YMCA Bath Broad Street Place, Bath BA1 5LH

"Great location in Bath, really close to the centre, only a few minutes walking from the hostel. The single room was ready with everything needed. The Hitting system makes it comfortable to stay in the wintertime. The shared bathroom was easy to reach and not crowded. Most of the receptionists were very kind, especially Gerald, who helped me with transport issues always very welcoming with his smile."

"Great location central to exploring the main streets of Bath. Friendly reception staff. Simple rooms with beds, sink, wardrobe and bedside table. Linen provided but no towels. Communal bathrooms clean and spacious. Beautiful courtyard area outside entrance. There are communal basic kitchen facilities too like a microwave and kettle. No parking which was a pain as there isn’t any free parking nearby and all the paid parking is time limited. Overall great for the price. We only stayed one night and it was perfect for what we needed."

"A few of the people giving terrible reviews seem to have been expecting the Four Seasons or Savoy... It's a hostel people! There are going to be other people in your dorm and the bathrooms might have been used between their last cleaning and the time you arrive! Having said that this wasn't an ideal hostel experience for me. I'm not going to complain vociferously about anything (sometimes your experience is bad because of things beyond the control of hostel staff and that's unfortunately expected occasionally when backpacking). However, there are a few things people should be aware of before booking: 1) Bunks are triple bunks. If you’re on the bottom or middle you won’t be able to sit up in bed at all. There’s also a kind of frame/cage around the bunks, to stop people falling out I’m sure, but it does make getting in/out of bed a bit more tricky. I know in the female only dorm (as told by a friend) the frame also supports privacy curtains. These were not present in my mixed dorm. Also trying to make your bed with the mattress inside a cage at 6ft in the air (for the top bunks) is more than a little difficult! 2) Lockers are advertised but not available. In a 12 bunk dorm there were 6 lockers… Less than ideal. On a floor with 5 dorm rooms (so probably 60 bunks) there a mere three extra lockers in the corridor. Assuming 6 lockers per dorm this leaves a potential 21 people without a secure space to store their belongings… not great. 3) Bathrooms/showers. I was on the top floor where there is ‘female only’ toilet & shower room and only a single separate other unisex toilet stall. If you’re male and want a shower it’s a big flight of stairs down in your towel to the unisex room. Not ideal not terrible (process reversed for females on the first floor obviously) Some positives – staff are great, cooked breakfast available and you really could not ask for a better location! So 3 stars overall and I think that's a fair review!!!"

"Worst hostel we’ve ever stayed in, and we’ve stayed in quite a lot! The location is great and the bedsheets were clean, but there’s nothing more positive to say really. Rooms are loveless (even for a hostel) and the bunk beds have definitely seen better days. Toilets were sometimes really dirty and not cleaned properly. But the worst was the dining room! It was so dirty in every corner! If there was cutlery and plates/bowls at all, it was really filthy. Really no idea where they got their food safety rating of 5 from (there’s a sign on the door)? Breakfast on weekends was alright, but two of three toasters were broken, they constantly ran out of plates and cutlery and there was a dirty cleaning rag on the counter. In our last night there was suddenly water dripping from the ceiling and onto our stuff. One promised us to bring us towels to clean, but they never came. Also, the guy at reception offered us reimbursement, but the next morning suddenly no one knew about it. They wanted to speak with the manager about it and to call us - guess who never called back… One is asked to give the keys to reception before leaving, but often there’s no one there so theoretically anyone could grab a key and enter your room. Also, I wrote two emails before our arrival and never got an answer. All in all: we’re really not sensitive, but would never go there again!"