Thank you for the review! Not really sure I can add anything to it - you have hit all the highlights!

(And, you are spot on about our summer time hours - we run our reception a lot longer than in the depths of winter time. We normally remain either at the reception area, or lurking somewhere around the hostel until around 9.30pm-10.00pm over summer, depending on the needs of the crowd in the hostel, on any given night).

Finally, we hope you had an enjoyable time down in this neck of the woods, and an enjoyable and safe journey around Aussie.

Cheers


Tony
Hostel Manager (along with my wife Bec and our daughter, Claire)

G'day there TA reviewer. "Clean and basically equipped" kind'a sums up exactly what our hostel is all about... (in fact, based on the reviews and rankings drawn from "the world's number 1 hostel booking site" (and I won't mention the name of that site here, but I suspect you will be able to guess which site I mean), we consistently attract ratings that allow me to say we are rated as either rated as THE cleanest hostel in Australia AND New Zealand, or rank consistently in the top three hostels across those two countries!

We don't provide breakfast, and provide only the basic amenities with your accommodation that is very, very consistent with our budget prices. (Erm... you knew we are a hostel, right?) We are not a motel, and certainly NOT a bed-and-breakfast. If you had chosen to stay in a B-'n-B, or a motel anywhere along the Great Ocean Road - and required the sorts of additions (e.g. a breakfast) that you may have been wanting - I strongly suspect you would have been asked to pay at least (and I will repeat "at least") twice the tarriff we charged you. Remember, we are a budget provider of beds in a hostel that (like all other hostels) needs our guests to act with a degree of self-sufficiency and behave in a manner that enhances the communal living associated with hostels. For things like breakfast, it is all part of the usual hostel experience for our guests to prepare and fetch their own breakfast! We have an excellently equipped kitchen - it is up to you to make use of that.

While the basic experience we provide is excellent - and everyone who stays in our dorms raves about them! - we do not try to provide the sorts of things that motels, self-contained-apartments and other more 'up-market' accommodators do cater (and, charge) for. After all, we cater entirely to and for the independent backpacker market - and they most certainly do NOT want to be paying extra money for the trimmings associated with more upper-market accommodation, when all they normally want is a very clean bed, in excellent surrounds, with the chance to meet other like-minded travellers.

And that is the experience we provide... in spades!