Traveller Bunker Hostel 1

Excellent

nice place

One of the cheaper options in Cameron Highlands. The hostel is quite clean and the beds are comfortable. There is a light, fan, socket and shelf in each bed with a curtain to enable privacy. You are not provided with free towels or shower products, but you can rent towels for 5 ringgit. The shower in our room was temperamental and was sometimes very cold or had no water pressure, but it was ok for the most part. Wi-Fi worked excellently throughout the whole hostel which is great. There is a public fridge available for use and the hostel offers laundry for 18 ringgit for 3kg (we didn’t use this as it is cheaper to do self service nearby). The location is perfect and it’s very close to the limited number of shops and restaurants in Tanah Rata. You can also book tours through the hostel and there is walking tours every day. The staff are ok but reinforce rules about housekeeping very firmly, a bit too ‘school like’ for me, but understandable to try and keep the hostel clean and quiet. Overall, a good budget stay but I’m glad we didn’t have to spend more than 3 nights, but perfect for backpackers on a budget.

This hostel is in a good location less than 10 minutes walk from the bus station and near everything you'd need in town. The bathrooms were clean however the room I stayed in had 16 ? beds with two small bathrooms so you would often have to wait (not great if you have just returned from a muddy walk). Staff were really friendly but personally I found this hostel had a lot of groups of friends staying and therefore I struggled to meet anyone - I guess that's just how it is sometimes! The room was messy because there was so many people. Clearly some people in the room had been there a while and therefore their stuff was everywhere. The beds are private behind your curtain thing but the beds are SO uncomfortable. We also had multiple people making phonecalls in their pod from around 9pm - 12am with noone having the nerve to tell them to shut up! I thought it was common hostel knowledge not to take phonecalls in the dorm at night? Either way, the whole room now knows everything about their lives! I think this would be a great place if you visited when a few more tourists were around too. And I saw a couple of smaller dorms upstairs so may be a bit quieter there!