Reviews of Global Village Kensington

280 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T2L9

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60.2%

12 out of 26 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Global Village Kensington'

Atmosphere
52.8%
Location
77.6%
Facilities
54.4%
Cleanliness
48.8%
Staff
69.6%
Value
56.0%
Safety
62.4%

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57.1%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 20%

Customer review

Alone

Business / conference

01 August 2011

Liked: The staff were helpful and friendly.

Disliked: no A/C, and there is a very loud patio party that goes on all night.

48.6%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 80% Facilities - 40% Safety - 60%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 60%

Eduardo Islas

Alone

Family Holiday

01 July 2011

Liked: Location.

Disliked: It's too humid inside the rooms. The smell is therefore bad. The place is in general not clean.

34.3%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 40% Facilities - 40% Safety - 40%
Location - 40% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 20%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

27 November 2010

Liked: near Toronto universiy

Disliked: The price is expensive ;however not clean,

65.7%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 40%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

29 September 2010

Liked: location

Disliked: not clean like they said on website

62.9%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 80% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 40%

Ali Murat Pala

Alone

Sightseeing & culture

26 August 2010

Liked: Kitchen is huge. Not that I used but for those who wanna use it's great.

Disliked: It's far from downtown and the street is very sketchy.

51.4%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 60% Facilities - 40% Safety - 40%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 40%

Sarah Plovanich

With my spouse / partner

Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Sightseeing & culture
Visiting friends or family

20 August 2010

Liked: The area it's in is great. Lots of artists, hippies, vintage shops, oriental markets and goods, lots of cheap oriental food.

Disliked: HAT STREET IS REALLY REALLY BUSY WITH BARS AND NOISY ALL NIGHT, even on a Thursday evening. and there's NO AIR CONDITIONING, and TONS of mold in the carpets. It's pretty much a last resort or cheapest place to crash for an emergency night. The hallways reaked of puke and their was gunky hairballs in the not-cold minifridge.

45.7%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 60% Facilities - 60% Safety - 80%
Location - 20% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 20%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

10 August 2010

Liked: Big double beds

Disliked: It was dirty. No toilet paper. Awfull showers.

71.4%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 40%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Work / volunteering

05 August 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: beds were good and rooms spacious

Disliked: Private lockers would be a good idea, I would have liked to be able to leave my computer at the hostel instead of dragging it around the city

51.4%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 60% Facilities - 40% Safety - 60%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 40%

Customer review

Alone

Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Sightseeing & culture

19 July 2010

Liked: location in China town

Disliked: terrible bath room! (one for 40 persons)

48.6%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 80% Facilities - 40% Safety - 40%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 40%

Customer review

08 September 2009

Liked: The location in Kensington Market and the friendly staff.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

28.6%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 20% Facilities - 20% Safety - 20%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 20%

Antti Soikkeli

21 August 2009

Liked: This hostel was nothing it promised before hand. Part of the showers and bathrooms were under construction. In the showers tiles were loosen and smell of mould was very strong. Also in the room smell of mould was quite strong and as a construction engineer I wouldn't recommend anyone to sleep here. And when I arrived to the property I didn't get the free parking I was promised before. I had to also pay some extra money for the room and I didn't even understood why.

Disliked: Antti left no negative feedback.

54.3%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 40% Facilities - 40% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 60%

Customer review

10 August 2009 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Excellent location, quite dingy...dirty sheets, floors, bathrooms were out of order and grimy.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

54.3%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 20% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 80%

Customer review

22 May 2009

Liked: overall it wasn't awful, but i overheard someone asking a staff member the best way to get to the airport and he couldn't answer her. usually hostel staff are knowledgeable about that sort of thing.also, this may or may not have been the hostel where i was bitten by bedbugs.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

68.6%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 80% Facilities - 60% Safety - 80%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Customer review

09 November 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: It is near the Universit of Toronto and this saves alot of time and money when you travel to the college.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

65.7%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 80% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Christina Elshaw

23 July 2008 Christina would recommend this property

Liked: I liked the size of the room and the beds. linens smelt fresh.

Disliked: Christina left no negative feedback.

80.0%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

27 May 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The location and also size of the shower rooms

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

94.3%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 100%

Olivier Braibant

11 May 2008 Olivier would recommend this property

Liked: Location is great

Disliked: Olivier left no negative feedback.

60.0%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 80% Facilities - 40% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 60%

Customer review

04 May 2008

Liked: good location

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

82.9%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 60% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 60%

Customer review

12 December 2007 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: the view

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.


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