YHA Cambridge Hostel

It's easy to reach, near the center and the staff is trying to be very nice / helpful, but that's all what I can say about its advantages.Very dirty and small rooms.The corners are moldy and everything is covered in dust.In the sanitary areas are hanging funny signs, but the toilets and showers are disgusting. They're stinking and slippery.The food is okay but all plates, glases, cups, bowls are dirty.When we arrived we needed to clean our room, for example the sink, by ourselves .One day water or something similar were dripping from the ceiling down on the table where we were eating...

Fantastic place to stay, the place was so welcoming and warm, the staff were friendly and helpful. spoke with Peter and Massimo were fantastic, the beds and pillows were so comfy, showers were spacious and the continental breakfast was great with a good selection to choose from :)

It's near the station and central.Staff were lovely, even at 1am when I checked in.Rooms were comfy enough and functional, as you'd expect from YHA. Facilities were just fine

Great value accommodation. Excellent, friendly staff. Clean rooms. Good location. Recommended for travellers of all ages.

The accommodation was basic and cramped (beds were really crammed in and the en suite was so tight I had to turn sideways to squeeze in it!) but okay for the price. What put me off though was the noise...There were several school groups staying at the hostel and whoever was staying in the dorm above me woke up at 2am and started shouting and moving things around for an hour. As I'm told there are often school groups staying here, and they stay for a week at a time, it seemed this was worth knowing. So bad I moved to different accommodation for my second night.

We spent 3 nights here at Youth Hostel in Cambridge. The location is less than 5 minutes walk to the train station, very convenient. The private room with ensuite is very clean. The bunk bed is on the smaller size for a tall person but it's clean and comfy with the night light for reading. The shower room is clean and the water pressure is excellent. The room is compact and quite small but I can always write my journal and do some reading in the social room. The staffs are all exceptional friendly and approachable. Breakfast was delicious and freshly cooked. The guided walking tour and the punting tour offered thru the Hostel are excellent and great value. However, be prepared to climb a few flights of stairs to your room with the suitcase. I would certainly come back here on my next UK visit to Cambridge. Love the warm hospitality and friendliness from all the staffs, both at the front desk and kitchen staffs, especially Naomi. Thank you.

Family with 2 young kids stayed for 2 nights in a private ensuite room. No complain! Great value! Nice and friendly staff and my son just love talking to the chef in the morning. Not 5 stars purely because it is a bit out of the historic centre, tired legs after a hot day out.

Clean room and good service. We had a private en suite room and the bathroom was clean and the shower worked fine. It didn’t include towels or shampoo but towels were cheap to rent. It’s around a 20 minute walk from central Cambridge but there’s lots of good shops nearby still. Staff was helpful. It was a bit noisy at night and you can hear people talking and walking around a lot of the time. It’s very cheap and it’s good for what you pay for.

I was part of a group stay at this location and our experience was absolutely horrendous. We arrived late after a long day of travel, with the hope of a clean bed to refresh ourselves. What we found instead was quite a disappointment. The building was so hot, we could barely breath in the rooms. The rooms stank, there was mold, and only one broken bathroom for a floor to share.We were told our group would have a private room but instead we were made to share a room with strangers which, as teenagers, was unsafe.Our entire group was left with no option but to move to another hotel, in the middle of the night, exhausted. To top everything off, the service was terrible and they refused a refund.

Our experience was terrible. After reading positive reviews, I booked this location for my school group only to find that there was one broken bathroom for 12 people to share, one grimy shower that was also broken, windows that opened so little that there was no airflow on a hot night, and if that wasn't enough, bugs as well. I had personally called to organise the trip, and had been told that the 3 extra people would have a private room. It wasn't. My fellow chaperone found four other unwashed individuals in his room, and the same in the second room.We didn't even stay 20 minutes, and they refused to refund us. My students had been saving a year to go on this trip, and the last hostel was excellent in every way. But this was unacceptable, unsanitary, and unsafe. Great location, great disappointment.PS. Added due to the reply: I had personally phoned and worked out the booking with the person who answered. Saying other showers were available on lower floors doesn't change the reality of sharing one grimy, moldy shower on a whole floor, a broken shower, or of bugs in the rooms.