The Brownston Hostel

good place to stay, good facilities

Great kitchen facilities. Great french patisserie and charcuterie next door, as well as coffee cart. Great bookshop and cinema across the road, supermarket just behind building. Easy walk to lake. Superb position!

A great hostel in a great location. A

Priced well and clean

It's very close to Lake Wanaka. And convenient to restaurants, grocery stores.

This place made me think I was in rehab. Its very institutional and devoid of any kind of decorative flare to make you feel welcome. The room had nothing except a bed, a useless dresser, and a bare lightbulb over your head. The bathroom and sink were tiny. I don’t mind bare bones hostels but this was not worth the money they are charging. 6/10

Great location

We had a private room with a bathroom. Tje bes was extremely comfortable. We lived being able to cook dinner and breakfast in the large and well stocked communal kitchen. I highly recommend staying here.

Surprisingly very quiet (individual room/bathroom). Well positioned in town, easy access and parking. Clean, renovated (in my corridor at least). Good to split chill out room from tv room. Don’t be rebutted by reception on first floor. A bit sad that over 5 washing machine only 1 was not out of order.

Room was compact, comfortable large bed. Air conditioning in communal areas but not in bedroom, able to borrow a fan from reception. Staff were friendly and helpful.

The property was very central, the room was clean but small with few amenities. Quite expensive but I have no comparison with other nearby properties

Very clean and the staff was very kind

Great location and setup.

Value for money. This was a couple room with private bathroom. Very basic things very there like soap, towels and shampoo. They have separate kitchen for everyone if any one need utensils or cooking related amenities . Kitchen is all the way down and a bit confusing location. The don’t have parking

For the nightly price, the room facilities were poor compared to motels. No air con in private room.

Clean room and well equipped large kitchen.

There is a night clumb nearby and the base of the music can be heard until the early hours of the morning.

Nice and clean room, within easy walking distance to shops and restaurants. We had the king bed room with private ensuite which was very basic, but comfortable enough for our one night stay.

The hostel is at a very convenient location. Grocery store NW next door. Although the room is too small to eat at, but you can always grab something from the grocery store and eat by the lake. My stay was not too bad overall. However I was unlucky the day I arrived happened to be one of these hot days. The room looks exactly like the photo, what you see is what you get. There is a bed in the room and some cabinet on the side, no nightstand or anything else. So the temperature was high, I opened the window, then the problem is due to the convenient location, it was quite noisy outside, even at night. So I try to close the window. Then it was too hot. And I opened the window again, then I hear people laughing, talking, drinking, etc. I ended up didn’t sleep well that night. Like I said, I was unlucky and happened to be there in one of these hot days…so if you are traveling in summer, this is something to consider.

Overall good stay. Appreciated a plug in and additional cord charging port. The chill space being separate from the TV space was appreciated. The kitchen was strange. You had to ascend the ground floor to first floor steps, walk partway across the property, and then go down another set of stairs. A lot of space to cook in the kitchen, as well as dine and relax. Wifi however was mediocre at best so if you’re needing to use it, I would look elsewhere.