…my home away from home.

I would just like to thank you for your constant support and friendship setting me up in australia. I loved my time in Perth and i will forever remember the planet inn as my home away from home. Missing everyone back west and please keep in touch.

Jason Le Signe

from Jersey, Channel Islands

2008 to 2009 (!) with trips away!

To all the fantastic friends that I’ve made here…

I love the follow up to my party, it really was an amazing night..by the way karoke was the best idea ever!!!! I didnt actually think i would be having a 21st party but thanks to all the fantastic friends that ive made here at the planet inn, i had a party which i will never forget!!!! thanks a million tony and everyone at the planet inn and especially the Irish girls (DEE,CIARA and AOIFE) xoxoxo

Good people party atmosphere!

Deirdre (Dee) Butler Good people party atmosphere!
I booked into the planet inn for three days then extended it to ten and ended up staying six months. The atmosphere and people i have met are next to no other i have ever met. The friendships i have made and truly lifelong. I have been to hostels before but never to one where everyone fitted in so well. Wherever people are from or what interests are, everyone sits down and has a drink and a laugh together. Nobody is ever alone or left out. Friday nights are the best. Everybody gets together and has a BBQ and drinks and has a bit of a session where there are always a few guitars. The staff are great too and go out of the way to help. They always find a way to make things easier from running to the bar to serve everyone to dropping bus loads of people into town on a saturday night. If there is something they can do they will. And they will even have a drink and a chat with everyone after their shift. there is a very personal approach and you don’t feel like you are being babysat! anyone planning on coming to Perth should stay at the Planet Inn if they are up for fun and meeting some interesting people. It is a place to build some memories.
Dee Butler, Ireland

May 2009

That One Little Decision

Hey Tony, yeah I’m still in NZ and still loving it. New website is looking good and I’m glad to see my puss cats are still all ok. I do worry about them alot as they are getting on abit now. As is the Planet, I still can’t quite believe that you just had your 13th birthday, it sometimes seems like only yesterday we were celebrating its 10th birthday!
I have to say right now my life is pretty perfect and I can only thank the planet for that (have I told you this already? I’m not sure I forget things easily – can I blame it on getting old yet??) However I live in Mount Maunganui, which is an awesome little town, I live here because I came here to catch up with Timm and liked it so much I decided to settle. I have a great job in an Irish bar, I got the job through a guy called Jinx, who I met through Timm and Irish Pauline. I have an awesome flat, which I used to share with Ross and Doro, and in fact it was found by Doro. Ross is english and used to have ginger dreads and Doro, his misses is german. All these people stayed in the Planet and TImm, Pauline and Ross I met in my first few weeks there. So you see I never can quite believe how that one little decision has shaped the rest of my travels.
I still keep in contact with a fair few of the wonderful people that I met over there and hope to see alot of them in July as I am heading back for a months holiday, starting in Edinburgh and heading down the our fair isle – where i will be stuck for 2 weeks with no escape!!!! Hope all is good with you, let me know your news. Take care and you never know I may pop by for a visit in a couple of years. Look after my Bubs. J x
Jo Murphy, Jersey Channel Islands (currently NZ)

Home away from home…

“Thank you for being my home away from home. None of you will be forgotten and you’ll remain in my heart and thoughts until the stars fall from the skies.”

Mary-Anne, Canada, November 2005 : ybnormal@whoever.com

This Hostel Made My Time In Oz The Best!!

“I can truly say this hostel made my time in Oz the best. It was like making a new family.

I only planned to stay a week while visiting relatives and ended up staying for 3. I was so upset when we had to leave! Everyone was brilliant, the guests and the staff.

When we arrived it seemed like we were already part of them. Instead of going out with your friends you go out as a family. I noticed it was the only hostel in Perth that seemed to be that way!! I loved it so much and can’t wait to go back. If you’re thinking of going definitely do! We thought we had landed lucky with such an amazing place and I’ll never forget the people we met there.”

Natalie Miller AKA Scottish Nat…, November 2005

Sheer Atmosphere! At Planet Inn

“There is only one thing to say about this hostel — you arrive planning to stay one night and end up staying for months. It may sound crazy but it is so true. I was there in May/June 2003 and the place became more like a home than a hostel.

I would definitely recommend it for the sheer atmosphere! There is no other hostel like it.”

Lizzie, November 2005

Thanks a million

“Thanks a million lads for everything. I’ve had an unreal time here on 496 Newcastle Street and met the most beautiful people.”

Kerry, Ireland, October 2005

I spent approximately eight months in Redbacks ( Planet inn)

“I went backpacking in 2001 and landed in Perth. Luckily the first hostel I saw advertised was Redbacks, so that’s where I went and that’s where I stayed for the majority of my year in Oz! Some would say I wasted my year’s visa, as I only traveled in Oz for three months and spent approximately eight in Redbacks, but I stick by my decision and have no regrets whatsoever.

It was an amazing place to stay and party and work, as I even had the job of night porter and general handyman (it kept me from partying 24/7, seven days a week). I cannot recommend this place highly enough. It is a place that helped me change my life and I will never forget it . . . and I WILL return!!!

” Gordon (the rowdy northern pomme) Douglas, November 2005

Wicked Time

“Hiya Tony, Keith & James,

I’ve had a wicked time staying here and thankyou for everything! Definitely going to miss the place and all the characters.

” Natalie, Guernsey, February 2005 : natcarteruk@hotmail.com

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