Dover Adventure Backpackers

Dover


Huddled below the white cliffs and castle, and very near the ferry port, this cosy little backstreet hostel has metal bunks, friendly staff and a well-equipped kitchen. Enter through a pub with the tongue-in-cheek name 'The Last Pub in the Civilised World'.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Dover attractions

1. Secret Wartime Tunnels

0.11 MILES

The biggest draw at Dover Castle is the secret wartime tunnels. The claustrophobic chalk-hewn passageways were excavated during the Napoleonic Wars and…

2. Saxon Church

0.17 MILES

The restored Saxon Church of St Mary in Castro can be found up in the castle.

3. Roman Lighthouse

0.19 MILES

This Roman-era lighthouse is Britain's oldest standing building and dates from around AD 50.

4. Dover Castle

0.28 MILES

Occupying top spot, literally and figuratively, in Dover’s townscape, this most impressive of castles was built to bolster the country’s weakest point at…

5. Banksy Brexit Mural - removed

0.54 MILES

Despite voting leave, the poor port town of Dover is possibly the Southeast community set to suffer most post-Brexit. It was perhaps for that reason that…

6. Dover Museum

0.55 MILES

By far the most enthralling exhibit in the town's three-storey museum is an astonishing 3600-year-old Bronze Age boat, discovered here in 1992. Vaunted as…

7. Roman Painted House

0.61 MILES

A crumbling 1960s bunker is the unlikely setting for some of the most extensive, if stunted, Roman wall paintings north of the Alps. Several scenes depict…

8. South Foreland Lighthouse

2.55 MILES

From the Langdon Cliffs tourist office, follow the stony path east along the clifftops for a bracing 2-mile walk to the stout Victorian South Foreland…