Reviews of Nomad Hostel

11 Howard Gardens, Roath, Cardiff, Wales CF24 OEF

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85.9%

626 out of 721 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Nomad Hostel'

Atmosphere
80.8%
Location
81.6%
Facilities
82.4%
Cleanliness
88.8%
Staff
89.6%
Value
90.4%
Safety
88.0%

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74.3%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 20% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 100%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Sports, adventure or outdoor activities

30 August 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: New facilities, great kitchen and eating area and comfortable dorms.

Disliked: Bit far from town, bathrooms were dirty. Staff could have been a bit more helpful.

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

Christopher Morgan

Alone

Partying / nightlife
Visiting friends or family

28 August 2011 Christopher would recommend this property

Liked: Good location with helpful staff

Disliked: Didn't spend much time in the hostel as it was a very quick visit - but it was quite cramped.

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

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

24 August 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: I liked that it offered free breakfast, and was good for a sleep

Disliked: I got really lost trying to find the place, but that was my own fault for not having a proper map

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

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

22 August 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Good size rooms, lockers provided in rooms. Free breakfast in mornings. Free interent computer in lounge room.

Disliked: Nothing really - apart from instructions on print out for how to get there MUST be changed!! They are CONFUSING and take you around the long way. Not fun to be walking 30 mins with a backpack, when in could have been way less!! PLEASE CHANGE.. Also fire alarm being tested at 9am for about 30 mins!!

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

Liam Tracey

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year

20 August 2011 Liam would recommend this property

Liked: Great kitchen and pretty walkable to city.

Disliked: Roomies never locked dorm

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

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

16 August 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: It had a lively atmosphere and the facilities were nice.

Disliked: The bathrooms did not always have the necessary items (soap and toilet paper) and the floors in the hostel room needed to be vacuumed. The directions to the hostel, provided by the hostel, were unclear.

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

Lisa Buchmann

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

11 August 2011 Lisa would recommend this property

Liked: people, style

Disliked: nothing

77.1%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 100%

Customer review

As a family with children

City break
Family Holiday

07 August 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: location,old style

Disliked: cleanliness, lockers,dirty spots behind the windows

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

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

Family Holiday
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture

06 August 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: overall cleanliness, location, and tidy rooms

Disliked: a bit noisy; some guests kept talking loudly in the late night that was really annoying.

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

Joshua Koster

With friends / other travellers

City break
Partying / nightlife

05 August 2011 Joshua would recommend this property

Liked: I like the fact that there's a 24 hour reception and that there's a pool table on the premises.

Disliked: The fire alarm going off at 6:30AM was a minor dislike, but it was due to someone smoking in their room, so not really their fault.

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

Customer review

Alone

Sightseeing & culture

31 July 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: everything

Disliked: nothing

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

Neal Erstich

With friends / other travellers

City break

25 July 2011 Neal would recommend this property

Liked: Breakfast, hot shower.

Disliked: Small rooms - wobbly bunk bed.

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

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

17 July 2011

Liked: nice and patient staff

Disliked: not so clean.

85.7%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 60% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 100% Value - 100%

Niamh Richardson

With friends / other travellers

City break
Partying / nightlife
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture

15 July 2011 Niamh would recommend this property

Liked: The period buildings, its location, the FREE breakfast, the conservatory, plenty of bathrooms.

Disliked: Bar was too quiet, no incetive to drink there. Also when I was getting stuff laundered there was a lot of hanging around for a member of staff to come back from shops! Why cant all staff do laundry? Also for the paltry few items I got laundered it was VERY expensive.

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

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

07 July 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: new rooms, everything very clean, colourful interior design

Disliked: n.a.

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

ERICA JONES

Alone

Shopping

02 July 2011 ERICA would recommend this property

Liked: The location was great, easy walking distance from City Centre. TV available, But only 1 computer for Internet, it would be better if there were more computers.

Disliked: That other people staying on the same room did not always lock the room, so your stuff was 'open for robbery'

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

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Events / festivals

27 June 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: the location and its cost

Disliked: just the bathroom door had no lock on !!!!

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

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

25 June 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The staff was helpful, the hostel was clean, and the internet was free to use. Also, each bathroom was a single person bathroom!

Disliked: Because we stayed in a 12 person room we could not lock the door.

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

Sarah Thompson

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year

24 June 2011 Sarah would recommend this property

Liked: the clrean kitchen and the atmosphere in the hostel-the chance of using internet

Disliked: there was nothing i disliked

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

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

City break

23 June 2011

Liked: friendly staff

Disliked: unsafe, dirty, the mattresses are really realllyyyyyyy uncomfortable, two women were crying because some people stole some stuff from their cars (different cars) when parked outside of the hostel. it was really dirty, and the "breakfast" was just coffee. I wouldn't recommend this place to stay. But to be fair it was really cheap, I guess you get what you pay for.

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

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

City break
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture

22 June 2011

Liked: Security

Disliked: Terrible pillow and swinging bedstead, only two socket in 4 bed room, no locker, no mirror, very poor facilities.

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

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

19 June 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Very clean. Friendly staff.

Disliked: Mattresses uncomfortable.

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

Customer review

Alone

Sightseeing & culture
Visiting friends or family

18 June 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Location is pretty near city centre- just a few minutes walk away. Decent place to stay. I like that they use keys, and not key cards.

Disliked: Laundry was really expensive, and wasn't ready when they said it would be.

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

Tara Wright

With friends / other travellers

Events / festivals

17 June 2011 Tara would recommend this property

Liked: Female only dorm

Disliked: bathroom lock didnt work properly

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

Helen Bliss

With friends / other travellers

Events / festivals

13 June 2011 Helen would recommend this property

Liked: Good location, friendly staff - good value for money.

Disliked: Squeaky bed.


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