The Vintage Hostel

I liked this place a lot and thought we got good bang for our buck here.
The location was perfect for us, it was a five minute walk to Gare du Nord, where we arrived and departed Paris via train.
The Sacre Couer is the nearest big landmark near this hotel, which is about a ten minute walk up hill.
The surrounding area has many cafes and things of that nature and more of them appear as you walk downhill towards the city center.
The regular subway stop (Anvers) that is closest to the hotel is about five minutes walk, directly left out of the front door.
While this place is classified as a hostel, the top floor is more of a hotel. We had our own private room with two twin beds and our own shower and bathroom. Everything was clean and comfortable. They will make up your beds during the day if you please.
Free WIFI here was good and was never an issue connecting to. They also offer free coffee, juice, croissants and bread in the morning.
Beer and soda is available for purchase from reception if you’re thirst and don’t want to go out.

This was a great hostel in a well populated area of Paris. Right near 3 metro stops including Gare du Nord.
Super affordable! Only $ 130 for 4 nights. Upon check in they give you clean linens and if you need towels they are only 1 Euro. I stayed in a 4 person room — 2 bunk beds and a bathroom for the 4 of you to share. I had no problems while staying here. Roommates were fine — but you are basically only sleeping in your room anyways.
Front desk is staffed ²⁴⁄₇ — all of them super helpful and friendly. Breakfast is included: croissants, toast, rolls, coffee, tea, and juice. Not a huge assortment, but it’s nice they give you something.
i would definitely recommend this hostel to anyone coming to Paris.

Stayed here for 3 nights in April 2014. My review is for 3 stars because I had a very mixed experience here. When I had to drop off my bag because it was before check-​in time, the guy was really nice, cute, and super helpful to this lost American. When I checked in later that evening, the girl behind the desk really made it look like she hated her job. I couldn’t stay in the same room for all 3 nights (this wasn’t explained well to me), so my first two nights were at this lovely room (with 4 beds) on one of the higher floors, great view, clean everything, recently redone. My last night, I had to move to a lower floor, one of their old yet-​to-​be-​renovated rooms. It was musky, wallpaper from the French Revolution era was peeling off the walls, and the rust-​lined shower stall could cut you any time. It felt like an episode from The Twilight Zone. (Cue music!) While I was staying there, they were doing massive amounts of renovation, so there was a bit of dust along the stairwells, and mid-​day pounding. Not great if you were looking for a day nap. The front of the building was covered in translucent plastic tarp, to seal in the dust that all that work was creating, so it felt a little stifling, but hey, it’s at the cost of nicer rooms down the line. And as for the breakfast, I think that’s what saved it for me, otherwise, I would have just cut and bailed out of this place. It’s Paris, but you can’t expect homemade croissants at a hotel breakfast line, but what croissants they had, weren’t half bad. I was more impressed that I could have as much as I wanted, because I’m pretty sure their croissants were all I used to carb-​load before I ventured out for the day to see the city. There were other things of course, but I only remember the croissants. Again, they weren’t bad, and I’m happy with anything unlimited.

Listen, this place needs a health inspector. It’s disgusting! There is mold in the bathroom, dirt on the walls, stains on the carpet. You can visibly see that they removed the TV from the room and left the holes in the walls from when it was just a hotel. I’ve stayed at plenty of hostels that were clean, this was the worst place ever and the rude guy at the front desk didn’t help either.

Misleading marketing led us to this hostel since their rating appears inflated on other travel websites, so beware. By and large, western European hostels operate at a very high level of standard and many of them could easily compete with the boutique hotel market in terms of quality, location, and value. They are more social but should otherwise be on par with a B&B stay. That definitely means cheap and clean — a plus for chic — but it also means no service, privacy or amenities. Other people are variably a plus or minus. Hostels are a culture for budget-​conscious and cosmopolitan travelers, and have absolutely no correlation to class or socioeconomic status as they might in the States where hostel is pretty much synonymous with flophouse.
Anyway, Vintage Hostel is not a flophouse in the Depression-​era sense of the word but at one point it was at least a run-​down Monmartre hotel whose eerie past still lurks behind the peeling wallpaper and chipping paint. Not at all charmed when the ceiling gave in and collapsed onto the stairway where it remained during the length of our stay. The misrepresentation concerns the obvious discrepancy between the renovated lobby and lounge area vis-​à-​vis the rest of the building, which is to say, am I in LA? From street level, the whole place appears as a legit operation, a restored historic building with an upgraded, contemporary interior but NOT. Issues of maintenance and service were evident in all common areas and rooms, not including the lobby, and we questioned whether or not there was housekeeping which is just sad. Bizarrely, the front desk was rude when we requested an extra room key. Didn’t exactly strike me as the worst day job one could have in Paris but c’est la vie right?
We stayed in a 4-​bedroom all-​female dorm with an ensuite and bunks (so passé). The bathroom had black mold everywhere, also where it remained throughout our stay. While there appeared to be partial clues as to the presence of «housekeeping» we still couldn’t confirm it given the complete and absolute denial required for that amount of black mold to continue to exist. We also observed: dirty, damp carpeting, squeaky metal bunks with flimsy thin mattresses, sparse, cheap bedding, holes in the wall, musty odors. Our third roommate was a young college-​aged traveler from Taiwan. She liked it, but we quickly agreed her naïveté was to blame. I expect that some of the more easily-​impressed guests with their buoyant reviews might include the party train vacationing set because it’s unclear as to which is the bigger mess. Even for the price we found it to be below average. There are other options so cross-​reference your research! I’ve stayed in well over a dozen hostels in Europe and none of my experiences in that category of accommodation have ever compared to this. Mea culpa.
To be fair, the pros are its proximity to both Gare du Nord and the metro. Though we weren’t interested, the area contains a number of tourist attractions which also means it comes with the requisite shit dining options within the immediate area. You can technically walk over to the ultimate tourist attraction, the Louvre. Here’s a tip, if you happen to be in Paris on the free admission day (monthly), it is possible to get in there without waiting in a ridiculous line. Just show up at least two hours before opening and hang out at Starbucks (free wifi, still a luxury in Europe). If you get there closer to noon then the wait becomes three hours or more and then it becomes NOT worth it. Just suck it in. If you do get in there, quickly identify your favorite period and/​or culture of art and be ready to identify the art form you would most rather see because there is definitely no time to see it all. If you can’t do that then you’ll probably only have time for the Mona Lisa, which was a laughable exhibit on my way out. It’s so meta to go to the Louvre to look at people looking at the Mona Lisa. Paris is an adult’s Disneyland, you can’t possibly make enough time to wait in every line every day so choose wisely. If you’re American, don’t get condescending on the lurker gypsies with your bourgeois pity because they are savvier and smarter than you. French people have zero qualms about screaming right at them, so don’t feel bad.

If I could give this place 0 stars I would! I have no words for the sub-​standard conditions! I took pictures and posted. Those speak volumes of just how deplorable the conditions were!
The gentleman at the front desk was nice enough but his pleasantness could not make up for the environment!

I really enjoyed my time at the Vintage Hostel. It was my first time staying in a hostel and I shared one bedroom and bathroom with three women. The neighborhood around the hostel isn’t the best… and you should keep your wits about you when walking alone. However, the hostel itself felt safe and inviting. I enjoyed free wifi in the downstairs lounge and had a relatively peaceful sleep.
Keep in mind that you’re sharing your quarters… so someone might arrive late and make a lot of noise as they settle into bed. On some evenings, you might be the one making a lot of noise. However, in general, I found my bunk mates to be friendly and considerate during my 4-​night stay. I also got to converse with a couple of them and found them all to be friendly people.
When you consider the low cost of this hostel against the price of local hotels, I believe it’s worth every penny.

Great place!
They are super nice and accommodating. I had to change my booking twice and then finally had to cancel and they did not charge. I stayed here two years ago and had a wonderful time. It is a very well located hostel!
Stay here!

I stayed here at Vintage a few weeks ago. It’s definitely an alright place; it served my needs for the night. Linens were clean, bathrooms were ensuite, bunk beds were pretty comfortable. It was exactly what you’d expect in a hostel for 30 Euro a night in Paris. Breakfast was provided in the morning, and the WiFi worked well. I can’t complain.

It’s close to Gare Du Nord, so that’s a big plus. Also it’s close to Basilique du Sacré-​Cœur, a underrated attraction in Paris that if you’re staying here you should certainly make the point to walk the five minutes to see it.
The balcony in the second floor rooms is great for socialization, and the rooms are nice… though a little cozy for the four people they fit in there.
It’s a fair value for Paris, and though it’s fairly far from the city center, I returned to it when I passed through Paris a second night.

I would like to start off by saying: I am so angry with this place, I am writing this review from their lobby. This place started out pretty decent. The sheets were clean, the atmosphere was social and most of the employees were extremely nice. The place would have gotten four stars if it was not for one rude employee who didnt handle a problem very well.
They checked me into the wrong room. They did not figure this out until 4 in the morning. At this time, the man at the desk, decided instead of logically switching rooms (both 4 people dorms, mine all female.) The man working at the desk, decided to rip me out of bed and accuse me of not paying. He then made me pack my stuff in the middle of the night, in my pajamas and go to the front desk. At the front desk, he proceeded to help other patrons check in while I’m literally standing in my pajamas.
I’m like, «This is not O.K.»
«You dragged me out of bed and I’m in my P.J.‘s, you help me first.»
He said, «No!» and demanded the room fee.
Of course I refused to pay twice. But he still insisted on serving other people first, who even told him to take care of me first. So I wouldn’t have to stand in the Lobby in my P. J’s. He refused. Then started yelling about «the fee» And demanded my receipt. I did not have the receipt in my pj’s. He told me to leave, for not paying. So, I told him to think logically. Why would the hostel have given me a key and sheets if I wouldnt have had paid. After asking him this question 3 times while he was extorting money from me, he finally got it. Then he realized I had paid for that room that afternoon. Since my original room, was a more expensive room, He started demanding the 13 Euro balance (for the next days night) me. While it’s the middle of the night and I’m in my pj’s. I refused and said I will talk to someone else in the morning.
I talked to someone else and all I got was an «I apologize for my colleague. It’s not his fault. It was the other guy.»
I said,” the first man who made the mistake did not make the second man handle it rudely and inappropriately.”
The episode lasted about 20 minutes. I was dragged out of my bed, threatened to be kicked out for not paying, and he rose is voice at me. A small apology wont due.

J’ai été surprise de remarquer le «drapeau-​bâche» accroché en haut de cet immeuble puis, d’y voir en bas, tout un groupe de jeunes touristes anglais, avec leurs bagages, dehors et dedans, installés devant les PC connectés en wifi… Alors je suis entrée…
Le Vintage Hostel est idéalement situé pour atteindre les principaux endroits de la capitale, à savoir la Butte Montmartre, le Moulin Rouge ou encore Pigalle, à seulement quelques pas.
Un grand écran trôné dans le salon à côté des machines à café, l’accès wifi y est gratuit, on aussi peut acheter des tickets pour Disneyland à l’accueil, une visite de Paris en bus et autres attractions touristiques ainsi que des réductions sur certaines visites, entrées de musées …
L’attraction des jeunes pour ce type d’hôtel c’est aussi ses prix: 68 € pour la chambre simple, 90 € pour la double ou twin mais surtout, si vous avez des amis ou des enfants d’amis qui veulent venir à plusieurs, ils peuvent réserver un dortoir pour pas cher à se partager entre eux… comme dans nos «Auberges de Jeunesse» (!) avec un dortoir proposé pour 3 ou 4 personnes allant de 35 à 38 €… !!!