About Elephant Backpacker Sydney
Elephant Backpacker is a cheap and cheerful hostel centrally located between Sydney’s red light district (Kings Cross) and the City Center. The property overlooks Sydney’s main gardens – Hyde Park, Domain and Botanical Gardens. The hostel is housed in a Victorian period hotel built in 1892. Rooms are large with high ceilings and the three accommodation floors each have communal ladies and men’s showers and separate toilet cubicles. We are a friendly, cheap and cheerful hostel!
Elephant Backpacker offers a friendly atmosphere and lots of fun in a perfect location between Sydney City Centre and Kings Cross.
Accommodation info
| Category | Hostel |
| Check-in | from 13:00 to 0:00 |
| Check-out | before 10:00 |
| Curfew | No curfew |
| Room lockout | No lockout |
| Reception | 24/7 |
Room types
The hostel provides 220 bed in different kinds of rooms: private rooms, dorms from 4 to 8 beds, female dorms. All rooms are equipped with lockers, fans, heaters and secure key card access. Dorm rooms are made up by our housekeeping team with a bottom sheet (all commercially laundered). You collect your top sheet, pillow and blanket from reception upon check in. Linen is included. Private doubles and twins already have your bed made up waiting for your arrival.
Location and surroundings
We are a short walking distance to major Sydney landmarks:
St Mary's Cathedral - 5min,
Hyde Park - 5min,
Art Gallery of New South Wales - 5min,
The Domain - 2min,
Sydney Opera House - 15min,
The Royal Botanic Gardens / Mrs Macquarie's Chair - 15min,
Sydney Town Hall, Queen Victoria Building, Pitt Street Mall - 10min,
Circular Quay (ferry) - 15min,
The Rocks - 15min.
5min walk to Sydney's best bars, restaurants, and cafes in Potts Point, Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, and Woolloomooloo
Services and facilities
Ground floor consists of the communal kitchen, dining area, television lounge, reception and our newly opened cafe that serves yummy meals from 7am to 11pm daily.
Services
| Wi-Fi access | common areas |
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Amenities
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Reviews (8.2 Excellent)
This establishment is fine! Near to town, cleaned regularly, things are being renovated... good for staying! AND free breakfast! Definite recommendation. (That's from a South African living in Scotland)
It is very well locate it, walking distance to many atractions, bus and train stops. The rooms are very big and the hostels looks clean all the time.
the kitchen is very too small and the fridge extremely nasty! It doesn't make you want to cook there! some of the resident had to share one bed even if they paid for 2 and the backpacker can get extremely load by night. If you're looking to have fun, it's the good place, but definitely not for a quite time in Sydney.
I`ve just had a wonderful stay at HBC Hostel and even prolonged my stay one extra week because I enjoyd it so much. The people here, both personal and guests, are extremly welcoming and helpful for confused turists. There were events planned every night eith good deals on great clubs. The café next door have a great breakfast meny and nice dinner food served with lots og hospitallity. The only bad thing I could say is that it`s often loud in the common areas so it`s not suitable for people who need a quiet place. But if you wanna have a good time, live at HBC :)
Very friendly caring hostel dispite being big. Rooms have clean sheets and staff try to put you in with other people they think you will like. Made friends specielly at entertainments nights. Wld recommend :)
Important to know
| Animals policy | Animals NOT accepted |
| Children policy | Children NOT accepted |
| Private rooms age restriction | at least 18 years old |
| Dorms age restriction | at least 18 years old |
| Smoking policy | All rooms and the common areas are non smoking |
| Wheelchair access | Limited wheelchair access (some common areas and/or some rooms).Our entire hostel is disable and wheelchair friendly. We have a lift that allows access to each floor and if you do not want to be on an upper floor, we have a dorm room and disabled toilet/bathroom on the ground floor. |
Terms and conditions
| Cancellation policy | All rooms are fully prepaid and not refundable. |
| Special conditions | NEW YEAR BOOKINGS:
1. During the New Year's period from 29 December 2018 to 2 January 2019 there are special booking conditions. 2. During this period there is a minimum stay of 4 nights starting from 29/12/2018. 3. All bookings made for this New Year period must fully paid at the time of booking. 4. Once paid, there will be no refunds, cancellations, changes or transfers permitted. 5. All endeavours will be made to accommodate a booking with more than 1 guests in the same room type, however this cannot be guaranteed. 5. All endeavours will be made to accommodate a booking with more than 1 guests in the same room type, however this cannot be guaranteed. 6. Passport must be presented by all guests upon check-in.false |
| Accepted Payments | The property accepts the following credit card brands for balance payments: Visa, Mastercard, Visa Electron |
| Anticipated charge | The full amount will be charged before the arrival otherwise the booking won't be guaranteed and the deposit will be lost. The charged amount is non-refundable |
| Pre authorization | The property reserves the right to pre-authorise credit cards prior to arrival |
| Taxes | Taxes included |
| Other charges | There is a AUD20 key deposit per person which is refunded at check-out. Please note all payments made by ETPOS/Credit Card at reception will incur a 1% processing fee. |