Spoon and the Stars Hostel

This funky, delightful hostel was a fun place to spend a week exploring a very interesting, non-touristy town. Drogheda gave me a real sense of life in Ireland, with plenty of good restaurants and shops and a great, long bicycle/walking trail along the river out to the Old Bridge House and the Battle of the Boyne site. The owner, Rory, does a fine job of providing a good place to stay with a delightful staff. The kitchen is roomy and well equipped for doing some cooking. It’s an interesting town and area away from the big city Dublin scene, yet Dublin is easily reached. The amazing prehistoric Newgrange burial hills are fascinating, and easily reachable by bus.

I would like to highly recommend that cosy place. It’s very warm atmosphere, nice and friendly people, very quiet and clean place, everything is available from showers to laundry and big kitchen and sitting place with TV, feeling like at home. Thank you all staff to bring the best service for adorable prices, it very important.

My friend and I stayed for one night in this welcoming and familiar location. The owner makes you feel at home, she is welcoming, sociable and professional! :) I had the opportunity to meet other guys who welcomed me as one of their own! If you are looking for humanity and listening, if you want tranquility but also sociability, then I absolutely recommend this B&B Thanks again to everyone for the welcome, the patience in listening to my English which is definitely not perfect and the curiosity in listening to my songs;) |You are beautiful people and I will always carry you in my heart ☺️

It was a really nice experience. The place is so cozy, the staff is friendly and compromised with us, as guests and clients. The localization is excellent and we have a bus stop just in front of the building. They serve breakfast, with everything that is needed for a meal in the morning. Definitely I would be back.

Nice atmosphere and community feeling! Going together with the other people to Irish Live-Music-Sessions in McHugh's pub thursday evening was great!

Possibly the worst place I’ve ever stayed in my life. We stayed in the “Deluxe” Queen Room. As soon as the door opened to our room, we were hit with an awful smell. After a quick search, we found a bin under the sink which had not been emptied and contained a DIRTY NAPPY and MAGGOTS on top of a lot of other rubbish. The smell of the room was absolutely disgusting and we were left with no choice but to leave all windows open in the room for the duration of our stay. The smell was still present the next morning. I alerted a member of staff who didn’t even know there was a bin under the sink until I showed her. The fridge contained two opened cartons of milk, one of which was days out of date. There was black mould in the bathroom cupboard, hairs on the bathroom floor and the shower was air-locked. We genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if all housekeeping did was change the bed sheets. There was no hairdryer or kettle which were described as included. Then, the next morning, two men knocked on our door at 10:30, asking us to leave the room when check out was at 11. They debated with us over what time check out was (when there was a literal poster on the wall outside our room stating that check out was at 11) and scoffed when we refused to leave. They had no cleaning supplies with them or uniform on so easily could’ve been two random men for all we knew. This is particularly concerning to me as a female stayer.

Had a pleasant stay and have the friendliest staffs at the same time long-term guests are friendly too. I have the opportunity to cook my own food, kitchen utensils that I needed are available. This is quite good for an individual like who likes cooking when I go on trips. Also spacious rooms especially room #3 with a clean bathroom. Definitely will be going back to this place.Also the proximity to the train station and bus station is an advantage.

I have never felt more genuinely cared for as a solo female traveler. I had an issue where another guest made me very uncomfortable, and the owner personally gave me a refund, removed the man from the premises, and reported his misbehavior. Everyone was so kind, the other guests were friendly, and the beds were comfortable. Be aware, there are a lot of stairs. But I cannot recommend this location highly enough, especially for solo females.

BeautIful feeling inside. It is clean and cozy. They have so many good places to hang out and the showers are clean. The beds are good too. The staff was friendly.

Great place to stay and an interesting part of the country. Lots to do if you scratch the surface and the staff in the hostel were great for giving tips!! Cool pubs and lots of history. We did the Jameson whiskey walking tour which was very insightful!!!!