Hello,
Myself and my husband are going on our first round the
world trip in July at the grand old age of 28. We are
hoping to be in Sydney for the new year and suspect that
most of the hostels will be booked up by now, the thing is
because we don't know how long we will want to spend in
U.S.A, Fiji and New Zealand before getting to Oz we are
unsure about the best way to get ourselves somewhere to
stay when we don't have a definate date in mind. We don't
actually know anyone in Sydney but we have mates who have
been traveling and met people along the way, they reckon
it's perfectly acceptable for us to contact them and they
would be happy to give us a bed for the night e.t.c. I
don't know how anyone feels about this, but I can't help
feeling it's a little bit rude to just phone up a complete
stranger out of the blue and expect to stay with them, or
even expect them to be in!
Friends say this is all part of the travelling
mentality/adventure and any friend of theirs blah blah..
Anyway I'm rambleing but, please please somebody give us
some advice.
Thanks in advance
Medusa. x
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places are not all booked out: some places are not taking
new-uear bookings until October.
As you have probably realised Aussies are very friendly easy
going people. I am sure that if your fellow travellers have
said their friends will put you up then accept this as fact.
In the mean time collect as many "friendly bed" address and
contacts as you can.
Dec/Jan is major holiday time in Oz and it is true that half
the nation is o the move.
Feel confident that you will find somewhere, even if it is
some floor space, until you find some alternate
accommodation.
Leave plenty of time to explore Sydney and the surrounds.
There is heaps happening in Sydney in January as it is the
"Festival of Sydney" and annual event. The weather is hot
and we have daylight saving so you have light until nearly
9pm.
My partner and I have just returned home and we stayed with
home hostels and had a great time. Really clean, comfortable
and we got picked up free and one place had a pool and a spa
breakfast included all for the same price as staying in a
backpackers. We met some great people and can't wait to
return to Australia to see them again one day. This is the
best and cheapest accommodation we stayed at in Australia.
The website is http://www.homehostel.com
.
I can appreciate you would be reluctant to freeload off
strangers even though they probably wouldn't see it like
that. We find it works well to contact them and ask if
they would be prepared to bed and breakfast us for however
many days we mention. Generally, there is no charge as
this sort of hospitality seems to go around in circles, not
back and forth but I know that no-one is offended by our
offering to pay and we sure feel better about approaching
them.