Brisbane City Backpackers

Greetings one and all, In this travelogue I intend to attempt to document our trip around New Zealand, Australia and SE Asia. This blog will attempt to coherently educate, exitapate, tittilate and demonstrate that WE'RE SOMEWHERE REALLY COOL OOH ...

... upside down! We were pleased to leave the "Kookie" Kookaburra Inn as it dark and dingy and looked forward the the luxury of Brisbane City Backpackers. When we arrived we were told that the room wasn't going to be ready until 1pm. It was about 11am. Great ...

After a mighty post road-trip rest I began to make use of the free wireless Internet at Brisbane City Backpackers. The hostel has a communal room next to the kitchen with several comfortable sofas where people tend to sit about. Up there I was able to ...

... dark. As the plane was only small, it didn't take us long to collect our bags and off we went to catch the shuttle bus to the City Backpackers hostel at $10 each. The city was all lit up as it was dark and it reminded us a bit of New York, you could ...

Brisbane City life. After Surfers we went to Brisbane, we left Olof in Surfers, never saw him again. In Brisbane I did look up some family that I got there, we went to dinner at both of them and one offer me and Jonathan work for a week, as ...

... ask for really - awesome nightlife, plenty of shopping, and loads of places to chill out etc. We checked into Brisbane City Backpackers which was a few hundred metres up the road from the transit centre where the Greyhound drops off and straight away we ...

I had to check out of Bunk and find Brisbane city backpackers hostel, the girls were leaving for Airlie beach and Dan had one more day at Bunk. I found my hostel and yet again the staff were less than pleasant or helpful, which is becoming a trend ...

We arrived back in Brisbane around 7:30pm. We checked into the 'Brisbane city backpackers' there was an Irish bar within the hostel called 'the fiddlers elbow' which is potentially dangerous as we have learnt! We had a few beers in there and teen went to ...

... ;Mad, but a good idea really. Don't have a beach? Make one.  We got refused a bed at Brisbane City Backpackers when we tried to check into. They were fine until Michael gave them his Aussie drivers license.  Manager ...

We were so lucky because Andy had the morning off and offered to take us int o Brisbane. On the way we stopped at Chloe's house. It was brand new, they ahd it built, they designe dit all,the colours, the tiles the paint everything was designed to suit ...

... Paradise for a few days of (hopefully) sand, sea and sun. I'll then be heading back into Brisbane on Saturday morning and staying back at the City Backpackers for the weekend (hopefully not in the same room as the "Kiwi Snorer"). It should be a fantastic ...

... A HILL!!  I swear my backpack just gets heavier and heavier, I will definatly be going home a few inches shorter! Staying at City Backpackers in town, nice hostel, but boiling hot rooms, and the windows don't even open properly.  It also seemed ...

... time I had got to my chosen hostel, although I hadn't bothered to book and they were still full. Went next door to the huge City Backpackers and managed to check in fine. The hostel seemed OK (free Internet, onsite pub, good views) but I can't say I ...

... , das haben wir dann auch gemacht...mitm Kompressor... Um 11 uhr gings dann los nach Brisbane mit dem letzten tropfen Benzin, wir checkten im City Backpackers ein und brachten unsern Johnny dann schweren Herzens und mit einer morz Vollbremsung vor dem ...

After getting off the ferry yesterday, Lisa and I took a taxi to City Backpackers, where I had originally booked our stay for the 14th.  Right off the bat, everything was 100 times better than Chill... the staff were friendlier, and so were the ...

... things. While in town we also went to see Anzac Square, which is a beautifully manicured garden area in the middle of Brisbane City, and is the rememberance garden for all Australian Soldiers who have lost their lives in all wars, The gardens were first ...

... time to make it to the Free Walking tour of Brisbane offered by My Australia Tours. We made it to King George Square outside Brisbane City Hall at 11am. Our guide Ryan explained the tour was in fact Free, and visited some of the interesting sites in the ...

De tweede dag in City Backpackers in Brisbane wilde ik gaan koken. Borden en bestek kon je bij de receptie halen, voor tien dollar borg. Toen ik in de keuken kwam bleek het erg druk te zijn, dus ik zette mijn borden en eten in een kast en ging naar de ...

Heade to Brisbane (bunk backpackers)se of going to xxxx factory, which we couldnt because it was closed on the weekend! Did Zorbing ,with water, (me nick and simo). Best laugh i have ever had. superman in, like being born on the way out, i laughed the ...

... were like nice English summer days (even though technically it was winter in Brissy). Now though the days feels somewhat tropical. At City Backpackers I’m in a room with three English guys (Jack, Andy and Jordan), plus a German girl called Gina, the ...

... voice that tells the little voice that bills need to be paid, and blog entries need to be written. The highlight of City Backpackers in Brisbane is the free wireless internet. It was a pity then when I found out that this wasn’t working! Rather ...