Reviews of Edinburgh Backpackers Hostel

65 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 1BU

80.5%

118 out of 143 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Edinburgh Backpackers Hostel'

Atmosphere
76.0%
Location
100.0%
Facilities
74.4%
Cleanliness
71.2%
Staff
89.6%
Value
80.0%
Safety
72.0%

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

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year

12 August 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Great location, friendly staff

Disliked: Nothing

77.1%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 80%

david shuttleworth

Alone

City break

09 August 2011 david would recommend this property

Liked: location- perfect. good well equipped kitchen

Disliked: not enough bathrooms. One male shower room for whole building and one other single toilet. Asked for photo ID on arrival which seemed odd as I'm a Brit. Never been asked in London so i don't carry it. They were ok in the end but seems a bit of an arsey rule.

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

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

City break
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture

16 June 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Location was awesome! Ten seconds from the Mile and just minutes from everything else you'll want to see.

Disliked: Kitchen's kinda small and there always wasn't a lot of space to sit in the common room... but this is minor. I think I was there when this giant group of people were and we always were in those places at the same time.

74.3%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture

08 June 2011

Liked: It was in a nice location with lots of restaurants and shops around.

Disliked: The bathroom wasn't the greatest. Toilets always clogged up and it was hard to flush toilet paper down the toilet. There is no changing space for the showers. You had to leave your clothes outside of the shower and reach for them after you were done and just hoped that no one would see you naked. Also no ladders for the bunk beds.

82.9%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Relaxation/spa
Sightseeing & culture

12 May 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: location,and the staff is friendly and helpful

Disliked: facilities are not very new

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

Bianca Carnovale

Alone

Events / festivals
Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture

05 January 2011 Bianca would recommend this property

Liked: great atmosphere staff very friendly and healpful

Disliked: nothing

74.3%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 60% Facilities - 60% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Rosie Forth

01 October 2009 Rosie would recommend this property

Liked: Good value and pretty clean, although the communal areas are not great! It definitely did the job, however, because of the great location.

Disliked: Rosie left no negative feedback.

42.9%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 60% Facilities - 60% Safety - 20%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 20%

brendan clarke

23 December 2008

Liked: It is in the heart of Edinburgh situated next to various pubs and as such it is extremely noisey and uncomfortable if you are looking to get some sleep before 3am.

Disliked: brendan left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

08 December 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Excellent location - Just off the Royal Mile!

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Thomas Joyce

10 September 2008 Thomas would recommend this property

Liked: Very friendly staff and good location.

Disliked: Thomas left no negative feedback.

82.9%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Customer review

01 September 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: yhe location is realy good

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

60.0%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 80% Facilities - 60% Safety - 20%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 40%

Jessica Denning

21 August 2008

Liked: The staff and location were the only redeeming qualities. There were no lockers and no locks on the doors though my stuff did remain safe, but its not a good peace of mind when travelling.

Disliked: Jessica left no negative feedback.

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

Nadene Sachinidis

19 August 2008 Nadene would recommend this property

Liked: staff

Disliked: Nadene left no negative feedback.

88.6%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

18 June 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: taht it was directly in town and there were a lot of things to do.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

01 June 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Close to the city and friendly staff.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

27 May 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Very well located but the price should be less. It is quite expensive.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

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

Megan McCrory

07 May 2008 Megan would recommend this property

Liked: great location

Disliked: Megan left no negative feedback.

68.6%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 80%

Customer review

05 May 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: the location was perfect

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

100.0%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

margarita dimitrova

05 May 2008 margarita would recommend this property

Liked: good location,comfortable,great stuff of real professionalists at the same time so nice and friendly.

Disliked: margarita left no negative feedback.

82.9%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Customer review

01 April 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: location and the open door policy

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

88.6%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 100%

Karin Ljungberg

31 March 2008 Karin would recommend this property

Liked: I really liked the atmosphere, everyone was like a big family!

Disliked: Karin left no negative feedback.

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

yeung pak yau

26 March 2008 yeung would recommend this property

Liked: all the staff are very helpfull

Disliked: yeung left no negative feedback.

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

Bianca Barca

25 March 2008 Bianca would recommend this property

Liked: the staff were friendly

Disliked: Bianca left no negative feedback.

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

Customer review

16 March 2008 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Loacation

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

77.1%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 80% Facilities - 60% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 60%

Kyle Dixon

25 February 2008 Kyle would recommend this property

Liked: Location

Disliked: Kyle left no negative feedback.


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