Globetrotters Tourist Hostel

It was my first place to stay in Dublin when I first arrived in Ireland. To be honest, the décor inside was nice and very cosy with a big garden and a small kitchen where you can cook for yourself whenever you want. The staffs were very friendly to me and my friends too (we were a group of 4 Vietnamese), one even played Vietnamese music for us during our dinner. But their rooms were cold like hell especially the bathroom and I dont know why because we did inform that to the staff but no one fixed that. By the way, it was still a good experience for me about this hostel: friendly for a stranger in a new city.

What an absolutely fantastic place. I studied abroad in Dublin and stayed here for a few weeks with nine other people. We were given a «penthouse-​esque» apartment-​style room, complete with a living room, rooftop balcony, kitchen, bathroom, nine beds (very comfortable) and an extra room with an extra bed. Our «apartment» was cleaned daily and was perfect for our living arrangements. The other guest rooms I saw were spacious, clean, and well decorated.
The Globetrotters Hostel spans a few buildings. The décor inside is warm and cozy with Irish flair. Fireplaces are scattered throughout the lobby and lounge areas, and there are so many seating areas along with a spacious outdoor courtyard. There are four computers available to use if you don’t have your own and the building also has wi-​fi.
Traditional Irish breakfasts are served every morning for the guests. The food is delicious! After breakfast, the kitchen is free for guests to use for their own cooking (although eating at the pubs in Dublin was what we did most nights).
The location of Globetrotters is prime. It’s on the north side of the Liffey, which is where most other lodging accomodations are located, as well as great shopping areas and the «calmer» part of Dublin. Its location is just a short walk from the south side of the Liffey (where the big pubs are) as well as more shopping, Trinity College, parks, etc.
The service is impeccable at Globetrotters. We became very close with one of the managers, Dave, who we all still keep in contact with months (now years) later. All of the staff is extremely friendly; they have connections with many of the tour companies that travel throughout the country and can easily schedule tours and activities on your behalf. Absolutely fantastic people.
Globetrotters was a terrific place to live for a terrific experience in Dublin, Ireland!

Sehr schönes Hostel mitten im Herzen Dublins. Alle wichtigen Plätze sind fußläufig erreichbar. Wir haben im 3er-​Zimmer jeweils 35EUR pro Nacht gezahlt, allerdings haben wir auch erst wenige Wochen vorher gebucht. Die Zimmereinrichtung ist sehr schön, allerdings sind die Toiletten und Duschen auf dem Gang. Für wenige Tage ist das aber akzeptabel und der Zimmerkomfort gleicht das wieder aus. Das Frühstück ist überschaubar, aber es lässt kaum Wünsche übrig. Die Sauberkeit der Zimmer konnten wir nicht bemängeln, allenfalls die Sauberkeit der Duschen — aber das ist kein Wunder bei 2 Duschen pro Etage.

Clean, good breakfast, good location, decent price — very interesting people to meet. I would recommend this place for a short stay in Dublin!

This place has been good to us on more than one occasion. As our innitial stop when we got into Dublin, we took a quick bus over from the airport (the 747) and ended up three blocks from the entrance. I can’t think of a better way to be welcomed into Dublin than traditional Irish breakfast fare, clean comfortable beds, and a few warm fireplaces.
The hostel (really more like a hotel) is walking distance from anything in Dublin you might desire to see– hundreds of pubs and shops, the college green, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Trinity, and the River Liffy. There was no curfew, we came and went as we pleased, and the staff was always acomodating.
When we accidentally left a shopping bag behind and didn’t realize until we were far down our traveling road, we called and they promptly put the bag aside until we were back in Dublin the next week.
We checked in again for a night without reservations on a busy evening (think — Ireland and France qualifying football game), and they were gracious, helping us find the right bus to the airport and helping with our luggage as though we were the only guests checking in.
I will say though, the horribly cold shower the morning my flight was taking off (for 15 hours of travel) did irritate me a little. I was only the second person in the shower that morning! All I wanted was one last little creature comfort before my flight. Anyway… the cold shower aside, everything else was good.

From the minute you climb the steps of this beautiful old Georgian building, you know this isn’t going to be your average run of the mill backpacker hostel. There’s carpets in the hallway and common areas for a start, and the reception and lobby is more like one you’d find in a boutique hotel. The atmosphere and décor is dark with a boudoir feel, with burgundy and black floral-​print wallpaper and plush carpets.
The dormitories themselves sleep 8, but are partitioned into smaller sections which makes you feel less like you’re sleeping on a coffin ship. All the beds have their own reading lamps too.
There’s a common area with a TV, a small café-​restaurant and a pretty terraced garden out the back. All facilities are shared with the B&B next door, raising the standard somewhat, and a full-​Irish breakfast is included in the price, which is a welcome change from the tea and toast offered in most hostels.
But as the previous review complains, this is not a social hostel. The receptionist was frosty to say the least, and there were no backpackers hanging around during the day. It felt very much to me like the kind of place that groups of gals over from across the water would stay for a hen night.

Globetrotters is theoretically one of the best hostels in Dublin. The rooms are spacious, clean and homely. The beds are not the usual crap metal fare that you don’t sleep soundly on, for fear they might collapse during the night. No… these are of the sturdy wooden variety, with partitions between rows so that although you’re in an 8 bed dorm you feel as though you’re in a twin (a much desired feeling when you’ve been hostelling for several months).
The breakfast is truly amazing and one of the reasons I kept going back. A full Irish breakfast, which fills you up for a large part of the day (or until lunchtime if you’re me!) is included in the dorm price. This is great for cash-​strapped backpackers.
The common room is like something from Alice in Wonderland. Huge high-​backed chairs, turquoise walls, a grand fireplace and loads of books. Very intriguing little space. The dining room has a beautiful painted mural of the Irish folklore legend about the king who turned his daughters into swans.
However, despite all of this, Globetrotters is not the best hostel in Dublin. And the reason is this: it is a ‘no fun’ hostel. Absolutely, without a doubt, no fun allowed. It’s like the Soup Nazi of hostels.
Surprisingly, I managed to have a bit of the old fun and meet a few awesome people in this place, but it wasn’t for the want of the hostel staffs’ attempts to outlaw any kind of merriment or human interaction within the Globetrotters prison walls.
For starters, the lovely, inviting common room is only open until about 11pm, which makes for time-​constrained socialising, and hardly makes it a cool place to return to and hang out after a night out. Secondly, you need to flash your room key every time you walk in the door. And I’m talking EVERY time, even if you’ve been staying for 2 weeks and the woman at the front desk knows very well that you live there. There’s no recognition, no love, no acknowledgement that you’re a responsible, normal, functioning adult. Globetrotters is heavy on the naughty child treatment.
Thirdly, they obviously don’t care about their hostel patrons (because they’re much more worried about the B&B patrons next door — obviously they are more worthy of attention because they are wealthier). The first time I stayed there I complained about a light that wasn’t working. They said they’d fix it. I went away for a few weeks and when I returned the same light was still broken.
I stayed there for a week in winter and the showers were FREEZING! We mentioned this to the staff and they said they’d get it fixed. A week, and many, many complaints later, our showers were still pneumonia-​inducing.
I can’t stress it enough — treat all customers as equals and with respect, because firstly it’s a basic human right, and secondly, you don’t know who you’re serving. It could be the next American president, or maybe it’s a reviewer?