Hostel in Cairns
3-Star Hostel
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About this hostel
Welcome to Dreamtime—an award-winning budget hostel with a big heart.
If you're looking for a clean, friendly and relaxed place to stay while exploring Cairns, you've found it.
We're not a party hostel.
Amenities
Free WiFi/internet
Free Parking
Air conditioning
Pool
Non-smoking
Kitchen
WiFi/Internet
Shared living spaces
Garden
Laundry services
Outdoor Cooking
Family friendly
Smoking allowed
Safe
Key access
Contactless check-in/out
Fire alarm
Fire extinguisher
Cleaning products
Map of Cairns
Available Rooms
Ratings and reviews
100% verified reviews10 / 10Outstanding·Nov 2026
- Close to the airport
- Walkable to Spaceship Rentals, where we rented from
- Walkable to Cairns night market
- Great breeze on top floor
- So many nice places to chill
- Lots of well-equipped kitchens
- 1st 6 hours of A/C free + ceiling fan in every room
- Lovely host with excellent communication
- Clean & well-kept property/facilities
8 / 10Excellent·Nov 2026
Very well looked after, clean, comfortable.
Nothing.
10 / 10Outstanding·Nov 2026
The hostel is a few converted Queenslander style houses so is very homely and cosy.
I stayed in the 6 person dorm and on the second visit, was upgraded to a 4 person with ensuite. Both rooms were great, with space and comfy beds.
The hostel is quirky and has plenty of space and furniture to lounge under cover outside the rooms for fresh air, chilling and mingling with other guests if you want the social touch. It's a quiet place which was fab! Definitely what I was looking for to come back and relax, but also have chats with mature & considerate other travellers.
The bathrooms are individual for privacy (not dorm style blocks) and there are several open kitchens with a great supply of utensils and cooking equipment.
The location is great. Right opposite a big shopping mall with supermarkets, the bus & train station and just a few minutes walk in to the central town centre. It had a quiet residential feel to retreat back to yet on the doorstep of restaurants and the town buzz. Other hostels I walked past in the town were noisy and busy - was so glad to have picked Dreamtime and recommend it 100%
6 / 10Average·Jul 2026
Location to public transport.
Lack of showers (hot water ran out so cold water only at night) to ratio of people staying. The 1 kitchen tea towel was filthy. No oven. Fan in room only works on high speed. No upper sheet on bed, only a doona.
For the amount of money they bring in each night there definitely needs an upgrade of facilities.
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Top rated by guests
8.9Excellent
(1,198 Ratings)
"- Close to the airport
- Walkable to Spaceship Rentals, where we rented from
- Walkable to Cairns night market
- Great breeze on top floor
- So many nice places to chill
- Lots of well-equipped kitche..."
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