Melbourne Travel Forum

Ok guys i scored the cheap tickets now need a safe place to stay as its two females up for an sdventure but not at all confident of our combined skills. Ive looked at easystay apartments and a double room there is $99, does anyone know of a cheap but good backpackers where we could mix with others also. We arriving 26th may and only have 3 nights.

Oh and exciting places to visit that are cheap, we are on a budget as i only just get back from KL 2 weeks previously. Yes another impulse buy!

Any information would be fantastic.

Cheers and Happy Easter Heather

Hi

My son reported a good stay at The Greenhouse Backpackers - http://www.friendlygroup.com.au/greenhouse_home.asp

Yeah Greenhouse is definitely the best, very central and great guys running it.
Safe travels,
Nik

Melbourne Metro YHA in Howard St North Melbourne is also central & very good
melbmetro@yhavic.org.au
hope you have a great time in Melbourne

Hi,

When I stayed in Melbourne, I stayed at Enfield House in St Kilda's. This is a nice hostel. There are of dorms, singles and twins. It is easily traveling by tram to the city centre.

Address is 2 Enfield Street, St Kilda.
Any information: http://studios92.com/accommodation/EH2.htm.

Heather I sent you an email this morning which can get you something nice for $99 South Melbourne.

stay away from Hotel bakpak or hotel discovery as it is now known.The rooms were ok, but the communal bathroom on each floor was disgusting. I stayed a week and noriced the same rubbish lying in the toilets all week.

ive found a good deal with the mecure welcome, anyone stayed there recently?

Mecure Welcome in Swanston Street is good and very central with all the big stores almost next door - well not as big as the famous store in Whereup - LOL

Dave for $86pn i think i will book there, ta for that, i think location is a plus here. I wish i had the confidence to book a car and go ballarat and bendigo for a night but then i think 3 nights melb should give us some things to see.
I would love to do ballarat and sovereign hill with her.

If you can dodge crazed kangaroos and Gnomes, not to mention those winding roads where you are, Melb traffic is a sinch. From the city its really easy to get to both Ballarat and Bendigo - major freeways. The only trouble with Melb is the trams - they don't take prisoners - LOL You would only need to put up with Melb traffic for about half an hour if you do as I suggested - Its Easy Mate!!

I hereby declare mate 'YOU ARE THE GURU" Im looking forward to going UP country VIC. Hmm can you beat gnomesville???????

Heather, Melbourne is easy to drive, especially if you have a good map and navigator, Make certain you study the Melbourne road map the night before and highlight your your map with a bright highlighter. then no confusion from the navigator.

World war three nearly started in our car heading to St Kilda, i don't understand the islands separating traffic going the same way, then there is the hook turns arghhhhhhhh

Oh and i won't trust the phone navigator, hubby drove to fast for the phone to keep up and we past the streets just as we were told to turn.

Alas david -Sirgaw is coming to help and has kindly offered to show us around. How awesome!!

>then there is the hook turns arghhhhhhhh

They were designed by Gnomes - LOL Maybe you should have a look at one of my Melb travel warnings - its all about our hook turns. Click onto the link as shown, as there is a great animated version of the turn.