The Young Street Hotel

Got directed to a room, check in staff nice, room was easy to access with no dramas apart from general common space cleanliness upstairs. Went into my room and there were rubbish bags, empty cigarette boxes, leftover alcohol/rubbish, a messy bed, and dead moths. The room had been like that a while and nobody has checked on it. I went back downstairs and the staff apologised and gave me a code for a different room. This one was much nicer, clearly ready for a guest. A few hours later someone opens my door as I’m about to leave for this evening. They were told they’d booked this room and were given the door code by the staff downstairs. I had to go down again to fix it up. Aside from the shared bathroom spaces that I avoided entirely (with good reason), the room was nice and functioned as advertised. The staff are lovely, and the downstairs area is really great, with good vibes good food and great setup, I just think the hotel part of the young street hotel needs a little more TLC. I hope managers see this and it helps them identify ways of improving cleanliness and organisation/coordination.

Comfortable beds, clean room, quiet at night for our little family and very lovely accommodating staff. There was a couple of cockroaches in the men’s bathroom/showers and they were unclean too. Main corridor upstairs was a little smelly (fishy), but great otherwise. There is off-street parking out back - first in, first serve.

My partner and I are on a jag of "Let's try something new". We used to go to the Young Street Hotel under its previous ownership when it was higher end dining. Wow. Has it nosedived!! We walked into the restaurant area that has now been "kiddy-fied" and we were deafened by children screaming. Some were in a room off the main dining area, treating the furniture like jumping castles. We retreated to the front bar and ordered our food. And then we waited... and waited... Our shared entree of pork belly bites was OK but ordinary. We waited another half hour or more (my partner works from home and had a Zoom meeting coming up) and our mains turned up. I had the entree size Rare Beef Tataki. It was actually a largish serve for an entree, but it was tough and completely lacking in flavour. My partner's fish and chips were average but a bit on the small size and lacking in flavour. Add a Coke and a glass of red wine and the bill hit $96.77. Add a second glass of wine and the bill went over $100. For an extremely ordinary meal with long wait times and screaming kids. We wont be back.

This was the worst pub meal Ive ever had in Newcastle. The food was incredibly poor, like I didn’t think was possible anymore. Burnt and soggy toastie, overcooked schnitzel with soggy lettuce covered in poor quality dressing. Massively overpriced. The tables were sticky dirty, atmosphere awful, poorly maintained and not clean. This pub will go broke if they don’t improve. Do yourself a favour and don’t go.

Kitchen was dirty, smelly, fridges were not clean. No mugs & cutlery. Shower head kept spraying, had to use the other shower. No shampoo, & body wash only conditioner & it did not get replenished. You need to take more care of your visitors, very unhygienic & not healthy especially for kids.

Room was covered in bugs and cockroaches. Stains everywhere from where they have been previously squashed.