Bru Bar & Hostel Reviews

There is a bar downstairs but it's quiet in the room.Clean room,bathroom & bed.Wifi doesn't work in the room.Only get it at the bar & common area.Simple breakfast with toast bread,jam butter,cereal,milk,coffee,tea.Water was ice cold on the 2nd day but the heater was restarted & there's hot water.They provide laundry service with a charge of 5euros for a big bag.Free printing for itinerary.Staffs were friendly & helpful.3min walk to main bus station,5min walk to St. Patrick's Street.

Everything was great! Staff was awesome, great live music and bar downstairs that didnt interfere with sleep, clean and well maintained, no lockers to store stuff but there were several security doors which covered that. Highly recommended!

it was fantastic. staff were brilliant, bar was brilliant (and they got us really drunk on their strong beers :)

We found some stuffs under a pillow! Does that mean the bed didn't have been cleaned?

We were 6 in the same room and everything was perfect.

It was an ok hostel. Just above a pub, so you can have a good time and not be too far away from your room. The showers are odd - you have to press a button that activates the water for about a minute. Can't control the temperature, but it was nice. Have to keep pressing that button to have a decent shower. Floors are quite squeaky, so arriving late at night could bother a few people in the room.

loved having smaller rooms with an ensuite as opposed to the norm when you get massive rooms that always seem to have loud snores and other random sounds throughout the night. Staff were extremely friendly and helpful. But most importantly the bar downstairs had good beer, great atmosphere, and live music every night

Please make clear that the pub is not open for public

Drunk people knocked on our door but the bar was nice.

Upset the staff didn't intervene when my room was 10 ft away and a grp of teenagers woke me up yelling for 30+ min at 5 AM. i asked them to quiet down & they knocked on my closed door for 15 min. i didn't have a phone in my room to call reception for help. they easily could hear the noise and didn’t intervene. I checked out that AM and the friendly staff refunded me which was great. So happy w/ staff but not w/ hostel experience. Room clean but their communal kitchen was smelly w/dirty dishes

I had a wonderful experience at Bru. Friendly staff and nice bar with good entertainment. Walking distance to the city centre and close to the bus station so easy to get buses to all tourist locations and the airport. The rooms were clean and having there own bathroom was a real bonus. Fantastic to find a hostel with includes breakfast in the price as well. I would thoroughly recommend Bru Bar to anyone travelling to Cork.

The kitchen was great and you get free breakfast. Downstairs is a small bar with live music. The hostel is very safe with multiple key in locations and you have wifi and locker storage in your bedroom.

This is a very great place to stay. People are very nice and there is an atmosphere of cordiality. The Pub is fantastic and there is a live event every day. Great Location.

I loved the fact that it was a bar and hostel. When we got back late from sightseeing and all we wanted to do was relax, we'd just have a pint at the bar and head back up to our rooms. The staff was super nice and friendly.

It is nice if you are looking for live music,watching live football games. It may not be a good choice if you want to have a deep sleep because it is a little bit noisy. It is better to avoid the bar downstairs. The facilities in the room are quite good. The breakfast provided is quite simple, just grains and breads. The cleaness of the bowls, dishes are soso. It takes 5 minutes to walk to the coach station and around 10 minutes to the merchant streets.

Great and friendly staff. Loved the lounge area off the kitchen. It was awesome that we had a discount at the bar too. And great location!

Basic accommadation. Towels in the rooms would be a bonus as we didnt think about them as all other hostels we have stayed in towels were provided as standard. An electric socket near the mirror for drying hair would be good.

Very good staff, very good place, we are very close to the centre and the station bus, so Perfect!

I wanted to have a hot shower around 7 p.m. and the water was cold. I mean really really freezing cold!

For the location of where the place was and what you got for what you paid, I feel the price is a little high. We paid less for better accomodations, better breakfast, more secure luggage storage, and better location.