Reviews of Budget backpackers

39 Cowgate, Grassmarket, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 1JR

91.4%

1427 out of 1484 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Budget backpackers'

Atmosphere
91.2%
Location
93.6%
Facilities
90.4%
Cleanliness
92.0%
Staff
86.4%
Value
91.2%
Safety
95.2%

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77.1%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 60% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Fergal Lynch

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture
Partying / nightlife
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities

19 July 2010 Fergal would recommend this property

Liked: nice hostel... recommended

Disliked: Fergal left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Relaxation/spa

10 July 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: the FREE tour - although the tour guide didn't explain much. he was pretty much rubbish to be honest but then what do you expect for free eh? there are other free walking tours in the city so that makes up for it. the kitchen was good. place was cleaner than most london hostels of the same price. didn't try the breakfast though - why should anyone when garfunkel's does 2 for £10 full english breakfasts! staff was okay - some more friendly than the rest. mattress was comfortable - i slept well all three nights. no, wait, make that two. one guy snored very loudly one night and kept the whole room awake and annoyed.

Disliked: showers, although quite clean, do get pretty dirty late at night (after the whole floor of ppl have used them). place can probably get cleaners to do it twice a day instead.

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Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year

09 July 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Nice hostel, great location and atmosphere.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

97.1%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 80%

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year

08 July 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Good location and free walking tour - well organised for a large hostel

Disliked: Nothing

97.1%
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Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Jasmina Hauptman

With my spouse / partner

Sports, adventure or outdoor activities

07 July 2010 Jasmina would recommend this property

Liked: Great location, nice staff, ...

Disliked: Jasmina left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

27 June 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Fantastic location, friendly staff, optional activities (walking tour & pub crawl) and breakfast

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

88.6%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

24 June 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: good location, small shop near the hostel, and pizza resturant.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

91.4%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

24 June 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Rooms were bright, spacious and clean. had heaps of bathroom and kitchen facilities as well as good communal areas to relax in.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

94.3%
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Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 80%

Katie Weihbrecht

15 June 2010 Katie would recommend this property

Liked: The hostel was in a good location, close to the castle and the Royal Mile, where a lot of the shopping areas were located, as well as food and it also gave easy access to most of the sites in the city. The internet is not what I would have hoped for, considering it was paid for, yet didn't work all of the time. Overall, the stay was enjoyable.

Disliked: Katie left no negative feedback.

94.3%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

15 June 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The location

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

97.1%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Customer review

13 June 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Everything!

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

100.0%
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Customer review

08 June 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: great hostel!!!

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

03 June 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: safe clean good

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

97.1%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Customer review

31 May 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Great hostel, nice beds , would stay again... Will stay again.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

94.3%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Customer review

28 May 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Great place to stay, highly recommended. The staff are all wonderfully helpful and its has a really nice homely feel to it. Rooms and bathrooms are clean and they have great kitchen facilities. The only one tiny negative is that their wireless was down so it was hard to organise anything but apart from that, I love it.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

85.7%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 80%

Customer review

27 May 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: atmosphere was very nice

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

94.3%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Customer review

24 May 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Location, staff. Real value for money.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

94.3%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Customer review

11 May 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Nice and tidy place to sleep. Late check-in possibility was a huge plus.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

80.0%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 40%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

03 May 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: the hostel was very colourful and clean , we liked it

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

30 April 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: location

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

97.1%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Tudor Taylor

30 April 2010 Tudor would recommend this property

Liked: Fantastic hostel with friendly and helpful staff

Disliked: Tudor left no negative feedback.

94.3%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Customer review

12 April 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The staff was very, very friendly and always helpful! No matter what question you came up with!

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

97.1%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 80%

sebastien juliot

05 April 2010 sebastien would recommend this property

Liked: One of the best hostel i stayed in Europe

Disliked: sebastien left no negative feedback.

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Customer review

01 April 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: - The staffs are very helpful, friendly, patient and fast response. - The hostel rooms and all the facilities were in tidy, neat and good conditions. - Suggest hostel to arrange for Female 6 beds, 8 beds sharing room. Understand that, they only have mixed dorm room.- We will highly recommend all my friends to priority choose this hostel.- Thank you for all the staffs, we are appreciate your helpful & friendliness. We really enjoy our trip, we had a lot of funs and special memories in Edinburgh.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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Tiago Grin

22 March 2010 Tiago would recommend this property

Liked: It's the best hostel that I ever stayed in my whole life. Is very close to everything, like pubs, scotland monument and all this things, you can do everything by foot. I really recomend it.

Disliked: Tiago left no negative feedback.


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