Price: £9, includes linen and breakfast
Facilities: Four-person rooms above a local chippy. Each room has en-suite, small fridge, hotplate, and TV! Chippy downstairs serves as common room/pub, with discount for guests and an internet booth.
Atmosphere: Super-friendly! Quiet, quiet, quiet in the rooms... chatty and homey in the small chippy/pub downstairs. But you gotta like fried food.
Neighbourhood: What can I say? Thurso is quiet.
Plusses: Clean, friendly. Staff go out of their way. Rooms are basically semi-private, breakfast is substantial.
Minuses: And you thought Stirling was quiet? Not a hostel for those with ADHD or claustrophobia.