Sleepzone

Not a bad stay but I’d look for a different place next time. Overall, it just felt really dirty here.
Great location, just two blocks around the corner from the downtown and all the bars. No parking and you need to pay for street parking when it’s not a holiday.
Tiny rooms, tiny bathrooms. Not incredibly clean. Twin room has it’s own bathroom, which is nice. Our twin room also had four beds instead of two. Kind of nice to have a place to put our stuff. Blinds didn’t work so well though.
As with most hostels, the floors are wooden and you can hear people moving luggage and going up stairs. Not much you can do about that. Otherwise a very quiet hostel.
Huge kitchen and lots of lounge space. Food needs to stay in the kitchen but you can cook there. Three refrigerators but none of them incredibly cold. I mean, my yogurt was soupy in the morning. The dishwashing area is really gross though. Not sure how clean all of that stuff is. Signs all over say no alcohol but people were drinking at night (and so were we). Breakfast is toast and coffee (and it’s free!).
Free wifi. Only one working computer in the shared area.

Hostel has everything that you need. I stayed in a private hostel at a very reasonable price — the receptionist was so great in waiting up late night awaiting our arrival to ensure we got checked in and knew where to find everything to include the local restaurants and dive bars to hang out with locals as well as fellow travelers.
I enjoyed my stay here and would go back again. theres comfortable beds, well kept and clean rooms/​bathrooms, and a shared kitchen, TV/​game room.

Un lit et un petit déjeuner pour 8 euros? Oui c’est possible ! Qu’en semaine malheureusement parce que le week-​end l’auberge est souvent prise d’assaut !
Le petit déjeuner est compris dans le prix de la nuit, servi de 7h à 10h né vous attendez pas à avoir quelque chose si vous arrivez à 9h59. Le staff sera déjà en train de tout nettoyer. Un peu dommage …
À part ça le staff est adorable et les chambres sont dans l’ensemble assez spacieuses. Les salles de bain sont correctes et l’eau des douches est chaude et il y a de la pression (c’est rare en Irlande !). Au prix des chambres il né faut pas s’attendre à avoir un jacuzzi et c’est à mon goût largement suffisant !
Dans certaines chambres le bruit de l’extérieur peut devenir assez embêtant mais c’est en aucun cas la faute de l’auberge, Galway est une ville qui bouge et en général si on passé une nuit dans une auberge ici on né s’attend pas à passer des nuits extraordinaires.

This hostel was very nice for a nights stay. Joanna at the front desk was SO friendly and helpful while we were there.
The price for our triple room was pretty reasonable although we also stayed another night at a cozy B&B just off the square for less.
Security is great, someone is at the desk all night checking you in. You also get a discount card for this café around the corner yayyyy!
I honestly don’t think I’d stay there again but only because you can find a better deal in town. As far as hostels go it was A-​OK.

this hostel is badass – it has great security, pretty clean facilities and is close to EVERYTHING (the coach station, Eyre Square, a 24hour grocery store, the cinema, you name it!
I bet you’re not wondering why, whyyyyy did I only give it four stars if it’s so freakin’ rad?!
Well, because they don’t have a printer hooked up to the ONE computer they have for internet access – I walked to the net café down the street, so all was not lost! But they should install some kind of printing device, and maybe get another machine while they’re at it… I mean, desktops like that are SO 1990’s… ;)

This was my first hostel experience, and I didn’t know what to expect– aside from my viewings of the Hostel horror films.
The first thing about this place is that it was a bit difficult to find. I feel as though that is something that is an issue just to Galway– it was very difficult to find any street signs.
We arrived before our check in time, and they had a nice area for us to leave our luggage that was locked. They gave us a better map of the city than we had, and marked good locations for drinks, food, shopping, and site seeing. They were extremely kind in helping us, since we were supposed to be on a guided tour– but we ended up not having a guide at all.
We left for a few hours to get lunch, go on another tour of the city. And then came back for a nap. The room itself was fairly nice. It had clean sheets and a comforter for each member of our party. There were a few outlets– but that didn’t bother me since I had nothing to plug in.
The one part of this hostel that I did not like was the shower. There was a push button on it, and you had to keep it pushed down to keep water flowing. As I figured out later, that was fairly typical to hostels. However, I had no idea what I was doing and it was often quite cold.
The bathroom itself seemed quite dingy, over all.
They also had free computers to use, and a fairly decent sized kitchen.

My mom, sister, her boyfriend and I stayed here while we visited Galway and I wasn’t too disappointed. The beds were comfy, the kitchen was large and there always seemed to be a computer open when I needed it. I liked the location of the hostel too! Really close to Lidl and also close to the bars! I wouldn’t mind staying here again! Extremely nice staff!

I have friends that stayed there, i told them to go to this awful place and regret it now. It seems to be a great place for drunks and drinking cans. Bunk beds that need changed and no real law or order from the management. There are better options available in Galway, i am just sorry I told my friends about this place.

I’m not sure if I should broadcast this review to the internet at large, as I may wish to visit Galway again at some stage, which would necessitate me going back to the Sleepzone Hostel. Ah, I’m sure that they’ll have forgotten us at this stage.
A while back, three of the girls decided that they were down to Galway for the weekend (I’m pretty sure that it was in January or February). We didn’t have anything to do that weekend, so myself and four of the lads decided that we’d head down as well, just the night before they were due to leave, spur of the moment like.
Next day, we landed up in Galway and headed to Sleepzone (I recounted my experiences on the train on the way down in my review of Iarnród Éireann, for those of you that are interested.) The girls checked in ahead of us in no time. They had booked ahead of time, whereas we, seeing as we had only decided to go the night before and in consideration that it was the off-​season, didn’t bother. They glibly charged us a € 25 deposit each per night we intended staying, so € 50 deposit per person. This left us very pissed off, as the girls hadn’t been charged any deposit, but it later emerged the deposit-​charging was a very prescient move on Sleepzone’s behalf.
I’m not going to recount the subsequent events of the evening as it may leave me liable in relation to certain legal issues. Suffice to say, some girls may have been brought back to the hostel (not by me, I might add). Then there was a row, the hostel’s bouncer was in our room arguing with us for several hours, and in the end the Gardaí were called. Later on, a picture frame in the lobby was broken (that wasn’t us, by the way.)
Anyway, in the heel of the hunt, we went down the next morning to sheepishly apologise in the hope that they wouldn’t take our two hundred and fifty fuckin euro deposit off of us. And in fairness to them, they only kept fifty euro (I don’t think that they noticed the bent curtain rail or all the broken glass on the floor.)
So, all things considered, a decent bunch of lads.
As to the hostel itself, very clean, very central, good kitchen facilities. And they say that you aren’t allowed bring drink onto the premises, but the second night that we stayed there, the bouncer came up to our room when there was cans all over the place, and he didn’t say anything. He only came up once — very briefly, mind — to throw the girls out of our room (as in our friends the girls, not some nasty girls that were brought back like the first night. We had learned our lesson).
Anyway, there were cans all over the place, as we had spent almost the entire day in bed drinking (I love drinking while in a bunk-​bed; there are few greater joys in the world), so the bouncer can’t have failed to notice the multitude of empty Dutch cans. Perhaps at this stage he had decided to accept the lesser of two evils.
Anyway, decent spot.

We stayed in Sleepzone Galway earlier this year and as there was no room available in the central hostel, we were shown to rooms in a building across the street, also owned by the hostel. It was like renting a house for the price of a hostel room. There were only three rooms so we practically had the run of the place. The house and rooms were clean, comfortable, warm and modern.
Sleepzone is really central — Galway is not a big city and the main shopping, dining, pubbing and clubbing areas are all within easy walking distance of the hostel. The staff were friendly and helpful with all inquiries and the prices were fair. I’m looking forward to checking into the hostel in Connemara next time I head wesht.

Sleepzone wasn’t my first choice hostel, but it ended up exceeding my expectations.
Located three minutes from Eyre Square, it can be difficult to spot because it’s hidden by the Debenhams car park.
This hostel has free internet, wi-​fi, bureau de change, pool tables and a large kitchen for communal cooking. There are three floors of rooms, from singles, doubles to dorms.
What makes this accommodation stand out are the people who work here. The two guys that I dealt with went above and beyond to make my stay comfortable. They were kind, courteous and very thorough, answering questions, making photocopies and even personally escorting me to my room.
Another nice thing about this place is the price. My friend and I paid 50 Euro for a room to ourselves. The room had three bunk beds and a small toilet with a shower. Most importantly, it was clean and secure. There was no noise outside (perhaps because no alcohol is permitted on the premises) so we slept like logs.