Sir Cedrics

I booked a private room, and was pleasantly surprised to be put in the adjacent motel. Nice room, good shower, heating. It's a tiny town so you're less than five minutes walk from everywhere. The hostel owner and manager are really good people and the attached bar does good quality pub grub till around 9pm.

Rooms were very clean and easy to locate. The staff are very friendly and there is a bar/restaurant attached making it easy to eat all meals there when required. The shared rooms are very small and not well ventilated, I wouldn’t recommend the shared rooms if you have any issues with climbing up and down as the beds are bunk beds. There are only 2 shared showers.

After having a particularly comfortable night in this hostel (great clean pods with power-points, curtains and a nice thick mattress) , we decided to re-book for another night. For what it is I'd say it's a little overpriced...the kitchen was a little drab and under-stocked..however it served our needs and the restaurant and car parking were a plus.

However, on the second night the fire alarm went off unscheduled at about midnight. All of the guests evacuated themselves to the car park and waited...and waited...
There were no staff on the premises or nearby, meaning no direction as what to do in this situation. Whilst (thankfully) there was no fire..a hostel that's accommodating people overnight surely should have better safety measures than this? At at least a clear system of what to do should you need to contact staff at night whether it's an emergency or not.

One of the guests ended up calling the local authorities and a phone number left in the window of the reception which notified the owner and about 15 minutes later help arrived to deactivate the alarm and clear the site for re-entry. Nonetheless, this should not be the guests' responsibility, and the hostel needs to take more responsibility for their guests' safety.

Really like it here. We're in a double ensuite. It is clean. Lots of hooks & shelves to put things on. Tea & coffee making in the room.
Location is great, although the town isn't large anyway.
Restaurant here serves good food at a reasonable price. Everywhere in the town is of similar price.

Extremely friendly check-in, we arrived the night of the Halloween party at the attached restaurant, which was pretty fun! You get a 5% discount at the resistant too, which was nice. The room was accessed through a sliding glass door, which was a little odd. Room was reasonably spacious, the bathroom very similar to other hostels(tiny sink, shower insert with curtain, no shelf space). We were reasonably happy with the stay, only odd things were a slight urine smell coming from the bathroom sometimes(solved by keeping the door closed and bathroom window open); a build up of humidity when we weren't in the room, so it was warm and muggy when we came back from our excursions, even when the day was cool(solved by leaving the sliding door open for a bit upon our return); and that there wasn't an outlet near the bed, so our tech was all charging away from where we spent the majority of our time and we ended up sitting on the floor with our phones/laptops lol. TLDR; Good room, nice people, quiet methods, good budget stay with some quirks that were easily remedied.