Farmgate Backpackers

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Farmgate Backpackers offers farm work and accommodation to travellers in Childers Queensland. Please call us to make a booking or find out about work opportunities.

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Farmgate Backpackers, Childers, (formerly Sugar Bowl Caravan Park) specialises in connecting local and international workers with job opportunities in regional Queensland, specifically the Bundaberg region. We strive to provide safe, comfortable, affordable accommodation for our guests, whilst also ensuring our local farming partners are supplied with the most suitable workers for their seasonal jobs.

From our park, it is only a 5 minute stroll to the local shopping centre or a 15 minute walk into town. In the centre of Childers, you will find an array of retail stores, hotels, post office and banks.

Address: 28965 Bruce Hwy, Childers QLD 4660, Australia

Phone: (07) 4126 1521

Website

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State: Queensland

Zip Code: 4660

Opening Hours

Monday: 3:30 – 6:30 PM
Tuesday: 3:30 – 6:30 PM
Wednesday: 3:30 – 6:30 PM
Thursday: 3:30 – 6:30 PM
Friday: 3:30 – 6:30 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, 3:00 – 5:00 PM

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Reviews

I found work the day I arrived which was fantastic! The staff were welcoming and were willing to help with anything we needed. The rooms were clean and tidy and the beds were comfortable. Great facilities and you couldn’t find a better location! I’ll be coming back for sure!

 7 years ago (01-02-2018)

We got a job fairly quickly, but it was an awful piece rate job picking lemons. We stayed in our own tent/car as there was no permanent accommodation at the time in the hostel, which cost an insane $170 a week per person. so nearly $700 for 4 people to sleep in a parking space a week... The hostel also has a $100 bond (for what?)
Most of the owners are nice and friendly but this is not somewhere to go to enjoy farm work. Sure you'll get your days doing awful work but there is an insane amount of very strict ules at the hostel, like no drinking/noise past 9pm any day of the week and drinking games are completely banned.

Over priced and like being in prison

 7 years ago (27-01-2018)

Fantastic accomodation - clean, tidy and great amenities. Management could not have done more to find us work and were very helpful in showing us around and settling us in. All three of us thoroughly enjoyed our time there and will definitely be back!

 7 years ago (27-01-2018)

Great place to stay and get farm work! Thanks for all your help Mal and Sue.

 7 years ago (28-01-2018)

DO NOT COME HERE. This "hostel" is a SCAM and a trap that prays on desperate and vunerable backpackers. The hostel is associated with non ethical farms that pay less than half of the minimum wage. The staff at farmgate, particularly "Mal" the owner are patronising, rude, condescending and extremely deceptive. Lies are told to new arrivals about potential earnings from piece rate and hours available. Hours provided are limited and piece rates are simply impossible to even achieve close to minimum wage, do not think you can save any money staying here. The rent prices are absurd 170 dollars per week, per person to sleep in a car or pitch a tent on a parking space. The camp kitchen is old, the toilets are filthy. Do not come to this hostel if you want to drink or have any fun as this is completely banned, any sort of gathering even on weekends is banned and will result in eviction and loss of the 100 dollar bond. A 7 day 100 dollar bond notice bond is given on arrival, a massive warning sign of what's to come. Essentially trapping backpackers further. Please take this warning and avoid this place at all costs. 

**** - In response to the reply given to the "British boys" and the false five star review that came with it. (Are hostels really allowed to rate themselves five star? Maybe this in itself can raise some questions about the overall rating of this hostel?). The mere fact that the owners continue to try and justify various misleading comments is astounding. The worker described in this review/response as earning 450 dollars per day is a worker who has been at the farm 5 years and arrives every day with his arms wrapped in towels to avoid the inch long thorns in the trees. This is the standard to which is used to tempt and mislead backpackers. The fact that the owners still try to spin this shows the lack of conscience and morality they display towards young people. The reality is, no backpackers last long on this job because it simply is underpaid and the rate in which a single person would have to improve in order to even earn minimum wage is astounding, basic maths can be used to work this out. The wage is completely unsustainable whether you "stick it out or not". The work itself is not particulary bad or hard and the hours are short in comparison to most farmwork, a normal working day of 9-5. Furthermore campgrounds around Australia manage to charge around $10 p/p whilst providing similar or better facilities, they also don't use a $100 dollar bond system.

 7 years ago (28-01-2018)

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