The Happy Backpacker — Lodging in Penguin

Reviews of The Happy Backpacker

• Isaac

  Added 2016.07.17

  Best backpackers we stayed at while travelling around tassie. Very friendly staff and the rooms were large and clean. We stayed here the night before boarding the Spirit of Tassie as it was an easy 20 min drive from Devonport.
• Jaden

  Added 2016.01.07

  Love waking up smelling the sea the rooms are amazing
• Luke

  Added 2015.08.01

  Not a happy backpacker! If u arrive after 10 pm even after having a conversation with the staff, expect to cross your fingers and randomly hope there might be a person around to let you in! No one answers the phone after 10pm even if u were told there would be and there isn’t anyone at reception or on the premises to let u in to give u a key! Luckily for me there was a bar staff member just finishing up cleaning who was surprised to a person knocking on the back door to be checked in! If u didn’t let me in I would have had to sleep in the car! Really unacceptable!!! They should have simply told me we don’t check people in after 10 pm and I would have booked somewhere else rather than tell me it was ok when clearly it was not!! And the worst thing the next day when I spoke with the guy who had taken my phone call a few days earlier was rude and didn’t care i almost had to sleep in the car! He said “ not his fault and what do u expect it’s a backpackers!!!” Clearly he has never stayed at a backpackers before! And this place is actually a hotel come backpackers so not really it’s a basic hotel and not the beautiful feeling and hospitality of a real backpackers!!!
• Sebastian

  Added 2013.08.23

  Good place for sleep, good price if you book weekly and it is only 3 minutes of the beach, it is a quiet and relax town, the hostel has good wifi and good kitchen, you have 3 little supermarkets close (IGA) and if you go to Ulverstone you have Coles and Woolies and other shops. I really enjoyed my stay in this hostel :) I love Penguin town!