Sydney: Our recommended hostel
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Gapyear.com recommended hostel

City: Sydney, Australia
Name: Wake Up! Sydney Central
Address: 509 Pitt Street, Sydney, Australia
About Wake Up! Sydney Central
Wake Up! is budget accommodation, without the budget smells, sounds or grime! Conveniently located right next to Sydney’s Central Railway Station, Wake Up! has four, six, eight and 10 bed spacious dorms; some mixed, some female-only. It also offers twin and double rooms for a little bit more moolah.
Wake Up! Sydney Central boasts...
- Discounts on Oz Experience bus tours
- Free beer on arrival!
- Free linen
- Help finding a job
- Orientation to Sydney - including tax and job info
- 24 hour reception
- 24 hour internet access
- Personal lockers in every room
- Side bar - with parties every night and frequent cocktail promotions
- Bistro
- Cafe
- Colour-coded levels so it's easy to find your bed after a night out - they've met your sort before!
- Discounted postage service - send your unwanted stuff home on the cheap!
- Heavily discounted boat trips and sightseeing tours
Free beer alert!

This hostel offers two free beers to gapyear.com members - that's one for you and another to help break the ice with a fellow backpacker. Or that's two for you and no friends... your choice!
Click here >> to download your free beer vouchers now!
Good one for the girlies...

This hostel looks after the ladies by offering female-only dorms and making safety top priority. Just state that you'd like a bed in a girls-only room when you fill in the enquiry form below.
Rates
Expect to pay around £10 a bed for a 10 bed dorm, £12 for an eight bed, £13 for six beds and £14 for four.
What gapyear.com members say...
"This is the most popular hostel in Sydney because it’s brand new and very modern... They have a massive bar in the basement which is a great place to meet people." -
ChrisCookies "We stayed in the Wake Up Hostel... it was within easy walking distance of everywhere and it was a really friendly place, the rooms were nice and it was just good all round!" -
Sam Gapyear.com says...
Wake Up! Sydney Central is backpacker heaven - wicked location, clean comfortable dorms and chill-out areas, loads of promotions and a massive downstairs bar crammed with other travellers night after night. Plus they take personal safety seriously and are dedicated to ensuring you see the best that Sydney has to offer. Add on the free linen, 24 hour internet, multiple TVs and cheap backpacker deals and you're onto a winner!
Wake Up! Sydney Central says...
Finally a hostel which lives up to the hype, wake up! Sydney's best budget accommodation is where any fun loving backpacker should be bedding down. So now that you've found us, relax, chill out, have some fun and wake up! with someone new...
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