Kimberley Travellers Lodge - Broome YHA

Good hostel

Tropical setting, basic facilities but close to airport (you can walk there) and town for shopping and food options etc.

This Hostel is a great place to stay. Very friendly with lots to do ant lots of travel info for Broome. Loved staying here. Best showers top floor.

Staff were friendly enough, close to airport, walking distance which was great. Rooms extemely basic especially for $167.00 a night for 2 single beds with share bathroom. The facilities being bathroom, kitchen area & communal dining area were always dirty. So disappointing & pure laziness on staffs part, who were very friendly & enjoyed socialising with everyone but forgot to keep this hostel clean. The kitchen was downright dirty, people just leave their dirty plates anywhere. The fridge apparently is cleaned every week, I find that very doubtful, you could see spilt drink, liquid, yoghurt on inside glass doors which had been there for sometime. The bins outside kitchen were overflowing with rubbish & very smelly, so bad especially in the heat of Broome. Would not recommend.

Very noisy. They have a lot of seasonal workers living there. Rooms clean. Kitchen needs some better rules and more fridges plus tea towels so you can dry your dishes. If you need a good nights sleep then go somewhere else.

Very cramped dorms. No space for luggage. Bunks too low to floor to put luggage underneath. Kitchen too small for guest numbers. Showers tiny. Friendly staff. Good location. Walking distance from airport.

Staying at a YHA is always a calculated risk but with accommodation booked out in Broome months and months in advance (not to mention the outrageous prices charged in the dry season!!), I thought I would give it a go. Quite frankly, I’ve been mind-boggled by the amount of lazy, selfish individuals (generally late teens/20-somethings) who just leave all their dirty cups and dishes and empty food and drink containers all over the place as well as the filthy mess they leave the kitchen in. The free breakfast items are left open and uncapped or uncovered on the benches, with used cutlery covered in spreads dumped there for all the flies from the unclosed sliding kitchen door to feast on. The milk/butter is rarely returned to the fridge. They never wipe down the mess they make but generally leave it for others to do. This occurs on a daily basis. I can’t imagine the state of their homes! The one shining light in all this havoc is manager Shaun who is always so kind, helpful and accommodating. Apart from all that, the very basic rooms are fine, if minamilistic, and the shared bathrooms are cleaned daily (thank goodness!). There is free wifi but this doesn’t work in the rooms, even the private ones. I have to say this experience has been an eye-opener to say the least.