C & N Backpackers Tofino

We stayed here last August in a private room. The hostel was cozy and very clean. The staff were very friendly and would leave a note if they had to go out. The other people we met at the hostel were also friendly. Most of the crowd was visiting Tofino to learn to surf.

Warning. this hostel is a mess in every sense of the word. rude and very unhelpful staff. disgusting location -- full of drug addicts and homeless people. unsafe and uncomfortable. i made reservations and had a confirmation number and everything and they had no recording of my reservation upon arrival. it was sooo inconvenient and yet i was simultaneously relieved because i didn't have to stay in such a scummy place with such creepy people. i'm now worried because these distrustful, disorganized people have my credit card number. note -- i am a sane, stable, world traveler and i have never ever experienced such incompetence and filth in an accommodation, anywhere in the world. Do not stay here. there are so many lovely places to stay in vancouver, choose wisely.

Stayed here in January 2006 - the guy who runs it is very weird and if you are a girl travelling alone (or indeed anybody else) I would seriously recommend you do NOT stay here. I felt unsafe and threatened here, it was not clean, it was a very unpleasant expeirence. The guy ended up throwing a little tantrum when we tried to make a complaint, and we ended up not paying -which was great.

My visit was in Aug 2004. The upstairs bathroom had many dead/live mosquitoes which litter the ceiling wall. It is gross if your taking a shower there. They don't give out proper receipts or credit cards slips, because they don't have a debit/credit card machine there. The slips are important to card owners for record purposes, of course. They take your credit card info and phone elsewhere to have it charged, which I thought was bizzare. The hostel "receipt" was handwritten on a piece of scrap paper, which included a local advertisement. WORST of all, they ripped me and three of my other friends off!!! Which was over $100 total!, a huge amount of $$$ for "backpackers"!! They claimed we had booked an extra day which we never did. We made our booking over the phone. The staff recharged all us for the full amount! I checked there website out. EVEN if we did book an extra day (which we didn't), the website states "C&N will only refund 50% of your unused deposit on the remaining nights". They did not honor their online statement. I STRONGLY DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS HOSTEL!!! I am writing this in hopes others will not be taken advantage of and be ripped off by this dishonest company!! I don't want anyone's vacation to be ruined by the same experience.

This is a really nice little hostel (more of a shared house), and with a bit of luck with the other people staying there it'll be fantastic for you. Ask the owner what the place used to be like back in the Tofino hippie days. It's hard to imagine and I wish I had stayed there back then.

Very cozy house with all the necessary amenities, nice big deck in the back. The operator seems a little strange and the shower ran out of hot water fairly quickly. But it's safe, clean and comfortable.