When we arrived in Noosa in the evening before our trip to Fraser Island, we expected to have a dorm room. We also expected a bus that we had been told met the bus from Nambour. After waiting outside the bus stop for at least 15 minutes, my friend called our hostel (not Noosa Backpackers—can't remember the name now, sadly) and asked where our shuttle was. They informed her that they did not have our reservations and there were no vacancies.At this point, we became a bit frantic. Luckily, there was a couple waiting for a bus as well that were actually on our same Fraser tour, which actually operates out of the hostel they were staying at, the Noosa Backpackers Resort. When their bus arrived, we asked the driver if there were any vacancies. He wasn't sure, but he offered to take us to the hostel so we could see.When we arrived, we were told that there weren't three beds together, but there were three scattered across the hostel, so we took them. My room was a plain four bed dorm, right across the hallway from the bathrooms, which were reasonably clean and featured a couple toilets and a shower. We had to use our own sleeping bags on the bed, which was OK since we had brought them along for our trip to Fraser. There was a large outside area where you could sit around or go into the adjacent kitchen. The kitchen was large and featured all the utensils that you need for cooking, but it irritatingly did not offer any plates or bowls. Apparently you have to pay the hostel for a set to use for your meal—I nearly got shot by a fellow backpacker when I accidentally took his plate, thinking it was public domain. My friend and I ended up eating my ramen out of the strainer.We didn't use many of the other facilities that the hostel offered, including free boogie boards and kayaks, and an Internet cafe, because we arrived so late in the evening and were setting off fairly early the next morning.We were not at the hostel for very long but there were no real problems we could find with it… until about a week later. This was about the time that my roommate pulled a louse off of her head. We're not sure whether this came from the hostel or the beach house that we stayed in on Fraser Island, but there's a good chance it was from the Backpackers Resort, since we all stayed in separate rooms and my roommate is the only one that got them. Also, there is a higher incidence of bugs in hostels where backpackers bring their own bedding. Wherever they came from, they were obviously not a welcome visitor. So a word of caution, bring your own pillow and wash it well afterwards if you stay here. The hostel was convenient for our tour, but this convenience wasn't worth the lice combing!