Reviews of Key West Youth Hostel & Sea Shell Motel

14 February 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: It's the cheapest place you can stay at in Key West and it's ok, nothing more or less. The dorms are fine with a common bathroom and there are small lockers in the dorms for the most valuable things. The location is great with just a short walk to the main street and the beach. There is parking avaliable and also wifi and the staff is helpful.

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

03 February 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: location

Disliked: The dirty bathroom had mold all over the place and there were ants on the beds and floors.

30 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Staff are really kind and helpful If u hired a car , u Can park it just behind the hostal for free ! Hostal not too far from Duval St , the main street. Then , u Know what to expect from a hostal !

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

13 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: it was close to everything, interesting people came to stay there

Disliked: only one bathroom available, kitchen not too clean, no indoors common areas

08 January 2012

Liked: This place has a decent location, and the bike rentals ($10 for 12hrs) make it easy to get around. It is quite a walk if you want to get to the busy parts of Duval st, so the bike rental is key. It does seem to be the cheapest place in town, but it is way pricey for what it is. They do have lockers for your valuables.

Disliked: I have been to many hostels, and for $44 per person, I expect more. The only soap in the bathroom was what other travelers have left behind... The kitchen that you can use is barely functional with crappy pots and pans and maybe 1 or two real utensils - all the plates and utensils they do have are disposable. The cleaning staff is really nice and they do make an effort, so the floors are clean, but the walls and light switches are grimy, so there were still moments of being really grossed out. Take my advice - it might be worth the extra 12-20 bucks per person for a nice private room somewhere else in the town. But if your budget is really tight... I guess it is tolerable. Not for the faint of heart, and I wouldn't recommend it as a first time experience to the hosteling world.

04 January 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Location is not bad.

Disliked: Was not clean enough and expensive to its value..

31 December 2011

Liked: The only good thing about staying here is the location. Prices in Key West are super high and this is about the only budget option that I could find.

Disliked: The rooms are very basic. Horrible uncomfortable matresses on unstable bunk beds with no ladders to get up to the top bunk. The room was very old looking and just generally unpleasant, there were stains on the walls from where the damp had started to go mouldy. Nothing too serious but way below the standard of other hostels that I have stayed in the US. Ok for a place to sleep on an overnight stay at Key West but nothing more.

19 December 2011 Michal would recommend this property

Liked: Good location, all necessary amenities - kitchem nice patio with tables, free WI-FI, friendly staff.

Disliked: It was quite pricy compared to average hostel price...

18 December 2011 Olga would recommend this property

Liked: Location is great. Big rooms are divided on a half so it was as if in 4-person room (not 8).

Disliked: You should pay for everything there (bike, lockers). Expensive but it would be different to find something cheaper in Key West

14 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: One of the cheapest place in Key West. They was a decent kitchen with necessary appliance.

Disliked: The room I was in contained 10 beds for only one bathroom. The lockers are really small (only for valuable/important objects)

07 December 2011 Ina would recommend this property

Liked: hostel was ok, nothing special, nothing bad. just stayed one night, so I cannot say much about it.

Disliked: didn't see too many other travellers, so not a really good place to meet new people. too expensive.

29 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: For me it was the cheapest way to stay one night in the Keys. I also liked that the kitchen was outside in the middle of a corner. So you´ve got the possibility to hang around outside while your food was cooking. In the room, I liked the way of handling with the beds because there were 6 beds in one room and in an other room 4 more. So you have the possibility to have a littel more privacy.

Disliked: I don´t like the cleanness in the bathroom, it could be more clean. Also you have to walk a longer distance to the duval steet and to the mallory square.

11 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Very good location right next to Duval street, nice staff, nice common area for meeting people, well-equipped kitchen

Disliked: Expensive

12 September 2011 Gustavo would recommend this property

Liked: I liked the location and the environment. Nice people around and the kitchen is good.

Disliked: There are no lockers for the travellers. You have to rent one. For the price, it'd be easy to provide lockers.

02 September 2011

Liked: probably the cheapest place you find in Key West

Disliked: No service at all: not even towels are provided Bad matras, ugly room, lots of ants everywhere, ... no value at all for the 40 USD one has to pay

18 August 2011

Liked: The area

Disliked: no facilities at all

12 August 2011 Gintaras would recommend this property

Liked: good

Disliked: ok

01 August 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: -

Disliked: -

27 July 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Good price at a place such as key west

Disliked: no

25 July 2011

Liked: the staff and the customer service it was the worse ever. they don't care, expecially one old lady.

Disliked: the check-in, my stay and the check-out were very bad. the rooms were awful. i changed hostel on 9th street and it was 100% better, in custimer service expecially.

18 July 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: It was the cheapest place that I found in Key West. Close to the main tourist street.

Disliked: The bunk rooms felt like an old mental hospital patient room. The mattresses were uncomfortable and you felt the springs in them. Our rooms was accessed both from inside the yard and the road. We trusted the people we were sleeping with but it would have been very easy to get in the room and do wrong for someone in that mood! We only stayed one night. I saw in one of the private rooms and the looked a LOT nicer!

14 July 2011 Johnny would recommend this property

Liked: Nice staff and clean.

Disliked: For a hostel it was a bit pricy, but I guess thats Key West. They hava a NO ALCOHOL policy. Good for those who want that but just saying, if I had of known about that before booking I would not have booked that Hostel. But than again it is the only Hostel in Key West.

01 July 2011 Sarah would recommend this property

Liked: Very Good Location

Disliked: Everything was good

21 June 2011

Liked: Not a bad location and the staff were really nice

Disliked: There were bedbugs in the beds

19 June 2011

Liked: Pretty good location

Disliked: Very expensive for what you get! The rooms are small, barely have working air conditioning, the beds are awful (plastic covers, military style..), no cleaning.. Considering the price, you definitely expect more.