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Welcome to Cambridge Lodge Guest House, your Stanmore “home away from home.” Cambridge Lodge Guest House aims to make your visit as relaxing and enjoyable as possible, which is why so many guests continue to come back year after year.
You’ll enjoy relaxing rooms that offer a refrigerator, and you can stay connected during your stay as Cambridge Lodge Guest House offers guests free wifi.
The hotel features a sun terrace, newspaper, and baggage storage. Plus, Cambridge Lodge Guest House offers free breakfast, providing a pleasant respite from your busy day. For guests with a vehicle, street parking is available.
If you’re looking for a Thai restaurant, consider a visit to Pailin Thai Restaurant, which is not far from Cambridge Lodge Guest House.
If you’re looking for something to do, Olympia Milk Bar (0.5 mi) is a nice way to spend some time, and it is within walking distance of Cambridge Lodge Guest House.
Cambridge Lodge Guest House puts the best of Stanmore at your fingertips, making your stay both relaxing and enjoyable.
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HOTEL STYLE
Budget
Quiet
Languages Spoken
English, Croatian, Czech, Indonesian and 3 more
Location
109 Cambridge St, Stanmore, Sydney, New South Wales 2048 Australia
Cambridge Lodge Guest House
4 reviews
Getting there
Somewhat walkable
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Cambridge lodge was great for a short stay and for what I needed. Very helpful staff and great facilities. The location was excellent and close to great shops, restaurants and amenities. The rooms are cleaned regularly and I met some great fellow guests. Definitely to be recommended.
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Date of stay: November 2022Trip type: Travelled solo
Room Tip:Parking is available in the surrounding streets. Felt like a safe area and ok to walk around at...
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I stayed for 5 Nights in this Accommodation. The facilities are good, the room had a good size and was clean. the kitchen was good too, but many people take ages to clean up there used cooking equipment, so its often a mess.
It´s always about the people staying in the Hostel. This time it was very negative. On my first night i got the worst impression you can get. 2 hours before (10PM) they went to Party,most of them -longterm guest- (germans), they already made unbelievable noise in the Accommodation, (screaming, music,smashing doors etc) and don´t care about other guests that are not into Partylive. However, if they wanna make Party, no Problem, but please OUTSIDE not inside the Hostel Property. Well, after another 2 hours after they left, some of them came back and continue the noise infront of the Entrydoor (where my room was placed)...smoking weed and talk very loud (instead of wispering)...
And the Part with smoking weed and talk very loud infront of my Room and smashing doors etc continued every night until 2.30 AM......there was just one night that was quiet but just because the party-people had to work next day.
The longterm guest believed that this is there private accommodation the way they act...doing this and that...very strange and uncomfortable.
I heard the owner/manager (she was a realy friendy Woman!!) talking with other Staffmember about the noise and that a couple complained about the noise as they paid lot of money for privat room and could not sleep...the manager said "they are young, its weekend, they have the right to make some party"...well, of course they have! but OUTSIDE, and be quiet when come back! "non-party guests" also have rights to have quiet nights as we also pay money for this exactly reason, to have a bed for sleeping, not a bed to sit in awake all night because of some people don´t care about other guests.
Will i come back? I´m not sure yet.
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Date of stay: October 2014
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Trip type: Travelled solo
Room Tip:do NOT use Room 1!
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We stayed at this lodge for sometime when we were in Sydney. The location is quite good, very near the train station and close to Enmore Rd and shops. It was clean but sometimes the cleaning lady would wear the same gloves she used when cleaning the toilet and packing up the dishes in the kitchen. The staff were friendly and helpful, Zorica and Bradislav were good. There was another receptionist who wasn't very friendly though. Sometimes when it rains they would put a note on the dryer saying out of order when they used it to dry their own things. At times it felt unsafe particularly at night when going to the toilet as all the lights were switched off by 10pm and the corridors were dark.Staff were also getting too over friendly with certain long term residents and sat in the lounge area all the time making you feel uncomfortable when you go to the kitchen or want to sit in the sitting area. There was a dog that was being brought to the kitchen which belonged to one of the staff, whilst cooking and I thought that was a bit unhygienic. Sometimes I wondered what sort of clientele this backpackers targeted. At times there was homeless people and people who were mentally unwell and this made me feel very unsafe Overall not sure its an actual backpackers or a place for homeless people.
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Date of stay: September 2014
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:It was close to public transport and city
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Response from CambridgeLodgeSydney, Owner at Cambridge Lodge Guest House
Responded 3 Apr 2015
Thank you for such a detailed response, it is a rather mixed review. Our staff are friendly, they try to be informative and helpful to all guests ,but too friendly can only be a backhanded compliment. Several times you felt unsafe but offer no incident or valid reason to explain why ???? Our lounge seats 35 people and our daily staff of two people sit only at a morning coffee break made you feel uncomfortable ? (but friendly) Lights switch off at 10.30pm, and corridors are not dark being lit by exit signs. We do pride ourselves on cleanliness in our lodge which you confirm, but that you would follow our cleaner through their cleaning routine. ?? I take offence at your comment "homeless shelter", what qualification do you have to determine mental health and I can assure you all guests pay the same accommodation rates. Dorm rooms attract a variety of travellers and had you come across any friction in the room our staff would no doubt relocated you had you asked.
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Hats off to the receptionists who work here because they are amazing and so kind. With that being said it is the only thing nice about this hostel. The whole hostel is dirty, dust everywhere and let’s not forget to mention your friendly neighborhood cockroach’s that will come to greet you during your stay.... zillions of them. My partner and I booked a private room that was like a prison cell. There were holes in the wall, part of the wall had a dent and seemed to be caving in, paint was falling off and the overall unsanitary atmosphere of the place was really welcoming. The showers and bathroom needed a deep clean as well as the hostel itself. The pictures on their website are very deceiving, they do not match at all. Seeing really is believing. Do not stay here I would never recommend this to anyone. Not even the homeless.
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Date of stay: December 2019Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Firstly I would like to say I really wish I didn't have to write this review. But I feel compelled to warn travelers of an issue with this hostel - firstly that some of the rooms have bedbugs in them and secondly of the proprietors inability or unwillingness to confront this serious issue in it's entirety. I implore anybody who is considering to stay at this hostel to weigh up their options. If you're not familiar with bedbugs please do some research, if you are familiar I'll leave it to your informed judgement to decide whether to stay or not. From my personal experience I would steer well clear of any establishment with a bed bug problem. Bedbug bites are highly irritating to most people (some people aren't affected by them), causing pain and discomfort for several days after being bitten. Secondly they are extremely difficult and expensive to get rid of once established. There is a strong possibility they will get into your luggage and a high likelihood that you will take them home with you. Once they infest your home they are again expensive and difficult to get rid of. But please do some research to verify what I have said. If you do decide to stay there I would suggest you ask management if they can guarantee their hostel is free from bedbugs, and what compensation you will be due if that isn't the case and you do come into contact with bedbugs. Even then I would ask them to either store all your baggage behind their reception area (it is tiled, bedbugs don't like tiled areas) and/or protect your baggage with bin liner bags for the duration of your stay, removing only the bare minimum. Even if after a few days you have not discovered a problem, I would maintain this practice as many people only discover a bedbug problem until after they get home. While I only have confirmed knowledge that the infestation is in two rooms and a rumoured third, bedbugs do travel between rooms and rooms that appear free of bedbugs may have dormant eggs in them (eggs are particularly hard to kill). I give you this warning as in my experience hotel management neither understand the effect the bedbugs can have on someone's well being or do not care, nor have any understanding on how to eradicate them. I firmly believe that the onus of responsibility is on them rectify the problem. In my instance when I suggested this they told me to leave that day, which I thought was very unfair. But the intention of this review is to give you fair warning to potential guests and to the people currently staying at Cambridge Lodge of the problem that exists there.
Stayed October 2015
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Date of stay: October 2015
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Response from CambridgeLodgeSydney, Owner at Cambridge Lodge Guest House
Responded 21 Oct 2015
Just a few facts, Richard Voss stayed at Cambridge Lodge for more than two months, he was asked to leave after continually late payments for accommodation and being rude to staff. He did not wish to leave and promised his his revenge, hence this comment.
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This hostel is way to expensive for what you get and sadly its full of cockroaches and the rooms are damp... every evening i spent like an hour "cleaning" the room from bugs.
Overall it looks like the building needs some renovation and like the owner ran out of steam to satisfy his occupants. I cant recommand this place at all at this price. Below 20$ and without the bugs(!) and it would be "Ok" i guess.
Pros: -Free Parking -quite ( just sometimes the noise of an airplane) -Next to a train station ( but just one train there) - kitchen is good but way to small compared to the capacity of people
Cons.: - cockroaches in your room -all rooms are damp -0 entertaining stuff like boardgames, kicker, cards, renting bikes ... - just small lockers just in the kitchen. - no common room to eat or stay and socialize ( if the weather is good you have some space, otherwise you have to go in your room or you have to freeze. - 0 extras ( the rooms have a tv but no remote so i dont count that)
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Date of stay: May 2015Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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I booked a family room and a twin room as I was travelling with my 2 boys (aged 17&12), a friend and my Mum for 7 days.
We arrived ourside office hours so I received an email with code to lock box to get our room key. Both bedrooms had comfy beds,were lovely and clean. The shared bathrooms were also nice & clean.
Free WiFi (slow at times but I or my boys weren't complaining) which is such a bonus when you want to reference places to go. Breakfast supplied, thou basic again was all we needed. You can cook your own meals which we did occasionally & everything was there that you needed. The staff are awesome, so friendly & happy to help ( they gave us extra blankets as Sydney having cols snap). It's super close to Stanmore Train Station so that made getting around so easy.
I've never stayed at a hostel before & was anxious when I booked that it wouldn't be very good but IT WAS AWESOME!!! I totally recommend and would happily stay their again on my own or as a group. Thanks heaps Cambridge Lodge
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Date of stay: July 2015Trip type: Travelled with family
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I absolutely loved the location, so lovely and quiet, but only 15 minute walk to Enmore and Newtown. My single room had great facilities -fridge, sink, TV. And was nice and clean.
It can be a little bit noisy in the morning staying near reception, so if you can request a room further down the hall.
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Date of stay: March 2015
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Trip type: Travelled solo
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After a horrible experience at another hostel, I searched for another which would be easy for me to attend a festival. I was so happy to be somewhere clean. The lady at the reception was helpful and friendly. Overall great experience even though it was only for a night.
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Date of stay: February 2015
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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I went here with my missus. Only reason why we went here in the start was because of the free parking outside. Didnt expect much. We ended up extending our stay through our whole Sydney stay. We absolutely loved it. Good staff, very good facilities such as great kitchen, bbq, loungeareas etc. Bathrooms and dormrooms were very clean and maintained. Would not hesitate to stay here next time we come over. HIGHLY RECOMEND!
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Date of stay: January 2015Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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PRICE RANGE
AU$59 - AU$107 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
AustraliaNew South WalesSydneyStanmore
NUMBER OF ROOMS
30
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