Old Fire Station Hostel Fremantle — Lodging in Fremantle

Reviews of Old Fire Station Hostel Fremantle

• Brian

  Added 2016.07.18

  Frequent advertisements are placed by the hostel in the Fremantle Herald, a local tabloid, offering labour services for a minimum wage of $20/hr making the hostel a heaven for contractors and those living in the vicinity to exploit the backpackers for even lesser. If you are skilled in the trades, be wary of the hostel owners, they have over the years learnt the art of exploiting skilled backpackers as much as they can at the hostel to save themselves money on repair and maintenance.
• Nicholas

  Added 2016.06.27

  The Old Firestation Backpackers is the best backpackers ever! It's especially great if you're looking for work, they help you find full time work and daily casual work. Great staff and great people. All round fantastic atmosphere ✌
• Patrick

  Added 2015.12.20

  bright people, clean cosy relaxed rooms and the beach, city, trains, buses ert just around corner. fully recommend
• Samuel

  Added 2015.11.06

  Plagued with Italian and British hegemony, if you don’t belong to the same racial, moral or cultural background of an ill-bred European mongrel, you will find this place miserable. Don’t bother approaching the management to resolve disputes, very often they are the ones responsible for fueling or masterminding it. Not many Asians would find this place suitable for more than a week’s stay. I certainly wouldn't recommended this place to Asian females travelling alone. You will find their culture and morals rather appalling.
• Jonathan

  Added 2015.09.13

  I heard about the hostel from friends in Pemberton, West Australia. When I arrived, I was blown away by how much the place offered: Videogame consoles, a pool table, a nice spacious kitchen and TV room, and even an outdoor lounge! The rooms and public facilities are cleaned on a regular basis, and the place is very clean and welcoming.
• Xavier

  Added 2015.05.06

  The place is well-furnished, clean, decorated and made to look enchanting to entice backpackers to spend most of their time here. Don’t be fooled by the false propaganda they make claiming that they will find you work if you stay with them. Given the ailing Australian economy, jobs are scarce in this sleepy town and if any comes through, preference normally goes to those whom the hostel favours for reasons best known to them.
• Eric

  Added 2015.03.10

  Graphics depicting insults and ridicules to revered figures of the East e.g., Buddha, Gandhi and Confucius are painted on the wall in the common area downstairs. Chinese and Koreans will find the symbol of the Japanese Imperial Army painted on the wall at the backyard offensive - a gesture of European ignorance.
• Gavin

  Added 2015.02.14

  Weekly manic parties are held every Saturdays to boost alcohol sales and this entails a host of other problems like damage to property, blaring music, noise in the wee hours, drugs, chaos and madness fitting all the characteristics and descriptions of a pandemonium. It does not come without surprise that the hostel has strict NO BYO alcohol policy to promote its own. Backpackers caught bringing their own alcohol into the hostel are evicted. You will also see Aussies living on dole who have made this illusory place their home. Belonging to similar cultural traits, they make good bedfellows with their Europeans counterparts.
• Dylan

  Added 2015.01.31

  Advantages: Freedom and temperance coexist. Disadvantages: Simpson movie only on TV.
• Evan

  Added 2014.08.30

  The staff were friendly and helpful. I recently got work thanks to a staff member who's responsible for finding jobs for backpackers. You can do casual work that pays toward the rent, or long-term jobs that can range from two weeks to a couple months. If you're flexible, hardworking and willing to learn new skills, then I know that you will find work at this place!
• Anthony

  Added 2014.08.03

  The hostel is jointly owned by an Aussie builder and a young Italian charlatan who came as a backpacker on a Working Holiday Visa. Don’t be disillusioned by his fake countenance. He was handpicked to fan the fire of a Fool’s Paradise leaving backpackers in the illusion that the hostel is the ‘be-all and end-all’ of Australia. Given the intense and unethical competition among all 5 backpackers in this little port city which is devolving into a town, dorm rates have been slashed and brought to rock bottom to attract backpackers to the hostel and outplay competitors. The low profit margin backfires in frustration and results in spontaneous eviction of backpackers from the hostel, very often, without provocation.
• Diego

  Added 2014.06.09

  Some of the 5-star ratings you see were given by the owners of the hostel, some by present and ex-managers of the hostel and others by long-term resident-backpackers to please the management in exchange for casual employment. Those who left the hostel in disgust never bothered writing a review and even if they did, their reviews were immediately countered by fake reviews commissioned by the hostel in exchange for a menial reward.
• Grace

  Added 2013.09.18

  This heritage building used to be a Fire Station in the early 1990’s and later became a prominent restaurant in Fremantle owned by a wealthy Kiwi businesswoman in the jewelry, smuggling and brothel business. It is now a backpacker’s hostel hosting mainly young Europeans on a Working Holiday Visa seeking employment and migration opportunities in Australia. The Bengal Indian restaurant which once used to share the premises with the hostel has now moved to a different location.