Maze Backpackers - Sydney (solo trip)

For a hostel it’s very valid and the location is great! The stuff was very friendly! We had a private room and it was okay for a hostel. As I lifted my bag there was a small cockroach 😬 It is an old building. The other thing is that the floor has many rooms and there is only one shared bathroom for women and one for men and you have to walk a bit to get there

Worst hostel experience I’ve had in Australia. I stayed in an 8-bed dorm (room 32). On Friday night, the nightclub music was so loud that the floor and walls were literally vibrating. I work 12 hours a day and usually come back around 2 a.m., so proper rest is essential. Unfortunately, every morning at 10 a.m., housekeeping enters the room, vacuums, and talks loudly as if no one is sleeping. Spe...

Here is my professinal review (I stayed for 16 days) Pro: Price is great if you’re mainly here to cosplay as an inmate and come out deeply grateful for basic human freedom. Staff are relaxed as long as you follow the rules and don’t add to the chaos, think chill guards in a low‑budget jail. Cons: The photos belong in the fiction section, what you actually get is a noisy frat house of rowdy fore...

Room for two people was quite small. The room smelled bad and wasn’t properly clean; one of the duvets even had a blood stain. There are no power outlets near the bed , they’re on the opposite side of the room. The fan is placed very high up in a corner and only reaches the top bunk. Poor ventilation overall. You can hear a lot of noise from the street and also from inside the hostel. The bathroom...

I had a pretty bad experience here. The room was a lot smaller than in the pictures, and the place overall felt old and not very clean. They do offer plenty of free activities, which is nice, but they seem to forget about the basics, cleaning and essential things for living, and we only got one towel for four days. When we asked for another, they said we’d have to pay for it. On top of that, the s...