Dusky Lodge

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Dusky pool table

Unique Quality: Apart from new carpet and nice decor, the entry lounge also had a pool table.

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Dusky lounge

Unique Quality: Great set up in the Dusky 1 lounge, plenty of things to do (including another self serve internet terminal in the other corner. Cost: $2 for 20 minutes which is at least better than the $2.50 for 15 minutes we found in some towns. No cheaper in town at the library.
That just seemed to be the standard rate.

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Dusky Lodge Photo: lounge

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Dusky 8 - lounge

Dusky 1's lounge was a bit smaller, as it shared one end with the entryway/check in desk. There was still room for couches and a few chairs, tv, video, video cassettes, and to the right, you may just be able to see the unique Internet terminal, mounted on a flat sawn small table (as in the dining and lounge in Dusky 2) with a tree trunk as its base! Very unique.

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Dusky Lodge Photo: Dusky 1 lounge

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Dusky 7 - lounge

Unique Quality: The thing I liked about the Dusky lounges and dining areas, were the high glossed tables made of sawn timber, as you can see in the photo. We have them in Australia too, but they're expensive (as no doubt here too) and you'd never see one in a backpackers!

Makes the place look even more quality filled than it is already.
The lounges also had large newish tv's, video players, plenty of video tapes, new hi-fi systems - all the comforts of home and then some!

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Dusky Lodge Photo: lounge in Dusky 2

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Dusky 6 - Kitchen

If the large kitchen in Dusky 1 is busy, you can always cross the front decking and use the one in Dusky 2, as we had to do.
I was hard pressed to decide which one I liked best, they were both so good.

Unique Quality: large kitchen, plenty of cook tops, island bench in the middle with extra cooking (great for avoiding congestion with other people cooking) new looking glass fronted fridges.

Amazing too, how well equipped these kitchens were: all the utensils you could want, often matching plates, no chipped and odd plates or burned in black saucepans that you tend to expect at most Backpackers.
Everything was in such good condition, I don't know how they did it! Some people's houses wouldn't be anywhere near this well equipped.
And guests even seemed to follow the signs and do their own dishes and put them away, so all was nice and clean!

Another bonus: like at Bad Jelly, the owners provided free bread each day, and even went one further with free buns and cakes too!
It had the added advantage of bringing hostel guests out of their dorms and other common rooms together to the once place: the kitchen at 4.30 to get cakes!

As you can imagine, hostel guests dived on the food, but the owners made sure there was still enough for everybody, even those like us who forgot what time it was and didn't reach the kitchen till much later.

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Dusky Lodge Photo: Kitchen in Dusky 2

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Dusky 5

Unique Quality: It may have been too cold to use the pool, but at night there were plenty of people relaxing in the spa over drinks.

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Dusky Lodge Photo: BBQ area and jacuzzi

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Dusky 4

Unique Quality: One of the best (and totally unexpected) facilities of Dusky, is its huge in ground swimming pool with surrounding decking.

You walk out the back of either Dusky, through the kitchen, and find yourself on decking where there is a BBQ set up, chairs & tables, and a jacuzzi, then down the steps is the swimming pool, looking rather new, especially as there were many workmen there, in the process of creating another spa, this time a built in one, at the edge of the swimming pool. This place is great and really looks to be going ahead! (Just a pity it was only 15 degrees and a swim was out of the question!).

And the backdrop this time, instead of the main street of town or the sea, is a rural one, with rolling hills and cows. Very restful.

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Dusky Lodge Photo: Dusky, poolside

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Dusky 3

Our room once again was bright, but not too much so. More restful.

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Dusky Lodge Photo: our room

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Dusky 2

This is the other building belonging to Dusky Lodge, next door, which looks a little older from the outside, but inside the bathroom and common rooms and carpet and all else look as brand new as in the red brick Dusky building.

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Dusky Lodge Photo: Dusky 2 next door

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