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Pretoria Backpackers

Address: 425 Farenden St., Clydesdale, Tshwane, 0002
Phone: 012/343-9754
www.pretoriabackpackers.net

Price range: ¢
Location: Pretoria

Write a review | Avg. member rating: 1.2/5

Fodor's Review:

This backpackers' hostel is run more like a family guesthouse. All the beds have electric blankets in winter, and the rooms have fans for the hot summer. There's a dormitory, but also 14 rooms and wooden cabins in the lush, tropical garden. The owner, Francois Van Rooyen, can take you on a daylong sightseeing tour to Johannesburg, Soweto, and the Apartheid Museum, and will also pick you up from the Johannesburg airport.

Hotel Details: 14 rooms, 13-bed dormitory
In-room: kitchen.
In-hotel: bar, pool.
Rate includes: Continental breakfast
Credit Cards: AE, DC, MC, V

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Member Reviews and Ratings

Reviewed by lmcarbonell from New York on 7/28/07
Despite having a confirmation, we were shunted off to another guest house to make room for a large group of students. Out of sight was definitely out of mind for the people at Pretoria Backpackers; they left us out in the cold three times! Despite making us stay in worse accommodations than what we had signed up for, they still charged us MORE than the price for their cheapest room! The "breakfast" was substandard as well. The only good thing about this place than we could see was the large vegetarian dog.