Belford Hostel Reviews

The Belford Hostel was one of the best hostels i've ever stopped in. The atmosphere was amazing there and the staff were really friendly,welcoming and helpful. All the facilities were up to scratch and made for a very pleasant stay. Its a proper hostel for proper people who are looking to make friends and have a good time whilst in Edinburgh. The building itself is unreal, stopping in an old church is amazing and all the original features are still existent!! Thumbs up to Belford!!

The worst hostel I ever had.. bad atmosphere, you can hear the others speaking from the room next door. It was so cold!! I was freezing the whole night!! Everything seems dirty, never again!!

It was very cold and drafty in the hallways, but otherwise a nice place to stay! :)

belford hostel is an excellent place to stay and i cant wait to go back again and again, i liked it so much that i booked for another night at the reception, i must stress that their was just two very little points that need i bit of fixing, the shower room sink hot tap had no hot water and the heater in my room was not working, but other than that i loved it very much

The rooms and the common areas were cold, but the duvet was really warm. Very basic hostel, but for a good price.

Its a Awesome hostel. Enjoyed our stay very much, Its clean, has a really big kitchen. great location 10 mins walk to city centre. great staff. its a different hostel, Its great compared to some hostels that look like the inside of a prison cell.

Very good hostel, nice staff that helped me in everything I needed as points of interest, nearest supermarket, where to join a free tour through the city as well they provided me a new room after the lockers of my first room were not working perfectly. I recommend this hostel for everyone!

A good hostel, the showers are what lets it down, very public, nowhere to store your things while you're showering.

Freezing cold, absolutely tiny rooms not even big enough for everyone to stand on the floor at the same time. Lockers outside the room. Lost our booking. Most of the staff rude and borderline incompetent. Black mould in showers. Never any toilet paper. Bed broken

Really nice place, private rooms were great and the large bathroom was really nice. Bottle of Champers on arrival was lovely for New Years. Bit pricey for what it was but that is to be expected at New Years I guess. Comfy bed also.

The hostel is well situated near Edinburgh downtown, and it is shiny clean, with comfortable beds that make you sleep as if you were at home, getting you ready for another day to explore the city. Kuddos for the staff!!!

Awfull staff, said we had too fly because no ladder to climb on our bed. They were partying in the recreation room, but not with travellers, only with friend on their own. They were not polite, looked like we were disturbing them. 1 pound for 30 minutes of internet !!! Bad network so we couldn't almost see our mails !!!! No ladder to climb on the bed (!!!) Worse hostel staff EVER

great hostel, definitely recommend!! rooms are nice, kitchen and common areas are excellent. Place was clean and although the stairwell and showers/toilets were cold (due to being in an old church), the rest of the place was warm and comfortable. Staff were great, organised a fantastic xmas dinner and were very understanding and helpful when we needed to cut our stay short.

Everything was great!

This was my second stay in this Hostel and I really liked it again ! They're very welcoming and kind :) The common room is really nice as well.

The bedroom was freezing and it's far from city centre. But the other things are nice!

Was rather cold over night when the heaters went off, it is a large space to heat up. Staff were excellent, it was quiet at night. Only 15 min walk to the city centre but if you take the back streets it is a really pretty walk. There seemed to be some mildew in the showers around the bottom and the washer/dryer area where you are supposed to dry your hair could use a paint job,...but thats just me nitpicking. Overall a good place to stay.

The Belford Hostel was reasonably priced and only about 25 minutes walk from the centre of the city. The staff was friendly, and the facilities were clean. One thing to note about staying in a converted church in winter is that they are not well known for their central heating. It was pretty chilly the entire stay, especially in the mornings and early afternoons. That being said, the blankets were warm. I would recommend it to students on a budget, just maybe not in the middle of winter.

The hostel was extremely cold because it was a converted church and they hadn't retrofitted it with enough heaters to be warm outside the bed covers. But the beds were very warm, and the facilities were generally nice.

Would be good to have more food available to buy at the bar.