International Youth Hostel - Paris    Share

They have more guests than keys, so you are supposed to knock on the door of your room to be able to enter (if the person who's supposed to be inside is eating or in the toilet you're doomed). There's only one plug in the whole room, so charging your phone becomes a real challenge. The toilet inside the room is small and dirty. We booked two beds in the same room and we were assigned two in different floors. We were expecting something different and much better. Not good value for money.

Perfectly decent. It's not amazing, but it's a great price for a hostel in the middle of Paris, and near a subway station.

The rooms are not so clean, the first day we found spilled coffee over the lockers in the room, it remained the same until the next 3 days (we cleaned later with just a napkin), some staff are cool, but others, one guy in particular was really rude, and useless when you ask questions about the city. The security seems minimum, there were strange people inside sometimes. Its really bad and expensive! For what they charge per night the quality should be 10 times better!

I stayed at this hostel for 3 nights and wasn't exactly impressed. I have been travelling for over a month now around Europe and have stayed in roughly 5 hostels and this one is so far is the one I've been the least pleased with. The things that weren't great about my experience: - The breakfast is VERY basic (coffee/tea and ONLY a baguette with small jam and butter that's it, NO fruit, cereal etc.) - The rooms are closed from 10am-3pm everyday for cleaning, meaning that you can not be in your room at all during that time. They will come and ask you to leave if you try to stay (I was sick one morning and slept in but they asked me to leave at 10:30am and when I said I didn't mind if they cleaned while I was still in the room, they repeated again that I had to leave). If you leave your room during that time and you forgot something in the room, your key won't unlock the door anymore. You then have to go down to reception and ask for assistance. - There is only one tiny washroom (with no mirror) for the an entire floor of around 10-15 rooms (you have a sink + mirror in your room, there are 3 showers). If you are in a mixed dorm and want to get changed in the washroom it isn't very easy. - You have to leave your key at reception whenever you leave and you must hold onto your receipt of payment to show them when you want the key back which isn't horrible but it is a little annoying. Good things: - The staff at reception were nice and accommodating. - Pretty good location with lots of restaurants etc. near by and 10-13 minute walk to transit. - Not a lot of cosy places to hang out in the common area (no couches, just chairs and tables) but still some places to sit. - There are small safes that lock to put some of your things in each room.

I wanted to spend my 30 Birthday in Paris... My flight was delayed 24 before Arrive because of strike in Paris and I‘ve paid for the first night, I couldn’t make any changes because it is only possible 10 days before... not recommended