Red Cliffs Backpackers

Absoultley the worst hostel I've ever seen. Extremely dirty, kitchen had huge roaches in it. Cup full of mould and bags of garbage under the bed. Disgusting stained matress.Owner claimed that the police gave him permission to use physical violence to remove people from the property.On the first night I was there, someone tried to burn down the hostel by lighting a duvet on fire next to the wall. Owner claimed it was a disgruntled guest.Many more problems, too many to list.Avoid at all costs.

I was confused when I read many bad comments about the accommodation and owner. But I have to say negative comments were totally wrong. I have been living here now and every things is very good, especially the Owner - Michael who is a good man, he tries to help us everything he can do, he gave us the car for working, he also teaches me how to drive the car properly in Australia. So I highly recommend for anyone who wants to come and live here.

Waste of time, do not go!! Hostel owner will try charge you $10 an item if you leave it on the side dirty. Rooms and toilets rarely got cleaned. It’s called a ‘working hostel’ however he never found us work, we had to find it ourselves. If he found work it would be boys because ‘boys are better than girls’. If it wasn’t the people that I met I wouldn’t of stayed.

Brilliant hostel, had a great time staying here, Michaels a great guy and helped me out a lot with work. Highly recommend this hostel if you’re looking for work for a couple months.

Great place. Cheap rent and good infrastructure at the hostel. The owner is a gem. He provided a car so I could go to work and he provides work if you've got none. Don't listen to the sour grapes on this site. red cliffs backpackers is great. The people complaining would complain about anything.

I would not recommend red cliffs backpackers for the following reasons.
• If you dont have a job secured before getting to the hostel...good luck. half the people for the past 7 weeks had to find their own job due to the owner not doing his job. He only recently got 14 jobs in a packing shed. Thankfully I had my own job before I got here which finished after 8 weeks, after I had one job found by the manager which was terrible piece rate job where the farmer shouted and harassed me. The only saving grace was my old job wanted me to come back and so I completed my 88 days off my own back.
•The owner will find the smallest things to fine you for, if he doesn't like you he will find every way to make your stay miserable.
•If your'e a female be careful, the owner likes to talk about very inappropriate things.
• My room has had bedbugs for the past month and a bit, and the owner has hardly made a conscious effort of getting rid of them. Sprayed the floor and that was about it, spent more time trying to find someone to blame rather than fight to problem. On the day we left he sprayed the mattress with his home made cocktail and then proceeded to put them back in the room to let people sleep on it. I found actual bed bugs on my clothes, this particular piece of clothing I had washed two times prior to try and get rid of the bed bugs. Any usual hostel would have dealt with this situation within the hour...however our manager dealt with it 2 days later.
•He finds every way possible to not give your bond back when you leave, especially when he doesn't like you.
•The place is pretty dirty, he sometimes gets someone in the hostel to clean for free rent which is great, but if nobody is there to clean it becomes dirty very quickly.
- only good thing is the location, it's near to everything you need and a bus that goes into mildura and you have transport to and from work....if you have a job.

Red cliff back packers is the worst place I’ve ever stayed.The place is disgusting and not well kept. The owner/manager never cleans or gets cleaners in because he’s too cheap. The only time the place is properly cleaned is when people clean for accommodation, but most of the time it’s disgusting. The owner/manager himself can be very inappropriate and can make you very uncomfortable. On numerous occasions he talked about sexual situations including how sex was with his wife and asked about my sexual relations which was so wrong but at the time he was threatening to evict people so I didn’t want to say anything so I just brushed it off. He can get very aggressive and his vulgar behaviour has hurt a lot of people. He’s psychotic and I didn’t even have the worst experience compared to some! The rooms are disgusting. We lived with a mouse in our room which he tried to blame on us! Even though he stuck 5 people in the lounge room (including me) because he had no rooms left but is too greedy to not except money. And the entire time me and all my friends stayed there the room was never once even cleaned! My best friend even had to sleep on the sofa for the night because he overbooked. The owner is a power money hungry man and the only reason I loved that hostel was because of the amazing residents there. We also didn’t have any shelves or storage space for 2 1/2 months so most our clothes were in baskets or folded on blankets on the floor.And there was also a camera that was in our all girls room he switched off but never took down. So we just had to trust he left it switched off.When something happened like milk would leak out the fridge he would find someone to blame and wait for one of us to clean it up. So in the 48 degree heat walking in from farm work the smell of gone off warm milk hit you right in the face.I could go on and on but the last thing I’d say is he can’t even get people jobs. More that 20 people in that hostel didn’t have jobs and I met lots of farmers and contractors that didn’t want to use him because of lack in communication and not being stable with the hostel or workers. He may say he’s getting jobs for people now but he left so many people to find their own jobs and he left so many of us to struggle.If I could give it no stars I would.

The accomodation is very nice and comfy and the public space is always clean. Very nice people here. The owner, Micheal, is very gentle guy and I learned many useful stuffs from him as he likes to teach :)

Michael will do his best to help you to find a job ( like borrow you a car or rent one for a very cheap price). Thank You Michael.