Its hard to review this as we have never stayed in a hostel before but the building was somewhere my husbands mother had lived as a child and as we where visiting Thurso to see where she had lived it seemed a nice idea to book a room there. It is located above a chip shop (and nice chips they were too, we even tried a deep fried mars bar which was wonderful!)

We booked a private en suite room for 4 with bunk beds. The room was clean with fresh bedding, there was a lobby and then and iron staircase outside which took you to another door in which there was a kitchen/common room. This was well stocked and you could prepare food at any time. There was also Internet access and a television. There are also games, books and films available for dark rainy nights. The owners were friendly and happily answered any questions.

It was a surprisingly enjoyable stay, we weren't looking forward to "sharing" a common room as we used to staying in hotels but the... more