Is The Castle Cambridge pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much does it cost to stay at The Castle Cambridge?

As of Sep 12, 2025, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at The Castle Cambridge on Sep 21, 2025 start from ₩125,734, excluding taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

What time is check-in at The Castle Cambridge?

Check-in start time: 4:00 PM; Check-in end time: 9:00 PM.

Where is The Castle Cambridge located?

Located in Cambridge City Centre, this bed & breakfast is steps from University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College, and Downing College. Parker's Piece and Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences are just steps away. Cambridge Station is 17 minutes by foot.

The Castle Cambridge Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

8/10 Good

Caroline

Jul 18, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Steven was very helpful, beds comfy, able to leave bags during the day. Quite noisy due tobeing on main road but very convenient for town centre.

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

6/10 Okay

Stephen

May 26, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Concert Stay.

On the positive side, great location: about 1min from the park and ride bus stop, about 5 mins walk from the Corn Exchange venue. Super friendly and helpful staff. In the negative side: ultra basic accommodation and very noisy from the bar downstairs, until the early hours.

Stayed 1 night in May 2024

8/10 Good

Sylwia

Aug 14, 2022

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

A little noisy at night.

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

4/10 Poor

Ben

Sep 19, 2022

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Bad

Old staff quarters above a pub

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Felix

Dec 4, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

You're above a pub, but right in the city centre, for real cheap. It's highly convenient, clean bathrooms and bedding, but be warned, it's above a pub. Its a bit noisy until late, but that's expected. Can't complain really. We left some headphones and keys behind but they were very kind to ship them back for us! Would recommend if you're in for a couple of nights and just need a bed. Gud price

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

2/10 Terrible

Susan

Jun 13, 2023

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

The room was cramped bathroom two lots of stairs down though clean. Walked out went to Premier Inn. Paid the full price so would like a refund please.

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Jun 4, 2024

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

Improve access to attendants!

We were unable to get ahold of the hotel attendant to check in, perhaps a USA phone problem. Perhaps informing connecting via WhatsApp. The construction was loud. There was no sheet on the beds and the pillows were small. The communal bathroom worked out just fine though.

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

4/10 Poor

Felix

Apr 28, 2024

Liked: Staff & service

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This is a very very basic hotel. Quite literally a place to rest your head in central Cambridge. At £100 per night it is not cheap. The sheets of my bed were not clean and the curtains did not cover enough of the window to block out the sunlight. That being said, the room itself was not horrendous and the shared bathroom was not revolting. Overall I think it was expensive for what you get but not the worst travelling experience of my life.

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Alexander

Jun 8, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Clean and tidy. It was as shown on description: upstairs with 2 twin beds and a full size bed. The bathroom was shared and clean. The location was amazing -- thumbs up --and it made it easier to go and get around Cambridge. Being in City Center becomes noisy in the evening. This was a short and brief stay on our way to mainland Europe to catch an early flight out of London. I would stay again. Thanks for lettings us unload our luggage prior to check-in time.

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

Nancy

Jun 2, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities

Read other reviews. I do not regret staying here, but I wouldn't recommend it either. It is a bare bones room. We stayed 3 days and I liked it better over time. Good location. Easy keypad access to the building and you don't have to go through the bar to get to your room. We came in Saturday afternoon and checked in at a bar filled with drunken college students. The family with small child waiting before us looked very unhappy to be there. You go upstairs through a labyrinth of fire doors - seriously I've never seen anything like it. The rugs are very worn and stained. I was worried we wouldn't find our way out or back in. Our room had a nice bright duvet, broad windows, and nothing but a bed, small table with tv, and some kind of blocky thing I am not sure what it was. No chair. Rugs were stained - I looked for bugs. But the place was quite meticulously clean and freshly painted, as were the halls. We were on the top floor so there was noise outside and downstairs, but not particularly in our room. The bathroom was a floor down, spotlessly clean, and we literally never saw anyone else there except the person cleaning. The owner was helpful. It's a crash pad. I've stayed in worse. And many many better.

Stayed 3 nights in May 2025

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Feb 3, 2024

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Give it a miss

As all the other reviews, this is just a room over a bar, shared bathrooms and no breakfast. I was aware of this (and that it’s way overpriced), but there’s also no one around in the bar in the morning in case anything goes wrong. I forgot to take my room key to the bathroom with me, and was locked out my room from 4am to midday, which was when someone appeared in the bar downstairs. I was then informed I had missed the checkout time. Really wished I had booked somewhere else.

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

2/10 Terrible

S

Aug 27, 2023

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Terrible!

This is not as advertised at all, you literally get just a room with a tv in it. No amenities at all. The room was dirty, smelled like urine, one window was broken, the door didnt lock, one of the beds was broken. And the bathroom was a floor down, which wasn't very clean either. We did not end up staying as felt unsafe!

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

Conny

Aug 12, 2025

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

This is a very old hostel in an excellent location right in the centre of Cambridge. It depends what you are looking for. The hosts were very friendly and helpful; they just aren't on site all day and had to be contacted by phone at times. The hostel rooms are in a maze of hallways above a pub, with lots of doors and turns that you have to remember to find your way up through the building to your room. That adds historical interest but is not great for convenience and fire safety. The hostel room itself was very old with carpets worn and stained, not a great experience. The shared bathrooms were recently renovated and looked great.

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Husam

Jul 26, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Excellent B&B option if you are visiting University of Cambridge.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Andre

Dec 2, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Wir waren zu dritt zu einem Konzert angereist, das in unmittelbarer Nähe stattfand. Man befindet sich mitten im Zentrum. Bahnhof zu Fuß = 20 Min. Als ich mich fragte, ob es im Hotel Handtücher gäbe (ja!), stieß ich im Netz auf Beurteilungen, die "ungenügend" waren, also eine glatte sechs. Kritik: Kein Frühstück und viel zu laut. Ja, es gab auch für uns kein Frühstück, was wir aber ohnehin dort nicht eingeplant hatten. Es gibt unzählige Cafés (u.a. auch Starbucks) in der Nachbarschaft, allesamt zu Fuß gut zu erreichen. Auch ein Supermarkt gegenüber hat genügend frische Backwaren. Zur Lautstärke ist es so, dass das wirklich ein Punkt sein kann. Wer empfindlich ist, der sollte hier nicht nächtigen. Zum einen ist es am Wochenende aufgrund der Musik in der Bar im Erdgeschoss bis spät in die Nacht laut, zum anderen ist es auf der Straße laut, insbesondere, wenn man bei offenenem Fenster schläft. Die zwei Toiletten befinden sich im Flur, sind sauber und werden täglich gereinigt. Im oberen Geschoss befindet sich die Dusche intergriert in einer Badewanne, im unteren Geschoss ist es eine normale Dusche. Handseife steht zur Verfügung, genauso wie ein Duftspray. Für den Zugang zu seinem Zimmer bekommt man einen Schlüssel, für das Hotel einen Zugangscode. Einziger Kritikpunkt: Es gab weder Kleiderbügel noch irgendwelche Haken im Zimmer. Wir waren dennoch voll zufrieden und würden wieder ins The Castle gehen. Famillien und empfindliche Menschen sollten etwas anderes auswählen.

2/10 Terrible

Dot Vittrup

Jul 5, 2024

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

2/10 Terrible

Dot Vittrup

Jul 2, 2024

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

4/10 Poor

Elinor

May 13, 2024

Liked: Staff & service

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Stayed 1 night in May 2024

2/10 Terrible

Morgan

Mar 24, 2024

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Melanie

Feb 13, 2024

The location is excellent. The room is clean and staff are helpful. However, avoid booking on Fridays and Saturdays if you want to sleep at night. The bar plays very loud music 'til 3am and it's impossible to sleep.

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

nicole

Oct 30, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

martin

Aug 24, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Someone tried to break into my room. Brakes brothers lorry parked outside with its engine on from 4 am Taps all on a timer so 15 secs is not long enough. Very expensive for shared toilet and shower

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

L

Mar 12, 2023

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

2/10 Terrible

Mr W

Sep 19, 2022

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort

Horrible

Terrible place. Room without any comforts. None! Not even light except a cold ceiling light with a pull-cord. Shared toilet. Shower on different floor.

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

2/10 Terrible

Alexander

Sep 10, 2022

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

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