The London
Generator Hostel is located in the northern part of Bloomsbury, adjacent
to the University of London. The Generator Hostel is equidistant,
about 500m from Euston and Russell Square Underground. It is about
a 20 minute walk to Covent Garden or Leicester Square, the main areas
for nightlife in London. The British Museum is about 10 minutes walk.
The area The Generator is in is quite nice, there is a kind of a village
atmosphere with plenty of small local shops and pubs if you want a
break from The Generator.
Accommodation is varied from dormitories to private singles, twins,
triples quads, 5's and 6's. Wash basins and lockers in each room,
and showers and toilets on every floor. If you're on your own, if
you don't make friends here, you won't make friends anywhere.
Typical
Customer Reviews
Below are some fairly typical reviews from customers that have stayed
at The Generator Hostel London. They are independent viewpoints and
not necessarily the view of this web site.
"three of us to share a room with a free drink and breakfast,
expectations werent that high. I was in London for a bit of jolly
boys so really the hotel was no more than somewhere to store stuff
and get a full four hours sleep. The room was clean but very very
basic. It reminded me of the school trips to activity centres way
back in the 80's. Beds were comfortable except for the plastic mattress
which combined with no sheets just a top duvet and bottom duvet you
end up sticking to it. Breakfast looked scary with around 150 American
teenagers battling out for the orange squash and toast so was skipped
in favour of the Giraffe restaurant in Russels Square. All in all
a very acceptable experience given the price but dont expect a romantic
capital getaway."
"It is in a quiet part of town. I liked the location and thought
it had good access to other places via King's Cross. We stayed in
a four person room and shared with two others. The room was a bit
small but fine for our purposes. The beds were comfy! Though, the
bathroom situation was what made the stay a little uncomfortable.
The bathroom set up is not that nice. The shower stalls are small-
there is not much room to put your belongings. The bathrooms also
were not that clean and the toilets were clogged and gross at times.
The staff does work hard and they are attentive to their guests' needs.
If you tell them that the toilets are clogged, they come up immediately
and try to fix the situation. They also enforce 'quiet time' at night
when you are walking into the building and on the floors as to not
disturb other guests. There is also a bar/club in the Generator which
I thought was pretty neat and a convenient place to go if you don't
want to trek to a club/bar. There is a DJ on Saturday night and he
was awesome when I was there. There is also a little shop located
inside the hostel which provides you with anything you forgot to bring.
The breakfast in the morning is nice, though it's just toast and cereal-
which is fine because it's free! "
"I
stayed in a private 2 bed room for six nights. The room, showers and
bed was really clean. Toilets was ok. Breakfast was good. Security
was very good, and the staff really tried to help us in every way.
The only thing I felt was a bit negative was the location, sure its
central in zone 1. But you have to walk pretty far to get to the tube.
But I guess that if you go to London you have to be prepered to walk
quite a lot. And at times it can be a bit noisy but the security takes
good care of that.
I dont know what its like in the dorm rooms, maybe thats where all
the bad reviews come from, cause I really didn´t have a problem
with this hostel at all and im really picky. Over all it was very
good and worth the money and I would definitly come back here again." |
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