Home Youth Hostel

The rooms are incredibly noisy. All the sound from the street comes in, and there's no sound insulation whatsoever from the door facing the lobby, so you'll hear people and music there as if they're in your room. The room smells musty. Towels cost money and aren't included. The beds are hard. The shower turns cold after about 30 seconds. The wifi in the room is almost unusable. The people are very nice and helpful, the events are fun, and the location is incredible. I've only been treated well by the staff. It's just a very uncomfortable place to stay.

Principally this would be a solid hostel. However, it's WAY too expensive for what it offers. You pay 50€ a night for a decent, but not really above average experience. This was the most expensive hostel on my trip but not close to being best. Good things first: The rooms are nice with no bunk beds, big lockers and many hooks to hang your things. It's right in the center of Valencia, surrounded by restaurants, shops and famous sights and you can get to many places including the train station by foot. The staff is friendly and they organize activities for the guests. Now on to the bad things: There is one (unisex) bathroom with two sinks, toilets and showers per floor (which has 6 rooms) so you frequently have to wait. There's no ventilation in the bathrooms and they're extremely hot and humid, and have hardly any options to hang your things. They’re also kind of old. If the hostel had a more normal price I wouldn't even mention it, but for that money I expect, if not single bathrooms, enough showers or at least separate bathrooms for men and women so you can feel comfortable wearing less to make the heat and humidity more bearable. There is breakfast, but it's nothing special, no big buffet, just a table with a few options, and you have to pay extra for it which is outrageous considering the hostel's price. You can't change the temperature of the AC which is set to 17°C. That's such a waste of electricity, no AC ever needs to be that cold, not even in summer. The thin blankets are not warm enough for that, especially in early autumn. Our key cards stopped working twice during our stay of three nights and the kitchen is pretty small. So all in all, the hostel isn't horrible but the value for money is bad so I wouldn't stay there again. 6/10