Kensal Green Backpackers 2
Location: 637 Harrow Road Brent, London, gb
Star Rating: 2 Stars
Property Type: Hostel/Backpacker accommodation
About this Property
Convenient Location in London
Located in the vibrant Hammersmith and Fulham district, Kensal Green Backpackers 2 offers a budget-friendly stay with easy access to popular attractions. Just a short distance from Portobello Road Market and the iconic Lord's Cricket Ground, this 2-star hostel is a great choice for budget travelers looking to explore London.
Comfortable Amenities
With a shared lounge, bar, and in-house restaurant serving Brazilian cuisine, guests can relax and socialize during their stay. The 24-hour front desk ensures convenience and assistance whenever needed. The option for Continental or Full English/Irish breakfast adds to the comfort of the guests.
Entertainment and Nearby Attractions
For recreation, guests can enjoy a game of table tennis on-site. Additionally, the proximity to Olympia Exhibition Centre and Hampstead Theatre provides easy access to events and shows. With London Heathrow Airport just 17 km away, traveling to and from the hostel is convenient.
Book your stay at Kensal Green Backpackers 2 for a memorable and affordable London experience.
Important Information
Please note that Kensal Green Backpackers is a youth hostel and exclusively caters for 18-40 year old age group.
There is a GBP 10 key deposit in cash to be paid upon arrival, which will be refunded at check out.
Please note that Kensal Green Backpackers is a youth hostel and exclusively caters for 18-40 year old age group. There is a GBP 10 key deposit in cash to be paid upon arrival, which will be refunded at check out and you need to have a valid photo ID in order to check in.Guests are required to show a photo ID and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
Policies
Check-in: 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Check-out: 10:00 AM
Amenities & Facilities
- Non-smoking rooms
- Restaurant
- BBQ facilities
- Luggage storage
- Express check-in/check-out
- Safety deposit box
- Fax/photocopying
- Ironing service
- Packed lunches
- Table tennis
- Darts
- Karaoke
- Non-smoking throughout
- Shared lounge/TV area
- Board games/puzzles
- Concierge service
- Shared kitchen
- Evening entertainment
- Adult only
- Entertainment staff
- Coffee Shop on site
- Staff adhere to local safety protocols
- Guest rooms disinfected between stays
- Cleaning standards that are effective against Coronavirus
- Physical distancing rules followed
- Hand sanitizer in guest room and key areas
- Cashless payment available
- Fire extinguishers
- First aid kit available
- Sanitized tableware & silverware
- Contactless check-in/check-out
- Invoice provided
- Guests can opt-out any cleaning services during stay
- Smoke alarms
- Shared stationery like menus, pens are removed
- Guest room sealed after cleaning
- Property cleaned by professional cleaning companies
- Physical distancing in dining areas
- Food delivered to guest room
- CCTV outside property
- Process in place to check health of guests
- Screens / Barriers between staff and guests for safety
- Face masks for guests available
- 24-hour security
- Delivered food - securely covered
- Security alarm
- Thermometers for guests provided by property
- Broadcast Live sport events
- Happy hour
- ATM/banking
- Shopping on site
- Television in common areas
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Express check-in
- Billiards or pool table
- Free wired internet
- Snack bar/deli
- Internet access
- Games
- Housekeeping on request
- Concerts/live shows
- Wine release events
- Reception hall
- Vegetarian menu options available
Rooms Available
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Quadruple Room with Shared Bathroom
The quadruple room offers a carpeted floor and heating. The unit offers 4 beds.
Max Occupancy: 4 (4 Adults)
- Heating
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
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Deluxe Quadruple Room
The quadruple room includes a private bathroom fitted with a shower. The unit has 4 beds.
Max Occupancy: 4 (4 Adults)
- Shower
- Toilet
- Private bathroom
- Toilet paper
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
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Twin Room with Private Bathroom
The twin room includes a private bathroom fitted with a shower. The unit has 2 beds.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Shower
- Toilet
- Private bathroom
- Toilet paper
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
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Bed in 4-Bed Female Dormitory Room
Rooms are 10 square yards.
Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)
- Heating
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
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Bed in 4-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
Rooms are 10 square yards.
Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)
- Heating
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
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Bed in 6-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
Rooms are 12 square yards.
Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)
- Heating
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
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Bed in 8-Bed Female Dormitory Room
Rooms are 16 square yards.
Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)
- Heating
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
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Bed in 8-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
Rooms are 16 square yards.
Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)
- Heating
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
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Quadruple Room
The quadruple room features a carpeted floor and heating. The unit has 4 beds.
Max Occupancy: 4 (4 Adults)
- Heating
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
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Standard Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
The twin room offers a carpeted floor, heating and city views. The unit has 2 beds.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Heating
- Smoke alarm
- Fire extinguisher
Guest Reviews
- Dorina (4/5): -
- gualter (6/5): -
- Lobna (10/5): -
- nicholas (10/5): - Super
- Joaquín (1/5): - La limpieza fatal no se la recomendaría a nadie
Fatal excepto la señora que lleva la cafetería
Limpia y educada La poca profesionalidad de recepción pues después de tener pagada la habitación para poder entrar te obligan a dejar 10 pouds por la llave que por supuesto te devuelven cuando te vas no lo recomiendo pues tube que llamar a la policía
- Amanda (8/5): Super vale a pena ótimo valor ! -
- gualter (4/5): Organisation - Location Counter sometimes is open sometimes is closed.
- Aline (8/5): -
- Czarnecki (8/5): -
- Susanti (8/5): -
- Elmi (7/5): -
- Sami (5/5): -
- Gillian (8/5): -
- Jesma (7/5): -
- Jesma (7/5): -
- Jesma (7/5): -
- Chantal (1/5): Bad hostel - Nothing The staff where rude and racist
Male Customers in mens toilets where transphobic
Other guest making noise in rooms waking me up
Drug takers staying at hostel
A man smoked weed in room 01
- Jesma (7/5): -
- Ronke (8/5): - nothing gets stolen
decent facilities
- Mouh (1/5): -
- Ggenius (10/5): -
- Akhere Paul (7/5): -
- Sarwar (4/5): - Price was reasonable It's a very grimey dirty hostel kitchen is laughable and showers are apalling. Beds don't have charging points or individual lights.
Overall assessment avoid unless desperate.
For a large building complex catering for the hostel business I expected much better standards.
- lemur (2/5): -
- amar (8/5): Honestly, I felt very comfortable there.❤️ - Their treatment is kind and pleasant
And calm and clean.
- Adnane (10/5): Comfortable, friendly, and exactly what I was looking for. - I genuinely had a great experience staying here. The atmosphere was welcoming and relaxed, which made it easy to feel comfortable right away. The staff were friendly, helpful, and always available when needed. The facilities were clean and well maintained, and everything was organised in a way that made the stay smooth and enjoyable. I also appreciated the social vibe, it was easy to meet people and feel part of a community. Overall, it exceeded my expectations. Honestly, there wasn’t anything significant that I didn’t like. If I had to mention something minor, it would just be small details that didn’t impact my overall experience. I would definitely stay here again and recommend it to others.
- Bella (8/5): -
- Natalia (6/5): bueno y barato - tiene el metro a dos minutos del hostal, las camas limpias, es barato, no hay tanto ruido, baño bien te cobran 10 libras por llave, hay gente rara y de origen extraño hospedandose en el hostal, pocos enchufes en la habitacion
- Were (7/5): - The food Unexpected payments
- Lloyd (1/5): A nightmare. I went to stay at my friends house. I will never go there again. - Nothing That the showers weren’t fit enough to wash in. It’s next to a graveyard which you can see when you go to the toilet, they charged me an extra £20 when I arrived, plus charged me £8 for a small towel and i ended up sharing a room with 3 other people.
- Oki (5/5): -
- Zarin (1/5): -
- Olashile (1/5): -
- Yuhua (3/5): - 失望
- oyekan (6/5): - Noothing Nothhinng
- Alin Adrian (10/5): -
- Chinyel (9/5): Slept well and great cooking facilities - Great evening staff, very helpful and solved my queries. Clear walls would be calmer.
- Rosirene Alves (10/5): - Muito bom
- Daryna (1/5): -
- De Santis (7/5): I wish you a better luck than me with not mental issues people around - The room was clean. The room was on the 3rd floor and on the main street so there is noises all the time. The lighting was poor and the bunk beds are very close so the other person´s head was very close to mine. Mattresses are very worn out so not very comfortable. Next door there was a couple with the TV at a very high volume until 9pm, then they started arguing so I had to call for help to reception to make them quite as they mistreated me when I asked them for that. They didnt make silence until very late as they were playing knocking things or just talking loudly, for me they had mental issues for the way they were talking between them (a man and a woman). Reception told me to change room on the phone but after talking to them they didnt call me to do it and I did not bother. I had a really bad night in that room. Water in the shower was quite cold in the morning. The heater is off during the day so the room was cold but on at night and the room was better. Very late at night there was people arriving walking in corridors with big luggage making horrible noises.
- Daryna (1/5): -
- Akpo Akpow (4/5): -
- Furkan (1/5): -
- Nnanyelugo (5/5): -
- Lobna (10/5): Excellent Stay - The hostel is very good for the value of money, the staff is very helpful, the reception is opened 24/24, it is clean and front of the overground - underground and bus station
- Hajar (10/5): Nice friendly hostel - Good value hostel! Good location close to the tube ;) staff is great very friendly and helpful All good
- Lobna (10/5): - Everything Nothing
- Randy (10/5): -
- Gerardo (9/5): -
- Hollings (10/5): - Everything Nothing
- Benelbaida (3/5): Drab, uncomfortable and very gloomy - Low cost of the room price Everything else was very bad and lots of noise talking in the rooms amd staff shouting at each other. Not letting me sleep much last night. I won't be staying there again unless things change....
- Pamela (10/5): -
- Arifuzzaman (7/5): -
- oyekan (5/5): - Area Dirty hostel
- Chia-Chi (9/5): -
- Lobna (10/5): Excellent Stay - Very good stay, friendly and helpful staff and managers, the hostel is situate front the underground and bus station, economic and fair value for money
- Sherif (10/5): Excellent Stay - It is really very good hostel, the reception staff is helpful, the manager sort out an issue in the date of reservation without letting me lose money, I really appreciate the staff and the manager for helping me in my reservation, the hostel is situated front of the bus station and the overground and underground station
- Veda (8/5): -
- Were (10/5): - Cleanliness None
- Sherif (10/5): Excellent Stay - It is really excellent stay, I have extended my stay 3 times and I don’t want to change the hostel, although there are many good hostels in London but The Kensal Green Backpackers is comfortable and economic
- Sherif (10/5): Excellent Accommodation - The hostel is excellent, clean, there are restaurant and Cafeteria, near of the underground, overground and bus station, supermarkets and central London, fair for money value
- Tom (2/5): AVOID... Unless desperate. - Next to tube station Staff made me wait 40 mins to check in at 11:50pm.
Sheets were stained, 10 pound required for room key deposit... no privacy blinds in room, curtain doesnt cover window to public street footpath. Loud.
Dont go unless desperate for a place to stay.
- Daniel (7/5): - What I needed Rooms can be hit and miss with backpacker hostels. Never know whom you're gonna get
- Daniel (10/5): -
- Ana Luíza (8/5): Cheaper and cheaper - The price The harmers of the room was not working at this time. I felt really cold and sick.
- Ana Luíza (8/5): Cheapest hostel ever - Cheapest hostel, better than sleep at the streets of London. The Old building withow light. If you don't care about fancy architecture it's going to be a great experience.
- Gimenez (5/5): Aceptable - Que era tranquilo Que el baño estaba muy lejos
- Marzia (10/5): -
- Emmanuel (10/5): - Flexibility .
- Ayshan (6/5): No privacy at all between beds - Value for the money Next to cemetery
- Andre (7/5): -
- Pires (1/5): - Nada, quarto fedia , muito ruim!
- Shakti (3/5): Despite my felliw residents being lovely J wouldn’t recommend the hostel. Dirty, showers not working on my floor so had - My room mate and the other residents, very friendly and gelpful. Dorm very comfortable Staff were VERY challenging, took a LOT of patient navigation to get even basic help. Very off putting especially after a long exhausting journey and stressful and sad situation (friend had life threatening surgery the day before and I was at hostel to attend another friend’s funeral tiday).
- Muhammad Zain (5/5): - Train access noiseless area No sockets near the bed toilets are so dirty
- Marylou (3/5): -
- Katalin (7/5): -
- HYACINTH (4/5): It okay could be better needs to Change more - Not much Not total clean, it needed a makeover a Funding to reshape the whole building and makeover the bedroom and kitchen ,Reception needs polishing up and organising well
- József (8/5): -
- Billie (5/5): - Was told in no uncertain terms not to stay, it's a gang hostel and if your not liked by that gang don't stay. But at least they were honest enough to say. Nothing to do with actual hostel more to do with permanent residents The fact that I lost the money I had paid but at least they didn't make good on threats. Nothing to do with actual hostel
- Lobna (10/5): - Everything nothing
- Janet (6/5): Helpful staff, great location, but needs a proper kitchen for guests. - The location is exceptional. The property description boasts a kitchen, but in fact, the kitchen was locked. A smaller kitchen was available but with no plates, pans, utensils, cups, so basically dysfunctional.
- Assja (8/5): Good Hostel - Cheap stay in London. Nice roommates.
- faesalor (7/5): -
- Alister Pike (8/5): -
- TANVIR ANJUM (1/5): -
- Martins (7/5): - There’s a communal vibe to this property. The tenants sometimes even get food donated free. There’s not much not to like here. Some of the extra stuff like the kitchen can be improved.
- JuLiaNa (10/5): O Kensal Green faz parte da minha história em Londres . - 2°vez hospedada no Kensal Green e tive uma ótima experiência,desta vez foi bem melhor. A Aline,uma moça que faz a limpeza muito amável e atenciosa.O restaurante também,as pessoas muito querida, próximo ao metrô,o que ajuda muito.Proxima vez em.Londres,ficarei lá novamente. Não tem o que não gostei .
Pelo valor que paguei,parecia que estava em um hotel,normal .
- Jesma (2/5): - I like the fact that it’s near to the train station and bus station.
- Jesma (1/5): -
- De Santis (8/5): Some rooms are really worthy but not all - The room was clean and nice with good light. The toilet was nice and clean. Hot water working perfectly, the room was on a road with a big window to have day light and the electrical light was good too. The mattress was not the best but was not too bad. The distance between bunk beds was good. The key on the door did not work very well.
- De Santis (9/5): It was ok - The room had a nice size with enough space between the bunk beds. The toilet was clean and this room was on the cemetery side so far from the traffic noises which is good as it is a very busy road. The light was very poor. The mattress was quite worn out. I went to the kitchen to use the kettle and everything was dirty, surfaces, kettle, tops, water all over the place, the smell was disgusting. Already that floor smells too bad and I wanted to vomit when I was in the kitchen. I heated water in the kettle while covering my nose with my scarf because the smell there is terrible.
- Lilah (10/5): -
- Rochete (8/5): - Very friendly and a good place to be else meet people Nothing at the moment
- Flerystton (10/5): -
- ElaForgacz (6/5): - Jedna z recepcjonistek, bardzo uprzejma i pomocna ale pozostała część personelu nieprofesjonalna i źle traktująca z powodu różnic kulturowych Zostałam okradziona przez kogoś, zginęło mi kilka rzeczy z pokoju
- Corrynne Lee Maher (5/5): - It was good to see some of the residents and staff again. No heating, it was freezing, just about every one had colds.
I price is not cheap when you end up coughing your lungs out for two weeks.
Only 2 elements on the stove work, once had to go up the 3 flights of stairs 4 times before I found an element available.
There were only pots and pans in the kitchen.
- Ana Anyca (7/5): -
- Ana Anyca (7/5): -
- Daniel (8/5): -
- Ali (8/5): -
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