Harbour House International Tourist Hostel

Sligo

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Address	Finisklin Road, Sligo County Sligo, Ireland Map
Price	18-30 Check Current Prices by Date Here

Location/Contact

Details

Description

Features

Kitchen
Lounge / Common space
TV
Washing Machine (laundry)
Clothes Dryer
Travel information provided
24 Hour Free Hot Showers
Phones (public or in room)

Ratings & Comments

3.7 Average from 3 Ratings

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Comment by Corey, USA

May 2007

This hostel was incredibly awesome. After traveling around Ireland and staying in various hostels, Harbour House was a sight for sore eyes, if you will, and the best hostel I stayed at during the trip. The staff were attentive and very helpful, willing to answer any questions I may have had. Even though it is a little ways from the city center, it was fun exploring the town Sligo when I walked to town. I highly recommend this location and plan on visiting again!

Comment by Mike, France

October 2006

Not bad I think, if you don't get the wrong room and don't stay for too long. The house is a horrid-looking building badly located in an old industrial harbour with dull concrete wharfs, far from the town center. If you don't have a car, you may really soon find the walk unbearably long. Inside the house, the corridors are gloomy, dark, and the common room is old and its decoration very bad taste. Kitchen is dark, small (but there are not many people in here), but clean. I didn't find the owner very friendly, hardly saying a word, wandering noiselessly like a ghost, a bit spooky. We ended up in the wrong room, I suppose. For in this one, on the last floor, the sweetish, acrid smell of must was so strong that it was hardly bearable the first fifteen minutes you were in the room. But I talked to other people who said they had no problem. This hostel definitely needs an update, at some stage we even saw water leaking from the ceiling down into the common room. Real problems of dampness. But if you are lucky enough not to get the one room which is to be avoided, the rooms are of quality, with TV inside, please! These rooms were like very good youth hostel rooms or first price hotel rooms. There was one bathroom for two rooms on the last floor, so it was never overloaded. They were clean and practical facilities, pleasant to use.

Comment by Haley

August 2005

The owner was nice, and the rooms were EXCELLENT — clean with en suite bathrooms, and some with TVs. But the location is just awful. It's a long walk through a dodgy industrial area away from the city center — and it's a sucky place to get lost with a 20 pound backpack. Again, though, it had the nicest rooms out of anywhere I stayed — so if the location doesn't matter much to you, go for it.

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