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+44 20 3475 3000
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78 Kings Cross Road, London, United Kingdom, WC1X 9QG
Clerkenwell
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260 ftActon Street
520 ftPercy Circus Peel Centre
540 ftSwinton Street
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Specialties
Clink78 is a fun, friendly and stylish London youth hostel with great facilities, set in a beautiful 200 year-old courthouse building which mixes bold interior design and elegant Victorian architecture. We like to think of it as more of a sociable place to stay and meet other travellers than just a party youth hostel, though with an on-site basement bar and space for over 500 guests, it can get very lively.
Clink staff are integral to the business. We look for smart, savvy, creative, interesting, witty, happy and different people. And luckily we find lots of them, and they find us!
We’re keen to ensure that each hostel retains its own character and unique colourful style whilst still being part of the Clink family, and we’re very aware that our staff and guests are the greatest ambassadors for Clink Hostels, so we know that looking after them is central to our success.
History
Established in 2003.
Over ten years ago, Anne and Shelly, two sisters from Dublin, went backpacking and loved it so much they decided to start their own hostel. Ashlee House at 261 Grays Inn Road, London was born. With a team of loyal staff, hard work and dedication, Ashlee House soon became an well-known and popular backpacker hostel.
With a sound knowledge of the industry and always up for a challenge, when the old Clerkenwell Magistrates Court on 78 King’s Cross Road became available it was an opportunity too good to be missed. It was refurbished as a hostel with a quirky, stylish, bold décor to compliment its striking exterior, and the new-born hostel was called ‘Clink’. Why ‘Clink’? Clink is an English slang word for a prison, and with its old prison cells and courtrooms the name seemed apt!
Though Ashlee House and Clink were very different hostels in size and style, they shared the same character, the careful management, the development of staff and the sense of understanding of our guests, so it w