Launceston Backpackers Hostel

The Redline bus stops at the transit center at the Corner of Cimitiere & St. John St. while the hostel is at Canning Street which is a few blocks away. If you do not have a big luggage with you that needs to be kept at the storage area beneath the bus, you can actually inform the driver that you are getting down at Launceston Backpackers and he will drop you off one block away from the hostel.

Anyway, we stopped at the transit center and asked for direction at the transit center to the hostel. It's actually quite easy to walk about 20 minutes away. Cross the road in front of the transit center and walk all the way straight until you reach Canning Street. The hostel is on the right, across the park.

This is the hostel and it looks homely. The atmosphere is quite different from the Central City Backpackers at Hobart. There is an open space outside the hostel that can accomodate about 3 cars. Some of them just park at the roadside outside the hostel.

That's the entrance to the hostel and the last picture on the right showed the park across the hostel.

The left picture is taken outside the reception. The right picture is where the rooms are located. We have reserved a room for two and are given a room on the ground floor.

Here's our room. The room is very spacious and clean. We have to pay for the blanket and linen at this place. There is a cupboard for each of us but there is no locker in the room. Neither is there any attached bathroom. The room also does not have any power socket so we have to make use of the power socket outside the corridor to charge our batteries.

There is a free luggage storage area beneath the staircase. This is an open area and the bags are not locked or chained ... that's why it is free. You have to pay A$5 for the 'secured' luggage storage which is in the locked room.

Although the environment looks cosy, it is pretty noise at night. The wall is quite thin and we can hear people walking up and down the staircase and people chatting away outside our room at night.

The bathroom is quite clean. There are two showers and two toilets but when we were there, one of the

showers were broken so we had to share the only one shower available then.

The hostel has a large lounge, a large kitchen and dining room. There are plenty of utensils in the kitchen if you wish to cook. Most of them cooked there but as there are some restaurants around, we prefer to pack our dinner instead.

There is a chinese restaurant just next door but we didn't try. There is also a Domino's pizza around the corner of the hostel. The Coles supermarket is nearby at Wellington Street and is opened till 12am every day.

Most of the tour buses have picked up at this hostel. In fact some of them who are on multiple day trips would stay overnight at this hostel. There are not many choices of hostels in Launceston and this is one of the popular choices. The most important is that when you mention Launceston Backpackers, people know where it is.

The airport shuttle picks us directly outside the hostel and it is only a mere 10 minutes ride to the airport.

Overall, this is a nice cosy hostel to stay in when you are at Launceston.