Great hostel! I loved it, the owners are so kind. The rooms are nice and the bathrooms are just…read morefine. Great location, go for a walk over the bridge in the mornings. Great pubs nearby for delicious food. I recommend staying here. It's also not too far from Dublin if you'd like to make a trip there or to Glendalough and check out some things there.

BeautIful feeling inside. It is clean and cozy. They have so many good places to hang out and the…read moreshowers are clean. The beds are good too. The staff was friendly.

Great place to stay and an interesting part of the country. Lots to do if you scratch the surface…read moreand the staff in the hostel were great for giving tips!! Cool pubs and lots of history. We did the Jameson whiskey walking tour which was very insightful!!!!

This has to be one of my favorite hostels! I stayed here with a friend of mine over a 4 day weekend…read morewhen I was stationed in Europe. We stayed in an 8 bunk room for 16 euros a night. The awesome thing was no one else stayed in the room with us! We had a huge 8 bunk room with our own bathroom for 4 days. The last day we had a guy show up as we were leaving but besides that it was all privacy. The accommodations were clean and in good condition. The staff was very friendly and able to answer all questions. We went on a pub crawl through the hostel and it was one of the funnest events of our trip. All of the other guests were super friendly and we had a blast with everyone. We were the only Americans as well so it was cool meeting lots of people from other countries. The name of the hostel isn't being used in vain either. It is one block away from the Guinness storehouse and brewery! This place was awesome and it was only a stones throw away! I recommend this place to anyone wanting to stay in a cheap, clean place and meet tons of new, interesting people from all over the world!

Not a bad place to stay if you want to hike the Wicklow Mountains. But come prepared! The nearest…read moregrocery store is about a 30 minute walk away and from what others told me, it's overpriced. So I brought my own groceries. There wasn't too much in the Free Food bin when I was there. Unlike most hostels I've stayed in Ireland, no free tea and coffee. And take-away/eating out in Ireland is generally pricey by American standards. On the positive side, it's near the trails. After a day of hiking, you can grab a vanilla cone from one of the stalls, then take a shower back at the hostel. Staff was friendly. Like almost all hostels, the staff works for free in exchange for room and board. One of the workers took me and another to a bar with live music, then took us to the nearby church which looked so cool at night with the moon and stars. If you ask around the hostel, you'll find someone going to Dublin who can provide a lift. One of the girls in my room drove 3 of us to Dublin so it saved me from hitchhiking (or taking the bus). Plenty of burners in the kitchen to cook your meals, although the refrigerators were often stuff full of other people's food. Unfortunately the showers and sinks use annoying push faucets that stop after 5 or 10 seconds. The ensuite bathroom in my 10-bed female dorm had no hand soap. WiFi only worked in the common area but not as far as the dining room. And hah, of course it won't in the bedrooms. Annoying that on a Sunday, the kitchen was closed 10:30am even though the sign said it closes 11-1pm. Large groups stay at the hostel and can be annoying and ill-behaved. I was hoping to stay another night but a large group took up all the bookings for one night. So off to Dublin I went...

This is a decent hostel just a few minutes walk from the Monastic Settlement and the continuance of…read morethe Wicklow Way. The rooms were very clean, the beds were ok, and the basic breakfast (cereal, toast, juice, coffee) was an acceptable value for 4 Euro on top of the room fee. The bedrooms had shelving units with closures that allowed for a padlock, which was a nice touch if you're concerned about sharing space with strangers. Their self-catering facilities were top notch, with multiple refrigerators, lots of dry-goods shelving, and labels/pens were provided for labeling your food. They also keep the coffee/sugar/tea bins in the "Free Food" area replenished, and anybody that keeps coffee available is pretty OK in my book. I had several issues that did cost the place stars, however. First, they made me pay for all four beds of private room although there were only three of us-I was told that under 18 y/o kids couldn't be in the regular dorm area. I have no issue with the rule, but none of the other An Oige hostels I stayed in charged me for the extra bed while hiking with 2 teenagers. THEN the front desk woman said that the central office should NOT have charged me like that, and she'd get it reversed. She didn't, and a recent call to the central office has been unreturned. Then we asked for towels, and were told there weren't any available yet, but the staff would drop some to our room within an hour. 5 hours later, we went and searched them out. Everything was an "extra" charge, from borrowing a movie from their collection to paying by the hour for the pool table. That was a first in my experience. The shower was on a 5 second burst cycle, so by the time your hand had left the knob and commenced cleaning activities, the water had stopped. Instead of lather, rinse, repeat, it was la-PUSH-ther-PUSH-ri-PUSH-nse-PUSH, well, you get the idea. Bottom Line: Cheaper than the hotel, warmer than sleeping outside, I can always shower when I get back home...I would however like them to chose ONE spelling for "Glendalough"...

My company came here for an off-site last year so not only did we stay here, we took advantage of…read morethe entire facility for a couple of days. They have an awesome mural in the dining area and had several floors for 300 + people to utilize. The breakfast buffet consist of Irish breakfast and some additional continental options and it was superb. Overall the place had a really interesting live and felt pretty homie. It was about a 15-20 walk from the city center where all of the action was so it was close enough but also far away enough from all the craziness in sounds at night. There were also a couple shops in the area which was nice in case you wanted to eat elsewhere. My biggest gripe was that I personally didn't like staying at hostels, which doesn't really have anything to do with this place as it was a decision for the entire company to stay here. I personally like having my own space and the experience of sharing it with others was quite interesting. Luckily this hostile would be what I consider to be a fancier also because all the rooms had their own towels and their own bathrooms... Which I'm not sure is common or not but it's always nice to have your own bathroom as compared to point to a public shared bathroom. The other issue I did have and again I'm not sure if this is something common, the lack of AC during the summer. The rooms basically become the heat box and is unbearable to sleep in. Luckily we were able to ask for a fan and got the last one for a room. Do to some logistics we were house in a room on the fourth floor on the first day and then relocated to our permanent stay for the rest of our trip which was the ground floor. However it was right next to an outdoor seating area and you can't stop people from going there to chat at night because it's obviously a public area. So when you combine a chatty group of people plus an open window due to the heat and someone who's an extremely light sleeper... It all becomes a an unpleasant situation. As I've said I personally don't like staying at hostels but for what my company has selected this place was quite alright. Any time spent outside the rooms was quite pleasant overall.

This hostel has great amenities and large open common areas downstairs, which I appreciated…read more However, I want to share a few negatives from my experience so other travelers are aware before booking. I rarely leave negative reviews, but I felt this was worth mentioning. I had been traveling for over a day and a half and was extremely exhausted. I politely asked the front desk if there was anywhere I could sit and rest my eyes for a few minutes until check-in. The staff member immediately said no and made it clear that resting or sleeping anywhere in the lobby was not allowed. The interaction felt dismissive and not very friendly, and I noticed a similar tone when he was speaking with other guests. Another issue was the bathroom setup. I stayed on the second floor and there were no women's restrooms on that floor, so I had to go up and down the stairs each time I needed to use the bathroom. After check-in, I finally fell asleep because I was so exhausted, but I was suddenly woken up by loud pounding on my door( not a gentle knock )The staff member said he had made a mistake and placed me in the wrong room. I understand mistakes happen -- I've stayed in hostels all over the world -- but the way it was handled felt disruptive. As I was getting up to move rooms, he suddenly said I could just stay where I was. I had originally booked a four-bed female dorm because I hoped to meet other travelers, so having the room to myself wasn't really what I expected-but ultimately, I was grateful that I did have the room to myself so that was one positive He said he would make it up to me with a free breakfast token, but the breakfast ended up being very minimal (bread, cheese, yogurt, cucumber, and cereal). Overall, the atmosphere just didn't feel very welcoming. If you're looking for something friendlier with a better vibe, I would recommend Abbey Court Hostel instead -- the staff there are VERY kind, the common areas are lively- and they won't kick you out if you need to rest your eyes for 30 minutes and it feels much more inviting for travelers. I really do hate to leave a negative review, but this is mainly to make awareness to other travelers

We booked in for the weekend of the Slane concert, 25 EUR per person for two nights. Good value and…read morea good plan of action as my abiding memory of going to a concert at Slane Castle was the endless amount of walking from car parks / bus parks to the venue. And then the huge amount of time spent sitting in traffic trying to leave. It's a great venue, but I have avoided it in the past because of how difficult it is to get to and from there. Slane Farm Hostel was 300 metres from the Slane Castle grounds if the information they provided was to be believed. I took this with a pinch of salt, but it had to be better than arriving and leaving on the day, right? It ended up being just over 1 KM away for a finish (from camp to the gate we were allowed to enter by). Still, it was better than previous experiences. I don't know why I thought camping for the Foo Fighters concert was going to be anything other than a regular festival camping experience. There was plenty of screaming and shouting, which is fine (ear plugs). Other festival camping effects that I wont go into. But hey, SFH can't control people being idiots. And I need to finally accept I've grown out of camping at concerts :) The first camping field did seem to me to be too full by the time they opened the second field. I'm sure the staff controlling this tried to get people to park and pitch sensibly and I can imagine it's like herding cats. Our plans to depart at a reasonable hour on Sunday morning looked scuppered. But we managed to leave before 10 am in the end, which was great. At the moment I'm not sure I can recommend this as an alternative to going to and from Slane Castle for concerts on the day itself. Catch 22. All that said the staff we dealt with directly seemed nice enough. And I saw who looked like the owner dealing with an issue with the toilets down by the yards on Saturday morning - it was good to see they cared about that. And the toilets down by the yard always had loo roll.. If an opportunity to camp here at any other time of the year came up, I would go back to Slane Farm Hostel as their facilities seemed fine.

Rolled into Slane with no place to stay and a quick word at…read morethe Inside Out (a great restaurant!) got us the number of a pub owner, who sent us out to Slane Farm. (The Slane network is aces!) the hostel is comfortable, cozy, clean, and reasonably priced. I'll be staying here on future trips.