Adelaide Backpackers and Travellers Inn

The location is quite good, and there's ample street parking around that is reasonable (and free from 8 P.M. - 8 A.M. which is super convenient for overnight parking. The afternoon manager was nice enough to leave me a key and text me instructions on how to get in after hours when I called her to inform that I would be arriving past normal business hours. The bedding and mattress was decent quality and the rooms were sizable with ensuites in each room.

It was a bloody strange place. Very odd layout, rooms were not easy to find and no real order to the location on the floors, no real facilities to speak of aside from a random cluster of several tables in the lower courtyard, lots of stairs and random half levels, it felt like a labyrinth. Had a middle aged Chinese couple that decided to have a loud argument for over 10 minutes in the courtyard at 11 P.M. so I had to step out and yell at them to shut up, but they just went into the room they were staying in and continued bickering , albeit somewhat more muffled. This is not a backpackers - it's more like a semi-renovated flophouse mostly patronized by immigrant families. There was a very weird and uncomfortable atmosphere about the place. I couldn't check out soon enough. Basically, if you're a backpacker, I wouldn't recommend staying here unless everywhere else in town is full up. It'll do in a pinch, but not somewhere you want to stay more than a night. Can't even say I'd really recommend it to anyone else either. It's not ill maintained or run down, just a bit unnerving in its layout and patronage and just below average.