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Friends to Be

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😠 DANGER DO NOT STAY HERE. FIRE HAZZARD. Toxic fumes in our room, probably an electrical fault with the overhead fan. We had to change hostel as no other room was available. They refused to refund us to cover the additional costs we incurred by booking another hostel. This was really dangerous and w... People often mention bedbugs, hostel, room, BEDBUGS, night,


Address

Cra. 36 #10-43, El Poblado, Medellín, El Poblado, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Contact

+57 316 5345601

Rating on Google Maps

3.90 (96 reviews)

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  • 1/5 Michelle S. 6 years ago on Google
    BEDBUGS!!!! CHINCHA DE CAMA!!!! BETTWANZEN!!! КЛОПЫ!!!! so guys here is the story this hostel if full of bedbugs and the staff is not caring at all! no one speaks English, stuff is getting stolen here and they pretend to not understand what happened! We found this animals on the bed what is a sign for serious bedbugs problem! We spoke to the reception and they did literally NOTHING! We checked out immediately and they booked the rooms with new people without destroying the bugs with chemical substances!!! THIS IS CRAZY !!! DONT STAY HERE - DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! The price isn't worth your whole suitcase full of bugs and a horrible bitten body! Attached you can find a picture of the bitten skin and the animals! STAY AWAY !
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Oisin M. 5 years ago on Google
    DANGER DO NOT STAY HERE. FIRE HAZZARD. Toxic fumes in our room, probably an electrical fault with the overhead fan. We had to change hostel as no other room was available. They refused to refund us to cover the additional costs we incurred by booking another hostel. This was really dangerous and we both felt dizzy and sick from the fumes. The hostel lied about the source of the fumes and laughed at me when I said it was dangerous and a fire hazzard.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 JvG 5 years ago on Google
    BEDBUGS BEDBUGS BEDBUGS Hope that got your attention. Aside from the bedbugs, the place was okay. Good location, decent WiFi, not too much noise at night (we were in room 11 on the second floor). Unfortunately everything to do with the bed was just terrible. The double bed was just two singles pushed together, mattresses were more on the uncomfortable side than not and the pillows were so lumpy they felt like potato sacks. We found the bedbugs on our second night. The front desk employee did not seem at all shocked or concerned when inspected the room (almost as if this was a weekly occurrence). We packed our stuff and got out right away. Employee did seem to understand why we would want to be refunded for the night we were leaving since we had stayed past checkout time. Got 2/3 of the money owed.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Tobsen M. 7 years ago on Google
    Really nice Hostel ! Friendly Stuff , everything is quite new and really clean, good location and cool chillout terrace. We stayed 3 nights in the dorms and we enjoyed it. I can highly recomend that Hostel!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Steffie D. 6 years ago on Google
    BEDBUGS!!! We had bedbugs in our room, and in stead of giving us a refund for the inconvenience the very rude owner blamed us that we took it with us from salento!!! This is not possible though, the complaints started after we slept the first night in friends to be. Next to that: hygiene is very poor and also other people had complaints of bedbugs during their stay there. Furthermore: location is good and cleaning lady is very friendly but breakfast very very basic and employees don’t speak any english.

  • 1/5 Luigi B. 6 years ago on Google
    BEDBUGS!! On my 2nd night sleeping there I woke up full of ichiness, I checked the bed and saw many bedbugs crawling around! My gf has her body completely full with red spots! After complaining, we were given a new room for the next night, but the sheets had already old blood spots, sign that we were not the first ones to have that problem, and sign also of little hygiene from the hostel, so we decided to leave. We've sent an email to the owner explaining how bad it was our experience, and how much hassle we needed to go through (basically we had to wash all our backpacks and stuff at the laundry, which costed us a lot of money and time) and we asked for a refund at least for the 2 nights we spent there, which caused the problem. He/she replied in a very rude way, blaming our hygiene and basically saying that we brought those bugs to the hostel (although we never had problems before)...when we said that Google has more reviews on bedbugs for the hostel, the reply was again rude and more accusatory. This was really the worst hostel experience I had in 3 months in whole South America, I would not recommend it to my worst enemy.

  • 1/5 Vinzent Z. 10 months ago on Google
    BEDBUGS! Just want to inform you about the horrible circumstances. We had no WIFI in the first room so we switched in another one there we found bedbugs all over. Two more of the people we met in other room also had bites and the stuff is not willing to help you. Nobody speaks english it's so horrible. Please be careful it's a really bad place with unfriendly stuff and a huge problem with bedbugs! I had bites all over my body. I'm usually not the guy for bad reviews but thats too bad to not mention it.

  • 5/5 Victor R. 6 years ago on Google
    Beds are very comfortable, it's a really clean place and wifi is very good also you get a towel no extra charge. Staff very knowledge and always helpful.


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