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Details
Bedsheets:
Sheets Included
Luggage Storage:
Available
Wheelchair Accessible:
YES
Internet Computers:
Pay
Wireless Internet:
YES
Reception Hours:
24 Hours
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Description
Features
Free Breakfast
Lockers
Lounge / Common space
Food/Restaurant
Elevator/Lift
Phones (public or in room)
Your Comments
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Comment by Eric, Taiwan
July 2008
No hospitality at all Unfriendly attitude and no hospitality spirit at all. The only things they care are saving cost and making money. Terrible place to stay. Breakfast is terrible and the dining time is making no sense from 7:15 to 8:15 a.m.
Comment by Ming, Taiwan
July 2008
Terrible hospitality and facility Cheap price, but cheaper service. The landlord and managers are extremely unfriendly. The facilities are extremely old and ill-maintained. For foreigners, please don't argue with the fact that your passport will be kept by a stranger security guy, just for a necessary "deposit." Also be aware for this guy to disturb you for the noise just because you are talking about traveling plans in your room. If you don't obey them, you will be either kicked out of the hotel, or sleeplessly arguing with them forever.
Comment by Rob, Malta
May 2007
I went to Bowden Court for ten days. Showers are a little dirty at times, but it's an ok hostel, I'd stay there again.
Comment by Lydie
September 2005
I stayed in this place for two weeks. The least you can say is that this is not what you expect to get for the expensive price you pay. The bedrooms were small, smelly, and noisy. The showers and toilets were in bad condition. To take a shower you have to push a button every 20 seconds for water to drop out.
Now, if you thought that you've got a good deal because you're getting two meals a day...well, you're very wrong. The breakfast (if you can call that a breakfast) is like an army one (and you've got only 45 minutes to get it). The evening meal is horrible, bad food, bad service. The "best" is actually on weekends. You get breakfast at 10:00 and lunch at 12:00; well, that leaves you really hungry.
To sum up, just don't go there. Don't listen to the lies they will tell you by phone. DO NOT GO!!
Comment by Anonymous
June 2005
You can live at Bowden Court, but you have to know that you have to live with cockroaches. It's very dirty. Beds are very uncomfortable. The food is horrible. The manager is an incompetent and unpolite. I had lived 4 months there and you can stay, but you have to know how.
Comment by Valter Santos, Brazil
March 2005
I've been there for almost one year. I've got a lot of friends from different countries. The accommodation is good, good atmosphere but the food has no good seasoning.
Comment by Raquel
May 2004
Too expensive. You should take into account that we are students.
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No hospitality at all
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