YHA Fremantle Prison

Good location and nice staff Woke up to many bug bites on the bed.

I stayed for 4 nights, first time ever staying in a hostel. Greatly surprised. Just have to be OK with sharing a room, but if you spend most the day out and just want a bed to sleep in, who cares? Also all the guys I bunked with seemed pretty cool. No bed bugs, no bites to speak of, just some cool European guys who all had a story to tell. There's lockers in the room if you have valuables but I didn't bother since I was travelling fairly light, no complaints or missing items. They offer a massive kitchen, multiple stovetops to cook on, an oven, and a wall of fridges you can put your shopping in. I saved a tonne of money on accommodation and also saved money on food because I got to cook for myself. Even a cheap hotel will cost you twice as much and you'll maybe be lucky to get a kettle and microwave? If I visit Perth again in the future and these guys are still operating they will be my place of choice. Even if you didn't want to share a room, I think it would be worth it to pay the extra money for a private room at this location because the kitchen access is honestly a life changer. It wouldn't be any more expensive than a hotel room, but you have access to home cooked meals while travelling. Reception seemed really dodgy in the room I stayed in specifically (104). Worked great everywhere else on the premises. Both the wifi and just using data on a phone that's only a few weeks old would have occasional cut outs. Very possible that it could be a problem with the building, which as I believe it is a heritage protected building there isn't anything they can do about it. Not cutting out to the point of being unbearable, just a bit of an inconvenience.