Hostelling International-New York Hostel

Prices differed from advertisements, (was well aware of city & state taxes).
Receptionist was extremely unpleasant on the day of our checkout, was threatening to charge us another night due to the 11 o’clock check out, (Too early). Rooms resembled a broom cupboard with very little privacy due to no fixed ceilling, barely fit two bags and two men in the dorm room.

I stayed in HI locations in Boston, NY and DC in my trip. Out of these three, Boston location is the best, NY is okay, and DC is worse compared to the other two. This hostel is expensive compared to other two, but you can’t ask for more in New York, where everything’s price is so high. I lived in a 6 people room, and it was decent. Room and bed is clean. Location is good, it’s really close to the subway station. There’s a place selling food in the lobby floor, and it is really convenient.

Excelente lugar, grande, limpio, la gente muy amable, me siento comoda y muy contenta de haber elegido este lugar. Super recomendable!!!

This hostel is one of Hostelling International’s gems, IMO. Hostelling International (HI) is an organization run out of Washington DC. It is so past the point of legit, they are one of the Mac Daddys of affordable youth travel. All of their hostels, around the world, have standards (safety and health, guest activities, community outreach, etc) they must meet, in order to keep operating. This joint meets, and exceeds, these expectations!
I’ve stayed at this off-​Broadway hostel both times I’ve visited NYC. It’s huge. Clean. Always get clean sheets and a towel. Many different sized rooms: they have a few private/​2 person rooms, all the way up to 10-​bunk-​bed rooms; shoot, they could have even bigger rooms… Dorm style with bathrooms down the hall. Community kitchen with multiple fridges/​stoves. A movie room. Game room. Café on the main floor, right next to the computers (free wi-​fi). A fantastic outdoor courtyard great for local/​traveling music artists, poetry night, karaōke, talks, or just lounging under the sun!
I’ve always had great experiences with the staff. Always knowledgeable about things going on in the city. If you want suggestions, you’ve gone to the best source! There’s always at least two people manning the front desk. It’s keycard access, so ideally an added level of security. The rooms, because they are college-​dorm layout, range in price. I stayed in a 6-​person (3 bunkbeds) for $ 36 per night.
This architecturally stunning building has been around for years. I believe it’s marked on the national registry… At any rate, they have preserved this building to the best of its integrity. Just a 5 minute walk to the Broadway subway. From there, you’re able to go experience the many cultures of the world :)

El hostel es inmenso. De todos los que visite es el mas grande en el que me hospede. Las habitaciones son bastante chicas, pero por suerte al segundo día nos pudimos cambiar a una habitación de 6 mas espaciosa.
La habitación quedaba justo en una esquina del edificio, tenia vista a la avenida y era muy luminosa. En comparación a la pequeñisima habitación de 6 en la que pasamos la noche anterior, esta era un lujo. Las instalaciones son excelentes. Muy modernas, cómodas y muy limpias (lo cual es sorprendente considerando la cantidad de gente que se hospeda en el hostel). Queda algo lejos de la zona céntrica pero esta una cuadra del subte que te permite llegar a todos lados en poco tiempo. El desayuno que incluíà la habitación de 6 es bastante sencillo: una bebida (café, te, jugo), algo de panaderia (bagel, tostadas, etc) y una fruta. La cocina del hostel esta muy bien equipada y el tamaño es acorde a la cantidad de gente que la utiliza. Es el lugar ideal para conocer gente y pasarla genial!

Gorgeous hostel, really modern, friendly staff, reasonably priced food. Near the subway too!

I enjoyed staying here, staff was very friendly, helpful and very accommodating. Facilities are clean, bathrooms and showers are shared just like any other hostel, but they keep up with it! They have a working kitchen and lots of space to just relax, the café downstairs is fresh and very cheap, all and all I would stay here again if I came to New York.

Great hostel. So well organised and clean and tidy. Staff very helpful. Great location. Can’t fault the place. They cld do with another, or 2 more elevators though

Are you looking for a place to stay in New York without paying more than $ 100 per night? This place may have your answer. I usually don’t stay in hostels, but I decided to visit New York anyway, and took advantage of one open spot before the place got sold out on the US Memorial Day weekend and wanted more flexibility. Since I stayed in a shared room, I didn’t take any pictures out of respect for the guests, but will be detailed as possible about my experience.
I stayed in a dorm room (co-​ed, shared the room with both males and females) that can accommodate 10 guests with five bunk beds. It is fairly spacious. I got the bottom bunk bed. It has a smooth carpet floor, and it was fairly clean. A pillow, linens, a blanket, and a towel will be provided, and the bed was somewhat comfortable with plenty of electrical outlets. There is a small light above your head if you want to read in your bed. The blanket was not warm, but it was a little hot inside, and the air conditioning is a little limited, but it was not sweltering while I was sleeping. From my experience, the bathroom was very far, I had to walk to the other side of the hallway to take a shower and brush my teeth. Surprisingly, the bathroom was very clean and I had a refreshing shower.
There is a locker, but you may have to pay extra for locks and if you want to store your luggage before the somewhat late check in time of 4:00 PM. It is nice that they provide free wi-​fi for internet, but it is VERY slow. The elevator is also very slow, so you may need to use the stairs. The hostel provides a lot of great facilities if you are staying for more than a few days like a laundry room and a large kitchen with plenty of microwaves. There is also a convenient place to buy food and drinks near the lobby, but I strongly suggest you explore New York’s unique and delicious restaurants and many of them can be pretty inexpensive.
The place does offer a variety of social events such as bar hopping and nightclub visits during the weekends. I did not do any of the social events because I already knew people in New York, but I did meet a few friendly travelers. The people who stayed at this place are very diverse. Not only there are young adult travelers from other countries, but I saw elderly couples and even families staying at this hostel. There were also plenty of domestic travelers from different parts of the US.
The location is pretty good but very distant from Midtown. It is in the Upper West Side off Amsterdam and 103^rd, several blocks south of Columbia University, you can get to Central Park in a few minutes by walking, and the 1 train of the subway is not too far from this place.
Overall, this place is a decent choice if you are visiting New York, can tolerate extremely limited privacy, and don’t want to spend more than $ 100 per night. I would come back here again if I do not want to rely on other people to host me in New York and have the flexibility of coming back late at night.

The service is very nice and welcoming. There is a lot of people you can meet. It is very clean and calm at night. the bedroom is comfy and safe as we have lockers. Breakfast is great and the location too.

I slept there just two nights so i didn’t stay enough to say exactly how it is, but i found it as a place very clean and cozy. The breakfast, instead, was terrible.

I arrived June 18 and left June 22, 2014, staying a total of 4 nights at this hostel. I had some issues booking a bed at this hostel, even a month in advance, but the customer service representative I spoke with on the phone was very accommodating and allowed me to book beds in several rooms for my stay. Still, I would recommend booking as far in advance as possible. The prices ranged from $ 58 to $ 65 per night for female only rooms. I did get one night free, however, with a coupon I had from my HI membership, which I highly recommend you get if you are going to be staying at multiple HI hostels in any given year.
The hostel was clean. The location was very convenient. I enjoyed the Ethiopian restaurant nearby. The subway was less than a 5 minute walk away. This is the place I’d stay if I were gonna go to NYC by myself again.

Absolutely love this place. Honestly the best hostel I have stayed in. Staff of the hostel are all very nice and have never had problem with any of them. Great full kitchen to prepare meals. Hostel is always clean, everything from the bathrooms to the bedrooms. Hostel also plans nightly events and outings, making it easy to socialize with other guests.

They have a great team of people there, always willing to help you out when they can and very friendly. I arrived just before Halloween and stayed a week. It was great. The bunk beds were creaky, as they all are, but the rooms were set to a decent temperature and the facilities work as expected. Charlie and Patrick are my standout go-​to guys. They $ 3.99 breakfast is a steal too. I filled up on the sausage and egg bagel, a banana and a hot chocolate almost every day. Would recommend this place to anyone. Transport is a block away

I thoroughly enjoyed staying here on my recent trip to NYC! Everything was super clean and well put together, the staff was attentive and helpful, and you can’t ask for a more convenient spot. It’s super close the subway, there are HUGE lockers for every bunk, and there is a charming little outdoor patio.
You’ll spend just as much (if not more) to stay at a second-​rate hostel with bedbugs, so stay here instead!

Confortavelmente bom! Infra-​estrutura perfeita! Localização privilegiada: a poucas estações de metrô das atrações de Manhattan e arredores. Satisfação garantida em termos de hospedagem. Experimente!

Best Hostel I have ever stayed at! Also the only hostel I’ve ever stayed at. The rooms were nice and really clean. I lucked out with super sweet bunk mates. The showers and bathrooms were clean too. It was super close to the subway making it easy to get to where I needed to go.
Two days in a row I walked from this hostel and ended up at Battery Park one day and over on the Highline the next. Lovely walk but my feet weren’t loving me.
I would stay here, and I plan on staying here, again.

My first time in New York was amazing thanks to Hostelling International. Greeted by friendly staff that were very helpfull giving directions and answering any questions I had. As a female solo traveler I felt safe here. The fact that it is open 24 hours is the best. Make sure to join the pub crawls and other events they host! Also, the rooms and bathrooms are clean. Loved this place and will be coming back!

Nice place to stay, rooms are clean and spacy. I like the shower room, I don’t have to bring my shampoo. There is fresh food and drinking in the lobby almost 24 hours. The traffic is really convenient, line 1 can go to Times Square, south ferry and need no exchange.

Alors là j’ai trouvé le must de toutes les auberges de jeunesses confondues. Je passé de super moment ici et ce n’était pourtant pas gagné pour New York car j’ai bien faillie né pas y mettre les pieds. je né trouvais aucune chambre a moins de 100 $ la nuit (et en dortoir en plus), les appartements ce n’était pas possible car il faut un minimum de 5 jours pour la grande majorité. Une routarde faisant un tour du monde me parle de cette auberge je réserve sur internet et là jackpot!!!
L’auberge est tellement immense, oui à New York tout est immense mais là c’est carrément de la démesure. A l’accueil tout le monde est hyper gentil, évidemment comme pour toutes les auberges c’est ouvert 24h/​24 et 7j/​7. 3 personnes sont là pour vous accueillir. Pas de clé pour votre chambre mais une carte magnétique. Les dortoirs vont de 4 lits à 12 lits. C’est simple, sans chichi, lit superposé en bois, auberge de jeunesse quoi. Drap fournis, grande serviette fournie et 2 oreillers rien que pour vous avec de grands casiers pour ranger vos sacs et j’insiste sur le «grand» car quand on est comme moi et qu’on trimbale un sac de plus de 20 kilos pour 3 semaines le mot «grand» est indispensable.
Les salles de bain! alors j’ai fait des auberges de jeunesses à Londres, en Suède, Copenhague, Canada, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, même en Laponie suédoise et bien je n’ai jamais vu des douches si grandes. D’habitude elles sont archi petite et vous mouillez tout de partout, là c’est spacieux vous avez de quoi accrocher et poser vos affaires, il y a de la place. Et c’est très propre pas de doute sur le fait que le ménage est fait tous les jours!
D’autres choses sont à votre disposition: le wifi gratuit, une salle d’informatique je crois que c’est 2 $ pour 30 minutes, plusieurs salle où regarder la TL ou se détendre, des barbecues, beaucoup d’info touristique et des réductions sur les attractions de la ville, une salle de cinéma … Et tout ça pour seulement 50 $ la nuit. Ça peut monter plus haut pour les chambres privées mais les premiers prix sont à 50 $. Pour ma part 3 jours = 152 $ et pour New York c’est vraiment donné. Placé dans le nord de l’upper west side a même pas 2 minutes du métro, à 3 minutes à pied de central park.
Je né regrette vraiment pas d’avoir choisie cette auberge qui est vraiment génialissime et je la recommande à tout ceux venant à New York avec budget routard!

I’d never stayed in a hostel by myself before so I was a little weary, but this hostel was wonderful! I had done my research of all the hotels under $ 150 in Manhattan, and all the other places sounded like a nightmare, and this was the only cheap place (around $ 100!!) with good reviews. And they were right!
The thing that amazed me the most was how impeccably clean the showers and bathroom area were! My #1! I am usually disgusted and too scared to walk barefoot in any sort of public bathroom/​shower areas. But their showers were cleaner than my own, there was not a hair or trash or anything in sight in the showers. The bathroom has towels and the shower has a soap/​shampoo dispenser.
The rooms were clean too; well the carpets were dark so i couldn’t really tell and the décor drab, but there was nothing dirty that caught my eye. The bunk beds and linens looked clean and folded. The 8 girl dorm was roomy enough for everyone to be able to have their luggage there, and the bunk beds were basic but comfortable enough. The bunk beds included a light linen and light fleece blanket and a pillow. Although there were 8 girls in one room, luckily and surprisingly everyone was quite courteous and there were no crazies. I was super tired that day, and even though people did come back around 12 am, they were very quiet and tried not to talk or disturb anyone.
However, one big negative was that everytime i stepped out of my room, my key card would not work when I came back. It was super annoying, especially after I just took a shower and had to walk downstairs looking like a mess to ask for my card to be re-​activated.
I would definitely come back the next time I ever come back to NYC and need an affordable $ 100 stay!

I really enjoyed this place. I booked a 6 person girls dorm online way in advance and had no trouble. The hostel was clean, spacious, and the location was incredibly convenient to all my touristy needs. The breakfast vouchers were a good deal for me, and gave me one less thing to have to think about. There are loooots of bathrooms and showers which insured that there was never a wait. Most importantly I felt safe there, both inside and in the surrounding area.
–1 star because it could be really hard to get hold of an employee when you had a question or problem, the towel situation was weird, and they did forget to give me the flipflops I’d payed for when I checked in. Minor things, really. I’d definitely come back.

I spent a few weeks in the hostel, rather unfortunately.
Look, the place is pretty clean, the staff are friendly enough, the café is pretty cheap, and the kitchen facilities are pretty good too (but don’t stock up too much, you’ll probably have your food stolen). I was there for Thanksgiving and they put on a free dinner too, which was lovely.
The front desk is staffed 24 hours, which is handy. Each bed has its own decent sized locker, plus there’s a large locker room down in the basement if you have too much stuff. They can sell you a padlock for your locker at the front desk, you can also get a pair of thongs/​flip flops for the showers for just $ 1, and there’s a lot of tours and activities through the hostel.
It’s sounding pretty good so far, but it’s not all great. Don’t expect your bedding or towels to be replaced at any stage during your stay, even if you are there a few weeks. But you can always grab a spare towel down at the front desk or from the staff when they’re turning over unoccupied rooms.
While there’s a laundry with a washing powder dispenser, washing machines and dryers, all reasonably priced, the change machine in the laundry never worked in the three weeks I was there. Nor did the change machine in the downstairs area. You can get your quarters at the front desk, but I had a 15min wait for that while they were checking people in.
The café lists a whole bunch of things, none of which they will make for you. You can only have what’s premade. Unless you speak spanish, then they’ll whip it up for you, I found. Unfortunately I was not the spanish speaker.
While there were no bed bugs, the beds were too short, I had to sleep crouched the whole time, and the mattresses are thin; I ended up with bruised hips from sinking through to the metal base.
The bathrooms get a regular clean, but a good number of the showers are not useable. Rather than a shower, it’s one direct stream like you get from a tap thanks to missing parts from the shower heads.
The room keys constantly stop working. Expect to head to the front desk for a new key every second day. No, I wasn’t keeping it with my phone, it wasn’t just me, it was everyone in the room, and usually every key stopped working at the same time. This is where that 24 hour front desk comes in handy, when you pop out to use the bathroom and there’s no one in your room to let you back in. Don’t go out of the room in anything you don’t want to be seen in wandering through the foyer.
Over all, it was okay. It was cheap, and could have been a lot worse. If you can’t afford a hotel room in NYC, this place is okay for a few nights.

One of the nicest hostels I’ve stayed at compared to Chicago, San Diego, Boston, Miami…
Bathrooms VERY clean & staff incredibly organized, knowledgeable, and friendly. Rooms were spacious with half of them overlooking the decent park and open patio area that was a relaxing hangout spot when weather was good.
The small deli in the hostel was convenient but overpriced, even for NYC standards. A muffin would run you $ 2.45, 1 block away the same muffin was $ 1.50. The main guy that worked the deli with the black goatee was very intelligent and willing to get involved in controversial discussions with sound arguments when it was quiet late at night. Good guy!
I paid $ 52 a night, the most I have paid for a hostel ever BUT I didn’t mind since it SO well kept and professional. I stayed Ina. 10 bed male room and only had 2 roommates during my Sunday-​Tuesday stay.
I was able to go run ALL of Central Park and get back to the Hostel (6.5 miles) in under an hour too! Good location!
I would recommend!