The Cambie Hostel - Gastown

Name: The Cambie Hostel - Gastown
Address: 310 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2N3, Canada, B, Canada

3.6/5 ★ based on 8 reviews

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Address :	310 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2N3, Canada
Phone :	📞 +8
Website :	http://cambiehostels.com/
Categories :	Hostel ,
City :	B
Description :	Casual hostel offers simple private rooms & dorms, plus a TV lounge & a lively bar.

310 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2N3, Canada

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L	Lydia Raymond on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Common rooms were dirty and messy with garbage. The trash was always full and therefore made the kitchen smelly. Only two toilettes and two showers for one story. The showers were so small you need to undress before going in. You’re not allowed food in your room but the lockers provided in the kitchen are all full, as well as the fridges. The room lighting was dim and could have used shelves. Good security system, very safe hostel. The bar downstairs has great specials. The staff was welcoming and accommodating. They let us store our baggages before checkin ?
Z	Zach Nixon on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Stayed here for a couple of nights this past week. Staff were excellent, bathrooms were clean and atmosphere was great. I highly recommend it. I stayed on the 2nd floor and had my own room. Location is great. You are steps from Water St. and other cool areas of Vancouver. You can walk to Stanley Park in 30-45 minutes (or take transit, which is also great in this city)! Would stay here again :)
L	Luke Inderwick on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you want to sleep or wash don't go here. Extremely loud from the bar below and this was 2 floors up and with ear plugs in! It's not made obvious this is a party hostel so might be the right vibe for you... The showers are the worst I have ever seen in a hostel. There's nowhere to put your clothes or dry and the bathrooms were dirty and small. At least the staff seemed friendly though.
C	Celeste Miller on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a true hostel. Meaning it has been lived in and loved. Beds and bathrooms were clean and comfortable. The building is old but cool. Located right downtown, and the cat Oreo is an added bonus ?
M	Meng Liu on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Don't stay here if you're looking to sleep. The hostel is located above what looks to be the hottest bar (honestly it was more like a club) for 19-23 year olds. The line for the bar wraps around the block and the excessive noise from the music and screaming people won't stop until 3am. Even if you put in ear plugs the base still vibrates your bed. The showers are poorly designed, there's no area between the tiny shower stall and the common (gendered) washroom to disrobe in privacy and no hooks for your stuff. The kitchen is messy, unlike other hostels, it doesn't seem like staff cleans the kitchen so relying solely on guests leaves a lot of room for error. There were food lockers with check out dates of many months prior. The fridges were just a heaping mess. The floors and doors are creaky so there's no way to avoid disrupting people or being disrupted at night. And the cat, oh the poor cat. A hostel with a loud, base heavy bar downstairs and tons of people coming and going is not a healthy environment for a cat. It was showing stress in an aggressive manner.
N	Nichola Strandberg on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The staff were very friendly and helpful. The bed was comfortable and the bedroom was clean-ish. The 1st floor bathroom was dirty, damp and mouldy. The common room was also very dirty and smelly. The music from downstairs was incredibly loud on some nights despite earplugs. On some occasions the bar downstairs was more like a nightclub. I would probably stay there again though since it’s so cheep and in a good location.
M	Madelyn H on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Overall a good hostel. The bathrooms on the 1st floor are small and tight to maneuver but the beds are comfy and clean and the bathrooms are cleaned regularly and well maintained. I felt safe while staying here and the staff were very friendly and helpful. The pub downstairs has loud music from about 9pm to 2am and it is quite noisy if you're sleeping on the 1st floor. The pub itself is fun and energetic and has good food, so the partiers and night owls will probably enjoy themselves, but if you prefer quiet, then you probably wont like it here if you're on the 1st floor... Earplugs do help though. My friend who slept on the 2nd floor couldn't hear any music. Also, the 20% off bar food/drink voucher is only good for a certain time period: after traditional lunch time and before dinner time (its more of a several-hour happy hour situation). It was a good experience overall.
S	Samuel Anderson on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I stayed here for a total of four nights. It is very much so a party hostel! The staff were incredible, very friendly people. The hostel was apparently established in 1897, so it is very cool to be in a place that millions of people from around the world had been in, experiencing the same thing. The building itself is pretty clean, but if you're allergic to cats, it's best if you don't stay here, as they do have a cat that stays in the common area and sometimes goes into the first floor rooms. A big warning that I wish someone had told me is that the bar downstairs will, on some nights, play their music so loudly that the entire building will shake, and there doesn't seem to be a place that you can't hear it. The one night that I stayed, there were a couple guys that were locals in the room I was staying in. They started talking in the middle of the night about how they were from East Hastings St. And how they've both done some "really bad" things. It's great that this hostel is supporting locals, but just keep your items locked in the lockers provided. They do not have locks that you can buy from them, so you'll need your own. Stay safe and enjoy the party scene!!