Reviews of Rock 'n' Bowl
22 Nelson Street, Bristol, England BS1 2LA
119 out of 158 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Rock 'n' Bowl'
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| Atmosphere - | 40% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 80% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Backpacking / gap year
06 May 2011
Liked: location
Disliked: probably one of the worst hostels i have ever stayed at. Felt like you were sleeping in a hospital room and can feel every single spring in the mattress. Also the bathrooms are co-ed but that wasnt too bad. The worst of it all is that there are bed bugs. I have stayed at many hostels and this is the only one i have ever had this problem. Don't recommend staying here although i do no there are not many choices for Bristol
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 100% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 100% |
Customer review
With my spouse / partner
Backpacking / gap year
City break
Sightseeing & culture
24 April 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: friendly staff, close to city center and most of the main attractions very clean rooms, lots of people to meet good kitchen to cook your own food
Disliked: the showers weren't clean and it was very hard to adjust the temperature of the water
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 80% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 60% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
06 January 2011 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: nice club at the ground
Disliked: some construction working
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 100% | Value - | 60% |
Customer review
Alone
Sightseeing & culture
20 December 2010
Liked: Heating did not work at all,but staff did everithing they could to help.
Disliked: There was a disco on the main floor till about 4:00am and my room just above it.That is a wrong place to get sleep and wrong place for a hostel.
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 80% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 80% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Events / festivals
11 December 2010 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: El precio de una noche.
Disliked: Las camas eran muy duras y los baños muy viejos.
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 60% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 80% | Value - | 60% |
Holly Taylor
Alone
Visiting friends or family
26 November 2010 Holly would recommend this property
Liked: location, location, location
Disliked: no common room, had to pay for internet, lots of stairs
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 20% | Facilities - | 40% | Safety - | 40% |
| Location - | 60% | Cleanliness - | 40% | Value - | 40% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Sightseeing & culture
Partying / nightlife
08 November 2010
Liked: nothing!
Disliked: this was absolutely one of the worst hostels i have ever stayed in! there is a nightclub downstairs till 3am which is fine, but you can hear it everywhere in the hostel even when you're trying to sleep. not only that, we had booked 3 beds but when we got back there was someone else asleep in one of them... we advised the hostel staff who were extremely rude and unhelpful and ended up putting one of us in a giant warehouse style room that was obvoiusly undergoing renovation with cardboard boxes and timber cut offs everywhere. my friend was too scared to sleep there so sat in the common room until 4am and attempted to sleep on the couch, only to told she wasnt allowed to do so. eventually they put her in another bed in another room - by this time it was 5am! the facilities are also dirty and there is no breakfast included.
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 80% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Partying / nightlife
07 November 2010 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: It os in the city center near of the shopping area and close to clubs and pubs
Disliked: It is a bit old, and a man stole my bed!
| Atmosphere - | 40% | Staff - | 20% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 40% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 40% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Visiting friends or family
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
25 October 2010
Liked: Good location....
Disliked: the angry staff, the person sleeping in my overbooked bed when I got back to the hostel, the loud banging on the wall at night, the hostile response from the staff when we said we weren't pleased with our stay.
| Atmosphere - | 20% | Staff - | 20% | Facilities - | 20% | Safety - | 40% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 40% | Value - | 60% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Backpacking / gap year
22 October 2010
Liked: on first entering the rooms it was impossible to work out which beds where taken there was pillows and blankets thrown on all beds with no allocation we just sifted through and hoped no one else was sleeping there. the shower in our room was clean enogh but had no hot water at all and the shared shower block was severly leeking on to the carpet outside making the whole hallway smell of stale wet carpet.
Disliked: the directions fron the website were useless the streets we were told to take didnt exist. and the staff on the front desk obviously worked at the bowling alley not the hostel cos they did not have a clue.
| Atmosphere - | 20% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 20% | Safety - | 20% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 20% | Value - | 20% |
Customer review
Alone
11 October 2010
Liked: nice staff
Disliked: bath room very poor, some of showers no hotwater and the carpet to the bathroom soak in water
| Atmosphere - | 40% | Staff - | 60% | Facilities - | 20% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 20% | Value - | 40% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Visiting friends or family
07 October 2010
Liked: It's location is perfect. But that's about it!
Disliked: The place is very run-down. Curtains hang down from the windows where there are missing hooks, so you cannot close them. The floors in the bedrooms are dirty, and there was a leak from a pipe hanging from the ceiling. The shower rooms are disgusting! The carpet in the hallway outside them is completely soaked, so it squelches under your feet. The shower rooms are not very clean, and the actual shower trays became blocked very quickly (most likely the cause of the water in the hallway!!).
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 80% | Facilities - | 40% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 20% | Value - | 60% |
Customer review
Alone
Visiting friends or family
07 October 2010
Liked: especially liked the location, very centric, and the friendliness of the staff.
Disliked: cleanliness was awful, the toilets were so disgusting i didnt feel like having showers (i did, though). the duvets were dirty in some cases too, though we would cover them with clean pillow cases and linen.
| Atmosphere - | 20% | Staff - | 60% | Facilities - | 20% | Safety - | 40% |
| Location - | 20% | Cleanliness - | 20% | Value - | 40% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Backpacking / gap year
06 October 2010
Liked: nothing.
Disliked: Starting our travels through England, we had so far stayed in some nice places but this was by far the worst place. We arrived, after finding our own way to the hostel after quickly figuring out they had provided us with directions that simply couldn't be followed; to find our room down a dark hallway tripping over dirty underwear to get to the door. We woke up early to leave as soon as possible, finding all the carpet outside of our room soaked and stinking from water overflowing from the 'bathrooms' around the corner. Needless to say we definatly got what we paid for.
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 40% | Value - | 80% |
Michelle Elf
Alone
04 October 2010 Michelle would recommend this property
Liked: It was relatively cheap and the rooms was sort of clean. The common room was nice and big. Internet.
Disliked: The toilets was full and rather unclean. The showers were quite filthy as well.
| Atmosphere - | 40% | Staff - | 80% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 40% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 80% |
Customer review
Alone
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
26 September 2010 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: the kitchen facilities
Disliked: the damp floor outside the shower block
| Atmosphere - | 80% | Staff - | 60% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 100% |
Customer review
Alone
Business / conference
25 September 2010 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: a
Disliked: aaa
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 80% | Facilities - | 40% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 40% | Value - | 40% |
Customer review
Alone
Business / conference
21 September 2010
Liked: close to the city center
Disliked: old and poorly maintained
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 80% | Facilities - | 100% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 80% | Value - | 100% |
Customer review
Alone
17 September 2010 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: Cheap, maybe cheapest bed in Bristol in dorms (15£/night, 65£/week), nice kitchen, nice parties by night, finishing quite early so not a problem to sleep.
Disliked: I'm french and the staff didn't make great efforts so as me to understand them, but that's all. Expected quite expensive drinks but i'm not used to UK prices yet so maybe normal
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 40% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 80% | Cleanliness - | 80% | Value - | 60% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Backpacking / gap year
12 September 2010 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: Beds were comfortable
Disliked: Staff was not overly helpful; We arrived late at night and even though we sent an e-mail saying so the door was locked and the door bell didn't work. We only got in because someone luckily happened to be exiting the hostel. Staff also did not have change so we had to go out and break a bill so we could pay them the exact amount.
| Atmosphere - | 40% | Staff - | 60% | Facilities - | 20% | Safety - | 100% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 40% | Value - | 20% |
Customer review
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
11 September 2010
Liked: Its location
Disliked: The showers, the noise, the staff not very smiling
| Atmosphere - | 100% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 40% | Safety - | 80% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 40% | Value - | 60% |
Customer review
With friends / other travellers
Backpacking / gap year
10 September 2010 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: There's a bowling alley downstairs! This place is really great. Also there's a convenient coin laundry.
Disliked: Not very clean bathrooms, no breakfast like at most hostels but loads of cheap cafes are near.
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 60% |
Felicity Langthorne
Alone
08 September 2010 Felicity would recommend this property
Liked: The staff were lovely
Disliked: I would have preferred a key to access the room instead of door code.
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 100% | Facilities - | 60% | Safety - | 60% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 100% |
Customer review
Alone
Backpacking / gap year
06 September 2010 Customer would recommend this property
Liked: Really nice staff, good location, cheap prices, nice kitchen/common room
Disliked: Small rooms, no lift, really noisy and cold in the rooms, broken doors in many bathrooms/toilets, smells a bit in the corridor
| Atmosphere - | 60% | Staff - | 60% | Facilities - | 80% | Safety - | 20% |
| Location - | 100% | Cleanliness - | 60% | Value - | 80% |
Michael Derrick
With friends / other travellers
Visiting friends or family
06 September 2010 Michael would recommend this property
Liked: The motel had a good bar and bowling centre, and had a good disco in the evening.
Disliked: We booked a 6 man dorm but ending up in a 8 man dorm with two complete strangers. We also woke up in the morning with another stranger in our room, He said that they never change the codes on he doors so he stays in peoples rooms for free. Reception knew he did this but couldn't stop him.
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