Are There Female-Only Hostels In London?

Are There Female-Only Hostels In London?

No entirely female-only hostel appears anywhere on this site's 12-hostel London roster, so a whole property reserved for women cannot be booked through it. What London does have is female-only dorm rooms inside mixed hostels: four roster hostels print them, Wombat's City Hostel London, St Christopher's London Bridge, Safestay London Elephant & Castle and Astor Victoria, plus a fifth, Clink261, that prints girls-only dorms.

That distinction matters when you search. A "female-only hostel" as a whole building does not exist on the roster, and this article will not pretend otherwise, because no row in the data says one does. What the rows do say, precisely, is which room types each hostel sells: female-only dorms, mixed dorms, private rooms and, at St Christopher's, capsule pods. When you book a bed in a female-only dorm at any of these properties, the dorm itself is reserved for women, while the building's corridors, kitchens and common rooms are shared with all guests.

The honest headline is still a useful one. A female-only dorm delivers the thing most solo women travellers actually want from the phrase: a locked room where the only people sleeping are other women, usually alongside features the same rows print, such as 24-hour reception, luggage storage and female-only dorm room notes. You are not giving anything up on price either. Female-only dorms at these hostels sample from £15 to £26 per bed per night, the same floor as their mixed dorms, because the sampled price is the lowest rate for a bed in the building. Later in this piece the booking section explains how to make sure the room you reserve is genuinely the female-only one and not the cheaper mixed dorm on the same floor.

The rest of this piece works through the four hostels room by room, then answers the questions that follow: what a hostel bed costs in London on average, whether Victoria is a good area for one of these stays, and how to read a listing so you book a genuinely female-only dorm rather than a mixed one by mistake. Every figure below comes from the sampled rates on this site's roster, and ratings are printed with their review counts beside them, so you can judge how large each pool of opinion really is before you commit a night to it.

What Is The Girl Only Hostel In London?

There is no girls-only or women-only hostel building in London on this roster, and no row claims one. The closest real things are the female-only dorm rooms at Wombat's City Hostel London, St Christopher's London Bridge, Safestay London Elephant & Castle and Astor Victoria, plus the girls-only dorms at Clink261 near King's Cross. Each is a room type inside a mixed hostel, bookable by the bed.

People searching this phrase usually arrive hoping for a property like the historic women-only hostels found in some other European cities. London, on the evidence this site holds, does not currently offer one in the budget bracket. The roster's 12 hostels are all mixed buildings. What they sell instead is separation at the room level, and the listings state it explicitly in their room types: "female-only dorms" at Wombat's and St Christopher's, "female-only dorm rooms" in the notes at Safestay and Astor Victoria, and "girls-only dorms" at Clink261.

This is worth spelling out because listing search can mislead. Filter a booking site for "female only" and it will often surface hostels that merely have one such room among many, which is exactly the situation here, or properties where the filter applies to a single dorm on a single floor. The way to be certain is to open the room type on the live listing and read its name. If the room is called a female-only dorm or a girls-only dorm, the bed you are buying sits in a room reserved for women. If it is called a mixed dorm, it is not, whatever the building's marketing says.

The related stay for this article, Wombat's City Hostel London, is a good example of the pattern done properly. The listing prints three room families: dorms, private rooms and female-only dorms, with a minimum age of 18 and breakfast included, from £21 per bed per night on the dates sampled. The building houses everyone; the female-only dorms house women only. One recent guest review on the listing reads, "I think this was a great place to stay. It was clean and comfortable." That review was written about Wombat's and no other property, and it is quoted here word for word.

Which Four London Hostels Have Female-Only Dorm Rooms?

The four are Wombat's City Hostel London in Shoreditch & East London, St Christopher's London Bridge in Borough, Safestay London Elephant & Castle, and Astor Victoria in Pimlico, all mixed hostels with female-only dorm rooms stated in their rows. Sampled bed prices run from £15 at St Christopher's to £26 at Astor Victoria, and ratings run from 7.1 to 9.1 with review counts between 5,822 and 19,145.

Here is the comparison, built only from the roster's own fields: sampled lowest bed price, rating on the listing's own scale with its review count, area, zone, and the walk to the nearest station.

Two details in that table deserve a pause. First, the price floor does not follow the rating: the cheapest bed, £15 at St Christopher's London Bridge, sits in a hostel rated 8.1 out of 10 across 14,519 reviews on the listing, a large pool by any measure, while the dearest bed, £26 at Astor Victoria, buys a 8.3 across 15,780. You are mostly paying for area and room mix, not quality. Second, every one of these four prints free cancellation as a flag on its row, which matters if your plans shift, though the exact window is on the live listing, not in this data.

The features around the rooms differ in ways a solo traveller weighs. Wombat's includes breakfast, states private bathrooms, sets a minimum age of 18 and mentions lockers and a kitchen. St Christopher's lists female-only dorm rooms in its notes, capsule pods as an alternative room type, and a 24-hour reception. Safestay prints female-only dorm rooms, family rooms and luggage storage, with breakfast available paid. Astor Victoria adds ID required per its notes, lockers mentioned, a kitchen, and a 24-hour reception. One caution worth carrying: Safestay's own terms and conditions state that a room key card is activated for your stay and a failure to return it incurs a £5 charge per card, a small but real cost of a lost card.

A fifth name belongs in this conversation even though the angle's headline counts four. Clink261, a six-minute walk from King's Cross St. Pancras in Zone 1, prints "girls-only dorms" among its room types, from £18 per bed per night on the dates sampled, rated 7.1 out of 10 across 1,240 reviews on the listing. Different wording, same product: a dorm reserved for women inside a mixed building. It rounds out a map that puts a female-only or girls-only dorm within reach of five different parts of London, from Swiss Cottage-style north London bases to the south of the river and the streets behind Victoria.

What Is The Average Price Of Hostels In London?

On this roster the median dorm bed is £20 per bed per night, across 12 hostels, with the lowest sampled bed at £14 (Smart Camden Inn Hostel) and female-only dorms sampling between £15 and £26. The monthly series moves the median from £20 in November 2026 to £34 in June 2027 on the dates sampled, so the month you pick changes the price more than the room type does.

The £20 median is the anchor number. Half the roster's hostels sample at or below it, half above, and the four female-only-dorm hostels sit neatly around it: St Christopher's at £15 and Safestay at £20 below or on the median, Wombat's at £21 a pound over, Astor Victoria at £26 above it. Nobody charges a visible premium for the female-only room type on the sampled rates, which is the quietly useful finding here. If you assumed a women-only dorm costs extra, the sampled data does not show one.

Time of year moves the number far more. The month table below is built from one-night check-ins on the third Wednesday of each month, sampled per hostel, so it is a series of sampled rates rather than a market study.

Read the shape, not just the cells. Dorm beds are cheapest in November 2026 and January 2027, dearest in June 2027, and the swing from £20 to £34 is a £14 rise on the sampled dates. Individual hostels swing harder: the roster's monthly ranges include St Christopher's climbing from £15 to £20, Astor Victoria from £26 to £44, and Smart Camden Inn from £14 to £50. For context, and only as context, London hotels averaged £214.90 a night in August across all star levels per the RSM UK Hotels Tracker, an all-hotel figure that includes luxury and is not a budget rate; against that backdrop, a £20 dorm median explains why hostels carry the solo-travel budget.

If price is the binding constraint, the planning ranges are simple: a female-only dorm bed in Zone 1 or Zone 2 samples between £15 and £26 in the cheap months, and noticeably more in the May to July window. Check availability for your dates rather than trusting any figure printed here, because the live rate varies by date and availability, and a median is a summary of many sampled nights rather than a promise about yours.

Is Victoria A Good Area To Stay In London?

By the roster's own numbers, Victoria & Pimlico is a strong hostel area for a solo traveller: three stays, all Zone 1, a median of 26 minutes to Charing Cross by public transport, and private rooms from £82 with dorm beds from £26. Astor Victoria, the area's female-only-dorm hostel, is a 6-minute walk from Pimlico station and 26 minutes from Charing Cross.

This site does not label areas safe or unsafe, and no crime statistic exists in its facts, so the honest version of this answer is built entirely from the rows: price, zone, journey time and station walk. On those measures Victoria & Pimlico performs well. It is one of the smaller areas on the roster with three stays, but all three sit in Zone 1, and the area's median journey to Charing Cross, 26 minutes on the fastest public transport for a 10:00 weekday start, matches King's Cross & Bloomsbury's 28 minutes while sitting west of it.

For the female-only-dorm question specifically, one of the four hostels is here. Astor Victoria sits in Pimlico, postcode SW1V, a 6-minute walk from Pimlico station, with beds from £26 per night sampled, rated 8.3 out of 10 across 15,780 reviews on the listing, a bigger review pool than any hostel in the comparison except Wombat's and St Christopher's. Its row prints a 24-hour reception, luggage storage, lockers mentioned, a kitchen, female-only dorm rooms and ID required per its notes. The other two stays in the area are budget hotels rather than hostels: Dover Hotel B&B from £82 and The Z Hotel Victoria from £87 per night sampled, the latter a 5-minute walk from London Victoria rail station.

Getting around from here is cheap in a way that compounds nightly. TfL's capping page lists adult daily caps of £8.90 for Zones 1 to 2 and £10.50 for Zones 1 to 3 on pay as you go, and a stay in Zone 1 means most days never exceed the lower cap; check TfL for current fares before you travel. A traveller comparing areas on total spend can read more in the guide to London travel zones and Oyster caps, and the area-by-area price picture is in the cheapest areas to stay in London. Between the nightly bed and the daily travel cap, a week in Pimlico on a dorm bed behaves very differently on the wallet from the same week in a Zone 3 private room.

What Female-Only Dorms Actually Cost And Include

Across the four hostels, a female-only dorm bed samples from £15 to £26 per bed per night in the cheapest sampled month, and every one of the four prints a 24-hour reception, luggage storage and a free cancellation flag. Breakfast is included only at Wombat's; St Christopher's prints breakfast not stated, and Safestay and Astor Victoria print breakfast paid.

The price spread deserves a proper look, because the monthly sampled ranges for these four hostels differ enormously. The table below uses each hostel's own sampled range across the twelve sampled months, lowest to highest, which shows how differently the same product behaves across a year.

St Christopher's is the outlier in a good way: across twelve sampled months its bed never left the £15 to £20 band, the flattest price behaviour on the entire hostel roster. Wombat's and Safestay behave like typical London hostels, cheap in the winter and roughly two and a half times dearer at the peak. The planning rule this suggests is straightforward. If your dates are flexible, a female-only dorm in January samples at £15 to £26 across all four; the same beds in June sample far higher, and only St Christopher's holds near its floor.

What is included, stated precisely and only where the rows state it: Wombat's includes breakfast, prints private bathrooms, a minimum age of 18, lockers mentioned and a kitchen. St Christopher's prints female-only dorm rooms in its notes and a kitchen, with breakfast not stated. Safestay prints female-only dorm rooms, family rooms, breakfast paid. Astor Victoria prints breakfast paid, lockers mentioned, a kitchen, female-only dorm rooms and ID required per its notes. Where a field says not stated, the listing does not state it, and this article will not guess on its behalf. That discipline cuts both ways: a hostel whose breakfast is not stated may well serve one, and the only way to know is the live listing, not this page.

How To Book A Female-Only Dorm With Confidence

Book by room type, not by hostel name: open the live listing, confirm the room is titled a female-only or girls-only dorm, check the minimum age and check-in window the row prints, and use the free cancellation flag all four hostels carry while you confirm plans. On this roster the check-in windows run from 14:00 or 15:00 to between 23:00 and 00:00, and check-out is 10:00 or 11:00.

The mistake to avoid is booking "a bed at Wombat's" and receiving a mixed dorm, because hostels sell several room types at several prices and the cheapest bed on a given night is not always the female-only one. The fix costs seconds: on the live listing, the room name is printed beside the price. Female-only dorm, girls-only dorm, mixed dorm, private room and, at St Christopher's, capsule pods are separate products. Pick the named room, not the headline bed price.

Timing rules the rate. The sampled series in this article's price table shows January 2027 as the cheapest month for both dorms generally and private rooms, and June 2027 as the dearest for dorms. Book the winter months if you can, and if you cannot, lean toward the hostels with flat sampled ranges, where St Christopher's is the clear case. Two or three sentences of practical advice follow from the data: check availability for your dates rather than trusting any figure here, since the live rate varies by date and availability; hold the room with the free cancellation flag every one of the four prints while you firm up plans; and re-check the room name at confirmation, because that is the moment the room type is locked.

Two small policies are worth carrying in your head. Safestay's own terms state a £5 charge per key card not returned at the end of your stay, so keep hold of it. And if the fear holding you back from hostels generally is bed bugs rather than room mix, the NHS notes only that bedbug bites can be itchy but do not usually cause other health problems; this site's facts hold no prevalence figure for hostels or hotels, and the bed bugs article covers what can and cannot honestly be said. For the wider picture of the trade-offs, see the downsides of staying in a hostel.

A question some readers ask next is whether age bars any of this. The roster prints a minimum age of 18 at Wombat's and Astor Victoria, while St Christopher's and Safestay print minimum age not stated, and the honest take on age and hostels is in is 35 too old to stay in a hostel. Whatever your age, the pattern is the same: pick the named female-only dorm, note the check-in window, and let the free cancellation flag do the worrying.

London's wider hostel picture is on Cheap Hotels London, where the full roster of 12 hostels, 18 budget hotels and the aparthotel and apartment collections are compared area by area, and the all-stays picture for solo travellers continues in the best hostels in London.

Common Questions About Female-Only Hostels In London

Are There Female-Only Hostels In London?

Not as whole buildings on this site's roster. Four mixed hostels, Wombat's City Hostel London, St Christopher's London Bridge, Safestay London Elephant & Castle and Astor Victoria, print female-only dorm rooms, and Clink261 prints girls-only dorms. Beds sample from £15 to £26 per night.

What Is The Girl Only Hostel In London?

No girls-only hostel building exists on the roster. The girls-only and female-only products are dorm room types inside mixed hostels, listed explicitly in each stay's room types, and bookable by the bed.

What Is The Average Price Of Hostels In London?

The median dorm bed across the roster's 12 hostels is £20 per bed per night on the dates sampled. By month the dorm median runs from £20 in November 2026 to £34 in June 2027, with January 2027 among the cheapest months.

Is Victoria A Good Area To Stay In London?

On the roster's measures, yes: three stays, all Zone 1, a median 26 minutes to Charing Cross, and Astor Victoria's female-only dorms a 6-minute walk from Pimlico station. This site makes no safety claim about any area.

Do Female-Only Dorms Cost More Than Mixed Dorms?

The sampled data shows no premium: female-only dorm beds sample at the same floor as each hostel's lowest bed, from £15 at St Christopher's to £26 at Astor Victoria. The month you book moves the price far more than the room type.