Newcastle Condos - Reviews and Rates

A bungalow hostel without air-con. Cooking in outdoor kitchen where we got eaten by mossies! Wild koalas outside the door, and a pet python! Went on a dolphin tour, but wasn't that good. Several nice bays and beaches but 3 days was enought.

Rose: A mere snip of a journey (15 hours) takes us down to Newcastle. It actually goes quite quickly as despite stiff necks we manage to sleep a fair bit. We catch up with a school friend of Joel's, Daniel, his wife and two delightful daughters - 3 and 17 months. They live in Newcastle which was formerly known for its steel industry. It is strug...

well my lovelies, was getting sick of the old smog (that's Sydney to you commoners) decided to take a lovely four hour train to Newcastle. This is a country town. Bloody hot - 31 degree's plus. I loved it here! Actually took a surf lesson you'll be glad to know. $25 for 2 hours. Lasted 10 mins. The waves were huge, been thrown round like a rag d...

This update is a bit late as have been too busy in Sydney to put this entry on so here goes. After leaving Byron Bay we made our way to Coffs Harbour, after checking into yet another hostel we headed out to see what Coffs had to offer - and the answer was not much - as we arrived in the late afternoon all we did the first day was to head down to...

On Monday we left Coff's Harbour and drove quite a long distance down to Newcastle. This town was renowned for being a good place to surf so we really wanted to have some lessons here as we still hadn't had any anywhere in the East coast like we had planned. We found a hostel which offered free lessons if you stayed there so this sounded good! W...

I took the train North about three hours to Newcastle to catch up with Sophie, who I hadn't seen since our exchange in Portugal. While there I got my first glimpse of koalas! I was really great to spend time with sophie and talk about old times.