Inverness Hostel

2.0 star property

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Standard Twin Room, Shared Bathroom | Free WiFi, bed sheets
Property amenity
Breakfast area
Standard Double Room, Ensuite | Bathroom | Free toiletries, bathrobes, towels
Standard Double Room, Ensuite | Free WiFi, bed sheets

Reviews

7.6 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Laundry
    Laundry
  • Kitchen
    Kitchen
  • Free WiFi
    Free WiFi

Explore the area

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Hillview House, Merlewood Road, Inverness, Scotland, IV2 4NL
  • Bellfield Park
    16 min walk
  • University of the Highlands & Islands
    5 min drive
  • Inverness Botanic Gardens
    6 min drive
  • Inverness (INV)
    20 min drive

Room options

Standard Twin Room, Shared Bathroom

  • Sleeps 3
  • 2 Twin Beds

Single Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

Standard Double Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed

Standard Room (sleeps 5)

  • Sleeps 5
  • 5 Twin Beds

Standard Triple Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 3
  • 3 Twin Beds

Standard Quadruple Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 Double Bed and 2 Twin Beds

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About this property

Inverness Hostel

Hostel in Lochardil
This hostel features concierge services, laundry facilities, and a garden. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a TV in a common area. Housekeeping is not available.
Inverness Hostel offers 6 accommodations with coffee/tea makers and bathrobes. Guests can make use of the shared/communal kitchen.

Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers and complimentary toiletries. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Microwaves and refrigerators can be requested.

Inverness Hostel features a garden, concierge services, and laundry facilities. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • No onsite parking available

Things to do

  • TV in common areas

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities
  • Microwave on request
  • Refrigerator on request

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • No housekeeping service

Outdoors

  • Garden

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • No elevator
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Bathrobes
  • Bathtub or shower
  • Free toiletries
  • Towels provided

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Cookware, dishware, and utensils
  • Microwave on request
  • Oven
  • Refrigerator on request
  • Shared kitchen access
  • Stovetop

More

  • Heating
  • Phone

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 4 PM; Check-in end time: 8:30 PM
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10 AM

Special check-in instructions

There is no front desk at this property
The host will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Host will greet you

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Property payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

Hillview House Inverness Hostel
Hillview House Hostel
Hillview House Inverness
Inverness Hostel
Inverness Youth Hostel Scotland
Inverness Hostel Scotland
Inverness Hostel Inverness
Inverness Hostel Hostel/Backpacker accommodation
Inverness Hostel Hostel/Backpacker accommodation Inverness

Inverness Hostel Reviews

Reviews

7.6

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 38 out of 102 reviews" "
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Rating 6 - Okay. 13 out of 102 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 14 out of 102 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 6 out of 102 reviews" "

8.0/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

7.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Sharad

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
These guys are cheats. Stay away!! We booked accomodation for 2 adults and 2 kids here. However, on our way to hostel, we were told that room we booked is not available and we should find alternative accomodation as we won't fit in 3 kids beds ( only room they have). They asked us to cancel the reservation through Expedia but then did not refund the booking amount.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Gwendolyn

Self check in was smooth
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Joao

Traveled with family
Disliked: Staff & service
There was no wifi signal available in the property which was basic amenity to be provided as terms of booking. Upon enquiry the owner showed suprise but did nothing to rectify the issue.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Sarah

Traveled with family and small children, Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely property safe homely feeling. Great facilities. Super clean. A nice surprise, not your usual hostel more like a bnb/mini hotel. Use of kitchen. Amazing shower. Heaters on when needed. Would recommend
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Harinath

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
This is an hostel and has basic stuff. The common kitchen was useful.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Justin

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Overall pleasant experience. Wish there was more signage and the phone number was inaccurate. Still, we were able to check in to our clean hostel without a worker and had a pleasant experience. The bathroom was especially nice.

10/10 Excellent

Phillip

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice place
Nice place
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Claire

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
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Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

adel

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It’s good 25 min to the town center
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Boris

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Good and affordable place to stay in a quiet neighborhood at Inverness. It took us a good minute to figure out which room was ours since it's a self-check-in process and the keys to each room were on the doors. Overall great stay.

6/10 Okay

Katherine

Traveled with family
Disliked: Staff & service
The communication was very poor. They did not respond to questions. The back of the facility has all kinds of rubbish spread about.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

2/10 Terrible

Megan

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
DO NOT STAY HERE
DO NOT STAY HERE. No hot water, and I mean NONE, not like the pictures at all, very dirty, smells. Horrible experience. After 1st night of a 3 night stay we left and stayed elsewhere.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

4/10 Poor

Jean-Simon

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
No hot water Door wouldn’t close Smelly beds
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

4/10 Poor

Kam Sum

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Cynthia

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cool Place!
This was a really cool place to stay. Our group stayed in the 5 person room which had 5 single beds around the walls. We called it the "Seven Dwarves Room." The room was huge, with its own bathroom and we were very pleased with it. The beds weren't the most comfy in the world but we managed. The kitchen was clean and well stocked and the other guests were respectful and kind. We stayed in several hostels on our trip and this one was one of our favorites! There was confusion during check in as the number provided to contact someone for help wasn't working or no one was answering. Not the best way to manage the property. But keep access to your email as this property uses that as its primary form of checking you in.
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

4/10 Poor

Joshua

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not a very good location, poor repair, and overall quite dirty. Seems like a place the owners are just trying to milk for what they can without putting any effort or work back into the place. The freezer in the kitchen was so iced over the door wouldn’t shut.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Jose

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

4/10 Poor

Jane

Traveled with group
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beware
GOOD: Price; Location is in a leafy quiet road ; comfortable bed;Parking BAD:The non smoking room had a stench of smoke. View from window was a yard full of junk. Noisy building so heard every other occupants movements. COMMUNICATION:Received self check in details a day after we had checked out! Fortunately we were able to speak to the contact by phone who told us our room number. If you're looking for a cheap place to stay it's acceptable only if you don't care about high standard of accomodation and have earplugs ( which we did)
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

8/10 Good

Sarah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
We were very jet lagged so it was a convenient place to crash for the night. But our room smelled of stale cigaret smoke, we had to sleep with the window open. And the mattresses had buttons in them that made them extra uncomfortable. But the place was clean. And we felt safe.
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

2/10 Terrible

Alex

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Other than the shower, the place was dirty. Kitchen and floors need a deep clean
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

tom

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice and clean
Stayed 1 night in May 2022

6/10 Okay

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness
It’ll do if you’re on a budget.
No sign of the host, but that’s fine. Good points; parking on site, room was clean. Bad points; uncomfortable old mattress, shower head was more like a hose, no soap at all not even a cheap dispenser (public toilets have free hand soap). No signage on gate or entrance.
Stayed 1 night in May 2022

4/10 Poor

Ingrid

Traveled with group
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Surprised this place had a good ratng
The yard was a mess with trash and construction debris. I was afraid we were in the wrong place. I was afraid to go in. The room was ok but the heat had broken and was being fixed. There was no host on site and the contact person was not helpful. The room was freezing and it was after midnight when it warmed up. We asked for a space heater and we're not giving a return call until the next morning. Overall the place had many things that were not functioning well. I was surprised it had such a good rating on this site and bookings.com.
First view of house
View from our window
View around side of house
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

Gareth

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Value for money
Good place to stay. Clean and tidy bedroom, bathroom and the shared kitchen. Easy walk into the town centre along the river. My only issue was the pillow was very uncomfortable
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2021