My 1st time in Australia, my first hostel. It´s not modern, but has everything you need: kitchen, tv room, backyard with bbq, pool table, sitting areas where you can check your mails or chat with other ppl, enough doorms and facilitys. But that´s not the important thing. Which made my stay so great was the crew. I was scary and nervous about my new way of life, how to meet oher people, what´s goin on anyway... This crew cares about you, introduced me to oher backpackers, organised games (like volleyball, pool competitions with own rules, trips to amazing areas, bbq nights, parties with special topics...) and helped me to get a job, at lest for 1 day. This is what you definitely won´t get in the most of the other hostels - and I was in a few. So big thanks to the crew which made my 1st stay so special.

Booked Pirates for 2 days and I remember a guy saying I'd be here forever and I laughed as it was totally not my plan. Erm, 4 months later I sadly left my new home and some awesome friends and had had a very memorable few months here. Not the best place for a good night's sleep (on the balcony) but that's not why we came to Australia...

I planed to stay here over Christmas 2011 but I checked out after one day.
The hostel was filthy, the rooms and carpets stank and looked very dirty. The bed linnen smelt. The hostel was very run down and the bathrooms were disgusting. I was in a 6 share room and the room was an adequate size except I couldnt walk across the floor as the people staying there had their things stored all across the floor.
There was no air con and if the window was open it was next to the pub next door so very noisy.
The hostel had 2 bathrooms, a female only bathroom and a male bathroom. I am female and could never get into the female bathroom as it always had men in it. The shower was ice cold, I asked the other people staying in my dorm about the showers and they all said that the water was always ice cold.
The kitchen was closed from 10pm until 8:30am so if you are up early you are unable to get breakfast,
Reception is always shut and there is no common room or dining room, to eat you have to sit in the busy outdoor court yard. The court yard is very dirty, it has cigarette ends and used cans littered on the tables.
I was glad to leave!

Really good hostel, we had so much fun there! Could have stayed longer if we had had enought time. Friendly staff and cute cat!! Inner court was nice and people were hanging out there. Dorms were okay. Girls had their own bathroom which was good. The only problem was kitchen which was dirty and way too small. Great parties everyday! If going back to Freo, definitely going to Pirates!