Although these reviews aren't written by me i thought i would be nice for u guys to see what people thought of the hostels i talked about so far!!
Comments on the torquay hostel-
Comment by Anonymous
May 2005
This is basically a hostel, a so so hostel. I guess for the price I shouldn't complain. The bathrooms are fairly clean, there as a huge kitchen on every floor (so we were told), which is great. We did have a fridge in our room as well. The staff were fine. There is a common room but no one uses it. The bad sides include the area (its close to the tube but first stop of zone two) and the fact that the hostel sits on an unpleasant highway, next to a gas station. This makes it noisy and not pleasant out the door. The mattress was terrible, really terrible. Some sort of a worn away box spring - and really, I'm not fussy. The girl at the desk suggested I sleep on the floor instead. They did try and exchange the mattress when I complained, but I guess they didn't have anything better.
Comment by AKRW
February 2004
I've spent there 3 nights with my boyfriend and we really enjoyed being so close to the tube station. It was great to have a bathroom of our own and we saved a lot of money by cooking in "our" kitchen. Bring some stuff like washing-up liquid along...
Comments about hostel 63-
Awful!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 09/21/07
Everything in this hostel was filthy. There were crochrockers in some rooms. The showers and toilets were dirty and very small. In some rooms and in the kitchen were broken windows. The beds looked like they weren`t washed for 4 weeks. They smelled terrible.You also couldn`t close the windows, because there were no interlocking at it.
don´t give it a try
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 09/21/07
we were at hostel 63 in september 2007 on our class trip. it was just awful, the dirtiest place we ever have seen, the kitchen ... better not talk about it.our beds nearly broke down as we lay in, and everywhere we looked we saw mildrew. into one shower was a great hole in the wall so everyone could watch us as we took a disgusting shower .SO ALL IN ALL: DONT ENTER IT OR YOU GET CLOSE TO THE COKROACHES
Comments on the torquay hostel-
Comment by Anonymous
May 2005
This is basically a hostel, a so so hostel. I guess for the price I shouldn't complain. The bathrooms are fairly clean, there as a huge kitchen on every floor (so we were told), which is great. We did have a fridge in our room as well. The staff were fine. There is a common room but no one uses it. The bad sides include the area (its close to the tube but first stop of zone two) and the fact that the hostel sits on an unpleasant highway, next to a gas station. This makes it noisy and not pleasant out the door. The mattress was terrible, really terrible. Some sort of a worn away box spring - and really, I'm not fussy. The girl at the desk suggested I sleep on the floor instead. They did try and exchange the mattress when I complained, but I guess they didn't have anything better.
Comment by AKRW
February 2004
I've spent there 3 nights with my boyfriend and we really enjoyed being so close to the tube station. It was great to have a bathroom of our own and we saved a lot of money by cooking in "our" kitchen. Bring some stuff like washing-up liquid along...
Comments about hostel 63-
Awful!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 09/21/07
Everything in this hostel was filthy. There were crochrockers in some rooms. The showers and toilets were dirty and very small. In some rooms and in the kitchen were broken windows. The beds looked like they weren`t washed for 4 weeks. They smelled terrible.You also couldn`t close the windows, because there were no interlocking at it.
don´t give it a try
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 09/21/07
we were at hostel 63 in september 2007 on our class trip. it was just awful, the dirtiest place we ever have seen, the kitchen ... better not talk about it.our beds nearly broke down as we lay in, and everywhere we looked we saw mildrew. into one shower was a great hole in the wall so everyone could watch us as we took a disgusting shower .SO ALL IN ALL: DONT ENTER IT OR YOU GET CLOSE TO THE COKROACHES
Total dump! Filthy kitchen and bathrooms.I backpacked through Europe for three weeks. This was absolutely the worst place ever. It was filthy and the bathroom was beyond unsanitary!
Comment by Ripped off
July 2007
The worst ever!!well for a start, the secure store is not secure, we ourselves found it wide open one day with people's belongings there for us to help ourselves, and the manager didn't even seem bothered when we told him of this. the other comments of the mice and the bedbugs obviously haven't been listened to because they are both evident. we came home one night to see two girls in reception rubbing themselves with cream for their bites, should have been a warning sign! As for drunk people, they were vomiting everywhere and when we complained to reception, nothing was done about it. also if they overbook the hostel, they put you at their worse "sister" hostel around the corner! just don't even bother paying for a place like this, you'd be better spending your money to go to a club then sleep in a park the next day!
Comment by Simon G
October 2006
Bedbug alert! (I'm not kidding you.) It certainly is the filthiest hostel I have ever stayed in, but the real nightmare of this place is its apparent bedbug infestation. My girlfriend and I stayed at a super cramped and dirty eight-person mixed dorm for two days. She got lucky and only got about ten bedbug bites on her hands, but I was bitten sixty-nine times (I counted) all over my body. If you have never been bitten by a bedbug before, and I for one haven't, I can tell you that they itch worse and last longer than mosquito bites. I had a dermatologist look at mine and she identified them as bedbug bites. Furthermore bedbugs are suspected of spreading diseases such as hepatitis and may cause allergic reactions and what's worse, you may end up bringing the infestation to your own home if a bug should end up in your bagpack! If you want to see how they look -- just make a google image search for "bedbug." The thing about bedbug bites is that the skin eruptions can be delayed as long as nine days, so you might not even put the two together if you stay at an infested place. Although we didn't actually see the pests (they only come out from nests inside the mattresses at night to suck your blood while you're sleeping) our itinerary made it unequivocally clear they came from Hostel 63. And considering the filthy state of this hostel, I'm not surprised. I'm just thankful I didn't wake up to see them crawl around in my bed in the middle of the night. My advice, stay far away from this hostel.
PLEASE NOTE NONE OF THESE REVIEWS AREN'T WRITTEN BY ME!! THIS IS JUST A REFRENCE!!!
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