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The Base Hotel: The Pod Hotel's Down Under Cousin?

Where: 477 KENT ST , Sydney, Australia, 2000

It seems like hostels and budget hotels in Sydney are starting to meet in the middle--especially if you consider the case of Base Sydney, a hostel that markets heavily to backpackers but is trying to aim higher.

Base has just done A$2 million worth of renovations to target the "affordable yet upscale" market of travelers, young and old. Gone are the days when hostels offer just huge rooms of bunk beds filled with snoring backpackers; Base now offers suites with king-sized beds, ensuites and plasma TVs. Much like NYC's Pod Hotel which got a similar high-tech face lift.

If you shack up with some other travelers in a dorm room, a night at Base will set you back from A$28 (US$25), and the suites with bathrooms start at $99 (US$89). Very reasonable already, especially for the center of Sydney, but then they throw in extra deals like free airport pickup if you book three nights or more. Ok, so this is more like the totally cheaper Pod Hotel cousin.

Some of the recent guest feedback lists complaints like cold showers and broken locks, but perhaps the couple of million bucks has fixed this.

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