Finlay Jack's Backpackers

A perfect hostel experience! The staff were lovely, the kitchen was clean and the bedrooms were very cozy. A cute garden with flowers, hammocks and benches to relax outdoors gave it the little extra. I strongly reccomend this hostel if you need a place to stay in Taupo!

Location, facilities, amenities, services, hospitality..etc. Everything is good and great. I didn’t expect there are such spacious bunk area, kitchen, canteen and outsides garden for relaxing , reading. My best hostel experiences in New Zealand. I strongly recommend.

A cool place with great rooms - we were in a 4 bed pod room and whilst the room was small, the pods were big and had enough space to put all your things (and had blinds for additional privacy). The hostel itself is a nice space and great to hang out in the warm evenings. The kitchen facilities were good and had everything needed. The bathroom facilities were good but perhaps a bit small for the number of people needing to use them (I had to wait on occasions). Overall in a good location and would stay again.

Big pod-style dorm with its own bathroom. Didn’t feel like suffocating. Great kitchen, social life and merch. People were friendly and the staff was helpful at any moment. There’re supermarkets close to the hostel ! It’s also easy to walk to the lake.

Really good hostel. The pod beds were brilliant - plenty of space for your stuff and black out blinds on the pods for a bit of privacy! Bedding was comfy and soft too. The kitchen area had a really useful blackboard with suggestions for things to do/places to go in the area. Nice courtyard space to relax. Clean bathroom area and spacious showers. Only thing to be aware of if you're in a dorm is there seemed to be a culture of leaving the dorm doors open/unlocked at any hour of the day. So just make sure your valuables are safely stowed in the lockers.

Backpacking my way down to the south island and I stopped in this place. I came early so I didn't have to check in, however the guy said I leave my bags and go for a walks to huka falls. This was a beautiful walk and took about 2 hours. I love it, which gave them enough time to make my bed. Once I checked it, the staff were so lovely and everyone around, it was such lovely chilled back atmosphere. The beds were not on frames to just mattresses which was super comfortable. And they gave you two pillow!! This was incredible. I love it every minute. Will be recommending to all my fellow friends and family. Thank you so much. Even though you had to check out by 10 also you could hang around areas that were not you your room so gave me time to charge my phone.

We stayed at Finlay Jack's for 4 nights with our 2 boys who are 6 and 9. We loved our room which had an ensuite bathroom. The shared kitchen facilities were always clean a d the gas stoves worked really well. Our boys LOVED Biggy and how cute he was. We hopefully will be back sometime soon.

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