Bristol
United Kingdom.
United Kingdom · 3 districts · 2 vibes
4 handpicked hostels in Bristol, sorted by traveler rating.
Bristol is the West Country's anchor — a small UK city that punches like a big one. Banksy was born here, Massive Attack invented trip-hop here, and Brunel's SS Great Britain is still moored in the harbour. Hostels cluster in the Old City around Bridewell Street and Park Row, with one outlier on the Stokes Croft frontier and one on the floating harbour itself.
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Best Hostels in Bristol
4 handpicked hostels in Bristol, sorted by traveler rating.
The Bristol Wing
Ex-police-station hostel on Bridewell Street that funnels its profits into a Bristol homelessness charity. Five-minute walk to the Thekla and the King Street pubs, ten to Temple Meads via Uber. Bristol's highest-rated hostel with free breakfast and a kitchen that actually works.
The Full Moon Backpackers
Backpacker hostel attached to The Full Moon pub on the edge of Stokes Croft, Bristol's street-art and counterculture quarter. Live music nights downstairs, a beer garden out back, and the cheapest bunks within walking distance of the city centre.
YHA Bristol
Converted Victorian grain warehouse on Narrow Quay, right on Bristol's floating harbour. The quietest hostel in the city, with riverside views from the cafe-bar and a five-minute ferry hop to the SS Great Britain.
Rock n Bowl
Hostel attached to a bowling alley and bar on Park Row, smack in the middle of the Old City student quarter. Cheapest central beds in Bristol with a built-in party downstairs, ten lanes of bowling, and a bar that runs late on weekends.
Hand-picked guides.
Bristol's hostels know that a working kitchen is the difference between a £35 dinner at Cargo and a £4 stir-fry at the hostel that ends in s…
Bristol is a pub city — King Street, Stokes Croft, the harbourside — and the hostels with their own bar are the ones that cut the walking ti…