Generator Hostel London  

The hostel's location was great for a city trip. Close to public transport, restaurants, supermarkets, the British Museum and lots of parks. The staff were very helpful.We felt very safe coming and going at night.We did have a private twin room which made all the difference for me as an older traveller.Being able to have breakfast 'til 11am was great as was the free left luggage facility when arriving early or checking out with later flight.

Having stayed in the Berlin Generator Hostel, which supplied towels and breakfast which included proper fruit juice, rolls, cheese and ham I was disappointed with the limited cereal, toast and sugared drinks on offer in London.

The location. It's only 100 meters from the metro station (Russell Square)

There are only 1 bathroom for each floor (and each floor has 50 rooms)

The location is excellent, close to the city centre, to several tube lines and to a couple of railway stations. The price is relatively low. Staff smiling and friendly.

&Quot;A basic youth hostel" is a severe understatement. It's very basic - and it's not clear from the internet site description. The breakfast is minimal (cornflakes and toasted bread), its description as "continental" on the web site is a bad joke. The wi-fi supposedly works in the ground floor public areas - but not always (no wi-fi in the rooms). The staff are very nice and friendly, but permanent queues at the reception make it impossible to obtain any service. Before coming, I inquired on phone whether bed linen is provided - got a positive answer - but they failed to mention that "towels" aren't included in the category of bed linen (had to buy them).

The food and drinks were cheap.

There was nothing saying that the private room had "shared toilet", just notice when I arrived there and the girls showers in the 3th floor were broken. The security was excessive, they asked for your key to get inside the bar(even when you were already in the hostel), Unfortunately, a cleaning lady invade our room missing 20 minutes for the check out (I repeat, I was in the 3rd floor) , and even I saying that we were inside and naked (changing clothes ) she didn't mind to get inside our room, and didn't leave!! It was really annoying.

Nice localization, helpful staff, breakfast (low quality but still) included, wifi and lots of facilities for youngsters

In general, the hostel has major cleaning problems. Toilets and bathrooms are a disaster. The rooms are extremely small, not too tidy (however comparing to bathrooms quite acceptable). The place is in general noisy, people nock your door at any time of nigth. And fire alarms around midnight... Creazy place.

The hostel is big, quite confortable and really close to the underground. The bathrooms are clean and there is a large room with wifi.

The lockers should be bigger or, at least, we should have the chance to pay for another lockers.

Clean and free wifi

Breakfast was veeeeeery basic

Clean, breakfast included, many fan

there is not many wall plug for charge your electronic device and to shave in bathrooms with machine

It was much better than my previous stay. I had fewer problems. Staff were much better, in particular the manager Alex, the night security and the bar man. Overall I enjoyed my stay and it is value for money in a great location.

State of the room - not only occupied upon arrival but not very clean. Door didn't shut properly - glad I took a padlock and few valuables. Only one lift - not always fun queuing for this with people with huge suitcases when you have a hurt ankle and can't do 5 floors of stairs! Above all it had rooms available on 5th November when nowhere else in London seemed to have spaces!

Great location, easy to connect with other parts of London

no WiFi in room:(

Nice location, close to metro station, low price.

Quite noisy, very basic food.

The location was very convenient, I feel the overall security was good and despite somewhat rundown conditions in certain areas the cleanliness cannot be faulted.

It was very noisy during the nights. Private rooms are very small and there is little space for luggage. An En-suite private room option would be welcomed.

very nice neighborhood, silent surrounding, nice staff, close to tube

room was very stuffy, showers uncomfortable