Bastille Hostel

Recent Reviews: 276

• User:Patricia W

  Trip type: Friends getaway

  Awful Experience

  26 May 2025

  You’re not allowed to enter the rooms from 11-3 for ‘cleaning’ reasons. There are flies everywhere in the room that my roommate had to kill. The shower is broken and the spout moves depending on the shower pressure so you have to move in order for the water to target your hair. The water from the shower reaches the opposite wall of the bathroom. The shower only works for 30 seconds at a time and after that you have to keep pressing to keep the water going. The breakfast is a cheap baguette. Quiet hours start at 8 and you have to be silent, by 11PM you are not allowed to shower at all. One outlet and it’s across the way from the bed. All four people in one room share one key card, when the last person leaves they have to turn it into the receptionist. No towels provided, if you ask you pay 10 euro for a halfway stained towel. Near expensive restaurants. Worst place I have ever stayed, they will not let you in your room before 3, no matter what, even if your room is cleaned. I hate this place. One star.

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• User:Isla r

  Trip type: Friends getaway

  Read this before booking

  14 Jan 2025

  This hostel is one of the worst experiences I have had. To begin with we arrived late at night to find 2 of the 3 rooms we booked were unclean and unpleasant. We had a pair of wet and crispy socks sat over our radiator and one of our beds had a wet stain on the sheet. Another room had a pair of used flip flops on the floor along side wet, used towels and dirty sheets. When we asked for clean sheets we were told there were not enough to give us replacement ones, but the receptionist wanted to charge us for the extra sheets, which they hardly had!. The breakfast the next morning was unsatisfactory and not what we were told we were going to get. The baguettes were dry and if you arrived near the end time of breakfast, you wouldn't get certain items. You had to hand back your room key if you left the place and we were told not to use our safe as they could not reset them. This gave the place a very unsettling feeling. Another thing was the place was altogether just unclean. we had stains up our walls that looked like blood it was plain vile. Not only this but our sink leaked! All together I would never reccomened this place not even to my worst enemy. I hope people see this before booking. Even for the cheap price you would expect basic hygiene practices. When we tried to get in touch with them directly they were unhelpful and they refused to compensate for a service that was not delivered.

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• User:Departure19787711416

  Trip type: Couples

  Totally worth the money!

  05 Jan 2025

  Great service, nice staff, clean, cozy and safe. Nice lively neighbourhood. Clean linen, nice French breakfast.Available and fast wi-fi. Reception working 24/7 and very helpful. Snacks vending machine with cheap prices.I hope we will visit again this property

• User:moirinha

  Trip type: Solo travel

  It's a no from me

  18 Aug 2024

  Didn't like it. The bedroom was very small, the shower was uncomfortable and rusty, there weren't any towels and the toilet was dirty almost everytime (there is one toilet per floor and is separated from the shower). The staff was also pretty weird, one of them asked for my number and the other one did some questionable questions about my personal life during check in. I would only recomend this place if you're staying for a short period of time, cause it's uncomfortable and has very weird cleaning schedules (you can't enter your room from 11 to 1pm), but it's very near a tub station, so you have easy access to almost every part of Paris.

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• User:SnowOwl17

  Trip type: Solo travel

  You get what you pay for

  19 Aug 2023

  Very well located. Basic but mostly clean. Bed and loo seat both a bit broken but usable. Single room with shower (shared loo) and breakfast at about half the price of anywhere else. Lift out of action so a long way to carry bag to the fifth floor.