Dumil Backpackers Hostel

Dumil Backpackers Hostel is a fairly poor hostel, but at least it is in a good location close to shops, transport and cinema. It is cheap (around £50 per week, for a 6-8 bed dorm), has free breakfast (toast and cereal, all you can eat), free coffee and tea all day, Sky Digital television (hostellers get to control the remote!) and also free view television in some dorm rooms.

The hostel caters mainly for long term stays, but does accommodate for short term, but being a short term customer it is hard to mix in. The people who stay at the hostel are an international mix as well as a huge age mix. But you should find someone there interesting.

The hostel has 4-bedded dorms as well as 6 - 8 bed dorms too, some coming with a television. No keys are provided for the front door or dorm rooms, so security can feel a little lax, with anyone technically being able to go anywhere. The toilets and showers are easy to find and you don't have to walk long distances to find them. The staff/owners are very helpful, showing you around the hostel when you check in, and if you need any help, they are willing to help most of them time.

To get there, either catch a tube to Kensingtion Olymipia (they run from Earls Court every 15 minutes) or simply walk from Earls Court. Simply go out the back entrance of Earls Court Tube station (not on Earls Court road) turn right, walk down Warwick Road, onto Holland Road and walk on the left.

A few tips: because the dorms are big, and some even have televisions, you get some inconsiderate people, so simply bring along an eyemask (like you get on the airplane) and some ear plugs, makes the night a lot better! Also, Kensington Olyimpia is in Zone 2, Earls Court is in Zone 1, so walking to Earls Court (it's not far) will save you 40 pence every time.

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January 2004