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West House Ullapool Hotel Scotpackers

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Address	West House, West Argyle Street, Ullapool, Ross-shire, Ullapool The Highlands, Scotland
Price	High season £15 per person per night Low season £14. Double/twin rooms can be arranged

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Details

Online booking is not offered for this hostel, contact them for availability and reservations (any contact info we have is listed above).

Description

Features

Kitchen
BBQ
Washing Machine (laundry)
Lounge / Common space
Bike Rental

Ratings & Comments

2.3 Average from 3 Ratings

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Comment by Robinson, Australian

November 2008

Awkward and overpriced
If you dont mind sharing a place with strangers, who happen to be the owners, I wouldnt recommend. Though this hostel (i would call it a cheap B&B without the Breakfast) is clean and comfortable, every common room is shared with the owners of the place. We ended up cooking in the kitchen with the owners, a nice enough couple, and their two dogs, which are left to wander the house at their leisure. Ended up retreating to a pub just to get away. Most awkward and uncomfortable (psychologically!) hostel of four months of travel to date!

Comment by hateliars, UK

July 2008

False advertising and feel cheated
If you are a couple and want a double room, you will not be staying at the hostel -- instead you are driven to an airless, windowless, stuffy box -- nowhere to sit, no common room, no kitchen, and a box of stale muesli and bad quality coffee is your "B&B." If they had been honest and told me that in the first place, I would have looked around for other B&Bs to compare -- at $40 room it was the pits. The owner seemed fed up and said they dont want to run a hostel anymore -- it's more money running B&Bs -- so much for the advertised fabulous nature of the hostel. she couldnt care less about the people and we felt treated like shite.

Comment by Anon

February 2007

This is a great hostel, the staff are very helpful, the kitchen is well equipped, and the place is kept very clean. the price seems to have gone up since I was there in Aug. '06 it was only £11 then so quite a big rise. the only thing I would say that was wrong when I was at this Hostel was that the drying room was full of the owners' old junk and I could not get all my wet clothes in there. I would say that this is one of the best hostel in the Highlands and I plan to stay here again, it would have got five stars had the drying room been ok.

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