Geeky Gecko Backpackers
6 Stafford Street, City Center, Dunedin, New Zealand - See map
Get your trip off to a great start with a stay at this property, which offers free Wi-Fi in all rooms. Conveniently situated in the City Center part of Dunedin, this property puts you close to attractions and interesting dining options. Don't leave before paying a visit to the famous Otago Peninsula.
Highlights
Facilities
Free Wi-Fi in all rooms!
Luggage storage
Tours
Wi-Fi in public areas
Smoking area
Library
Rental car
Nice place for a couple of nights ”
Nice staff good facility's
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Good value backpacker”
Private dorm room (room0)tad small. Could hear footsteps when people pass through the corridor, due to the ventilating holes and small gap between the door and floor. Shower near kitchen is nice and spacious. Steady hot water with good water pressure.
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great friendly staff ”
Staff were friendly, lots of bathrooms, poor wifi and place in need of a thorough clean
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Hi Thanks for the review. We are under new management and now have wifi through the whole hostel and undertaken a thorough clean. Regards Ben
Very fast Wifi, but smell everywhere , good kitchen ”
Had a room without a window. The whole place smelled terrible. But the showers were clean, the kitchen very good and the wifi very fast...
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Typical Hostel ”
You pay for what you get, smell of damp and quite dirty, but for the cost of the room you can’t complain. The heater in the room was exstreamly noisy and a lot of renovations happening which was an inconvenience and tripping hazard. Friendly helpful staff
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Good”
Every door was slamming when they should just be dampened or cushioned and cleaning the kitchen loudly at 10-11pm? Dishes slambing ect Maybe hang a few peices of art or somthing over the holes in the walls pls so doesnt look like a 20$ private room
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On edge.”
Me and my friend stayed here for a concert, for one double bed we paid $230. I understand this is because everything was fully booked but for the price I wasn’t impressed. One staff member was good, the other two were uninterested and hostile. The shared toilets were full with water over the floor & over spilling bin which didn’t get cleaned overnight. As two teenage girls, we didn’t feel our safety was 100% as the doors were hard to lock, easy to get into other peoples things, etc. glad we found somewhere to stay during a busy period but probably wouldn’t recommend to others.
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Acceptable”
Booking records said we had not paid. We required to pay twice. Had to recover over payment after our stay. Noise from other guests was intolerable. Walls had no sound-proofing at all.
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Acceptable”
It was cold, only the lounge room was quit well heated. Also only in that room You could get wifi, outside bad coverage.
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2 night stay for a concert!!”
absolutely loved the stay at Geckos! highly recommend if you are a student looking for a place to stay and don't wanna spend much especially if you are coming in to Dunedin for a concert or any event, absolute value for money! Lovely staff and were really helpful throughout our stay, thank you your hospitality! wish that the kitchen stayed open after 11pm tho, especially for a cuppa before bed or to refill water but other then that would recommend and would book again for another stay if I need to come in to Dunedin again. Cheers!
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Stay in Otago”
Its a good backpack hostel with supporting staff. We checked in after office hour. They left key and documents for us. One of the staff helped us after office hour. It is almost at the city center. Everything is at walking distance. There are no parking so you need to park elsewhere. They will tell you where the free parking is.
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Cheap!”
the most important thing to stay is price, and backpackers are more important than others. this is cheapest around dunedin i think.
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Good value for money”
Booked 1 night in private bunk bed room really basic but clean, hostel in the city center close to the octagon, friendly staff at the reception, free car park in the street 5 min walk to the hostel, good free breakfast, free wifi, for the price we paid and all the facilities I recommend this hostel
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Walk distant form hostel to Octagon but easy way.”
This hostel is look nice, cheap as it is. I booking online and can get 37 NZD for woman dorm shared bath room (stay only 1 night). My room was on the 2nd floor next to the smoking area. But compare the room with people in the morning the toilet and bath room is still not enough. I traveled form Wellington to Dunedin by airplane, arrive there about 10.30 am. Check in 2 pm, so we can stay in the living room and lounge. Staff there is kind,in my room we have TV, and Air con. But at the night time it is very noisy we can hear some people they on phone even it was 10.30 pm night time. The kitchen full with people also in the morning, at night after 10.00 pm kitchen close for cleaning . Some time we have not much time to eat coz an evening crowded with people. This hostel economic but some distant, if we take shutter bus form Dunedin airport it is easy taxi (cost 29 NZD) drop us in front off hostel. Distant walk about 800 meter to Octagon straight way, walking more distant about 1.8 Km to Dunedin Railway. My Trip in NZ is wonderfull, I do love This small town, prefer than Wellington city or other big city, few night may be good to explore this area. if some one take the bus (Intercity is better than Mana bus or Naked bus). Walk more distant form this hostel to the Intercity bus station. p.s My trip I book and traveler with Intercity and Manabus. But the Naked bus and mana bus late 4-5 hrs. Form Auk to WCC and form BUlls to WCC i have to spent more money to hire a car to WCC coz Mana bus late.
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Cheap and cheerful, just what we wanted.”
We were looking for somewhere cheap and handy to lay our heads at night during a recent weekend in Dunedin, and found what we were looking for in Penny's. Only issue was that the first room we got checked into had a broken bed, fortunately we noticed this straightaway (and not when we returned home in the middle of the night). Went straight back downstairs to raise this with the friendly guy at reception and he immediately rehomed us. All in all, very happy.
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The room looks old but big enough”
It's value for money with the price to have a single room. The hotel is about 8mins walk to city center, but I spent a long time to find it when I arrived. My room looks very old, and I always have to switch on the power plug every 45mins which is automatically set by the hotel. It always takes more than 45mins for charging my ph and camera, which I feel is not using friendly.
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Value for money”
It is great that it is located in the city but it's not easy to find parking. Aside from that, everything is great... friendly staff & good facilities
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good stay”
me and my friend had a good and confy stay. rooms were clean, enough bathroom is available. nice kitchen. Parkingspace around the corner. city-center 10 min away.
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helpful staff and pretty good facilities”
The room is pretty small but other than that we had a good experience. The kitchen and launge have pretty good facilities.
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Great hostel in Dunedin”
Great location with street parking available on the next street, very helpful staff, nice warm lounge and a number of showers and toilets so I never had to wait in line long and free breakfast! Was perfect for my short stay :)
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