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Reviews of YHA Brecon Beacons - Hostel

3 out of 5
YHA Brecon Beacons - Hostel
Libanus, Brecon, Wales

Reviews

9.0

Wonderful

Rating 10 - Excellent. 22 out of 39 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 12 out of 39 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 4 out of 39 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 1 out of 39 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 39 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

9.4/10

Staff & service

9.2/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Jacqualene

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Diamond in the rough
Its not the best, but it has the best location! just keep in mind its a bit rudimantary. Will definitly come back
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Martin

Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It's a while since I stayed in a YHA hostel so perhaps had unrealistic expectations. At the right price would be fine but very overpriced for this hostel, which is looking a bit tired.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ian, Oxford

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely hostel in beautiful location. Staff couldn’t have been more helpful.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Steven

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great but please YHA allow an earlier check-in
We stayed on a cold Sat & Sun night in December. Very warm and comfortable place. Typical hostel. Can't speak for the meals as we self catered and used the pub in Lebanus (very friendly and good food). Only gripe at the hostel is the 5pm check-in. This is too late in winter. It's dark and icy.
YHA Brecon Beacons
Pen-y-Fan on our winter weekend
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2022

10/10 Excellent

Gregory

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location. Friendly and efficient staff. At £18 per night you can't go wrong.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Phillip

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent customer service, I received a call around 8pm to check I was on my way and not lost, a nice touch. On arrival a lovely and welcoming greeting, very informative on the hostel facilities and area. I was taking part in an event on the Friday morning and had left the lid for my water bladder at home, the man who was on reception was very helpful in helping to try and find me a work around, above and beyond what he needed to do. Very friendly hostel
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Lee

Stayed 1 night in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Daniel

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Yew Jin

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

6/10 Okay

Linda

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location is excellent and beautiful surroundings. The only downfall: There was really noisy, rude and selfish people staying at the property that was laughing and talking so loudly until 1 am in the morning when I had to go and say something. I also would have liked a proper English breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

10/10 Excellent

Miss A

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2020

10/10 Excellent

Oliver

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Brecon beacons stay
Great nights stay. Coronavirus measures in place were good and hostel was nice and clean.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Angela

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hostel with great views
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2020

10/10 Excellent

Roberto

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice, cozy, really great location and parking free
It was lovely, the staff was great and services as much as we can imagine for this price and in the middle of great national park. Really nice views and "sheep alarm" in the morning. But also we have a really huge spider in our bathroom saying "hello" below the pipe, so a little scary. It was great ;)
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Oliver

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

10/10 Excellent

Oliver

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
awesome place
Brilliant location for Bike Park Wales - couple who managed the hostel were fantastic - looked after me and my pals well and cooked a brilliant mealn
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
No WiFi means everyone will talk and have a well deserved break from their phone!
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable, friendly and well located YHA.
This is a great YHA in a great location. Comfortable surroundings, clean facilities (the only exception was the showers, they were a bit dated and muddy), friendly staff and a great location for walking. I visited with friends and we had a very good weekend in sociable surroundings, I'd thoughroughly reccomend this YHA if you're looking for such accomodation in the area.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Tawa, Oklahoma

Travelled with family, Business traveller, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location is outstanding - beauty natural area. Rooms are very small and tight - but not unusual for a YHA setting.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Super hostel with very helpful people working there. We didn’t buy the dinner or breakfast but on seeing them - we should have!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Muttley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in May 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Great place 4 km outside of Brecon. Small rooms with bunk beds, but just enough to have some sleep after long day in in the area. The restrooms, the dining place were clean. We stayed only one night here, and would come back.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect for walkers on a budget
I love this hostel. Friendly, no fuss, beautiful location.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I loved it!
Stayed 4 days at the YHA and I absolutely loved it. The staff was friendly and extremely helpful with pretty much Everything. This was my first solo vacation so naturally I had a lot of questions about tracks, trails and maps (being afraid of getting lost of course), but when I went out I felt comfortable. Food was good and the room was the exact size that I needed. Was a bit disappointed with the fact that there wasn’t a washing machine since I’ve read online, somewhere, that there was - but o’well there was a drying room so I could wash my clothes by hand. I really enjoyed my stay and will definitely come back for some more bonfires and beautiful surroundings!
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Log

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great stay
Great stay as usual,always clean,welcoming,peaceful,great scenery. Awsum helpful staff, ..good friendly folk here. Great place to stay

6/10 Okay

ritu, west drayton

really good customer service with kind behaviour and nice quite place to stay , lovely small stream next to the hotel and a beautiful scenery through our bedroom window.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2018

10/10 Excellent

Nicole, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice location, beautiful area, friendly staff.
Felt welcomed and well informed. Room and Bed were clean, I used kitchen facilities. Overall I enjoyed my staying.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Daniel, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good Value Accommodation in the Brecon Beacons
Very friendly and helpful staff, accommodation is basic as you would expect but the meals are very good. Not the easiest place to find and best done when still light!

10/10 Excellent

Eric, aberystwyth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great location for walking!
We walked up pen y fan so was an ideal location for us. Hostel was lovely and nicely looked after. Staff were friendly and self catering facilities good. Rooms were a little cramped and multiple occupancy rooms were too small for 4 people as we had in our group. This made them really hot during the night, and resulted in little sleep for all of us!! Would recommend however, and would stay again... For short stay only.

8/10 Good

Cecilie Maria, Copenhagen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Living in the middle of Brecon Beacons
We had a really nice stay at YHA! You can take the bus directly to the hostel which is located in the most beautiful settings in middle of Brecon Beacons. The hostel service were really good and they recommended some hiking routes to us as well. They didn't have wifi, but it was okay since we just wanted a real nature experience away from everything.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Not impressed
The boiler wasn't working in the drying room, which in the middle of winter when everyone staying has wet kit, is less than ideal. on top of that, the staff didn't seem apologetic or concerned about this fact. So we all just dried our kit in the lounge where it was warmest coz of the fire. Some of our party stayed in rooms little bigger than shoeboxes. I know its a hostel, so we weren't expecting 5 star, but a bit of floorspace would be nice.

8/10 Good

sophie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
difficulté pour arriver
très bon séjour mais l'arrivée à été difficile, en venant à pied par le chemin il n'y a aucune indication de l'YHA et nous avons du rejoindre la route principale qui est très dangereuse à pied. Quelques panneaux sur le sentier sont nécessaires
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jean

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in May 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Posizione un po' fuori mano. Il parcheggio pur essendo abbastanza grande non è grandissimo quindi è meglio arrivare abbastanza presto. Colazione non inclusa nel prezzo. Pulizia sufficiente nelle camere, ma non nella cucina che è un po' scarsa. Letti non comodissimi.