THE REALLY GOOD POINT IS : The place is ideal to visit the city : 3 min walking from the airport bus stop and located just between Old Town and New Town.

THE MEDIUM POINTS ARE (depending on what you're looking for) : You have to know if you go there that it is a youth hostel which mantra is "party hard sleep easy" indeed the hostel is just above a bar (The Belushi's) and the reception desk is behind the beer machines. For some this could be a great invite. Anyway at the 3rd floor we sleep easy without any noise and the beds were goods with nice dinosaurus sheets.

THE WRONG POINTS ARE : As couple we were disapointed as the "twin bedroom" become a bunk beds bedroom...! they should precise it during the booking.

We met two kind of staff : #1 after 5 pm is nice, helpfull as bar tender they seem to be used to deal with various people / #2 on the morning is not helpful and you have to foreseen special time to wait to have the right to check out !

Note that the luggage room is with pay lockers.

The household is medium : bathroom was old but clean but under the bed the vacuum cleaner never goes ! (we found someone else deodorant for example)

The breakfast is really poor quality with instant coffee, tea bags without name, hot water, bread and jam samples. I recommend you not to pay for it and to go down town have a proper breakfast.

I would not stay here again when i return to edinburgh someday, nor would i recommend it. i stayed here during the international festival / fringe / military tattoo so basically there were hardly any choices left. the location was crazy good, literally a 30 second walk from the train station and about a 5 minute walk to the bus station. the four person dorm i stayed in was actually quite clean, and the shower was great. one night i had to move into the 14 person dorm and it was awful. dirtiest, smelliest bathroom i have ever experienced. the breakfast isn't great and like other st. christopher's it's attached to a bar which does not always equal good service. the internet hardly ever worked. i'm sure there are lots of other great hostels in edinburgh!

This place is OK! & very central.
i was expecting the worst when i signed up to go here with a few friends this summer. but when i got here i was pleasantly surprised!! it is actually alright; it's clean enough & the staff are ok. however, the 'breakfast' is not a breakfast, it's really quite awful. &when we were sleeping in our beds at 3/4 in the morning we did get a few random people trying to get into our room!! bathroom's TINY, and with 8 people in the one room. you can only imagine! - we didn't find any bed bugs though, and the place was quite clean.

I stayed at the St Christopher's for one night and had to pay for two nights for a single/private room. Admittedly, I was very late in booking (only 5 days prior to check in) and most of the other hotels were fully books due to fresher's week. However, the amount I payed (approx 70 Pounds) is certainly overpriced. The rooms are very basic, certainly clean, but tasteless. This wasn't a satisfying experience given the relatively high costs.