Fat Salmon Backpackers in Port Alberni is for sale!

The Fat Salmon is a seasonal backpacker's mecca, offering 38 beds in dormitory-styled rooms. There are four bathrooms, two lounges, a kitchen, a BBQ outside and both front and back decks. There is laundry and workshop downstairs, as well as a drying room for wet hiking, cycling and kayaking gear. The back of the hostel sits two streets up from the beautiful Harbour Quay in rugged Port Alberni.

The 90 year-old building, sitting on two city lots, comprises two floors ­ the main street-level is the hostel, and the lower floor houses the manager's suite (complete one-bedroom apartment), as well as a second one-bedroom apartment, currently used as a rental unit (but perfect for expansion of the upstairs hostel, too). There is an unfinished attic that could easily be renovated to expand the hostel or to finish as another rental unit. All plumbing, electrical and alarm systems were updated in 2005 to meet code.

The Fat Salmon has earned a reputable name for itself as a business and a hostel. The Fat Salmon works closely with local kayaking outfitter, Batstar Adventure Tours, local tubing outfitter, Stamp River Tubing, as well as Rendezvous Dive Adventures in the Barkley Sound.

The Fat Salmon is a member of several networks, has been acclaimed in many travel guidebooks, newspapers, and television shows, as well as national and international magazines.

Contact Chris and Char directly at: 250.723.6924. Email us at charmead@mac.com .

Just keep swimming.

Hostel of the week Jan. 18th to Jan. 26th, 2009
submitted by Ken Jones,
Backpackers Hostels Canada