St Christopher's Inn Camden

Centrally located with easy access to public transport, shops, and the subway. Reasonable prices and friendly, helpful staff. Essential amenities and a convenient female-only room.

The hostel's entrance is within the Bar called Belushis, this is again shared for the hostel's reception and hostel's breakfast area. The bar is described as sport themed on their website, but I would say it's more of an alternative music theme instead, as the decor in the toilets, the passage and stage area are fitted with them type of posters. I arrived on a Sunday at around 7:30pm, there was a blonde Irish musician playing a guitar and singing, there were also playing womens' soccer on the 6 TV screens, but every one I saw was watching the musician. The ambience was very lively and enjoyable, as the musician was there and had good encouragement skills, when small~talking in between each song. St Christopher's Inn's check in desk was located next to Belushis's (drinks) bar, a small gap made it a detached unit, the bar tender was also the hostel's receptionist. A photo of your passport is suffice, for the required identification when checking in. (Do not try to use a railcard or an annual bus pass, as these 2 forms of photographic identification are not acceptable.) It's compulsory to pay a refundable £2 lending fee for the key card, which they give back when you give back their key card. Once in the hostel I explored, their entertainment room is called the 'Chill Out Room', the room is big with a big TV screen, the TV is connected to the Internet and is also an (internet) browser. There are also lots of movie DVDs and some boxed party games. There are 2 padded sofas and 2 padded armchairs, a kitchen including a kettle, attached to this room is an additional room for lockers. The dormitory I was allocated to had 12 beds, including 1 shower and 2 wash basins. (Out of the dormitory) beside the corridor there were 2 individual toilet rooms. The morning after I had breakfast, it's an affordable price of £6, which has a big selection of foods and is all self serviced.

Would like to say that the hostel/bar staff were very welcoming and helpful and were very professional. Hotel was clean and bedding was comfy and shower room was clean only issue is woken up by a loud noise when shower was being used by others.