Hotels near Lightbox Laneway Gallery, Highgate

I booked this hostel for 3 nights and I stayed for 3 months. It's definitely the THE BEST HOSTEL IN PERTH ! the staff is amazing, so nice, so caring, so friendly, and so helpful! Charlie, the owner, even helps travelers to find jobs and is always making arrangements to satisfy everyone. This place is like home. The bathrooms, Kitchen, and Common area are always clean! It's 100% what I expected to find in a hostel and the people I met there are now real friends. I miss this place already and I can't wait to come back after doing my 88 days. I would recommend it 10 000x if you want a real hostel life experience! thanks the shiralee team, you made y stay in Perth way better!

We love staying here , everything is great but we stayed last night , they have a microwave In your room but no. Plates or cutlery and ice ! Hotels stopped doing ice when we were in covid time , can we bring back ice , some people like drinks with ice when they stay in a hotel , miss the ice 😁 Otherwise love this place !

The place is okay but far from what is advertised. The room was cosy although not clean with soap from from the previous occupant still in the shower and dirty floors and sticky walls. The room is in need of some serious maintenance. Wardrobe would be useful if it had hangers. The hallway ‘kitchen’ has only a microwave, kettle, fridge, tea/instant coffee. No bowls or cutlery etc or breakfast cereal as advertised. Overall the place is quite loud due to zero sound proofing so anyone hoping to use said kitchen will wake up the whole place. Could get a nicer cleaner hostel for the same price, choose wisely:)

Great location - close enough to the centre of Northbridge (about 5-10min walk) but away enough for a quiet night's sleep. Check-in and check-out was simple and brief. Reception staff were efficient and friendly. We stayed in a Deluxe King room with a spa. Room was spacious and clean (bed linen had some small black stains but that didn't bother us). Loved that the window opened for fresh air. Shower was over spa which was fine for us (if you have mobility issues I wouldn't recommend this room type). Toilet pipe was leaking which kept leaving a pool of water on the floor. Reception was great with handling this though - they said they'd get someone to look at it and offered to move us to another room. Breakfast was confusing - it was supposed to be included in our stay, but when we went down to the restaurant we found it was closed (due to COVID I believe, which is understandable). On our way down we noticed people receiving room service. This breakfast service wasn't explained to us upon check-in so we felt we missed out in this regard. Thankfully the cafes in central Northbridge were only a short walk away! All in all it was a great stay that certainly didn't break the bank. Would happily stay here again - just remember to ask about breakfast at check-in!

This place is perfect if you need a cheap room to attend functions in the Mount Lawley area. The price made it cheaper than an Uber there and back so it was a no brainer. It’s nothing fancy but the rooms are safe and comfy and you won’t find better value for money. The room was large and the shower was hot. Towels need updating and the digital TV channels didn’t work, but we enjoyed it. No tea/coffee/milk or soap in the room so take yr own. Our only real gripe was that checkout is strictly 9.30am. 99% of places are 10am. Doesn’t seem like much but on a rare weekend without kids that extra sleep in is valuable 😀. Would definitely stay here again for inner city functions.

I have stayed here twice in the last two months. Both times I was impressed with the cleanliness and the facilities offered. A close walk to the city centre. A block from lovely Hyde Park. Good parking is available and impressive cooking facilities. The pool is a lovely place during the hotter months and I was lucky enough to get rooms on the ground floor o just a hop, step and jump into the clean pool. The young lady on reception was very helpful. I asked for a phone number to contact them for future stays, as I have used accommodation websites before. I would prefer to deal directly with the hotel. I needed to go to Perth on 20th March- 2 weeks time. I tried the number that they gave me and went to message back. They did not return my call. Disappointed

From making the reservation it all seems great, until you check in. The front door is piled with leaves, great welcome. I thought the place was closed down. On entry into room, lights were off so no welcome experience when arriving on night fall. Found the light switch, be that it was cracked and took some effort to switch on. Toilet seat was broken, after 4 nights stay and being reported, still not fixed. Bathroom sink spout was loose and dangling in basin. My hubby simply reached under sink and tightened with his own hands and fixed. Shower recess does not have a soap dish or anything to put your showering products on, the floor it was. Walks marked, chipped and in need of minor repairs. Kitchen is quaint. Microwave has remains of a prior guests food within it. Every plate, bowl and coffee cup was soiled with food remains. No COVID clean at all. The trash bin is 2.1lts in size. So don’t think about putting trash in it. A golden circle juice bottle is bigger. Dining chairs are well used and not vacuumed or cleaned. Otherwise housekeepers would of found the $50 note in one of the chairs and the opened condom wrapper in the other chair. One chair has springs popped out on bottom and nearly touching the carpet. Oh the carpet, yes nice dark colour, put a real vacuum cleaner has touched it properly in a while. Moved the lounge chair and found an Easter egg. Not sure if it was cavity range from 2018 or 2021? Bedside lights gloves were both blown. Reported but nothing happened nor was rectified during our stay. Nice touch with complimentary water in fridge. But tacky that water says Officeworks brand on it though. The mattress is described as a Queen bed, well it is two small singles pushed together and just horrendous to sleep on. With some love and attention this could be a great Apartment Hotel, but gather manager doesn’t have control as the service and cleanliness is letting this property down. Will we be back, probably not. Will the manger care about our review, probably not. Will the housekeepers have cleaned our room correctly after we had left, probably not. Will others wish to stay after reading our review, no idea. We suggest the manager stays in every room overnight and experience what we paying guests have to endure.

Location was easy to find and accessible to mostly places. Appreciate the clean bedding and towel. Room was spacious enough and had sufficient luggage storage spaces. There’s a large & cosy co-study/working/living space with billiard tables and projector screen. Sleeping areas are pretty secured with keycards so one can be less concerned with external entry. There is a kitchenette that allows guests to store their food in big fridges and sufficient amenities like microwaves and toasters. It’s a pity that some guests are not responsible in washing up after use. The hot water dispenser wasn’t working for the few days I was there so many guests heated drinking water with the microwave. Possible improvements: I wish a hostel with such high turnover could consider to provide shared shampoo and soap in the showers, and have a machine that sells washing detergent pods. Definitely would help to reduce loads of single-use disposable waste.

The Alex Hotel was a lovely relaxing stay-cation. The hotel it self is beautifully designed and furnishings, its a very tasteful modern chic boutique hotel. I liked the 3 choices of room sizes very clean, comfy bed and pillows. The roof top bar was outstanding and it was huge giving you the choice of a variety of seating arrangements, also the after hours mini bar was a great idea. I better mention how fantastic the coffee was. The stand out for this hotel was the location, tucked away from annoyances but less than a 100m either way for restaurants and public transport staff were always there to help but weren't pesty either. Thoroughly enjoyed my stay a firm favorite.