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Reviews of Sleepzone - Hostel

1 out of 5
Sleepzone - Hostel
Bóthar Na mBan, Galway

Reviews

8.0

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 18 out of 75 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 41 out of 75 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 13 out of 75 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 1 out of 75 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 75 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

7.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Lea

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I am 75 years old and felt welcome and at ease here. I had a private ensuite room and enjoyed the advantages of continental breakfast provided and a kitchen to make supper. The staff are great.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2024

8/10 Good

Kathleen

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Convenient location to get around the city center. Also if you need parking recommendations ask the front desk they were super helpful for a cheap location overnight!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Eric

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kathrine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Kitchen was exceptional and unexpected. Staff were friendly and went out of their way to make us comfortable and welcomed.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Carmel

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2021

8/10 Good

Kathy

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location and really friendly staff. Basic but very clean and great value for money.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2021

10/10 Excellent

Michelle, Monaghan

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Hostel was very clean with lots of sanitizers accessible. Staff very helpful and friendly. Lovely breakfast and very well organised allowing all tourists allocated slots for breakfast. Great facilities to self cater and to launder. Would highly recommend this hostel.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice place to stay - needs more lockers
The Sleepzone is conveniently located to make walking through Galway easy and they provided recommendations for parking as well. I like that there was a large kitchen available for guests to prepare meals. There is also a nice large area with tables for eating or mingling, a TV/movie room, and a quiet room. I stayed in an all-female dorm with an ensuite. Everything was kept nice and clean with regular freshening. My one complaint is that there were not enough lockers for each person to in the dorm to secure their things. I had to keep my suitcase out in the open and carry around anything valuable.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

ANE LUISE BJøRKMAR

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Friendly staff. Clean, dry rooms. Hot showers. My room had a balcony.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

frederique

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

8/10 Good

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good service, clean rooms and bottomless tea and coffee. Nice communal areas, all round very good hostel.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Good location and property. Friendly and nice staff
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
As a 68-year-old woman, I don't get to stay at "youth hostels", and my previous experience with a hostel, in Seoul, was mixed. I really liked Sleepzone. It is obviously aimed at the economy-minded traveler, but it is comfortable and very welcoming. All the staff that I encountered were friendly and helpful, and while I don't suppose it's entirely under Sleepzone's control, all the guests were also pleasant and accommodating. The beds in our room were bunks, with futon-like mattresses on rigid metal grids. They were quite comfortable, imo, but if you need memory foam to sleep well, they may not suit you. The shower required you to keep pressing a button to keep it running, and very early in the morning it took a while for the hot water to reach our third-floor room. Again, not luxurious, but perfectly usable. When we got there, our hot water faucet didn't turn off easily; it felt as if it was off while water was still running. Not a real problem, but I reported it the next morning. The desk person thanked me for letting them know, asked if I minded having someone in the room to fix it that day, and the faucet was better when we got back that evening. I've been in fairly expensive hotels that couldn't fix problems in a week. There's a huge kitchen, with ample table space, and coffee and tea all the time, kept clean and tidy. Breakfast was assorted breads and cereals. Multiple lounges have couches and card tables. It felt amazingly homey.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The location did the trick for the money, however the room was extremely hot
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great location, friendly staff. They can look after you luggage.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean and accommodating. Staff friendly and helpful. Location is awesome!!
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Enjoyable Experience
It was my first time staying in a hostel. I had a really good experience here, it was comfortable, friendly and I enjoyed the breakfast.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hi
Everything perfect exept I had to leave up to 10 am last day of the stay cheers
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

canada, bc

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
close to city centre resonable price secure well mansged
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

2/10 Terrible

Jiem

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Life sucks
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019
Response from Manager on 11 Jul 2019
This guest was removed from the hostel following aggressive behavior towards staff and other guests. Such behavior will not be tolerated, regardless of if this results in a bad review. The incident was reported to Expedia.

6/10 Okay

Jordan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Sheryl L

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I made a reservation booking when I got there I had 4 kind's of id 2 photo IDs bank statement plus my bank card that I booked with I was told not good enough needed driving license passport I had to tell them to call the Garda after speaking with the Garda thay told the guy at reception to let me check in I did not sleep that night because of all the hassle I got I will be taking further action against you if you do not take your website down and make things more clear about id I spent 6 hours traveling from Co louth to get that hassle I am getting a Garda report on the situation as to wether my human rights was seriously questioned and to check your website out I will await your response in this regard.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019
Response from Michael - Hostel Manager on 10 Jun 2019
I would like to address the points you have raised in your review. Firstly, in the 'Policies' section on our Expedia listing it advises that "Government-issued photo identification" is required on check-in. Secondly, when you arrived to check-in at 3am you only had 1 card with a photograph, and this was a Public Services Card. As this does not contain a date of birth, this is not a valid 'ID' card, and as such is also not accepted at Banks etc as a form of ID. This strict policy is in place for security reasons for the protection of other guests, especially when booking shared dormitories. Thirdly, when our Night Porter explained this to you, you became very aggressive, shouting, swearing, referring to our staff member by using the 'C' word. Due to your aggressive behavior, WE called the local Police Station. After discussing the situation with the Guards, we agreed to allow you to stay in one of our empty rooms so that you would not be left without a bed at 3-4am. I hope the above clarifies the situation, however should you wish to discuss the matter further, please do not hesitate to contact me.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Margareth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Recomended
Huge kitchen, cozy common area Walkable to city, as the town itself not so big Friendly and helpful front desk staff Toilet in the dorm room as well Lift your luagage Room with big window for air circulation. Good wifi in the room and common room Recomended!
Stayed 1 night in May 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The beds were so small, possibly 5 foot in length for my bunk. I've never slept in such a small bed and it was uncomfortable to say the least.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
It's an ok hostel but some things can be improved
The front desk staff are all nice and accommodating. The room is too small for 8 people. It is too difficult to move around esp unpacking and packing. The ensuite bathrooms are also too tiny. I don't see the cleaning people sanitize the bathrooms but they do clean out the trash everyday. Breakfast is ok but all unhealthy...unhealthy cereals, toast bread and butter and jelly, and sometimes nutella. The kitchen is big and the staff sanitize it every morning. Good location. close enough to the city center.
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

S, Galway

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice place, but very noisy and rooms v small. Staff nive and helpful. Kitchen and lounge areas are outstanding
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It was just somewhere to crash before an early start back to Dublin airport on new year's day - but very good value and quite comfortable.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect location
The location of this hostel is ideal for any stay. I had a private en-suite room for 4 and it was very quiet and had everything we needed.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good location, but bed is uncomfortable and furniture is falling apart.
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2018

6/10 Okay

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
2 Br Apartment at Sleepzone
The location couldn't be beat for the price and the accommodations were quite roomy. The main problem we had was that from the moment we first walked into the apartment, it smelled heavily of mold.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Amy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great hostel
Really friendly and helpful staff. We booked a private room for 6, but only 4 ended up staying. It would have been a bit cramped with 6, with nowhere really to store luggage, and the bathroom was tiny, so we used the communal one downstairs a lot. But for our needs and budget, it was perfectly fine.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Location is great. Easy walk to downtown, docks area, and bus station. Staff are friendly and professional and the free breakfast was basic (toast, cereal, tea/coffee) but nice. Only issue was no air conditioning, which is normal in Ireland but tough coming from the U.S. where AC is standard.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2018

6/10 Okay

Meagan

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Joseph

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I’d stay again
It’s was a nice place to stay for the night. The young lady working the desk really helped us and even dried my clothes in the staff laundry when the regular dryer broke. The bathrooms were a bit small but that’s most of Ireland.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2018

8/10 Good

Maria

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No-frills apartments: clean, functional, central
We stayed in Sleepzone apartment and overall had a nice stay. The hostel staff at the reception was very helpful. The apartment is basic, clean and functional. The bed was not very confortable but fine. The location is very good, we walked everywhere in the center. Breakfast is extremely basic - just corn flakes, oatmeal, bread and jams but it is totally fine for a hostel. Overall, I would recommend the apartments for the location and ease, they also were cheaper than the hotels in the center.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2018

8/10 Good

sally

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Sharon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Apartments' quality really varies : some are newly refurbished and some are old-fashioned / smelly carpets type of. The hostel is okay and the staff is very friendly, but I would not recommend it unless you are in the range of 20-30 y.o. Good location btw

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
It's okay for a group of friends of 20-30 yo. Definitely the apartment was not in the best condition (kind of clean, smelling carpet, old furniture...). Road is very noisy, especially at night

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

andrea

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
le lenzuola e le federe erano macchiate e stropicciate.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2020