The Smugglers Hostel
  • Hostel
  • Tomintoul
  • 8.3/10

The Smugglers Hostel

Comfortable Accommodations: The Smugglers Hostel in Tomintoul offers family rooms with private bathrooms, carpeted floors, and showers. Each room includes a private bathroom, ensuring a pleasant stay. Essential Facilities: Guests enjoy a garden and free WiFi in public areas. The hostel provides free on-site private parking, a lounge, shared kitchen, and luggage storage. Private check-in and check-out services enhance convenience. Local Attractions: Balmoral Castle is 43 km away, Corgarff Castle 16 km, and Abernethy Golf Club 23 km. Other nearby attractions include Grantown Museum and Boat of Garten Golf Club. Guest Favorites: Visitors appreciate the well-equipped kitchen, convenient location, and comfortable bathrooms.

  • Top location: Highly rated by recent guests (9.0)
  • Free private parking available on-site
Kids

Children of any age are welcome.

Dogs

Pets are allowed on request. No extra charges.

Address

Main Street, Tomintoul, AB37 9EX, United Kingdom, Tomintoul, United Kingdom

Facilities

Free parking Free WiFi Family rooms

Reviews

Kim 8/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Warm, clean and comfy with everything you could need!

Pros: Very warm and cozy, big space for facilities! Also big bonus for bring dog friendly :)

Berthold 8/10
Germany 🇩🇪

Pros: Checkin by smartphone quick and easy Questions quickly answered Good equipped

Cons: Beds are a little squeaky

Muhammad 9/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Absolutely amazing if you want a cheap place to spend the night!

Pros: The comfort, the ease of booking and checking out.

Cons: Nothing.

Ruth 9/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Pros: A lovely hostel with a great kitchen/dining area/lounge. The village shop is very well stocked and there are sevcafes and restaurants as well as a fish and chip van.

Cons: There was no warden on site, although there was a phone number on the front door I had wanted to camp and emailed the hostel via their website, but didn't get a reply. There is a small camping area next to the hostel and campers have access to hostel facilities.

Jamie 10/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Pros: Clean, comfortable, big kitchen space and bike storage and washing facilities. Perfect for a stop along our bike packing trip.

Ian 8/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Pros: A community run hostel in a very convenient location for local amenities and onward travel, with good facilities (including locked bike store) and comfortable bunks. Enjoyed the opportunity to socialise with other guests in the evening.

Lucy 10/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Fantastic facilities for adventures

Pros: Wonderful kitchen space and excellent facilities for after our biking day. The lady was super helpful and welcoming and went above and beyond to make sure we got everything sorted, including sorting us a last minute another room that we needed, which really rescued us thank you so much! I had a wonderful sleep here. Great little shop down the road to get food from too.

Cons: The doors are quite loud when people are going in and out at night, so make sure to have some ear plugs and then it was fine.

Muhammad 10/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Pros: I like the place where they located and kitchen is very goodand comfortable

Ania 8/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Great value, clean and nice hostel

Pros: Please see my previous review. It was a great stay and the staff was really kind .

Ania 8/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Great customer service, really clean hostel

Pros: It was the perfect location for me to stay on my bike trip The Pictish Trail from Inverness to Edinburgh. I stayed 2 nights actually as it was raining the next day and I managed to book for another night. The stag was really nice.

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