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  • 2/5 Average L. 3 months ago on Google • 16 reviews New
    Only worth going for the prices. You get charged if you DON’T make your own bed, there is a SIGN ON THE WALL TELLING YOU NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THE BUGS, rooms are small and food is awful with no options (breakfast was literally sandwiches). The only upside is that it is close to the Christmas markets so if you’re just going for that (and you hate yourself) this place is not too bad.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Elli 2 months ago on Google • 30 reviews New
    Das Personal könnte eine Schulung in Bezug auf Gästekontakt und Freundlichkeit gebrauchen. Mit einem Lächeln im Gesicht oder einem Gruß an den Gast kann man so manche Kleinigkeiten die nicht passen wett machen, danach suchte man allerdings vergeblich. Keine Erklärungen, suspekter Eincheckvorgang ohne abfragen der Gästedaten. Preis sehr hoch. Qualität der Zimmer - Low Budget.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Nicole 1 year ago on Google
    Quite out of the way but well connected with the number 18 line just a 6minute walk away. No free wifi in the rooms (only common areas). Room was clean except when I lifted the mattress to put the bedding on, I found some crumbs. Communal area kept clean. Staff were helpful but not that friendly and wouldn’t let me bring a pizza inside at 10pm even though they don’t offer that. I ate it outside in the cold and wet 😆. Vending machines for coffee, drinks and snacks only take coins and card payments are €10 minimum otherwise only cash. Also for when renting towels (€2 for a big one). Otherwise I’d say it was not unpleasant and I met some lovely girls in my dorm.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Mirko K. 1 month ago on Google • 729 reviews New
    Waren über Karneval vom Freitag bis Dienstag da und wir können es nur empfehlen. Sehr nettes Personal und gut gepflegte Jugendherberge in guter Lage in Kölle. Das Frühstück ist okay und man wird satt aber wir waren nur 2 Mal da wir brauchten den Schlaf... Wir haben ein Upgrade bekommen in der 7.Etage mit Rheinblick ein Träumchen, Danke dafür. Waren nicht zum letzten Mal da.

  • 5/5 C Q. 7 months ago on Google • 143 reviews
    Friendly, helpful staff. They have a bike storage which is secure of you need to lock up for a while. Rooms and facilities are all perfect. Location is a bit further from town but perfect for the zoo which was my plan. Breakfast is included as standard and was all the usual things. Really enjoyed the mushroom pate which I've not seen elsewhere.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Bastian S. 2 months ago on Google • 37 reviews New
    Eine echt besondere Jugendherberge mit direkter Rheinlage. Die Zimmer sind sehr geräumig aufgeräumt und gepflegt. Die Badezimmer waren auch sehr sauber. Das Frühstück war eine gute Auswahl und recht lecker. Zudem besteht eine direkte Bankverbindung mit der U-Bahnlinie 18. Diese hält direkt vor der Jugendherberge. Sehr gut für Jugendliche die Köln besuchen können.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Hazar 4 years ago on Google
    The reception and the security are kind of agressive. But hostel is like a hotel which is very clean and inculiding nice food, tennis tables, playing room, wash machines, enough big garden. And the location is really good its near the river with a good running road and near the train station also museum and zoo is too close. İt deserves 5 stars but i will give 4 because someone in the staff.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Carpiuc C. 11 months ago on Google
    Nice and clean hotel, and the breakfast was verry good and rich! Plenty of parking spaces 24h/24h reception and some snaks and drinks, you have a lot to visit around, 100% i recommend!👍😁
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Pranesh D. 1 year ago on Google
    Highly recommended place to stay. Close to metro station. Rooms were clean, staff was helpful, ambience is super nice. Value for money.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Stefan F. 4 years ago on Google
    Best youth hostel I experienced in Cologne. Nice staff. Great parking. Great location. I really liked how nice and servicing the staff is. Five extra stars for the guy servicing the coffee bar
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Anh T. 2 years ago on Google
    I was staying here for 2 weeks and had to stay in quarantine for 5 days, so they brought food to my room. It wasn't all perfect cus sometimes they forgot to feed us, but all in all I think it's a really nice place to stay with tasty food, clean and nice rooms, outdoor areas. They have meat & vegetarian meal options for you, with color-coded coins to differentiate. Vegetarian is yellow coins.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Tess H. 7 months ago on Google • 92 reviews
    A huge, modern youth hostel open to all ages. Great for families because there are 4-person rooms with private shower & toilet. The buffet breakfast is included & we enjoyed lots of fresh fruit, yoghurt, coffee/hot chocolate, eggs, jams, different breads. The location is great if you don't want to be right next to all the bars etc. This hostel is a 10-minute tram journey from the cathedral (Line 18) & a 2-minute walk from the river 👍🏻

  • 5/5 Leonardo Tavares F. 1 year ago on Google • 72 reviews
    Was nice, a beautiful window view from the 5th floor, big lockers, all working good and clean. The attendants were very nice people, English speakers also. I think the breakfast could be better, the orange juice was more a water flavoured than juice.

  • 2/5 M G. 7 months ago on Google • 67 reviews
    Very kind staff, nice room, good breakfast. The room was not cleaned properly. Only one meal was offered, and that was most of the time fast food. Salad bar was basic. Two of the 3 elevators would be out of order. Very loud until the middle of the night and crowded as many schools do trips here.

  • 4/5 Ewelina C. 2 months ago on Google • 19 reviews New
    Delicious breakfast, spacious rooms. The bedsheets smelled a little. Great view. Place located near of zoo, but quite out of centrum.

  • 5/5 Drishya R. 9 months ago on Google • 15 reviews
    The breakfast is nice. The rooms are clean and very comfortable. Each bed has plug points right next to it and a space to rest the phone and keep other things. Only 6 mts walk to the metro station

  • 5/5 Mathias H. 5 months ago on Google • 7 reviews
    Das Preis Leistungsverhältnis ist hier super. Wer den gehoben Service eines hotels erwartet ist hier verkehrt denn es ist "nur" eine Jugendherberge. Die Lage ist sehr gut da die Innenstadt binnen 10min. Via Bahn erreichbar und der Zoo sogar zu Fuß direkt um die Ecke ist. Dennoch ist es sehr ruhig gelegen und es gibt wenig bis keinen Lärm durch Verkehr bzw. Personen. Ich habe das Zimmer sauber vorgefunden und auch beidem Frühstück war alles dabei was man für einen Start in den Tag benötigt. Als super extra kann ich noch erwähnen das in den direkt an dem hotel angrenzenden Park Halsbandsittiche zuhause sind welche sich auch vom Zimmer aus beobachten lassen 👍 Alles in allem sehr gut und ich komme gerne wieder.

  • 5/5 Bernd K. 1 month ago on Google • 6 reviews New
    Sehr freundliches und hilfsbereites Personal. In der Jugendherberge ist es sehr ruhig und es herrscht eine angenehme Atmosphäre. Uns hat die Lage direkt am Rhein sehr gut gefallen. Man ist mit einem Spaziergang am Rhein entlang in ca. 1 Stunde am Dom und mit der U-Bahn auch sehr schnell am Hauptbahnhof

  • 5/5 m H. 1 month ago on Google • 6 reviews New
    Wir hatten Komfortzimmer die sauber und für eine Jugendherberge sehr ansprechend waren. Das Personal war super freundlich und ich persönlich finde es einfach nur klasse, das Inklusion als selbstverständlich dort gehandhabt wird. Da dürfen sich andere eine große Scheibe von abschneiden. Weiter so! Dafür 10 Sterne von mir. Frühstück war wirklich ok. Es war genügend da. Verstehe einige Kommentare nicht. Es ist eine Jugendherberge und keine 5*Bäckerei. Es kann jeder satt werden. Wir kommen sehr gerne wieder.

  • 3/5 Biene 3 months ago on Google • 6 reviews New
    Ich übernachte mehrmals im Jahr dort und dass bereits seit einigen Jahren. Der Service am Empfang ist immer super, sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit. Beim letzten Besuch im Dezember waren wir jedoch sehr enttäuscht vom Frühstück. Das Brötchen- und Wurstangebot war sehr dürftig, es war nie auch nur ein Saft vorhanden und auch das Kaffee Angebot hat sich verschlechtert. Schade.

  • 5/5 Kerry D. 3 weeks ago on Google • 6 reviews New
    Hallo aus Detmold, was für ein herzlicher Empfang an einem regnerischen Abend beim Check in. Das Zimmer und der Ausblick waren echt der hammer. Das ganz Personal war super und hat uns die Messewoche in vielen Dingen bereichert. Danke!

  • 4/5 Ioan-Alexandru H. 4 years ago on Google
    Nice hotel, may have expected at least some towels for the price. Decent breakfast, overall a good place for teens looking for a cheap accomodation. The city center is 4 km far from the hotel and it is easily accessible by tram. You can have dinner here, but I recommend the nearby restaurant on the river shore, called Schwimmbad Sommer Garten.

  • 5/5 Tony Leon G. 8 months ago on Google
    Excellent location with friendly Staff. Very clean hostel. Disabled access. Great Breakfast Buffet. Highly recommended.

  • 5/5 Jack Painting (. 1 year ago on Google
    Stayed here for 2 days with a group. Great room and ventilation, comfortable beds, good food and a good bathroom

  • 5/5 Tin F. 1 year ago on Google
    Hotel and rooms are very clean! Loved our buffet breakfast every morning! Room has a nice balcony view facing the river!

  • 3/5 Peet S. 1 year ago on Google
    Rooms are big and the bed comfortable. The hotel has a very cheap feel to it as you have to bring down your own linen for washing and have to clear your own table after eating. You also have to physically split your plate, leftovers and cutlery. I didn't expect to do this after paying €90 for a room.

  • 4/5 jwj 6 years ago on Google
    Stayed here 3 nights with a school group. Close to public transit with frequent rides to the city centre, and very near the zoo. Breakfast was adequate with small selection of cereals bread jam hams and cheeses, evening meals were quite good with only 1 option but a very well stocked self serve salad bar. Room for 5 was quite large and all the beds were plenty big enough for a grown man. Room itself was clean as well as the very spacious and well appointed bathroom. Oddly enough there was a warning sign that ladybugs would crawl into the room for warmth and shelter since it was the beginning of the cold season and indeed they did. We weren't bothered but I could see it being a problem to some people. Also worth noting it was very quiet in there I never heard a sound from the neighbouring rooms.

  • 4/5 Mr R. 4 years ago on Google
    Clean rooms, tasty breakfast and free parking which was for me very important in Germany where all city centres have no places without fee. Quite close to cathedral (45 minutes walk along Ren).

  • 3/5 Helen G. 6 years ago on Google
    Came with a school group. Rooms are fine, bunk beds for students, small toilet and shower room in bedroom. Clean and close enough to the centre of Cologne. Breakfast is typical German fare and good choice. Evening meals were very poor, small portions and no choice. First night was nuggets and chips in quantities sufficient for a small child and the salad bar was nearly empty. Catering staff were most unhelpful.

  • 5/5 Richard R. 4 years ago on Google
    Where to start. Well amazed by the staff, who were very helpful, the food was nice the room was very nice, good view too. All in all a lovely place to stay. I would certainly recommend this place if ever anyone I know where visiting Cologne

  • 5/5 Ehsantheguide 2 years ago on Google
    i slept one night there and it was pretty cool place i like the area specially around. located at the center of garden. the room were clean it has safe lockers. and also guests are friendly. the sheets and pillows are changing for every person and staff were super friendly also one of them offer me a coffee. generally it was very good.

  • 5/5 Afra Z. 2 years ago on Google
    We stayed at this hostel for Anuga 2019. It is located next to the Rhein river. The room & common places were very clean. They provided iron at LG floor. Free breakfast

  • 5/5 Silvia S. 2 years ago on Google
    Perfect youth hostel! It was clean and the bunk beds were more comfortable than I'd expect. It is what you expect from a youth hostel, but neater!

  • 2/5 Iryna G. 2 years ago on Google
    Relatively cheap place with poor service even for Germany.... The room and the bathroom were ok, the breakfast was a disaster

  • 4/5 Al 3. 2 years ago on Google
    The price was quite high The room was clean and guest were friendly

  • 5/5 Kathryn S. 2 years ago on Google
    Friendly staff, good selection at breakfast, and clean room!

  • 5/5 Timothy S. 4 years ago on Google
    this is the nicest, cleanest and most spacious hostel I've stayed at; important to understand that it's not a hotel. breakfast and dinner options, snack bar, an easy walk to the Rhein, nice rooms, friendly staff; I don't speak German and most of the staff had fluent English skills

  • 4/5 Wendy B. 1 year ago on Google
    It is nice but the wifi doesn’t reach the rooms - you can only use it on the first floor, which is quite uncomfortable. Besides that it’s ok, it’s clean and it includes breakfast.

  • 4/5 Arne D. 1 year ago on Google
    Decent size rooms, clean beds, easy check in/out

  • 4/5 Jean-Pierre R. 1 year ago on Google
    Very well located, cheap, clean and comfortable

  • 5/5 Noom C. 1 year ago on Google
    Great rooms inclusive breakfast

  • 5/5 Alice J. 1 year ago on Google
    Brilliant hostel, rooms amazing clean with on suite bathrooms. Can't fault them.

  • 4/5 Hugo R. 6 years ago on Google
    The hostel is huge, only 4 stops away from the central train station or a 40 minute walk to the center. The included breakfast was tasty and filled me up the two days I stayed there. Rooms were clean and spacious. Staff was accommodating. I would recommend!

  • 4/5 Okoromodeke P. 1 year ago on Google
    Was nice but the bathroom was without towels

  • 1/5 Steven W. 8 months ago on Google • 1 review
    Mattress and sink were covered in flies and various bugs - there was even a sign telling me not to worry about the bugs in the bedroom. Clearly you should. The wifi and dryer do not work. The free breakfast buffet gave me an upset stomach on a travel day. Staff is friendly but friendliness is unable to fix these issues.


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  • Hotel
    • ✓ Free Wi-Fi
    • ✓ Breakfast
    • ✓ Parking
    • ✓ Kid-friendly
    • ✓ Restaurant
    • ✓ Bar
    • ✗ Pool
    • ✗ Air-conditioned
    • ✗ Pet-friendly
    • ✗ Airport shuttle

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