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122 Boulevard de la chapelle, Paris, Île-de-France, France 75018

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45.5%

404 out of 903 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Friends Hostel'

Atmosphere: 37.6%
Location: 52.0%

Facilities: 38.4%
Cleanliness: 40.0%

Staff: 49.6%
Value: 57.6%

Safety: 43.2%

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77.1%

Atmosphere -	80%	Staff -	80%	Facilities -	80%	Safety -	60%
Location -	80%	Cleanliness -	80%	Value -	80%

JEONGHWA JIN

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year
City break
Events / festivals
Sightseeing & culture

16 May 2012 JEONGHWA would recommend this property

Liked: quite clean and nearby the subway station

Disliked: this hostel locate in Mon martere, and this place was seemed to be unsafe, even though the hostel was very close to the subway station, i felt unsafe. but the hostel staff was keeping the hostel door.

74.3%

Atmosphere -	80%	Staff -	80%	Facilities -	80%	Safety -	80%
Location -	60%	Cleanliness -	60%	Value -	80%

Xiaowei Chen

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

11 May 2012 Xiaowei would recommend this property

Liked: The place actually is quite clean, and is very close to the metro. The staff is very helpful, and it is a good chance to meet know friends.

Disliked: The quilt does not have a cover, and is quite dirty.

42.9%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	60%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	40%
Location -	80%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	60%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

26 March 2012

Liked: the only thing good about this hostel is that it is DIRT CHEAP! unfortunately they take that literally, and the place is dirty.

Disliked: the hostel advertises breakfast (there is a coffee machine, and NO food available). The hostel advertises that it has a shower (the water was not hot). The hostel makes no mention of the fact it has MICE (we had one coming into our room), that the kitchen is filthy, that the beds are FILTHY (the duvets have no sheets on them, and are clearly not washed between peoples stays - ours had blood stains on one)...no soap is provided for toilets, the toilets were blocked and disgusting. Location is convenient but take care - we found gangs and drug dealers hanging around outside, so you have to be very careful going to and from the hostel in case of theft...the plus side is the price, but tbh i would not stay here for more than one night or two maximum. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

37.1%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	40%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	40%
Location -	40%	Cleanliness -	40%	Value -	60%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Visiting friends or family

22 March 2012

Liked: It is near to the metro station.

Disliked: The beds, the bathrooms, the non-control they take about the people going in and out, the location...

54.3%

Atmosphere -	40%	Staff -	60%	Facilities -	40%	Safety -	60%
Location -	60%	Cleanliness -	60%	Value -	60%

Customer review

Alone

Romantic getaway

21 March 2012 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The cheapest in its category

Disliked: Maybe the people who were around but they don't hurt anyone, just sell "products" so it's OK

25.7%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	20%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	20%	Cleanliness -	60%	Value -	20%

Laura Parry

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

26 February 2012

Liked: Im not usually fussy with hostels but I liked nothing. Nothing at all.

Disliked: This place is SO unsafe and you're packed into the rooms like sheep. I was in a 2 bunk bedroom and the room was TINY! My 1st night was aweful, in the morning I went to use the shower (the only 1 to cater for about 30+ people) and there was no hot water. It was 8am. When I was going up the escalator at the station opposite the hostel a guy had his hand in my bag to steal something, lucky I didnt have anything of value in there. After that incident I wore my big jacket with pockets everywhere and didnt take a hadbag with me. My 1st morning a guy asked for a refund back because he wasn't staying any longer and they wouldnt give him one. I left that that day to find a better hostel and I soon parted, with no refund either. The boss lady (the one who had extensive face work done) was so rude. Never a smile or hello and when I told her I was checking out early she got the cleaner to talk to me. Very rude. I asked one of the staff to help me with a bus he told me to 'look at a map'. All in all, I would definitely think before you spend any money on this hostel. There are plenty of others in a nicer area to stay. Spend more than 15 Euro a night. You get what you pay for. I have definitely learnt my lesson.

57.1%

Atmosphere -	40%	Staff -	40%	Facilities -	60%	Safety -	40%
Location -	60%	Cleanliness -	80%	Value -	80%

Austeja Sevcenkaite

With friends / other travellers

City break

18 February 2012

Liked: it was clean

Disliked: Austeja left no negative feedback.

31.4%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	60%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	20%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	60%

Customer review

As a family with children

City break
Sightseeing & culture
Visiting friends or family

15 February 2012

Liked: The price.

Disliked: The smell, the area, the beds (three tier bunk bed and very broken two tier bunk bed, both creaky and loud) the stupidly small common room, the people sat in the corridors, the horrible court yard..... on and on and on.

51.4%

Atmosphere -	40%	Staff -	80%	Facilities -	40%	Safety -	60%
Location -	60%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	60%

Lucas Mathias

With friends / other travellers

Partying / nightlife
Visiting friends or family

11 February 2012

Liked: Its next to the Metro (Underground) Bathroom in the rooms, with shower! Thats the best thing in the hostel.

Disliked: Don't have wi-fi after 6 pm, you need to pay to use... Don't have a nice place to sit and eat, its the same room to use the internet, relax and eat, and just have 3 small tables. The rooms are too small for 6 people, its hard to move inside. The room its really smelly. On saturdays have a market in front of the hostel, its a little bit dangerous.

57.1%

Atmosphere -	40%	Staff -	60%	Facilities -	40%	Safety -	40%
Location -	80%	Cleanliness -	40%	Value -	100%

Saija Pelkonen

Alone

Events / festivals

10 February 2012 Saija would recommend this property

Liked: Price

Disliked: Premises

22.9%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	20%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	40%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	20%

NICOLAS ALVAREZ

With friends / other travellers

Partying / nightlife

30 January 2012

Liked: Guys selling hachis at the door

Disliked: All. Cold at night, WITH NO BLANKET. PLEASE FIGURE THIS. It's dirty, they are not kind. Me and my friend decided TO SPEND THE NIGHT IN THE STREETS after the first night (we were supossed to be there another night).

62.9%

Atmosphere -	60%	Staff -	80%	Facilities -	40%	Safety -	80%
Location -	40%	Cleanliness -	40%	Value -	100%

Bharath Balu

With friends / other travellers

Relaxation/spa
Sightseeing & culture

24 January 2012 Bharath would recommend this property

Liked: its the best hotel if u see economically feasible.....

Disliked: no cleaness in the hostel....uncleaned bed sheets......bad area......

20.0%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	20%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	20%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	20%

Hamza Zaheer

With friends / other travellers

Relaxation/spa
Romantic getaway

20 January 2012

Liked: Nothing

Disliked: Very Untidy rooms. Dirty Bathrooms. dirty Blankets. clean bed sheets.

42.9%

Atmosphere -	40%	Staff -	20%	Facilities -	60%	Safety -	60%
Location -	40%	Cleanliness -	40%	Value -	40%

Jorge González

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year

19 January 2012

Liked: Probably just that my room had it's own bathroom, but that's pretty much it.

Disliked: Where to begin. Unfriendly staff, it's located on a very dodgy zone, wifi only at some hours and a terrible kitchen. I also saw a huge rat in the kitchen.

22.9%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	40%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	20%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	20%

Tina Sanders

Alone

Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture
Visiting friends or family

15 January 2012

Liked: nothing

Disliked: no covers for duvets and pillows, no working electrical sockets in the room, no locker in the room, no free wifi at certain times, no free internet if you dont bring your own laptop, unfriendliest receptionist ever, bad atmosphere, having to ring the buzzer after 10 pm in order to access the hostel, kitchen and courtyard arent open after 10 pm

20.0%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	20%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	20%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	20%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

09 January 2012

Liked: Not at all.

Disliked: The bed room and shower room are very small. More over, the staff and receptionist at the Friend Hostel are so rude and unfriendly. They don't care about customer. When the customers ask some times they ignore and some times look down customers. About payment, It was happen on me. they charge me more than the amount that I booked through HostelBooker. Even thought I tried to explain about booking and 10% deposit procedure , they did not listen to me. So what is the point of booking and deposit ???? In short , i can say that Friend Hostel is the worse hostel in Paris.

62.9%

Atmosphere -	80%	Staff -	80%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	60%
Location -	100%	Cleanliness -	60%	Value -	40%

Ahmed Hegazy

Alone

Sightseeing & culture

27 December 2011

Liked: Good Location

Disliked: 1. The WIFI wasn´t free all the time !!! 2. No Free Public Computers. 3. No Free Breakfast

45.7%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	60%	Facilities -	60%	Safety -	60%
Location -	60%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	40%

Humberto Dal Bo

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

19 December 2011

Liked: nothing

Disliked: room unorganized

20.0%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	20%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	20%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	20%

Ganna Kotova

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

18 December 2011

Liked: nothing!!!!!!!

Disliked: 1.area-there are a lot of bargains and pickpokets so beware.they are standing near the hostel's door 2.you can't paid by card 3.not friendly stuff 4.THERE WERE BUGs, like

57.1%

Atmosphere -	60%	Staff -	80%	Facilities -	40%	Safety -	20%
Location -	100%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	80%

Customer review

Alone

Sightseeing & culture

17 December 2011

Liked: staff's were friendly, but not talked much. there was a common room, but not such a large thing.

Disliked: the room, i don't know why, but smelled badly. and wifi is not free. you need to pay for it 2hours for 3euro. and it's not located in safe area. when i went to the merto station, the windows were broken by someone, and there were also police officers. in the night, it's more dangerous. Ladies, don't go out in the night alone.

71.4%

Atmosphere -	40%	Staff -	80%	Facilities -	40%	Safety -	80%
Location -	100%	Cleanliness -	80%	Value -	80%

Customer review

Alone

City break

13 December 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: location, and seemed clean

Disliked: no proper meeting place, just a small room with hard chairs for the whole hostel to eat and meet

22.9%

Atmosphere -	40%	Staff -	20%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	20%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	20%

Syed Shah

With friends / other travellers

Sightseeing & culture

05 December 2011

Liked: nothing

Disliked: basicly everything

37.1%

Atmosphere -	40%	Staff -	20%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	80%	Cleanliness -	40%	Value -	40%

Glenn Hopping

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

30 November 2011

Liked: no kitchen facitities

Disliked: They lost my booking and made me pay again

31.4%

Atmosphere -	20%	Staff -	100%	Facilities -	20%	Safety -	20%
Location -	20%	Cleanliness -	20%	Value -	20%

YAKUP YILDIZLAR

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year
City break
Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture

29 November 2011

Liked: DO NOT GO THAT PLACE! It was horrible. I've never seen a dirty place like this. The beds and rooms smells bad.

Disliked: DO NOT GO THAT PLACE! It was horrible. I've never seen a dirty place like this. The beds and rooms smells bad.

60.0%

Atmosphere -	80%	Staff -	60%	Facilities -	60%	Safety -	40%
Location -	40%	Cleanliness -	60%	Value -	80%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

27 November 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: The hostel was good value for money, as it was very close to the centre of Paris and was within walking distance of many restaurants and bars. It's a very compact hostel and seemed a bit disorganised but the staff were still friendly and the rooms were clean from what we saw. We just wanted somewhere central to stay within Paris, with a clean bed to sleep on and a lock on the door and we this hostel served its purpose :) Also, we left late in the day and were able to store our luggage after check out.

Disliked: Unfortunately as Paris is quite expensive, a cheaper hostel like this is going to be in an unfortunate location. Our room was opposite the metro and we had the window open all night because it was so hot... I think there were only a few hours in the night that the metro didn't run! There were also lots of men standing outside in big groups all day and night but myself and my friend (Both 18 year old females) never had any trouble with them. Also, it is on street near Moulin Rouge so lots of adult shops etc... So much nicer in daytime!