Name: Inverness Hostel
Address: Hillview House Merlewood Road, Inverness, IV2 4NL, GB

8/10

Excellent

29 Apr 2026

DAVIE

Easy to find.parking was good and the Hostel was very clean ..plenty of space in the kitchen and loads of plates ,cups and everything else you would need

Friends

8/10

Excellent

11 Oct 2025

Edward

Overall this is a good place, in a quiet location. Rooms are quite basic but fine. The shared kitchen is really nice. The only problems are very thin walls (you can hear any noises e.g talking and phones pinging in the next room) and a bright green light over the room door which you can't switch off. But overall a good stay and I slept well.

8/10

Excellent

03 Sep 2025

Diane

On arrival the key for the room we booked was not available, we contacted the owner and they were quick to respond, after a bit of back and forward on the chat a suitable solution was offered.

Several light switches that seemed to do nothing and one set of lights that could not be turned off was a bit inconvenient.

Overall the stay was comfortable and the owner helpful

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

14 May 2025

claudia

It was a small space but it was nice and comfortable. Would recommend for a family to stay

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

07 May 2025

Paul

Great value

Great place just outside the town centre, clean, well equipped, stayed with friends on a motorcycle tour and lots of onsite parking. Would recommend.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

17 Apr 2025

Verified traveler

Good value.

Cheap and cheerful. Did the job for an inexpensive overnight stay near Inverness. Clean. Instructions easy to follow to gain access to room. Nice and quiet.

Friends_and_family Family

4/10

Poor

16 Oct 2024

Manish

The bathroom flooring is coming out..There was a weird stink from the toilet..we had to open the window wide open..which is not ideal..coz the room was on the ground floor..No heating..Cobwebs on ceilings..room & bathroom..no hooks or hangers in the room..

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

03 Oct 2024

Barbara Eshbaugh

The room was clean and the beds were comfortable

6/10

Pleasant

23 Sep 2024

Colin

When having breakfast the lady was lovely but wore her coat whilst serving food , she was very attentive though food was lovely

10/10

Exceptional

17 Sep 2024

Peter

Great quiet location ideal for a pitt stop

Friends

10/10

Exceptional

02 Sep 2024

Robert

The hostel is very clean. It’s in a quiet area. Everything what needed. Recommended.

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

25 Aug 2024

leianne

Great stay for a reasonable price

2/10

Poor

04 Aug 2024

Sharad

These guys are cheats. Stay away!! We booked accomodation for 2 adults and 2 kids here. However, on our way to hostel, we were told that room we booked is not available and we should find alternative accomodation as we won't fit in 3 kids beds ( only room they have). They asked us to cancel the reservation through Expedia but then did not refund the booking amount.

Leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

15 Jul 2024

Gwendolyn

Self check in was smooth

8/10

Excellent

04 Jul 2024

Joao

There was no wifi signal available in the property which was basic amenity to be provided as terms of booking. Upon enquiry the owner showed suprise but did nothing to rectify the issue.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

14 Jun 2024

Sarah

Lovely property safe homely feeling. Great facilities. Super clean. A nice surprise, not your usual hostel more like a bnb/mini hotel. Use of kitchen. Amazing shower. Heaters on when needed. Would recommend

Business Family_with_children

8/10

Excellent

15 Apr 2024

Harinath

This is an hostel and has basic stuff. The common kitchen was useful.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

06 Mar 2024

Justin

Overall pleasant experience. Wish there was more signage and the phone number was inaccurate. Still, we were able to check in to our clean hostel without a worker and had a pleasant experience. The bathroom was especially nice.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

11 Jan 2024

Phillip

Nice place

Nice place

Business

8/10

Excellent

15 Dec 2023

Claire

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Leisure

8/10

Excellent

07 Oct 2023

adel

It’s good 25 min to the town center

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

07 Sep 2023

Boris

Good and affordable place to stay in a quiet neighborhood at Inverness. It took us a good minute to figure out which room was ours since it's a self-check-in process and the keys to each room were on the doors. Overall great stay.

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

14 Aug 2023

Katherine

The communication was very poor. They did not respond to questions. The back of the facility has all kinds of rubbish spread about.

Family

2/10

Poor

13 Aug 2023

Megan

DO NOT STAY HERE

DO NOT STAY HERE. No hot water, and I mean NONE, not like the pictures at all, very dirty, smells. Horrible experience. After 1st night of a 3 night stay we left and stayed elsewhere.

Friends_and_family Family

4/10

Poor

08 Aug 2023

Jean-Simon

No hot water
Door wouldn’t close
Smelly beds

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jul 2023

Verified traveler

Cool Place!

This was a really cool place to stay. Our group stayed in the 5 person room which had 5 single beds around the walls. We called it the \"Seven Dwarves Room.\" The room was huge, with its own bathroom and we were very pleased with it. The beds weren't the most comfy in the world but we managed. The kitchen was clean and well stocked and the other guests were respectful and kind. We stayed in several hostels on our trip and this one was one of our favorites! There was confusion during check in as the number provided to contact someone for help wasn't working or no one was answering. Not the best way to manage the property. But keep access to your email as this property uses that as its primary form of checking you in.

Business

4/10

Poor

10 Jul 2023

Joshua

Not a very good location, poor repair, and overall quite dirty. Seems like a place the owners are just trying to milk for what they can without putting any effort or work back into the place. The freezer in the kitchen was so iced over the door wouldn’t shut.

Friends_and_family Family

4/10

Poor

15 May 2023

Jane

Beware

GOOD: Price; Location is in a leafy quiet road ; comfortable bed;Parking
BAD:The non smoking room had a stench of smoke. View from window was a yard full of junk. Noisy building so heard every other occupants movements.

COMMUNICATION:Received self check in details a day after we had checked out! Fortunately we were able to speak to the contact by phone who told us our room number.

If you're looking for a cheap place to stay it's acceptable only if you don't care about high standard of accomodation and have earplugs ( which we did)

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

07 May 2023

Sarah

We were very jet lagged so it was a convenient place to crash for the night. But our room smelled of stale cigaret smoke, we had to sleep with the window open. And the mattresses had buttons in them that made them extra uncomfortable. But the place was clean. And we felt safe.

2/10

Poor

08 Aug 2022

Alex

Other than the shower, the place was dirty. Kitchen and floors need a deep clean

8/10

Excellent

30 May 2022

tom

Very nice and clean

Leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

15 May 2022

Robert

It’ll do if you’re on a budget.

No sign of the host, but that’s fine. Good points; parking on site, room was clean.
Bad points; uncomfortable old mattress, shower head was more like a hose, no soap at all not even a cheap dispenser (public toilets have free hand soap). No signage on gate or entrance.

4/10

Poor

07 Apr 2022

Ingrid

Surprised this place had a good ratng

The yard was a mess with trash and construction debris. I was afraid we were in the wrong place. I was afraid to go in. The room was ok but the heat had broken and was being fixed. There was no host on site and the contact person was not helpful. The room was freezing and it was after midnight when it warmed up. We asked for a space heater and we're not giving a return call until the next morning. Overall the place had many things that were not functioning well. I was surprised it had such a good rating on this site and bookings.com.

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

07 Oct 2021

Gareth

Value for money

Good place to stay. Clean and tidy bedroom, bathroom and the shared kitchen. Easy walk into the town centre along the river. My only issue was the pillow was very uncomfortable

Self

6/10

Pleasant

07 Aug 2021

Miss C

Comfortable and clean. Need shower doors though.

Friends_and_family Friends

6/10

Pleasant

26 May 2021

Verified traveler

Disappointing - owner needs to do some maintenance

Booked this because for a night as I was camping and fed of of being soaked, property listed as having self service laundry and free WiFi - there are no laundry facilities and if there was WiFi I couldn't find the connection details.

The lock on the room didn't work, so couldn't lock door, otherwise room was fine. The shower was missing a door so bathroom floor got soaked when showering, and the floor appeared to be starting to collapse probably due to rot from all the water on floor.

Cleanliness of kitchen area could have been better.

Self

8/10

Excellent

08 Mar 2020

David

Would highly recommend this Hostel.

It's more like a B&B just you make your own Breakfast ( cerial toast and yoghurt tea and coffee)

Make your own evening meal 2 Tesco store's not far away.

Kitchen has all you need with own basket in fridge to store your own small amount of shopping.

Make tea and coffee anytime and you can use Tv room.

Partner

4/10

Poor

03 Jan 2020

Verified traveler

Starting with Check In.
We were told no earlier than 4pm which would’ve been fine except for the floor in our room had obviously not been swept and there was debris from the floor that had made it under the comforter in the bed.
There was no one to greet us for our check in, and there was no indication that it was a self check in situation. The only reason we knew what room we were to belong in was because we had called earlier in the day with questions because we never received any information after the booking was confirmed.

The Room
The bathroom had cold standing water next to the bathtub, which one again only confirms that the room was not properly cleaned.
Debris was on the floor obviously from the previous occupants shoes, food and whatnot.

Overall House and Amenities
Occupants were given keys to the front door but during our stay it seemed like we were the only one to lock it. Upon many arrivals back from town, or when leaving the house the front door was wide open. Thankfully our individual rooms locked but it was still unsettling to see there were not notes around reminding occupants to lock the door.
The usage of the words “BREAKFAST PROVIDED” is a complete sham. If breakfast provided means whatever is left over by other tenants, and 3 tubs of butter then this is the place for you. However if you are expecting basic essentials like tea, coffee, bread, fruit, or yogurt you will be greatly disappointed.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

12 Dec 2019

Verified traveler

Great place to see Inverness from.Friendly, warm and clean. Free breakfast,tea and coffee.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

02 Nov 2019

Verified traveler

The host was lovely the rooms were warm and cosy and I really appreciated the free breakfast

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

23 Oct 2019

Verified traveler

Booked this little gem for a night family room lovely friendly place staff (Stevie) fantastic and friendly everything you need is in this place good supply of breakfast for kids before we caught our ferry..will definitely be back

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

22 Oct 2019

Annie

We booked a family room and it was fantastic. Great size of room with generous sized en suite. Everything was spotless.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

21 Oct 2019

Diana

Good place

The place was comfortable, i highly recommended this hostel.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

05 Oct 2019

David

Nice quaint location in a local neighborhood. Walls are pretty thin between the rooms so keep that in mind if that bothers you. Guests were respectable though and it wasn’t noisy after hours.

Friends_and_family Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

27 Sep 2019

R

Beautiful room, neat and tidy, bright. Perfect fir a family of four.

Leisure Family_with_children

8/10

Excellent

26 Sep 2019

Verified traveler

Clean and tidy well used agood walk to bus and train stations

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

23 Sep 2019

Verified traveler

The room was just right size for family of 4.clean bathroom with shower. Well stocked up kitchen to make your own breakfast -different cereals, bread,jams,cheese, meat,fruit,eggs,bacon.lovely owner.nice and quiet. No tv in the bedroom but there was a lounge with tv.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

21 Sep 2019

Verified traveler

It was immaculate and in s quite area definitely use it again

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

19 Sep 2019

Lianne

Very quiet and peaceful town. Plenty of amenities available. Much to explore within the town as well as the surrounding areas.