HI-Ottawa Jail Hostel Reviews

From the moment we walked in and until we left the staff was excellent ... absolutely no complaints about the staff. Also the atmosphere was great and my room was great.mHighly recomend the hostel to others.

Nice hostel with friendly staff and a special atmosphere. Unfortunately, when I was there, it was really empty so that I didn\'t really meet other travellers, was alone in my room and alone for breakfast. The breakfast is good too!

Very friendly and helpful staff. Good location. Breakfast much appreciated!

The other guests (must have been a bus full of high schoolers) were EXTREMELY annoying and spent half of the night screaming. There is not much sound privacy so I felt like we could hear everything that they were doing at any given time. I was a little disappointed by the lack of social life and mingling between groups, and by the fact that I didn't meet anyone my age (early 20s). It was a great place to stay, but not somewhere to meet people and have fun.

The cells are a great experience. I am not sure why but the chairs are always up on the tables in the dining room and it makes it a little uninviting.

Awesome staying in an old jail, feels like the real thing, especially when some old bint starts telling people off like she owns the place! Though saying this, I was glad that the music on the Friday went till 2am nice and loud to annoy her. Silly person aside, nice hostel with decent facilities and an excellent prisony feel. The brekky was good too, nice not to have to wash up my dishes for a change! Wi-fi worked well also, good hostel.

price was different on the internet where is hostelworld. it was more expensive than expect. I think it was sort of cheating. the website didn't show thatprise of no members.

Staff were really friendly and helpful, however bar was being renovated and none of the activities were on so it got a bit dull after a while. Building is really interesting and the tour of the jail was good!

I stayed here for a night, and I was greeted by the most beautiful girl at reception who was friendly and helpful, the breakfast cooked was delicious and staying in a Prison was a most interesting experience. My only complaint would be the hissing pipe (although it was pretty quiet) outside my room, and perhaps a lounge upstairs would be nice too, but other than that it was the most perfect experience.

Had a great time. Clean rooms and friendly staff. Breakfest sucked but I really cant ask for more, at least there WAS a breaky.