St Christophers Village - Southbank

Of all the hostels we stayed at during our 2 week journey, St. Christophers was absolutely the WORST of them. The staff were difficult and unfriendly, the bar has horrible service, and the third floor was extremely inhospitable. Perhaps worst of all, the security is abysmal. During our 4 night stay we had multiple individuals enter our room, without knocking, throughout the day and night. I highly discourage anyone from visiting St. Christopher's Village.

Stayed here for a couple of nights at the end of our holiday. There was 5 of us travelling together so booked a 6 bed dorm. We knew that we would have to put up with another person in our room that night but didn't worry. However, when two people walked in we knew something was wrong. Sadly the strict hostel security had not stopped a girl from bringing a guy back to the room for some 'adult-themes' in the room. Quite a terrible experience to be honest. Thankfully he/it didn't last too long. This wasn't totally the hostels fault so can't really place blame on them.

Location: Very close to most of London's key sites, and in London you are never really that far from a tube station.

There is a nice bar attached to the hostel, and yeah its full of backpackers who have a different grasp on hygiene to the rest of the world, but the drinks were pretty cheap all night and we got well and trully drunk, so we had a great night. Made all the better by the fact that its a pretty short stumble from the bar to your rooms!

Staff: The quality of the staff tended to depend on which shift you got, sometimes they were really really good other times terrible. We asked if they could arrange a taxi for 3 of us plus luggage and they were able to arrange this without too much trouble.

Showers were so terrible, the water didn't even resemble warmth, and usually this wouldn't worry me, but considering London weather in January isn't terribly warm I was looking forward to a nice shower.

Overall: I probably wont stay here again, if I was younger I might give it another go, but I am over spending money on accommodation and getting nothing in return. I would expect at least a warm shower, surely that isn't too much to ask???

This is the Worst Accomodation I ever stayed in. Deplorable service from the start. We were charged double the agreed booked rate. Given a tiny room, filthy cot, traffic noise and cold coming right through the ancient window which didn't close. To add further insult, the inept reception staff were painfully slow, with too many newbies left (alone) to mind the counter. Had to queue 15mins to pay £6 for a useless towell. Drunks and noise spilling into the hostel. I wouldn't feed their 'breakfast' to a dog. The owners should be locked up for providing such an unhealthy and shabby service and their property confiscated and redeveloped. Take my advice and book somewhere else.