Cambie Seymour Hostel

Safe, convenient, simple, and clean
I just got home from a five-night stay at this hostel. I am female and was traveling alone. The Cambie Seymour is very simple, but clean (bathrooms got a good scrubbing each day) and with a friendly atmosphere. Safe neighborhood, great location -- I walked all over downtown from here, and the Skytrain in half block away. It's on a busy corner -- lots of traffic/buses until around midnight. The noise didn't bother me but some people might not like it. Heard only the faintest noise from the bar downstairs on Friday night (I was on the second floor). The photos on their website looked exactly like the place I experienced. I would stay here again.

Ok if you don't care about cleaniness or smells or noise
I stayed here 4th of July weekend. There was dried vomit next to my bed. The room smelled of urine. The room was located above the outdoor smoking area of the bar and a bus stop that starts service at 4 a.m. The "mattress" was a sodden greasy pancake.The room was also across the hall from the only bathroom so I could hear the door slamming and people flushing all night. Very friendly staff. Clean bathrooms. Bike parking. Central location -- five minutes' walk from Chinatown and ten minutes' walk from downtown. The manager refunded our payment for the following night without much fuss.

Good Stuff!
I stayed at the Cambie on Seymour for a couple of weekends and I always enjoy. let's say they are getting a lot better everyday, and soon everyone will see what I've seen. This is the best Hostel in Town Cost Benefit wise! Awesome Location! Standard Hostel services. I like it a lot!

Ok so maybe im a bit biased coz I stayed here for so long, but this hostel is really excellent. I stayed in all the hostels in vancouver and this is easily the best. I made some lifelong buddies here - thanks to its very close quarters/ in your face atmosphere. The location is just next to the harbour tower and so is pretty full with tourists meaning it is safer than most other areas. The rooms are pretty unique in that most are just one bunk - with plenty of space to dump your stuff. The showers are not at all private and the toilets are small but they do the job fine. Breakfast is ok - 1 muffin and coffee - but you just have to wait until the staff go downstairs and you can grab a load of them. The staff are varied. One guy called Ray is slightly mental and always rude. The night guy is a fillipino who is very sweet. There was a guy who i only knew for 2 weeks called paulo or something similar - he was a total star. The best staff member is ofcourse Trevor! hes a very shy slightly dry man who should be made the city mayor - he was a great local guide and always up for a brew. He was very helpful to me and our little group all the time - infact i think he became an honorary member of our clan by the end. So in the end I stayed here for almost 3 months - which speaks for itself really. Shout out to Tom Cruise, Carisserole, Sabrina, Flangela, Khanage, Greg Peck, Gay Jay, Louie Louie, krag, brenda, and to a lesser extent african princess and political steve. My personal tips are to eat for cheap at the carnegie and to go to the railway club - trevor will lead the way. Jesus xxx

I stayed here on the weekend of the Oasis concert (Sept. 2005). I was very disappointed in this place because to start off there were no curtains in our room. When we told the desk clerk she offered us another room and the only other rooms were dark, noisy and DIRTY!! It was noisy from the bar below, and the sheets were stained with god knows what. I brought my sheets to the clerk because I refused to sleep on them. When going to take a shower at night, there was hair clogging the drains, and absolutely no privacy while you stood nude outside the shower stall. In the morning we went to check out and receive our "complimentary breakfast" and the clerk proceeded to say, "Oh, looks like there is none left. Early bird gets the worm, I guess!" Overtly pissed off, we complained, and only then did we get a coupon to receive our "free breakfast" at the other hostel, which was 4 blocks away. Overall, I was extremely disappointed in the service, cleanliness and atmosphere of this hostel. For $50/night for the both of us, I would rather sleep outside in a tent at a campground. I will never go back, or tell anyone to stay here.

It's been a while since I stayed here, but I remember this place being quite pleasant. The rooms and washroom were decent, and the staff were friendly and helpful. I wouldn't consider this a "party hostel," but the location was good. No real complaints.

The staff we encountered were pretty apathetic. It may have been a bad shift to come during, but no one was friendly. The hostel as a whole was pretty crummy. Some parts of the halls smelled like urine. The bathrooms weren't too dirty, but the setup was uncomfortable. Showers were ok. The kitchen was pretty gross and small (there were always weird smells coming from it). The sheets were thin and fraying like an old T-shirt. We asked if we could have extra sheets. The staff said yes, we asked again, they said yes again, but we never got the sheets. Location was in downtown, but there appeared to be other hostels more towards the "hotspots" of the city (like SameSun and HI).

Well! The Seymour Cambie is the best. I've stayed there on and off over the past eight months. Such a cool place. Most of the staff are great. Kimmy, you're terrific!!! I recommend it.

The staff and airport pick-up were excellent, but the hostel was a dump. It was certainly not newly renovated, unless "newly renovated" means that lights are working. The bathrooms were horrifying, and there were cockroaches in your room. Nevertheless, this was not the worst hostel we saw in Vancouver.

The Seymour is awsome! Great location, safe, great price! The staff were great, very helpful & friendly. I felt right at home. I had many a good conversation and made lots of new friends. It rained a lot -- you could make a fortune selling umbrellas in this city. I'll be back.