http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Five youth hostels face closure" en Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:09:04 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4504#post-51062 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:33:36 +0000 ruggtomcat 51062@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I prefer to camp! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4504#post-51060 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:27:58 +0000 cb 51060@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-16287491">BBC | Talks on Borders hostel closures</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4504#post-47933 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:24:52 +0000 splitshift 47933@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Agree, very sad, spent many a happy night all over scotland and the lake district in many hostels, after camping it was luxury ! Coniston water to glencoe.Windemere to Arisaig ! We, if i remember correctly had both personall and school membership.<br /> More i think of it I think i will organise a trip for me and the boy child,staying alternativelly hostel and tent !I predict a road to the isles expidition !<br /> scott </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4504#post-47927 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:21:13 +0000 Claggy Cog 47927@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was very sad to hear this yesterday. The borders are going to be somewhat bereft of places to stay. Coldingham shut a couple of years back and now these ones. The Melrose hostel is enormous and so I would imagine very expensive to run. Three of us were there when the Melrose 7's were on in April this year and there were not that many other guests there, one other woman and about three men, and the town was stowed/heaving....so I am not sure what they were doing wrong and why the place was not very much busier. The facilities were pretty good with the shower room not long having been refurbished. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4504#post-47904 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:22:30 +0000 Graham 47904@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Independent hostels are certainly thriving. And to pick one example I'm aware of: the former Loch Lochy Youth Hostel, which presumably closed because it couldn't pay its way, has been a (presumably successful) independent hostel for some years now. If a private owner can make a success of it, why couldn't the SYHA? Probably because SYHA hostels are married to their rules (e.g. you are not allowed to arrive at a time that would allow "young people of limited means, living and working in industrial and other areas of Scotland" to reach them most of them after work on a Friday), and full of tutting old people. Or at least that's my theory; certainly I only ever stay at an SYHA if there is no independent alternative. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4504#post-47902 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:29:23 +0000 crowriver 47902@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is it the private backpacker hostels that are killing them off? Or are 'youth' just heading to Glastonburied/Pee in the Park/Ibiza/Thailand these days? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4504#post-47788 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:01:06 +0000 cb 47788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Soon they'll just have a few city centre 'hotels'.</p> <p>Stayed at Kirk Yetholm a couple of years back in June. On the night we were there there were two other guests.</p> <p>Broadmeadows probably would have closed years ago if it wasn't the original SYH. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4504#post-47766 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:51:41 +0000 Nelly 47766@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pity. We have used hostels (not just syha) for many a bike trip.</p> <p>Would have thought they would be even more popular in these cash strapped times. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4504#post-47765 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:31:08 +0000 chdot 47765@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-15857539" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-15857539</a> </p>