Lake District Backpackers Reviews

Well i can't rate the staff because there aren't any! but if you can get over that then this is actually quite a nice place to stay, its clean, warm and secure. The place also has good facilities (including wifi, kitchen and laundry) and is walking distance to town (1.5 miles / 2.4 kilometres to the lake).

was basically fine; I'm not used to the receptionless method but it worked out....room was fairly cold but otherwise fine.

Very close to train and bus station. Would stay there again.

Over priced as didn't have any staff on site. Unhelpful when we did phone them. Tiny, cramped rooms with very uncomfortable beds. Stay in a YHA in the lake district instead.

Value for money fine, didn't even see manager or owner and name wasn' t on the list so had to phone to find out if I was booked in and make my own bed. But that was fine. I had good company and was close to town.

It was an interesting experience. The hostel is self-service and we saw ZERO signs of staff at all. It had it's good points and bad points. The sheets weren't made very well and the upstairs shower was broken, other than that though everything was pretty good.

I did like the set-up with no staff around; but I was a little worried that some of the guests were squating without paying. A very nice set-up nonethelss and everything was cleaned daily. Although the upstairs shower did not work; so there was only one shower in the entire hostel.

prefer the room to have locks, and more bathrooms

I really liked the honesty system at Lake District Backpackers. It felt more like a "home away from home" than a hostel, especially with the cozy electric fire. I realize that the nature of the unstaffed hostel is that keys for rooms cannot be issued, but it would have been nice to have some lockers in the dorms to lock valuables. Also there were issues with the front door security, sometimes I would go downstairs to find it open because people couldn't get it to close with the code system lock.

well, average clean, but when everything is self-service, it's quite awful, especially the facility is not stable, only two toilet in the hostel and it's not easy to find a staff to help. 15 pounds for just one night will be fine, location is good, but i would say, try to find another one, unless you just need a "bed" to "sleep" for one or two nights.

It is ver cool as everything is self service. Space is indeed limited.

Our room doors don't have lock...and the pillow and bed not really clean~~

Didn't see any staff

We were quite disappointed with this hostel. The honesty policy is a bit strange and there are no staff on site to help you with anything. We booked a 4 bed dorm and were put in a 6 bed female dorm which wasn't really suitable as I was travelling with my boyfriend. I called the owner to get it fixed up but he just told us to stay in the 6 bed dorm. The parking is quite far away and the pc provided wasn't even connected to the internet. The toilet paper also ran out with no one to replace it