Black Isle Hostel

Location: 47 Academy Street, Inverness, gb

Star Rating: 7.9 Stars

Property Type: Hostel/Backpacker accommodation

About this Property

Important Information

Policies

Check-in: 02:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Check-out: 10:30 AM

Amenities & Facilities

• Non-smoking rooms
• Pets allowed
• Luggage storage
• Non-smoking throughout
• Shared lounge/TV area
• Board games/puzzles
• Shared kitchen
• 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
• Contactless check-in/check-out
• Guests can opt-out any cleaning services during stay
• CCTV outside property
• Face masks for guests available
• Key card access
• Television in common areas
• Free wired internet
• Internet access

Rooms Available

• Bed in 6-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room

  Rooms are 15 square yards.

  Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Hair dryer
  • Toilet
  • Heating
  • Linen
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Toilet paper
  • Trash cans
  • Socket near the bed
  • Lockers
  • Reading light

• Bed in 4-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room

  Rooms are 10 square yards.

  Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Hair dryer
  • Toilet
  • Heating
  • Linen
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Toilet paper
  • Trash cans
  • Socket near the bed
  • Lockers
  • Reading light

• Small Twin Room

  The twin room features a carpeted floor, heating, as well as a shared bathroom boasting a shower and a hairdryer. The unit has 1 bed.

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Hair dryer
  • Toilet
  • Heating
  • Linen
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Toilet paper
  • Trash cans
  • Socket near the bed
  • Lockers
  • Reading light

Guest Reviews

• Davide (2/5): There were no other options - Good location Cleanliness. €92 2 beds/1 night very low quality
• Chris (7/5): - Friendly informative staff Position No toilet paper Upstairs Hard bunks and poor pillow
• Michaela (8/5): -
• Asek2 (2/5): - No hay ninguna manera de ponerte en contacto con el alojamiento porque el teléfono no existe .no tienen personal de recepción por la tarde y tampoco atienden el vídeo portero.
• Ihtisham (1/5): I didn’t stay here I pay at a counter when a saw the room. I cancel my stay and book another place for night - I didn’t like it This place is not a place to spend night here.
• Blessing (9/5): Lovely - Quiet , clean and comfortable Nothing in particular
• Katarzyna (4/5): Dobra lokalizacja, ale niski standard czystości, zaniedbane wnętrza i uciążliwy zapach - Pobyt w Black Isle Hostel miał zarówno pozytywne, jak i niestety wyraźnie negatywne aspekty, które – sądząc po opiniach dostępnych w internecie – nie są jednostkowym doświadczeniem, lecz powtarzającym się problemem zgłaszanym przez gości. Na plus można zaliczyć lokalizację hostelu oraz ogólną koncepcję miejsca, które ma potencjał być przyjazną, budżetową opcją noclegową. Również łazienka sprawiała na pierwszy rzut oka wrażenie względnie zadbanej. Niestety, kluczowym problemem jest standard czystości i utrzymania obiektu. W pokoju znajdowały się wyraźne oznaki długotrwałego zaniedbania – parapet był pokryty warstwą kurzu, a także znajdowały się na nim martwe owady, muchy oraz pióra, co sugeruje brak regularnego sprzątania tej przestrzeni. Za drzwiami zalegały śmieci po poprzednich gościach, a wykładzina była brudna. Komfort użytkowania pokoju również pozostawia wiele do życzenia. Pomieszczenie jest bardzo małe, co utrudnia swobodne wejście i poruszanie się. Wyposażenie ogranicza się praktycznie do minimum – brak miejsca do siedzenia (poza łóżkiem) oraz brak podstawowych elementów wpływających na wygodę pobytu. Dodatkowo dolne łóżko było na tyle niskie, że nie dało się na nim swobodnie usiąść ani wyprostować, co znacząco obniża komfort. Dodatkowym problemem był wyczuwalny zapach unoszący się zarówno w pokoju, jak i na piętrze – najprawdopodobniej pochodzący z baru znajdującego się poniżej. Może to być uciążliwe, szczególnie dla osób wrażliwych na zapachy lub oczekujących neutralnego środowiska do odpoczynku. Łazienka, choć początkowo wydaje się czystsza, przy dokładniejszym przyjrzeniu się – zwłaszcza okolicom okien – również nie jest regularnie sprzątana. Części wspólne, w tym kuchnia, sprawiają wrażenie miejsc utrzymywanych głównie przez samych gości. Podłogi, listwy, szafki czy blaty nie były od dłuższego czasu dokładnie czyszczone, co jest zauważalne i wpływa na ogólną ocenę higieny obiektu. Podsumowując, hostel sprawia wrażenie miejsca zaniedbanego i wymagającego zdecydowanej poprawy standardów utrzymania czystości oraz podstawowego komfortu gości. W wielu opiniach internetowych pojawiają się podobne uwagi, co sugeruje, że problem ma charakter systemowy, a nie incydentalny. Mam nadzieję, że właściciel potraktuje te uwagi konstruktywnie i podejmie działania naprawcze – obiekt ma potencjał, jednak obecny stan znacząco odbiega od oczekiwanego standardu.
• Fairclough (9/5): - The relaxed and easy going as well aa friendly atmosphere. An added advantage is it's central location. To be honest, it's a place I particularly staying at when in Inverness, so it's everything to like!
• James (8/5): -
• Rochele (10/5): Great and nice experience - Clean very good for hostel
• Kaye (10/5): -
• Patricia (7/5): -
• Oludamilola (7/5): - Convenient location, comfortable beds, bike storage facility, clean enough. Not very clean shared kitchen area. The usual noise you'd expect from shared accommodation.
• Kaye (9/5): - As usual, return guest, convenient location, affordable pricing, socket near bed
• Dorte (8/5): central nice hostel - Great beds with nice help to charge the phones. Easy access to the train station. It is in the middle of town. A car alarm blazed for 2 hours. Doors were slamming - the room was next to the main door.
• davis (5/5): -
• Karl (10/5): Excellent - Very helpful staff and just what you need Nothing
• Willett (10/5): - Jesus is the way the truth and the life, no one will enter the kingdom without him
• Kirsten (6/5): - De locatie was prima. Vlakbij het busstation, treinstation en in het centrum. De keuken en huiskamer waren niet schoon. Lage stapelbedden. Nergens haakjes of stoelen.
• William (8/5): -
• RICHARD (8/5): -
• Elisa (7/5): -
• RICHARD (9/5): - Un tout grand merci pour l'accueil reçu, le personnel est extrêmement amical et prêt à aider. L'établissement est très bien situé et bien tenu, excellent rapport qualité-prix. Bonne continuation.
• jianyu (8/5): -
• Guilhot (8/5): -
• jianyu (8/5): -
• Mathilde (5/5): -
• Vendula (7/5): -
• Olix corinne (8/5): - L’amabilite de l'accueil Pas possible de charger mon GSM dans la chambre :défectueux
• Oldrik (7/5): -
• Judith (6/5): - Clear instrucrtions, friendly and welcoming host, situated ner the bus station. Noisy main street users. Cars as well as happy people. Windoes closed, curtains closed made no difference. Ishared a dorm with two genrtlemen. One of them snoring for England = NO sleep to be had.
• Antoine (10/5): - L'emplacement dans le centre d'Inverness, la qualité de l'accueil. Rien
• james (7/5): - Close to bus and railway station Convenience
• zhijian (10/5): -
• Jeff (8/5): -
• Nino (7/5): - Great location, fantastic staff The window in my room needed repair and couldn't close fully, which made it chilly at times. Also the toilets and showers could use better lighting
• Julieto (9/5): - Everything Nothing
• nigel (7/5): - Cheap Crap kitchen
• Adeboje (10/5): -
• Melanie (7/5): Good value for money - The location is great. Close to trains and busses, right next to the Victorian Market. This time I stayed on a Saturday night and it was super noisy until 3am because of all the drunken pub goers screaming in the streets… and the hogans in their pimped cars - what’s that about, Inverness?? Still living in the 80ies? Also. As a girl I’d rather not spend the night with 4 guys alone in one room. They all snored and the room smelled like a tiger cage in the morning. Gross. How about female only rooms? Is that an option?
• Gustavo (9/5): - La ubicación es perfecta. Las habitaciones y los servicios fueron bien ordenados.
• Steve (10/5): -
• Julieto (9/5): - Really easy n enjoy staying Nothing
• Smith (5/5): Not any sleep - Snoring 😴 😳 Smells and snores
• Adeboje (8/5): -
• David (1/5): - Nothing Room stinking of dope, people in the room..
• Tomas (5/5): Meh - Price, location, staff Everything else
• Steve (8/5): - Central location Nowt all ok
• Riccardo (4/5): -
• Julieto (9/5): - Everything Nothing
• Ágnes (9/5): -
• Matheus (8/5): -
• Theotokis (8/5): -
• George (7/5): Good facilites and helpful staff, but the location didn't suit my overnight stay on this occasion. - Good facilities, clean helpful staff. The room (dormitory) and fellow guests were fine. The location was ideal for early morning trip to a local event. All to do with location again - it is city centre, and was very noisy outside on Saturday evening/night. I was getting up early on Sunday for a cycling event and didn't get much sleep as a result of the noise in the city centre.
• Andrew (7/5): -
• Sue (8/5): Def will be back - Comfortable, great location Kitchen a bit of a mess
• Keith (8/5): - Helpful staff and good value for money. The kitchen was very small - a lot of visitors were leaving at the same time for the etape so the wait was long for the kettle etc.
• Carminati (6/5): -
• Jonathan (7/5): -
• sylvia sofia (7/5): - La cocina , es muy pequeña y que para bañarse hay que presionar el botón cada 5 segundos
• Ion (10/5): -
• Hasan (9/5): - Other people wake up early and bother others
• Gary-Lee (10/5): comfortable people, safe location, kind company, very clean showers and super heating :) - No breakfast however except cooking amenities for the price, mini oven, microwave and electric hobs You normally have to have photo ID thankfully your amazing staff helped me out as I didn't need the Photograph ID last time I booked, I normally use my debit and cash cards as reference, thanks again :)
• Louis (10/5): -
• Sarah (9/5): -
• Sarah (9/5): -
• steve (10/5): Great fella on duty polite lots of info great value list goes on - Got off bus late about 8 pm. Was tired hungry needed shower a beer n food. Easy to find a few mins away from bus station. Easy booked in no fuss and quick. Got showered dumped rucksack in storage. Plenty of food and drinks near bye soon got sorted. Back to digs slept well comfy bunk bed. Next time I go Inverness will deffo stay again. Well done Clean easy to locate, central just loved it
• Daniel (7/5): -
• Drewbhoy (7/5): -
• Oluchi (8/5): I enjoyed my stay, I'll come back! - The shower rooms are very big and clean. And plus there's a separate bathroom and toilet for females and males. The kitchen is okay but there was no space to keep my food in the fridge as it is too small for such a nice facility.
• Marta (9/5): Great accomodation to fit your budget - Amazing staff and location. Good price. I also recommend trying their pizza and beers, they're crazy good. Similar disadvantages as other hostels. Beds were just decent, showers didn't have any shelf to put your things.
• Thomas (8/5): Nice friendly enjoyable - Cheap and good for what we needed close to all amenities bus and train stations Wish it had coffee and tea complimentary
• Vivian (8/5): -
• Oluyinka (4/5): -
• Toshio (10/5): -
• Grace (6/5): Decent Hostel in Great Location. - Decent little hostel in the centre of Inverness. The staff were friendly and welcoming, but it felt expensive for what it was. The bedsheets didn't seem too fresh either, maybe they were washed but had stains, but that stuff doesn't bother me, but if you like things very clean maybe it's not for you. Bedsheets and bathrooms could have been kept a little cleaner.
• Monserrat (10/5): - Excelente ubicación, muy cerca de la estación de buses y también de la estación de trenes. El personal fue muy amable. Las camas y habitaciones son cómodas. Los baños siempre limpios y las duchas están buenas. Todo bien. Nada que criticar.
• Moimorr (4/5): No Same Gender Option - But It Would Be So Easy To Do. - I liked the sitting room, and the shower room was pretty good. There really should be options for same gender dorms. It just makes everyone uncomfortable in a mixed. The beds were like prison bunks, the lighting in the showers was poor, and the kitchen was cramped and not very hygienic.
• Anna (10/5): Comfortable and cozy - It was very cozy and comfortable and the kitchen was okay. The room for eating and hanging out was very big and comfortable. Check-in was a bit confusing at first but worked very well and they were there for me immediately even though i arrived very late. The showers did not have a temperature setting so depending on the shower you pick it was cold or a bit too warm (for me) Someone stole my food from the fridge (not hostels fault obviously but still sad and never happened anywhere else before)
• Sophie (5/5): I won’t be back! - The facility was fine, as previously… The staff reception person lied directly to my face and in front of my friend by misrepresenting the fact that he would not be able to give me a refund without 24-hour notice…He said, “Well, because you’re a nice lady, I’ll make an exception, knowing full well that the refund would never happen…I’d be gone…and his lie would be supported by the team…How RUDE!!!
• Peter (9/5): - Very central location. Bathrooms/showers good. Nice lounge. Squeaky bed. Quite a lot of traffic noise, and from revellers outside..
• Mahindawansa (10/5): Good place to stay - Location was perfect. Walking distance to the castle and museum. Mentioned free tea, but the facility was not available.
• Lawson (10/5): Everything i needed - Everything i needed and plenty of toilets and showers. Radiator in room that we could control. Friendly staff and kitchen to use. Right next to bus and train station and shops. Good price Windows not very insulating so a bit chilly without radiator on and noisy, but earplugs drowned most of it out. Door to dorms slamming was a bit annoying even with earplugs in as my room was right next to it and it shook the room when people closed it
• stephen (4/5): - Location Room bedding look liked some one had not changed bedding
• Samson (8/5): -
• Chant (8/5): -
• Rachel (9/5): -
• Dorotea (2/5): Never again. - Location is good. The stairwell is extremely dirty and smells of dirt and weed. The private room has a bed, a small trash can and a broken mirror- that’s it. Nowhere to put anything except the bed or the floor. The bathroom also has a smell like it’s stale and not properly cleaned. The bed is hard and uncomfortable- woke up with a sore back.
• Daria (6/5): - The staff was very friendly, clean. Unfortunately, the reception was not working all the time and there was no prepayment.
• Md Imon (1/5): - The person talking with us being extremely unrespectful and hostile towards us in one point we feel unsafe around him he was talking with us like we’re his slave, We’re just simply asking some questions because I personally was confused because I booked this hotel from Booking.com, Please now I’m asking for my refund inquire and give me my money back or I’m gonna step up and go higher level and complain too If I have to!!! This is very unprofessional and very unsafe, this the reason we’re not staying in this place!!!!
• Aukje (8/5): - Vlakbij trein- en busstation. Ruime, schone badkamer. Prima hostel! Het stapelbed wiebelde en kraakte heel erg en ook de matras en het kussen waren niet erg comfortabel.
• Claudette (10/5): - Near Central Station and had my own room
• John (10/5): - Excellent
• Jasmin (6/5): -
• okrasinski (8/5): - Das Personal sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit Eigentlich war das Hostel wirklich gut. Gut durchdacht. Viel Platz auch im Bad . Leider lag in meinem Bett ein gebrauchtest Kondom, und das heißt es wurde nicht gründlich geprüft und sauber gemacht.
• Lena (5/5): Cheap and central, but less privacy - Cheap, close to the bus station and has a drying room. Easy to take the bus to go for a hike, and then dry your clothes when you come back. And they have a girl bathroom. I ended up in a room with only guys. I know I signed up for having a mixed room, but I didn’t think it was a possibility to only be with guys. And they don’t have curtains, so less privacy…
• David (8/5): - Location
• John (10/5): - Excellent
• Anna (7/5): -
• Cristina (10/5): -

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