The Full Moon is a Hostel located at 1 North St, St Paul's, Bristol BS1 3PR, United Kingdom. It has received 1475 reviews with an average rating of 4.2 stars.
The address of The Full Moon: 1 North St, St Paul's, Bristol BS1 3PR, United Kingdom
The Full Moon has 4.2 stars from 1475 reviews
Hostel
"Affordable stopover stay in a friendly, relaxed environment :) • Exceptionally friendly staff - greeted with a smile and conversation was made"
"A friend and I stayed at the twin private room (ensuite)"
"Place is real nice if not a tad pricy"
"This was my first hostel, on my first solo trip ever"
"Place is tidy and in a great location, staff is friendly and helpful"
Affordable stopover stay in a friendly, relaxed environment :) • Exceptionally friendly staff - greeted with a smile and conversation was made. I was shown around the hostel and well informed about the key system and how to get into the building late at night. • Clean bathrooms (although I never used the shower so I can't comment on that) • Good kitchen • Nicely decorated building and rooms • Discount in the restaurant and bar which is all part of the same building complex • The best vegan pizza I ever tried (no exaggeration) • Reasonable check out and check in times • Superb location (near the main bus station and city centre) • The general vibe of the place :( • The mattresses are a tad old (at least in my particular dorm "H") • It's true there's a lot of noise until the bar closed but this is well informed before your stay, so to complain about this after would be silly
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 4
Service: 5
Location: 5
Nearby activities
Close to city centre and main bus station
Safety
Secure locked gate entry system at night. Friendly bouncer.
Food & drinks
Best pizza in town!
Hotel highlights
Great value
A friend and I stayed at the twin private room (ensuite). It’s a wheelchair accessible room (even more accessible than some expensive hotels) in front of the bar’s seating area, which can get noisy in the evenings. It has a huge bathroom and a rain shower with handrails, a second shower head would be ideal.
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Friends
Rooms: 5
Service: 5
Location: 4
Nearby activities
Bristol’s city center is a short walk away eith many shops and restaurants, main bus station is 5min walk away where you can take buses to the aiport or other towns.
Safety
Although it may not look as the best neighbourhood, I never felt unsafe.
Walkability
Bristol’s city center is a short walk away eith many shops and restaurants, main bus station is 5min walk away where you can take buses to the aiport or other towns.
Noteworthy details
Wheelchair accessible room, even better than many other expensive hotels
Hotel highlights
Great value
Place is real nice if not a tad pricy. Staff were generally very helpful and friendly. Rooms were ok. I might add that having a 20 pound deposit on top of your cost per night is pretty ridiculous. I get you get it back but it's still a ton of dough up front for whatever you need replacing. Also the showers are the push kind they only stay on for like 15 sec which I understand is for water conservation but it defeats the point if you have it keep it on for so long just to have hot water turn on. Those are all the gripes I have. If I'm in Bristol next time I guess I can stay here again as their is not much other option. Maybe next time will be better.
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 3
Service: 4
Location: 5
Walkability
Everything is nearby you can get too with a 10 to 15 min walk
This was my first hostel, on my first solo trip ever. The receptionist (Catharina (I think)) was really nice about it and explained everything to me. She introduced me to other guests which really took the tension from me. The beds are comfy and the rooms are good. If you enter the common room or kitchen you directly get a chat with someone. Just walk in there with an open attitude and the conversation follows themselves. The bar downstairs is nice to easily have a drink with fellow hostel guests. It is true that there is noise and music a lot of the time. Only with earbuds I found it not a problem. It is definitely a hostel for people that want to have a good social time.
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 5
Service: 5
Location: 5
Hotel highlights
Great value
Place is tidy and in a great location, staff is friendly and helpful. There is a nice and pretty well equipped kitchen available. Unfortunately the bed was very uncomfortable, the mattress was old and I could feel every spring - I was waking up multiple times during the night because of that. The shower also wasn't the best, the water was running for literally 5 seconds after switching it on so I had to keep pressing the button dozens of times to have a (not even a decent) wash. Lastly, there are no lockers in the rooms to safely storage belongings so also a big minus.
Trip type
Business
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 2
Service: 4
Location: 5
Noteworthy details
On weekends there is very loud music until 2am in the pub downstairs...
The staff were kind but nothing else was good. The showers on our floor didn’t work so we needed to go upstairs. You have to hold the shower lever down the whole time or the (cold) water stops. I could only sleep after 2am when the pub downstairs closed. It’s super noisy from 10pm-2am every night with people at the bar. I could also hear entire conversations from guests in the rooms above and beside my private room. The bedding was old and the room floor was uneven. I also don’t think it had a good location. Should have been half the price we paid.
The location is good, the place was clean. One thing to improve: I arrived early in the morning and was tired and asked for a place to shower or just rest and the staff only offered me the option of waiting in the courtyard. Would be nice to offer the option to use the social areas of the hostel when we arrive before to the checkin time. The place is noisy because there is a bar downstairs just to have that on mind.
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 5
Service: 3
Location: 4
Lovely place full of fun people having a fab time.... You're almost always guaranteed to have a unique experience which feels like you're travelling the world due to the fact that it doubles as a backpackers hostel where people gather to share their adventures. There's always a brilliant musical line up in both the Full Moon and next door in the Attic Bar which you access by traversing the bustling courtyard full of many tables of happy fun finders....
Travel group
Friends
Service: 5
Location: 5
Absolutely amazing 2 nights spent here great location and staff very friendly and helpful would definitely stay here again
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 5
Service: 5
Location: 5
Rooms
Clean and tidy
Nearby activities
Loads to do 5 mins from town centre
Walkability
5 min walk from bus station
Food & drinks
Loads of cafes and restaurants near by plus an nice pint can be had at the full moon
Hotel highlights
Great value
Pricey but clean and friendly hostel. Very convenient location! As it was a Friday night, the crowds downstairs were very loud but this was already stated and they provided earplugs. I slept really well! Comfy bed, friendly and nice staff, equally friendly and nice roommates/guests! We all had pizza together at the hostel's pub/restaurant downstairs.
Trip type
Business
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 5
Service: 5
Location: 5
Hotel highlights
Great value
The hospitality is amazing everyone has a positive attitude and always a smile on their faces, aswell as great a attitude towards their work and clients, the food is 11/10 Luigi and Daniele made us fantastic food and gave an incredible experience will be coming again and will definitely recommend to everyone i know
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Couple
Rooms: 5
Service: 5
Location: 5
Hotel highlights
Great view, Romantic, Great value
The place itself is really nice, people welcome you nicely and the vibe is great. It's located near the city center and commodities are accessible easily. The only negative point on this hostel is the common spaces : the showers are pretty cold and not mega clean, and the kitchen is dirty. Otherwise, to stay for one or two nights I recommend !
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 5
Service: 4
Location: 5
Hotel highlights
Great value
Stayed for 1 night during a visit to town. We were in the 8 bed men's dorm. Room was fine overall. Bathrooms clean as well. There was a mixup where they accidentally booked an extra person in the room so we were all woken up at 3am by security but it was resolved quickly. As others say it's very lively and noisy until 2-230am but it makes it very social
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Friends
Rooms: 4
Service: 4
Location: 5
The location of this hostel is superb, right next to the heart of the Bristol Center. The rooms are cozy but the common room area could do a lot more. They have their own pub and restaurant at the ground floor, so it can be pretty noisy especially over the weekend nights, but the Full Moon conglomerate has its own vibes ifkyk
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Friends
Rooms: 5
Service: 5
Location: 5
We came here for a Sunday Lunch. The food was excellent. Good options for meat eaters and it was nice that the vege option wasn't just a nut roast. The gravy comes in medium sized thermos style flasks so you can add as much or as little as you like. Or use a roast potato to clean the inside of it once you've finished. Catered well for kids portions too. Lots of well informed and friendly staff. Would definitely recommend.
Don't go to this hostel if you're planning to sleep. They play very loud music in their bar downstairs until 2AM (from Thursday to Sunday). It's outrageous that they didn't put ANY effort in soundproofing and dare charging people to "sleep"... Wouldn't mind to hear the music from afar but this was like sleeping on the dancefloor. Totally disrespectful for guests
Rooms: 4
Service: 4
Location: 4
Hostel is located above a bar which plays very loud music until 2am so you won’t get much sleep. The rooms feel fairly old and not very clean, the floors vibrate when somebody walks by in the hallway and the mattress was very uncomfortable. At £40/night for a bed in a six-person dorm, this does not feel like good value for money. Bathrooms and kitchen are very clean though and staff was helpful and friendly.
Nice location and friendly staff. Rooms are good but not soundproof as you can hear music and chit chat all night long. But this is clearly mentioned in the hostel's policy. Overall it was a nice experience. 100% recommended
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 3
Service: 5
Location: 5
Hotel highlights
Great value
This is Bristol in a pub....a wonderful mix of great things from a cosy pool area, to a pizza oven knocking out quality food to a fine selection of local ales and ciders... And then there's the outside covered area with a west Indian pop up... If you don't know what you're looking for, you'll find it here.
Great spot in town, super busy and cool music playing outside when we visited. Inside found a seat and could people watch whilst having a beer or two. There look like they serve pizza from a proper oven. Enjoyed our visit.
Travel group
Friends
Rooms: 5
Service: 5
Location: 5
Daniele in the pizzeria was lovelyyyy!! Incredible food, unbelievable experience. Will be coming back to Bristol again straight to this place. Thank you!!! :)
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Couple
Rooms: 5
Service: 5
Location: 5
Good place to stay in with kitchen and living room for the customers but not good at the weekends if you don’t like the noise of people enjoying the bar.
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Friends
Rooms: 5
Service: 5
Location: 5
Very nice ,large wet room . Pub with discount for staying at the hostel, food on site and 5 mins from bus station
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 4
Service: 4
Location: 5
Hotel highlights
Great value
Thought we would try something new, then we paid for a game of pool then was kicked off after 8 minutes then was kicked out after 15 minutes after arrival for a £5 charge. Would not recommend.
Rooms: 1
Service: 1
Location: 1
All the staff were lovely and incredibly welcoming. Went out of their way to look after us. The wheelchair accessible room is amazing and the beds are comfy. Not recommended if you don’t like noise but brilliant if you want a party on your
Great hostel if you want to party and stay at the center of the city! The stuff are extremely friendly and nice, the attic bar is downstairs and the pizzas and beers there are great !! More
Overall, a pretty meh experience. Team seemed uninterested, waited ages for food, & the atmosphere wasn’t great for a Saturday night. The drinks aren’t too expensive though which is nice!
Little run down and really noisy but beds were comfortable and staff were great.
Trip type
Vacation
Travel group
Solo
Rooms: 4
Service: 5
Location: 5
Nice enough during the day and the courtyard's nice, but fills up with some icky characters later on. The Attic Bar on the other side of the courtyard tends to be nicer at night.
Love this hostel! Its right in the centre of Bristol with access to everything you need. Definitely going to miss it once I've moved on as the staff and guests have been
Always loved this place an so have been coming for yrs now . It's a meeting place for my sons an I. I always stay over for the weekend so use the dorms too. More
The Full Moon is a perfect pocket-friendly accommodation for travellers who need to sleep over in Bristol especially if you can't afford a really pricey place.
I stayed recently in one of the Boutique rooms at 144 Lower Cheltenham Road. I was actually surprised at how nice the room was. Very clean and modern.
Went for New Year's Eve and there was great music, bar staff was friendly and the crowd had all sorts of people. I had a fantastic time!
Close to our Air bnb, good range of beer and eats looked good but we didn't eat here.
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Great staff, great pizza. Kooky decor and awesome courtyard with a side room serving up DnB and Jungle More
Nice hostel with its own pub and outdoors terrace. Great to socialize!
Rooms: 5…
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It was alright...lovely chilled staff on a quiet Monday evening.
Service: 5…
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Actually very decent hostel and attic bar is always a laugh. Definitely would recommend!
Bouncer is beyond rude, their tap water is pretty good tho
Rooms: 3…
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