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Central Hotel - Hostel

1.0 star property

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Exterior
Hallway
Reception
Executive lounge
Bed sheets

Reviews

5.4 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • 24/7 front desk

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26 Princes Square, London, England, W2 4NJ
  • Place, Queensway
    ‪3 min walk‬
  • Place, Kensington Gardens
    ‪5 min walk‬
  • Place, Portobello Road Market
    ‪6 min walk‬
  • Airport, London (LHR-Heathrow)
    ‪58 min drive‬

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About this property

Central Hotel - Hostel

This smoke-free hostel features a 24-hour front desk, tour/ticket assistance and a TV in a common area. Free WiFi in public areas and free train station pick-up are also provided. Other amenities include a front desk safe. Bathrooms are shared and housekeeping is available on request.
Central Hotel - Hostel offers 76 shared accommodations. Guests can make use of the in-room full-sized fridge/freezers and microwaves. Guests have access to shared bathrooms. Housekeeping is provided on request.
During your stay at Central Hotel - Hostel, you're just a quick walk from Kensington Gardens. You'll find features such as free WiFi in public areas and free train pick-up service.
  • Free WiFi and wired Internet in some public areas
  • Services include tour or ticket assistance and luggage storage
  • Just a 4-minute walk from Kensington Gardens and 8 minutes on foot from Portobello Road Market
  • Free train station pick-up shuttle service
As a guest of Central Hotel - Hostel, you'll find tour/ticket assistance, a front desk safe, and a television in common area. WiFi and wired Internet are free in public spaces.

This London hostel is smoke free.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi and wired internet

Parking and transport

  • No on-site parking available
  • Airport shuttle at scheduled times
  • Free train station pick-up shuttle

Things to do

  • TV in common areas

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping on request
  • Tour and ticket assistance

Accessibility

  • No lift

More

  • 3 floors
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Shared bathroom
  • Towels provided

Food and drink

  • Cookware, dishware, and utensils
  • Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
  • Hob
  • Microwave
  • Oven

More

  • Heating
  • Shared accommodation

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; check-in end time: 5:30 AM

Minimum check-in age - 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property

This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in

Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • No pets allowed

Children and extra beds

  • Children 6 and younger are not allowed at this property. All guests older than 6 are welcome.

Important information

You need to know

This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business or profession.
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 doesn't offer after-hours check-in. Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property.
If you cancel your booking, you'll be subject to the host's cancellation policy. In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, property booking services are not subject to the right of withdrawal.

We should mention

  • Children 6 years old and younger aren't allowed at this property.

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Central Hotel - Hostel Reviews

Reviews

5.4
Rating 10 - Excellent. 1 out of 39 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 7 out of 39 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 17 out of 39 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 5 out of 39 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 9 out of 39 reviews

4.8/10

Cleanliness

5.8/10

Staff & service

3.6/10

Amenities

4.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

Verified

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Sad looking place

Reception team were nice and location was quiet. The condition of the property and cleaning standards are very disappointing.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021
Verified

4/10 Poor

KT

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
No cover sheet for blanket. I was so uncomfortable sleep in the bed without flat sheet. Need to bring your own towels shampoo and toothbrush. Everything is old and broke.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2019
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Rok

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Dont go here. Everything is horrible People live in the hostel. Rude staff. They dont speak english. Toilets dont flush...
Stayed 5 nights in May 2019
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This hostel is old, smelly, and very dirty. I don’t recommend it at all. So many other hostels around it that are way better and clean for the same price
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Andreas och Melina

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Obekvämt.

Långa köer till toaletterna, receptionen öppen dygnet runt, ofräsch inredning. Dumt av hotellet att ge oss ett rum fullt med människor när vi kommer mitt i natten. Skapar irritation och det var inte så kul att sova i andra änden av rummet från sin partner för att sängarna är upptagna av andra.
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Michelle

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The only good thing about this hostel was that it's actually very central in Bayswater. But very difficuly to find when you're first arriving! I must have searched for about half an hour! The staff was friendly, but the state of the place was terrible! There were holes in the carpet in my room, the building is very noisy, I could hear exactly when my upstairs neighbours were moving around in their room (including in the middle of the night). So, I will not be staying here again on my next visit to London.
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Einfach GRAUENHAFT!!!

Einfach GRAUENHAFT!!!! Alles voller Schmutz! Dreckiger Teppichboden, gebrauchte Bettwäsche (voller Dreck und mit Blutflecken am Leintuch)... Das Fenster ließ sich nicht richtig schließen, daher war es immer eiskalt! Das Bad war um nichts besser, Schimmel an jeder Ecke, Das Klo war ständig verstopft! Unterm Strich war mein Aufenthalt in diesem Hostel der pure Albtraum!!!
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Michael

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Would not stay again. OK if you have NO standards.

I'm never very picky about where I stay as I tend to spend much more time out of my room than in it. I've stayed in hotels and hostels through out Asia, Europe, Africa, the US and Central America, from 5 star resorts to 1 star hostels, and never complain much. So this I think I can be rather fair in my description. The bad: -The rooms, and entire hostel, are dirty, falling apart, foul smelling and overall very unpleasant to be in. The mattresses are old, uncomfortable and covered in urine stains (everyone I looked at). The bunk beds are small, loud/rickety and packed with little room to move. You get a paper thin sheet (which you can actually see the stains through), a blanket barely long enough to cover your body (smelt dirty along with all the bedding) and a relatively comfortable pillow. The bathrooms are disgusting and have no male/female distinction, so that everyone ends up being covered in urine. Not too big a problem for me, being a male and always wearing shoes in the hostel, but the females (including my GF) hated it. We simply used the restrooms at restaurants during our time out. One of the receptionists was nice and seemed very friendly, the rest were rude. The cleaning staff were the worst, one actually kept trying to peak under the covers at my GF will she slept!? The rooms are very loud and you hear EVERYTHING from inside the hostel as well as on the street through the cracked windows which do not fully close. The good: The location is ok... That all...
Verified

4/10 Poor

anonymous

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

meh

hard to find and bad rooms but fridge in double rooms...
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Be traped

This is purely a refugee camp and I immediately went to out to find another hotel and waste of my money I must say.
Verified

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

bra läge, usel service

Man får ju vad man betalar för. Rummen är helt ok å läget är toppen men personalen är bland de otrevligaste människorna jag stött på. Inte alls service inriktade. Hostlet är toppen om man endast planerar att sova där å inte ha några som helst krav på något.
Verified

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Delusione per questo Hostel

l hotel in questione non mi ha per nulla soddisfatto in quanto le camere non erano pulite , le finestre non si aprivano bene e si creavano odori pesanti nella stanza...poichè non circolava aria per il ricambio. I bagni discreti, piccole le docce ... cucina oscena.
Verified

6/10 Okay

Nicola

Decent and reasonably priced hostel

I have read alot of negative review about this place, and I am sure some people have had a bad stay. However I wanted to balance things out. My boyfriend and I stayed just one night in this Hostel but we were pleased with our stay. The staff were friendly and helpful, the hostel was reasonably tidy, our beds were ready early so we could put our bags in our room. The beds had clean linen on and were actually very comfortable although quite squeeky. We were suppose to be in a 6 bed shared dorm but ended up only in a 4 bed quite was better. The guys we were sharing with were very quite and respectful.Yes the Hostel is pretty ruff around the edges and could do with quite a bit of refurbishments, but it is a cheap Hostel and for the price I think it is a good deal. Close to the centre of London. As long as yopu don't expect the Ritz and realise you are staying at the bottom end of the market, you will have a pleasent and Cheap stay!
Verified

4/10 Poor

Jeffrey

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

First time stay at hostel

Having never stayed at a hostel before it's difficult to compare this stay versus other stays. I booked a single night here very last minute just so that I'd have a cheap place to sleep as I was in between hotel stays and didn't want to spend very much for a 9 hour stay. I didn't make use of any of the facilities aside from the bed. Although I personally would not book here again, this is probably a great hostel only for students or the budget conscious, I'm guessing. The hostel is pretty much the equivalent of an uncomfortable campus dormitory. However, the people staying here were quite friendly. The beds were uncomfortable and the floors felt dirty. Place felt very cramped. Only a single TV and computer terminal available to be accessed. Reception was located in the basement of the building, therefore not very convenient when having to transport ones luggage up several flights of stairs.
Verified

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort

Bra boende för billig peng

Man får vad man betalar för. En natt går hur bra som helst att bo här. Lungt område. Tänk på att puben stänger 23.00.
Verified

2/10 Terrible

len

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

rubbish, unfriendly and slow service

Unfriendly unhelpful staff. Place stinks and really run down
Verified

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Central Hostel : Un hôtel pour jeunes en plein Londres

Hotel sympathique pour les jeunes, bonne ambiance. Attention, l'accueil se fait au sous-sol, ce qui peut rendre difficile l'accès. L'hôtel est propre mais est un peu vétuste. Cela dit, sa position est idéale (10min a pied de Queensferry qui est desservi par la ligne centrale, proche de Hyde Park) et le quartier proche est vivant et plutôt bien fréquenté.
Verified

6/10 Okay

Vincent

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Hostel basique dans quartier très sympa

Positif : quartier très agréable, plusieurs stations de métro à proximité, commerces, environs de l'hostel calme, prix très avantageux. Négatif : douches pas pratiques pour se changer, pas de wifi, ordi mis à dispo très lent, personnel sympathique mais manque parfois de rigueur (attention aux changements de draps qui laissent croire que le lit est libre, difficile de savoir combien de personnes dans la chambre). Divers : beaucoup de francophones.
Verified

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service

Preis-Leistungsverhältnis gut!

Sehr gute Lage. Preis-Leistungsverhältnis ist sehr gut. Es ist ein Hostel. Man kann natürlich kein Topzimmer wie in einem Hotel erwarten. Gemeinschaftsduschen und Toiletten waren sauber.
Verified

6/10 Okay

AEIOU

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

50/50

Almost impossible to find!! Their "sign" is a small graffitti on the wall going to the basement where the reception is. If looking for this hostel, look down, not up for a sign. I spent over an hour looking for it. If you don't care about looks, this is the place. The beds were clean, the sink in the bedroom was clean but the carpet had holes and the floor creaked a lot. The internet is so slow, it's insulting and then they charge you for it!! They have shared toilet and shower. The room had good storage space but the TV didn't work and the fridge had a leak and the carpet was damp. This is really a place for students and/or young travellers. The staff is extremely friendly and helpful and if you have a problem, they will fix it for you. I don't know about the food because I didn't eat there so I can't comment on that. Some of the staff speaks spanish. If you decide to stay here, take the train from King's Cross to Bayswater and Central Hostel is just a few minutes walk away. It's got supermarkets, shops, restaurants, train and bus stops very close.
Verified

6/10 Okay

Scat

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

No internet, great location

The hostel was mostly empty, but space would be tight if it was crowded. There was no wireless internet, and you had to pay to use the computer. Security was good, as there was someone at reception 24/7 and you could have things locked away for you. There was a public kitchen and free tea/coffee available, but not much else. There was a public tv, but few channels. It was clean, and friendly, and well located. If you don't plan on spending much time there, it's a great place to stay on budget.
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Joab

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 6 nights in Oct 2021
Verified

6/10 Okay

Rayan

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2020
Verified

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020
Verified

2/10 Terrible

Michaela

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019