to the bathroom. Is toilet paper really that expensive? Staff should really be dropping in twice a day to clean up, anyway, and can replace toilet paper then. Overall, it seems like the owners are trying to keep overhead low by not staffing the place at all. But with so many people staying there, it can't be run like an Airbnb.

Vancouver Backpacker Guesthouse

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