The Hostelz.com Review
The Dizzy Daisy Hostel Pedzichow is the ideal place if you are looking for a base for partying all night in the nearby, awesome Krakow clubs and then chilling out and watching one of the many movie channels all day. It's a big hostel, spread across different buildings but with a central communal quad, which would be great in summer but only used by the smokers in winter. Hopefully they'll eventually ban smoking inside for the comfort of everyone. The lounge has TV and internet and is open plan to the kitchen and dining room so it is easy to meet people.
If you are not looking for a party hostel, this is still a great place with free internet, free laundry and breakfast, though the breakfast is in the next-door restaurant and is basic. The hostel location is ideal -- it's very close to the old town, trams, train, and bus station as well as a very big shopping mall if you're looking for the usual modern goods.
The kitchen is small and simple but more than sufficient. There tends to be a shortage of toilets, but there are enough showers and everything is kept clean enough. The dorm rooms are large and spacious and occasionally accompanied by a sweet, crazy cleaning lady who comes in at 10:30 a.m. and shouts at everyone in Polish! Good lockers are part of the deal and each dorm is locked separately within each locked apartment within the locked complex so it is quite a secure hostel (and there's no curfew).
If you are not looking for a party hostel, this is still a great place with free internet, free laundry and breakfast, though the breakfast is in the next-door restaurant and is basic. The hostel location is ideal -- it's very close to the old town, trams, train, and bus station as well as a very big shopping mall if you're looking for the usual modern goods.
The kitchen is small and simple but more than sufficient. There tends to be a shortage of toilets, but there are enough showers and everything is kept clean enough. The dorm rooms are large and spacious and occasionally accompanied by a sweet, crazy cleaning lady who comes in at 10:30 a.m. and shouts at everyone in Polish! Good lockers are part of the deal and each dorm is locked separately within each locked apartment within the locked complex so it is quite a secure hostel (and there's no curfew).
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October 2006
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Life savers! We only stayed for one night, so we didn't experience much, but the staff were life-savers. We missed our train the previous morning coming from budapest, so we had to take a night train instead, loosing a full day's visit in krakow. We arrived in Poland only to learn that the hostel we had reserved was actually way out of town. Since we really wanted to start visiting the city, the staff at the hostel offered us a place right away. They were also kind enough to come and pick us up right there at the metro station. They let us drop our things and also take showers at our arrival, even if check-ins were only later in the afternoon. They also offered tours of the attractions we wanted to see, so it was perfect! — can1 , Canada (2008-09-13) I stayed there only once and I will not go back. There was such a crowd in the room (little space and 10 people) that I was wondering if my feet touch the feet of some other person. Not very comfortable. Bedsheets are ancient. The doors are precious old and stylish. The bathrooms are horrible, dirt, dirt, dirt. Ugh! Believe me, the room and the bathroom I stayed in was not like the one on the photo provided on this page. Maybe this is an exclusive option? Not far from the center. Not recommended. — Quembeque (2006-04-28) I stayed here for three nights. It was a great hostel. The staff were really great, very friendly and helpful. Tom is a cool guy. There is no smoking inside so that's not a problem. The kitchen was ok, pretty small and basic but it served its purpose, and it seemed clean enough to me. The rooms were a bit cramped but that's life in a hostel. Free Internet AND free laundry, that is a first and only in my book and I've been travelling seven months. Sure the Internet usually has a few people keen to use it though. The TV has satellite and it's pretty social too. I rate this hostel as excellent, one of the better ones I've stayed at and Krakow as a must-visit place. — Ollie (2005-11-21) I stayed there 3 nights. Let's set the hostel review straight:
1. NO one would ever stay here a week, even if they had a broken leg.
2. The rooms are not entirely unpleasant, but they're very small for the number of people, and the beds do need to be replaced.
3. If the kitchen is cleaned once every other day, I would be surprised.
4. The common room is nice, if one removes all the friends of the owner and staff who chain smoke in there all day AND use the internet even when guests are standing behind them, waiting for almost an hour!!!
All in all, this place would be my second choice after, say, the small-pox ward, solitary confinement at Riker's, death row. . . It is better than sleeping outside in the Siberian winter, maybe? — Julius (2004-08-20) I thought that this place was fantastic. We stayed here for a week and had a great time. The bedrooms are big and very comfortable, and ther bathrooms are modern and clean. There is a great common room to chill out and party in, and a computer with free internet access. The kitchen is a good size and cleaned at least twice a day, but it is more the responsibility of the guests to clean up after themselves - fair enough I think, its a hostel not a hotel. I would fully recommend this place if your looking for a friendly, lively, and sociable atmosphere. — Anonymous (2004-08-07) I didn't stay long in this hostel. The rooms were unpleasant, without proper beds, and kitchen was dirty. — Anonymous (2004-08-03)