Email Bunkum enquiries & reservations: bookscotland@madbookings.com
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Welcome
to Bunkum.
Bunkum is a small (36 bed) family run backpacker hostel offering extremely
spacious and comfortable accommodation for travellers and backpackers
in a 150 year old Victorian town-house in the vibrant West End of Glasgow.
Bunkum Accommodation
The hostel facilities include a Common Room with TV, a large well appointed self-catering kitchen with cookers and microwave oven (tea and coffee is provided), a laundry room, public telephone, a small library including travel guides and local history books and (free) showers and (free) security lockers.
There is also a limited number of free car parking spaces adjacent to the hostel. Unlike many hostels Bunkum has no night time curfew and no day time lockout.
Bunkum offers single sex and mixed dormitory (6 or 8 beds) accommodation
and family room accommodation
· All bedding (duvet, pillows and bed sheets) is provided.
· The bedrooms do not have en-suite facilities.
Check-in is from 12.00 noon until 10.30 pm each day, although later check-in
can be pre-arranged.
Bunkum is a member of SIH (Scottish Independent Hostels) the largest hostel
organisation in Scotland with a range of over 100 quality hostels throughout
the country. No membership is required for SIH hostels.
The Area:
The whole area is populated with many of Glasgow's best pubs, cafes and
restaurants - where student prices are the norm as well as most of the
main city museums and galleries (The Hunterian Gallery and the Charles
Rennie MacKintosh House are actually in the same street as Bunkum); the
good news for visitors is that admission to Glasgow City Galleries and
Museums is Free.
The area is the 'greenest' part of the city and the tropical hot-houses
of the city Botanic Gardens and the less tropical Kelvingrove Park are
only a couple of minutes away.
On a more mundane but practical level there are banks, ATMs, travel agents,
chemist shops, libraries, supermarkets, internet points and 24 hour convenience
stores and cafes in the immediate vicinity.
For Glaswegians and locals the cosmopolitan West End of the city, recognised as the heart of young Glasgow, is definitely the best end of the city; it has its own festival in June every year. With Glasgow University right on the door step the area has its very own unique ambience yet it is only one mile from the noise and bustle of the city centre (and the best 'shopping' in the UK outside of London).
Location and How to Find Us:
The hostel is located in Hillhead Street in the West End of the city about
1 mile from the coach and rail stations.
By taxi the journey can be reached easily by bus from Buchanan Street
Bus Station (along Great Western Road - look for The Belle bar on the
left and get off at next stop - turn into Hillhead Street at the The Belle
bar) or by Metro/Underground Railway (get off at Hillhead Station, exit
right, take the first right into Great George Street and turn left at
the top end into Hillhead Street).
Glasgow airport is 8 miles away and Prestwick airport is about 30 miles
away. There are regular connecting coach and/or rail services to the city
centre from both Glasgow International and Glasgow Prestwick airports.
The train fare from Glasgow Prestwick is half price if you have a valid
plane ticket!
Hillhead Street is flanked at one end by the magnificent, historic Glasgow
University and at the other end by Great Western Road, the main tourist
road to Loch Lomond and the North West (including destinations such as
Oban, Glencoe, Fort William, Loch Ness and Skye).
Email Bunkum enquiries & reservations: bookscotland@madbookings.com
