Sheila’s Hostel

Very nice staff at this hostel. The front desk people were friendly and helpful. We had a rough nights stay and were properly taken care of for the following night. The communal shower rooms and bathrooms are really well kept to be clean and inviting. The only cons were location (up a pretty massive hill) and the breakfast isn’t free. All in all a great value and great place for a short stay in Cork.

Decent hostel with all the basics. Building is old and it shows. My 8-​bed dorm was extremely cramped, hardly any room between bunk beds. No locker storage in the room makes for even tighter spaces with everyone’s backpacks around. Layout of the hostel was confusing. There are signs for the ladies bathroom, but it would point to a bathroom used by both sexes. The lights in one of the toilet stalls and one of the shower stalls weren’t working. I found out later there were additional shower facilities on the first floor.
Kitchen was large with a long dining room table, counter and plenty of burners and ovens. However, it can be crowded when everyone is cooking their dinners at the same time. There were additional places to dine in the common room next to the kitchen which had a TV. There was also another common room close to the reception. Unfortunately never got around to using the sauna nor cinema room during my 2-​night stay.
On a personal note… during my stay, I met a German girl I had met previously at Mount Brandon Hostel. Then while hitchhiking toward my next town, I got picked up by a French guy who was staying in my hostel room. So I’ll remember the hostel for those two encounters, more than anything else: D

Sheila’s is better than I expected for a budget friendly stay in beautiful Cork.
It’s location is perfectly located near both the train and the Parnell bus station (less than 15 min walk); only think you’ll find a bit difficult is the up hill walk… but that’s to be expected in Cork with it’s San Francisco-​esque hills.
Sheila’s is clean, comfortable, and has the most amazing employees who did everything they could to help me out with directions as well as schooled me in the way of pronouncing correctly the sight seeing areas around Cork’s center.
I was completely satisfied with my service and stay here. Especially it being the first hostel I’ve ever stayed at, it’s brought up my standards of what type of hostels are out there.
FYI they serve breakfast in the morning for 3 euro… 3 EURO!!! That’s an amazing value & you get orange juice, coffee, toast (3 pieces), and cereal!!! So good… saved me from splurging unnecessarily for breakfast out.
They provide you with a locker as well 1 euro per day, with a 5 euro deposit.

Clean, convenient and close to local amenities so good for a visit. They have an area where they play movies, an internet café, a mini-​shop and wine bar. Our room had an en-​suite adjacent to the area with our bunkbeds. It’s a reasonable price for use of the facilities for whatever time you’re visiting and has local nightlife and dining options. Recommended.

Sheila’s is exactly what you need for a budget stay in a party town! She is clean, she is close and she feeds you, all you can eat, in the morning!
Sauna had been broken the day we got there but was being fixed. SHE HAS A SAUNA!
She was also the cheapest option of the 3 main hostels in the city, I have stayed in them all so for value (and of course SAUNA!) I would recommend her most of all.
Also, I left a brand new Liverpool home kit in my room and she posted it back for free.
Decent, Dedicated, Down to Earth and Deadly!

The girls and I fancied a cheap weekend break and so ended up at Sheilas. From the directions we were given and after a short stroll up a steep hill we found it.
The girls on reception were friendly enough and after explaining how things worked we headed to our 4 berth room. It was the size of a shoe box as you would expect with 2 sets of bunk beds. The room was a bit grubby and we had to take turns standing at the mirror when getting ready, but it all added to the fun.
The WC/​Showers were just around the corner and relatively clean, though 2 of each left the odd queue of a morning. 3
We didn’t sample the food there, opting for take away pizza or M&S grub, but the kitchen and facilities were large and well equipped.
There was free internet which seemed popular and the hostel even hires out towels (5 euro with 4 euro’s back on return).
All in all we had a blast and would recommend Sheila’s Hostel!

This place is great to stay if you are really strapped for Euros. Although the hostel had plenty of facilities, the facilities were a little worn down and the staff looked as though they’d rather be somewhere else. On the plus side, the café and wine bar is generally pretty good here and the hostel is very close to the nightlife of Cork.

Sheila’s Hostel kann man jedem empfehlen, der schon mal in einem Hostel war: sehr volle Gemeinschaftsküchen, Dachterassen voller Raucher, winzige Zimmer mit Doppelstockbetten und immer viele Leute aus der ganzen Welt sind halt nicht jedermanns Sache. Ich fand es klasse, nachdem ich das Hostel gefunden hatte.
Es liegt definitiv nicht zentral, sondern an einem steilen Hügel auf der Nicht-​Innenstadt-​Seite von Cork. Ringsrum darf man nicht parken und man muss aufpassen, keine Wertsachen im Auto liegen zu lassen.
Das Personal ist sehr nett und weiss absolut alles. Der Preis ist sensationell und wer auf Hostels steht, wird hier nicht mehr weg wollen.