YHA Sydney Central

10s across the board! The room, common areas and restrooms were clean. The front desk was incredibly helpful. The location was perfect. Would definitely stay here again.

The hostel is in a really great location and the staff are helpful and friendly. There are lots of facilities to use during your stay, a cinema room, a pool and a co-working space, laundry etc. The room I was staying in was REALLY dark, the light was super dim and my bedside light didn’t work. Overall it’s a good place to stay for the amount it costs.

The hostel is nice, central location, lots of space for lounging, good facilities (pool, cinema room) although I didn’t use them. The hostel overall was good. Dorm room was big. Had large communal areas but only had seating around the outside meaning there was a big space in the middle which was useless and not enough seats for people to sit down in the evenings.It’s very classic inner city style hostel where you had to use you keycard for everything. Couldn’t use the lift and get onto your floor without a keycard so I’m not sure why it’s necessary to put keycard locks on all the bathrooms on your floor too.Showers were good, had changing space cubicle with the showers which was nice.My real issue with this place was a big one for me. No room available to put my bag before check in or after checkout. You had to Pay per hour to use a locker!! I had to change my plans whist here as I wasn’t willing to carry 27kg around whilst I saw the city. For such a well known hostel chain, there’s no point providing these extra/ nicer facilities if you can’t even provide the basics… as all other hostels do. Not to mention 20mins after checkout I wanted to use the toilet - I was sent to the cafe next door who turned me away for not being a paying customer! You can’t even go to the toilet after checking out despite having stayed there multiple nights!! Disgraceful service. All other hostels I have been to allow you to use all their facilities all day after checkout apart from your dorm room. What a rubbish way to end my time at this hostel.

Great hostel in central Sydney. I went for a 4 bed female dorm, which was really reasonably priced compared to other hostels. It was clean, nice and quiet and the hostel is really well located. Great for access to Chinatown for the Friday night market - worth a trip!

Good value hostel. It's very big so don't expect a super social experience. There is still a nice atmosphere though. Some of the facilities like the movie room and quotes sauna were closed and the pool is cold, but otherwise the facilities were nice.

Great place near the rail, and friendly staff. Locker was broken, soda machines were all sold out, and we were locked out of the bathrooms in the morning. But I would still recommend it as a good hostel.

The Bad - The check-in process was rather very labored. They require you to provide identity and then they take a photo of your face with their webcams supposedly to use facial recognition in their building to keep a track of your movements (I felt that this was an invasion of my privacy). The keycards that were provided did not work for our room had to be reissued. Additionally you're only allowed to use the bathrooms on your specific floor and not only that they're keyed to your assigned gender so good luck if you identify as anything but binary or you muddle up your keycard with your travel companions.The room was very drab it was clean enough, but the cupboards didn't close properly and there was only 2 power outlets for 4 people so good luck charging your devices.The good - The common areas were quite nice and there was a nice atmosphere to the place so that was nice, the location is amazing as it's right in front of central station so provides very convenient transport options to almost everywhere. Chinatown is also a stones throw away out the door and to your right plenty of food and drink everywhere you turn at all hours of the day.But to be honest with you the staff really let this place down as they weren't very friendly and didn't understand the gravity of the concerns I had or just didn't know how to listen and be empathetic.All in all, the place is a far cry from the YHA at The Rocks, if you get the chance book there instead it's well worth it for a similar price.

Great location. Possibly the cheapest location for a stay in Sydney. The building felt safe. No problems with theft. There were many bedbugs. Horrible, but it’s what you get for the price. Sheets were stained with blood and other strange stain. Loud music was heard from other rooms during late night.

Phenomenal location if you don't care for personal hygiene. Terrible service. Bring your own linen unless you like it stained. Would just pay the extra next time. My pillow case was stained with fake tan or foundation went to use the towel it was even worse. Apart from that fine. Absolutely terrible service, felt like I was getting served by the sloth in zootopia. You get what you pay for. Lesson learnt