Always wanted to spend a night in an abbey? Here's your chance. This hostel is housed in a refurbished monastery. The owner has tastefully redecorated but kept many of the original fittings. The result is a totally charming and pleasing home away from home. Gorgeous original wood floors, the vestment cabinet, a chapel turned sitting room, two guitars, a flat... more

The Abbeywood Hostel is in a great location - literally just a few steps away from the Westport town center. There are tons of tiny shops, restaurants, pubs, and it really is a tidy town - beautiful flowers along the river - very cute. The Hostel was impeccably clean, comfortable, and quiet. Our double private room had its own sink... more

We booked the Abbeywood as we were attending a friend's wedding in Westport. We were on quite a strict budget so stayed in this hostel. Before arriving I was a bit concerned as we don't normally stay in hostels anymore and I was worried about potential standards- how wrong I was!! This was better than a lot of hotels and... more

This was a pretty former convent close to the center of Westport. Easy to find. It has a funky charm and beautiful grouunds. Very peaceful. The staff was very nice, one girl had been to our hometown in the states and we had a nice chat about that. A really nice kitchen and great Breakfast provided. If you're there to... more

Well anybody that is familiar with FR.TED welcome to St. Clabberts old priests home..... This place stinks of school and stale pee and from the off the staff were so rude.... The really polite girl in reception "NOT" gave a lecture about noise levels and how irish have a different mentality as to other nationalitys about drinking so much....... Also... more

This hostel is sheer delight for groups of students who like to cook for themselves, play the guitar, talk, in general feel at home in a clean and well kept house, where there is fresh homemade soda bread for breakfast... especially after the Croagh Patrick challenge! - I as the leader of the group am sure that this was not... more

Our family had a wonderful stay. The place is a short walk to town yet not in the middle of all the noise. The place is very clean and well kept. We had a private room on the first floor. I was impressed with the fact that the quiet hours are enforced. Which was really important to us as we... more

Abbeywood is the nicest hostel of all the hostels that I have been to in Ireland. It makes for a nice quiet really enjoyable stay will easy access services like laundry, breakfast, Internet. The town is just five minutes walk away but it is enough out of the way to make for a good place to want to stay in... more

I’m just back from a wonderful weekend in Westport. We stayed in an amazing hostel there– Abbeywood. Its about 3 minutes walk from the town centre but you feel like you are in the middle of the countryside as it is set in lovely mature gardens which separate it from the town. It’s a converted monastery and it still has... more