Reviews of Downtowner Inn Toronto 1 star

117 Pembroke Street, Main intersection of the Jarvi, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 2N9

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57.9%

292 out of 397 HostelBookers customers said that they would recommend 'Downtowner Inn Toronto'

Atmosphere
52.8%
Location
75.2%
Facilities
51.2%
Cleanliness
41.6%
Staff
68.8%
Value
60.0%
Safety
56.0%

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Anna Rose

With friends / other travellers

Shopping

29 December 2011 Anna would recommend this property

Liked: Location,price,people and staff were excellant

Disliked: Anna left no negative feedback.

88.6%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 80% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 100%

NAOKI TSUKAHARA

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

11 December 2011 NAOKI would recommend this property

Liked: nice

Disliked: NAOKI left no negative feedback.

80.0%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 100% Facilities - 100% Safety - 100%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 100%

Zdenek Kuzel

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

10 November 2011 Zdenek would recommend this property

Liked: Perfect prize, fast internet, free breakfast, huge lounge ......

Disliked: Dirty shower, dirty floor, frankly dirt everywhere .... But if you are backpaker, it is quite comon ....

68.6%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 80% Facilities - 60% Safety - 80%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Mino Corsale

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

27 September 2011 Mino would recommend this property

Liked: The location

Disliked: The cleanliness and the bed.

71.4%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 80%

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

Work / volunteering

23 September 2011 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: its like a haunted hotel out of scooby-doo!! brilliant! and the staff arethe most helpful and polite and pleasant i have come across in toronto hostels.. and i have stayed in a few.

Disliked: The kitchen is a bit grubby.

42.9%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 100% Facilities - 20% Safety - 20%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 20%

Customer review

With my spouse / partner

City break

06 September 2011

Liked: large common room areas

Disliked: everything else

60.0%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 100% Facilities - 40% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 60%

Greg Kansky

Alone

City break

04 September 2011

Liked: location is very good

Disliked: needs to be renovated and a good clean up

51.4%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 60% Facilities - 40% Safety - 40%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 60%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
City break
Sightseeing & culture

02 September 2011

Liked: One of the staff was super helpful and let me use their PC to access the internet when, for some reason, i couldn't access it through my laptop...

Disliked: Internet would be accessible just some times and just for some computers... :s

37.1%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 20% Facilities - 20% Safety - 20%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 60% Value - 20%

Customer review

Alone

City break

01 September 2011

Liked: the location is great! its really close to down town, you can reach all the things by walking, and you dont need a nightbus after partying.

Disliked: they gave me a room without lockers, because everything else was occupied. they had no extra lockers! so i had to take my pc all the day with me! they also had just 2 keys for the room, and we were three guys in there...

54.3%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 80% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 60%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

31 August 2011

Liked: Staff were helpful and friendly

Disliked: Not very clean, hair and dirt on the floor in the bathroom. Also they only had two keys for our room, but there was 4 of us satying in the room so two of us didn't get keys and had to reley on someone else being in the room to let us in.

31.4%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 40% Facilities - 20% Safety - 20%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 20%

Customer review

With a large group / tour

Work / volunteering

28 August 2011

Liked: Nothing

Disliked: everything

57.1%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 60% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 60%

Pierre-Alexandre Papillon

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

23 July 2011 Pierre-Alexandre would recommend this property

Liked: no curfew, two computer for internet and a phone. nice location

Disliked: was very dirty when I came in.

48.6%
Atmosphere - 40% Staff - 40% Facilities - 40% Safety - 80%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 40%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

30 June 2011

Liked: not much, the staff overall were pretty helpful. Although, when we arrived they wanted to charge us extra for taxes... (I though all the charges, including taxes were quoted on Hostel Bookers - which makes it easier when budgeting for your travels)

Disliked: Looks like it needs some serious maintenence work, it had a very tired and worn appearance (crumbly walls). The breakfast was disorgansied to the point that one of our party left & got breakfast elsewhere.

40.0%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 20% Facilities - 20% Safety - 60%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 60%

Customer review

Alone

City break

27 June 2011

Liked: Nothing

Disliked: The breakfast is horrible. I meet a rat one night in the kitchen.

31.4%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 40% Facilities - 20% Safety - 20%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 20%

Daniel Spear

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

10 June 2011

Liked: The only thing I could say that I like is the location.

Disliked: I'm not one that likes to complain, but.... The place looks like it hasn't been maintained for at least a good 20 years. Everywhere you look things are broken and falling apart. My key to the room was so worn I had to jiggle and hold my tongue right to unlock it. The dorm room was an absolute hovel. The beds are terrible and the linen doesn't fit it. Got eaten alive by bedbugs and there was no mention of a refund (do I really have to ask?). Had I known how bad the place was, I wouldn't have stayed here if they paid me. Avoid at all costs!

22.9%
Atmosphere - 20% Staff - 20% Facilities - 20% Safety - 20%
Location - 40% Cleanliness - 20% Value - 20%

Ryoichi Ohno

Alone

Sightseeing & culture
Work / volunteering

05 June 2011

Liked: nothing

Disliked: dirty, and this shabby house has squirrels. They stole and have some foods and shit my room. it stinks. This valuable would be $5.

60.0%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 40% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 60%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Work / volunteering

21 March 2011

Liked: ...

Disliked: no heating in the room... kitchen barely deserves its name

80.0%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Customer review

Alone

Sightseeing & culture

28 November 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: price

Disliked: nothing

82.9%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

22 November 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Good locale. Close to downtown. Fridge and microwave in the room.

Disliked: TV didn't work.

60.0%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 80% Facilities - 40% Safety - 80%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 60%

Katrin Ziegler

Alone

Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture

09 November 2010

Liked: big common area, free local calls, big lockers, ensuite bathrooms, staff was helpful

Disliked: no hand towels, soaps or bath mats in the bathroom, no tea towels in the kitchen, unusable fridge in the kitchen ("people steal your food here"), plastic matresses, no toilets in common area, slow internet, only pancakes with a lot of waiting time for breakfast (and ugly orange juice, tea and coffee), no appropriate reaction to bed bugs (I just got another room)

80.0%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 60% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Backpacking / gap year

07 October 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: staff

Disliked: the pans in the kitchen

80.0%
Atmosphere - 80% Staff - 80% Facilities - 80% Safety - 80%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

Alone

Visiting friends or family

21 September 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: it's a quiet & clean... :)

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

65.7%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 60% Facilities - 60% Safety - 80%
Location - 40% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 80%

Customer review

With friends / other travellers

City break

19 September 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: affordable

Disliked: breakfast

82.9%
Atmosphere - 100% Staff - 100% Facilities - 60% Safety - 60%
Location - 80% Cleanliness - 80% Value - 100%

Customer review

Alone

Sightseeing & culture

09 September 2010 Customer would recommend this property

Liked: Walkable distance to bus terminal, friendly & helpful staff

Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback.

74.3%
Atmosphere - 60% Staff - 60% Facilities - 60% Safety - 100%
Location - 100% Cleanliness - 40% Value - 100%

Lilian Toledo

With friends / other travellers

City break
Events / festivals
Sightseeing & culture

07 September 2010 Lilian would recommend this property

Liked: Location, price, friendly staff.

Disliked: The location is good. It's not very clean, the carpeting is very dirty, but in general is good enough for the price. I drove but I forgot to tell them that I needed a parking permit so I had to park down the street and paid 14 bucks per night.


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