I never stay in hostels ever. I would always choose a nice hotel over a hostel but in this case it was a stag/bachelor night so I did not have the luxury of choosing the accomodation. As I never stay in hostels I do not know what to base my experiences on.

The owner is a rude woman and oblivous to our concern about the condom wrapper she was leaning on. We had two rooms, one with two bunks and the other with 5 bunks. Thin matresses, thin duvet covers and even thinner pillows. The paint is cracking, the plaster is cracking and there is a flurry of carpet designs everywhere as though she has been collecting odds and ends over the years. The is a communal area downstairs with a kitchenette and living room area with a TV.

There is one mens toilet and one womens toilet upstairs which are of course shared by the entire hostel. The mens toilet is dirty, very very very dirty so I avoided the shower.

She refused to give us the code to the front door until the last two arrived and paid her. I thought this was odd considering the front door was open anyway. It just added to the experience.

It is a good location right on the square with lots of free parking outside.

Its dirty so I would not recommend staying there. If you are strapped for cash there was 14 of us and we all paid €13 each. So what can you expect for that money?

7 friends and I went to Cork for 4 days and were having a great time until Saturday morning when it started to rain very heavily all day. We had booked the hostel by phone two weeks previously. But when we arrived we were told that it was double booked because a family had decided to stay on a few extra days. To cut a long story short, we spent the next 6 hours trying to find a hostel, bed and breakfast or hotel to stay in without any luck at all.
We didn't receive any apology from the hostel owner, we didn't even receive a courtesy phone call to tell us it was overbooked . We found out when we turned up! If the owner had the common decency to phone us, we would have had time to find somewhere else to stay. I will never stay in that hostel we were treated very very badly. If you wan t to go to Bantry, don't rely on a booking at this hostel!