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This hostel is a labyrinth of narrow corridors, stairs and doors (to come to the room where I stayed you have to go through nine doors).
There is a kitchen with many tables, and a majority of them where occupied by groups eating at nine o’clock the evening I arrived. Nine o’clock is the time when the kitchen closes and you have to be finished with your cooking, but you can still sit down and eat after. A light breakfast is served in the morning between 8 - 10 and it consist of a piece of bread, butter, jam, orange drink and tea or coffee.
I booked a bed through Internet 1,5 months before arriving. For a bed in a 10-bed female dorm I was going to pay 71 Euro for four nights (Sun - Thu). As I made the reservation I paid 7.10 Euro in deposit. The day before going to Dublin I checked the Internet and saw that the price for the dorm was now only 11 Euro per night (44 in total). When I arrived I pointed that out and paid 40 Euro, which makes it 47.10 in total for four nights.
The dorm was not a 10-bed dorm though but a 20-bed dorm. There is one shower and one bathroom, which was okay as long as the room was not full. My last night the room was full and that caused some queues.
The dorm was in the basement and it was a bit cold and the mattresses were very inconvenient. And there were nowhere to sit in the dorm, except on the bed (but then you hit your head in the bed above). In the reception area there were two computers with free Internet and they were always occupied in the evenings. The other tables were often occupied by people using their laptops.
In all hostels it should be absolutely forbidden to have a mobile phone on during the night when you stay in a dorm!
Abraham House is okay and it is cheap, but I don’t feel that this is where I must stay next time I go to Dublin. Leave a Comment |
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Abraham's House, one of the many hostels on Lower Gardiner St. but definitely my favourite!
10 irish pounds in the weekends for a bed in a dorm,
7,50 irish pounds during the week (dorm bed)
Great price, comfortable beds, big kitchen/television room. Extremely nice staff, especially Seamus (say hi to him from me!!) Leave a Comment Theme: HostelComparison: less expensive than average |
We booked our accomodation through www.hostelworld.com, a site which holds a great deal of hostels (if not all) all over the world After some thorough research, we decided to take this place, and it was quite nice! It's not a hotel, of course, but the rooms were airy, beds were made every night, ... Its location is good as well: not really far from the city centre, easy to reach from the airport, ... The people behind the counter were very helpful as well, phoning whenever we wanted to make reservations...
I think I'd go back there if I'm going to Ireland again! Leave a Comment Theme: HostelComparison: about averagePhone: +353 1 8550600Directions: Near the Customs House and about half a mile from O'Connell StreetWebsite: www.abraham-house.ie Other Contact: fax: +353 1 855 0598 |
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If you look closely at the the first review, it reads like a brochure, not a personal tip, so I checked "not accurate".
There are a few good things about this hostel:
The large dorms are cheap (10-12 euros in low season, especially if booked on Internet). The kitchen is social.. Most of the staff are nice, including the very professional Seamus and Celine on weekday reception, Katherine in the kitchen, and the cleaning staff.
There are lots of drawbacks however:
Some of the evening receptionists (especially Trish and her boyfriend Decklin) have no concept of customer service, and can even become aggressive if you disagree with them.
The duvet covers are not changed between guests.
On weekends when the hostel is full, there is often not enough water in the dorms on the top floors.
If you want to stay in the cheapest big dormitories, Internet customers pay less (E10 , low season) than walk-in customers, especially on weekends.
If you stay more than a few days, bargain hard for cheaper prices, even if you are told that you already have a hefty discount. (Ask the Spanish guys what they pay, for example.Seamus is probably the best employee to talk to about prices -weekdays?).
Also, for long-term stays, make sure you reserve a room and fix a price thru as many weekends as you need to, because if not , you will spend half your day changing beds and be without a room from check out to check in (10:30 to 3:00). Or worse yet, they will tell you on Thirsday that you don't have a bed for the weekend. Leave a Comment Theme: HostelComparison: less expensive than average |
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