The Dover Castle Hostel and Bar, providing backpackers and students with great value accommodation and entertainment since 1985. Whatever your circumstances, we will supply you with all you need to experience the best of London.
Value rooms starting from £15 per night.
We're located in Borough, just a few minutes walk to London Bridge and London's Southbank with close proximity to major tourist attractions, such as the Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Southbank, Tate Modern and the London Eye.
Lively entertainment every night, free Wi-Fi, a fully equipped guest kitchen, TV room, laundry facilities, lockers, a free luggage room, and much more.
Longer staying guests can be set up with private rooms in houses and in flatshares, arranged via our Dover Castle flatshare agency.
Guests can rent large single rooms or a twin room for 2 persons. The kitchen and bathroom facilities are shared.
The houses and flats are located in Zone 2, Southeast London, typically 20 minutes from London Bridge.
Your temporary base in London where you can stay, relax, meet, and interact.
Whether you're planning to stay in London for the short or long term, we offer great value to enhance your experience.
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Average hostel. Will commend the cleaning staff for doing a very good job of frequently cleaning the bathrooms. They clean a few times a day. Toilets and showers were never dirty. Room was far too stuffy for me. Otherwise okay. Hostel is too expensive for what you're given but perhaps this is because I booked at a peak time. I wouldn't pay more than £20 per night for this.
Not great. I will start with the positives. The location is great. The center and all the tourist attractions are in walking distance. The price is also very good and the beds are surprisingly comfortable. The negatives are that the bathroom and showers are in bad shape. The bathrooms are incredibly tiny and in dire need of renovation. The showers would also benefit from renovation and better cleaning. In some of the showers you could not change water temperature and the warm water was out one night aswell. The worst thing is that there are only two bathrooms and two showers on each floor and each floor has multiple rooms filled with beds. The wifi only worked a quarter of the time and the common room was very small. There are no lockers in the room and the lockers outside of the room are tiny. Overall I would not come back, but if you desperately need a cheap place to stay it works.
Rooms are good and kitchen also but the security sucks men and women of all age are mixed and if you know the code you can come inside easily. I had a bad experience with a drunk man in this hostel and even if the man were expulsed he could come in the room the next day morning.
Look it’s a place to stay but I just wouldn’t recommend it. Showers are all pretty much broken and cold water apart from 2 the toilets are just kinda gross and not enough of them. sometimes I had to wait 20 mins just to use one. My bedroom floor had old sticky marks on them and no one came to clean. Don’t get me wrong location Is great they just need to put a bit of work into the place for the price your paying.
Upon check-in, we had the pleasure of meeting one of the friendly staff members who provided us with excellent recommendations. They gave us insider tips on the best places to find delicious food, must-visit locations, and even where to go for groceries. After completing the check-in process, we made our way upstairs to our spacious and comfortable rooms. The beds were clean and I had a restful sleep during our four-night stay. The presence of a fan was particularly appreciated on the last night when the weather was exceptionally hot. We also took advantage of the common area, which featured a well-equipped kitchen for guests who preferred to cook their own meals, although I didn't personally use it. I noted the presence of two fridges and a cabinet, allowing guests to store groceries and keep them fresh for a few days, which we did use. In addition, we had the opportunity to visit the pub located on the ground floor, where we encountered more friendly staff. It was a pleasant surprise that we didn't experience any disturbances from the pub noise during the night. Overall, our experience was fantastic, and I highly recommend this place. If I have the chance to visit London again, I would definitely choose to stay here once more!
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