Dover Castle Hostel and Bar Reviews

Good Hostel - cheap, friendly, clean. A little out of the way but very close to a tube station so very easy to get to.

very good location, helpful staff. Thank you.

It was a very good experiencie, you should know that a hostel is not a hotel, so your expectations about facilities should not be too high. But if you know what a hostel means, this place is really good, good cleanliness, good atmosphere, kind people, and as well as you understand and follow the staff instuctions about scurity, your belongings will be safe.

During our stay, there wasn't light in the shower so we had to have a shower without light. In the kitchen there was only one spun so we had to share it. In the room there were 8 beds but in one of them there was a couple and during the night they made "strange noise" (you can imagine). the breackfast was poor. And in the room there were only 2 plugs, for 8 persons!

L'état de propreté est insuffisant. La lumière de la douche de notre étage n'a pas fonctionné pendant 4 jours. Nombre de sanitaires un peu faible.

The hostel itself was fine. Pretty much like any other hostel. Everything is there plus the bar is nice. It's also very close to the subway and busstop, which is very convenient. The staff however was very rude and treated us like we were there to bug them everytime we even said hello. Check-in time is from 2 pm, which is kinda late and you have to pay 5 pound safety deposits on everything. Can't say we felt very welcome, but it was fine. I wouldn't recommend it to a lone-traveler.

The location of the hostel is great, just one minute by foot away from the underground station and Tower Bridge is reachable by foot within appr. 15min. Beds and rooms were alright, it's ok if you want to stay just two or three nights. But bath and toilet facilities were quite disappointing. Not very clean and also seemed rather old. Breakfast is very simple (tost with marmelade and butter, cereals, coffee and tea). Staff is excellent, very friendly and willing to help at any time.

Overall excellent, in room 2 only have a charging plug point but no electricity.

they cancelled my entire reservation because i arrived late into london so i couldnt get there at night time because my flight was so late.. so i showed up the next morning after and they told me sorry we cancelled your whole reservation. they weren't even helpful finding me another hostel after this. the receptionist was incredibly rude. this started my vacation in london horribly.

Good location, very nice staff and clean but old equipment

Good value for your money, overall, and showers were clean.

It is not a good idea to put a sleeping room above a bar that is open until 2 a.m.

I just loved it but in my opnion for breakfast they should also serve coffee and hot chocolate.

Costumer service is really important, and if you are nice and do your job nicely people would recommend your place to 3 people, but if u just don't give a duvet and pillow to the people (that's what you basically pay for) and afterwards tell them it is their fault , that is not a nice costumer service, and in this case the costumer will tell his experience to 10 people. And by the way, it doesnt matter who is complaining and whose was the bed that has no duvet, look 4 better excuses next time :)

The majority of the people at this hostel are not travelers. Instead they are a bunch of people who are living in london and working. Thus, they treat the rooms like they would their own bedrooms, which means they are messy, loud and obnoxious. Also, the staff was rather unfriendly and many of them acted as though it was an inconvenience for me to be there. The bar downstairs though is great. The bartenders are nice.

I didn't like this hostel and I didn't stay there for the full nights planned. The room was tiny and there were no room for bags or suitcases so we were all tripping over bags on the floor. The kitchen was small and poorly equipped. The lounge did not have enough seating. There were 79 steps that I had to drag my suitcase up to my room. The hostel was located on a busy junction and therefore was very very noisy.

The room was too small for 8 people (very very small) but clean. The staff didn´t really care helping us with anything and it took half an hour to check in (but and staff changed it got better). Bathroom was clean, just the curtain that was dirty, so it was a bit complicated to take a shower. Breakfast was ok: simple, toast, butter, jam, cereal, milk, water and juice. Reception is downstairs but rooms are upstairs (no elevator), so you need to get all your luggage down and then up.

Our room was right above the Pub downstairs and it was lound til 3am! Registration was in the basement which ment you had to drag your luggage downstairs just to turn around and drag them back up and then up some more to the room!!

Gross and confusing showers, old technology (like loud keys for the doors and two separate pass codes instead of one swipe card), deposits for EVERYTHING, sad towels & sheets, creepy old people (there's no age limit at this hostel :( )....I was not a fan of the "castle" at all. The staff was pretty nice, but the atmosphere in the rooms/reception/staircases was just icky. Also, the room doors don't lock unless you pull them pretty hard, so people just leave the doors unlocked to go in and out. :/

This hostel was the wors of all, where I have ever been.. In the bathroom was no heater. There was one bottom, what you have to push evry 5 secounds. After 15 minutes you have "hot" water but it wasnt too strong. I get cold there. My blanket and pillow was very usefull, and old...The staf was not helpfull...