Tinbilly

A short bus journey took me to Brisbane, one of Australia's fastest growing cities. Thankfully, my hostel (" Tinbilly Travellers") was right next to the bus station and I didn’t have to carry my backpack too far. When I got there I was welcomed by a ...

... the airport was only a 20min train ride from the center of brisbane, and luckily my hostel was really easy to find. I stayed in tinbilly travellers, its a massive hostel, but clean and there is a big tele, lots of computers etc. On the down side there are ...

... is really nice though. The weather is baking here. They said it would be hotter up north, and they weren't kidding. Booked into the Tinbilly hostel for a few days whilst I decided what to do. I've heard that there is a Chinatown here also, so I think ...

... hab ich inzwischen schon ein mal Hostel gewechselt, weil ich meins (banana Bender) nich so dolle fande. Mein jetziges (Tinbilly) ist zwar nich wirklich besser, dafuer wesentlich guenstiger! Werd mich aber, wenn das mit arbeiten und so alles klappt, mal ...

... so relaxing. We havent done very much apart from chilling out. We arrived in Brisbane at around noon. After checking in to the tinbilly hostel, which i must say is one of the best hostels i've been in since the trip began, we decided to do the lonely ...

... do with a break from the bus for a bit, and car hire looks pretty cheap here. I've checked into a backpacker's hostel called Tinbilly's which right in town, smack by the bus station. Of course if I'd bothered to buy a Lonely Planet Guide for Australia ...

... ! We lugged all of our bags (about a hundred million zillion bags) the 50 metres across the street to our hostel - Tinbilly's. It is a surprisingly nice hostel and very clean, almost like a hotel but with bunkbeds..we went for lunch at the adjoining ...

12 Dec 03 Back on the road once again, 2 hours on the bus to Brisbane, booking in to the TinBilly hostel where they had amazingly managed to get 10 beds in to a room the size of a shoebox. My planned evening of 'swinging a cat' would have to be ...

... needed. After the disappointment that was Surfer's Paradise, Brisbane has been a shimmering oasis in the desert. The hostel I'm staying at (Tinbilly) is awesome, the staff are super-helpful, the pub/bar is amazingly cool and the city itself is vibrant and ...

... have stayed in relative luxury as were checked into an apartment block with its own spa etc, today however we are back into Tinbilly hostel which although nice, cant beat having your own gaff. The other day we went around the south bank markets for a bit ...

... Daddy!) Five hours later we arrived in Sunny Brisbane and made our way 500m from the transit centre to our hostel, Tinbilly's, very handy with our now stupidly heavy backpacks. Really impressed with this place, Brisbane's newest backpackers, it was more ...

... and Whitsunday tours. It was a direct fight between a super nice camp man in the YHA and a super cute nice lady in Tinbilly for our bookings. After a super tasty pizza lunch we opted for Tinbilly, booked our tours, sorted out some future travel and high ...

... , wenn man etwas verkaufen kann. Ich glaub, das hilft mir auch spaeter noch weiter. Die letzten zwei Wochen habe ich wie gesagt im Tinbilly Hostel gewohnt. Aber weil ich etwas Geld sparen wollte, hab ich mich letzte Woche vor und nach der Arbeit noch nach ...

... ) Rick and Susie were great hosts - Susie even baked us a cake! First evening we went out to a couple of bars - pub quiz at Tinbilly's with the South African girl we met in Cairns, weird as we go to Brisbane to see Rick & Sus, then bump into people we ...

... 11:30. Lovely. I had lunch and watched some TV in the afternoon. Then it was time for a cure :-) I went down to the Tinbilly bar for a drink. I started talking to an oz man from Gympie. We was very interested in the stories I had to tell about ...

... . I was just reading magazines and watching people come and go. It was a nice afternoon/ evening. I then got a taxi back to Tinbilly's (hostel where I was staying), I had a few drinks there and met the Irish man I was talking to the night before. I also ...

... of backpacking, one of them being to bring earplugs (I wish knew this one a bit sooner)! After my coffee I went back to Tinbilly Backpackers to book my nights dorm, there was no way I was going to spend another night at City Backpackers. The rest of ...

... that me and the gym needed to spend more time together. After that we arrived in brisbane, met the girls and went to Tinbilly where we enjoyed ladies night at a local bar, which of course included the local men stripping off. I have to say the ...

Highlights: Tinbilly pool kings! Lowlights: The ...

Well finally we arrived in Brisbane... Flight took about 7 hours and as we were only going 2 hours ahead, no real jet lag. We arrived in the George Williams hotel about 8.30pm after getting a 35 dollar taxi ride from the airport. Hungry, we went in ...