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4 You Munchen Youth Hostel

Munich, Bavaria (Bayern), Germany

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Address
Hirtenstraße 18, Munich   Map
Price
From € 17,50 to € 138,50 (triple Hotel Okt.Fest/Fairs and Worldsoccer) Check Current Prices by Date Here
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Features

  • Free Breakfast
  • Lockers
  • 24 Hour Free Hot Showers
  • Washing Machine (laundry)
  • Lounge / Common space
  • Travel information provided
  • Gameroom
  • Phones (public or in room)
  • Elevator/Lift
  • Bar
 
The Hostelz.com Review
4 You Munchen Youth Hostel is very convenient since it is located only a few blocks from the Munich rail station, an easy walking distance.

However, it looks like a pretty old hotel transformed into a hostel, and there is not enough available space for their customers. The reception is pretty small and always crowded. Though the team does their best to compensate for the space disadvantage and is very efficient, there is always a line. A little too cold and very professional, you will not find a warm reception, though the guys are nice and always willing to provide full information about the town, train schedules, and any other tourist information. They work round the clock and can speak several languages.

Bunk-bed rooms are very crowded (twelve beds in a room), and since the hostel has no curfew and no lockout (it is a private hostel), it happens that you might find yourself sharing room with noisy night people. The hostel is several stories high and has an elevator -- however, with peak movement in the morning hours, this lift cannot satisfy the demand properly. Showers are convenient (twenty-four-hour hot) and located aside from the WC's. Be careful with the door that closes by itself.

Breakfast is included and is served in a big room. This is the place where you can meet people and socialize because there is more space, with many tables and a small courtyard, which is excellent for playing cards and relaxing. The help-yourself breakfast is very rich. No kitchen is available for guests to cook in. The hostel provides free lockers and and a large luggage room and offers internet facilities and tourist excursions and packages. There is also table soccer available.

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Comment by Dimitri, Greece
May 2006
I've stayed in the hostel for one night at April and it was empty. I paid for a six-bed dorm 21.50 euro, but I was alone so it was like a single room. Due to the fact that the hostel was empty, everything was clean and nice. But I suppose travellers will have problems with the toilet facilities during the summer because there were only two cabins for the enitre floor of more than 30 persons. The room was clean and the staff was very friendly (especially the lady in the morning shift) but the guy in the evening couldn't speak English very well. The location of the hostel is also very good. Its one hundred meters from the central railway station and ten minutes walk from Marienplatz. If you are visiting Munich in April I recommend it.
Comment by epostle
January 2006
this hostel was the shizzle. i stayed here and ate breakfast for free, because i didnt know i was supposed to pay for it. but no one stopped me, so give it a go. its in the center of munich which is a boss city. the rooms had lockers which was super sweet. there were also some hot girls in my room. so have fun with that. happy oktoberfesting
Comment by Talia
September 2005
I loved Munich! It was great. This hostel was clean, neat, they have lockers and friendly staff. So many people stay at this hostel that oddly enough it wasn't as conducive to meeting people as a smaller hostel would have been. Breakfast was included and it was delicious. The hostel is in a great location, right across the street from the station and near a bunch of huge department stores. And it's just a hop, skip and a jump from downtown as well as a lot of beer houses. I recommend it! Also, they have information on how to get to nearby sites. They were very helpful.
Comment by Rudi Schäfer
February 2005
Comment from the hostel: I work at this hostel and I must say I am very disapointed about the comments our guests are writing and the arguments I can not understand, We are doing everything to get it a clean hostel, could it be that some guests are not as clean as one should? About the price, there are hostels which are cheaper, but not all the time it depends, when you are in Munich. Alle the rates in 2005 are including breakfast and that's all year long!
Comment by The Herr
January 2005
I stayed at this hostel with a group of friends and none of us had any complaints. It is not that hard to find if you walk there from the Hauptbahnhof (main train station). It's only a five-minute walk and it's convenient to most attractions. I was too drunk most nights to catch any breakfast in the morning so no comments there. We stayed in a co-ed dorm with eight beds and it was quite spacious. The bathrooms down the hall were clean and the staff very friendly. I would definitely stay there again.
Comment by Oliver Schwietert
December 2004
I stayed in the 4 You Munchen for two summers in succession (seven nights altogether). It was clean, friendly, and not as expensive as the other places you could stay at in Munich. [Ich kann zu diesen Kritiken nur eines sagen: stimmt so nicht!! Wer erwartet, dass Hotelpersonal das Zimmer top sauber hält, der sollte sich ein Hotelzimmer nehmen und keinen Hostel-Romm für 12 Personen. Hat sich denn jemand schon einmal gefragt, wie überfüllt München zu bestimmten Jahreszeiten ist? Damit ist der Preis auch gerechtfertigt.]
Comment by Anonymous
November 2004
This place was too expensive (19.50 euros for a bed in a twelve-person room). The staff were not helpful. I really don't recommend it. Stay somewhere else, anywhere else! The 10 a.m. checkout time is immovable, even if you check in really late at night. And the rooms were really cramped. (They put twelve beds in a space most hostels would use for eight or nine at most!)
Comment by Anonymous
October 2004
The owner was very rude and not helpful at all.
Comment by Anonymous
September 2004
My stay at this youth hostel was definitely memorable. I was in my room talking out the window to some kids and the landlord came out and started yelling at me! I thought he was angry because some other kids had been pouring water out the window. Apparently there was some kind of "no throwing anything out the window" rule (?!) I told him it wasn't me, and the next thing I knew he was actually IN my room yelling at me! I guess we aren't allowed to sit on the window ledge.
Comment by Steve
September 2004
Not the best hostel I stayed at, but not the worst. The rooms were okay, the bathrooms got dirty at times (but it was during Oktoberfest), and in my opinion, it was too expensive for what you got (again, though, it was during Oktoberfest). There are better places to stay in Munich.
Comment by Marie
August 2004
This hostel was one of the worst I stayed in! It was REALLY dirty (rooms and bathrooms) and not cleaned a single time during the four nights we stayed. The staff were not helpful at all, and they were rude. I found it expensive, and breakfast was not included.
Comment by Craig and Aurelie Broadway
October 2003
This hostel was extremely difficult to find and we had to pay a lot of money to park our car some distance away. There were no kitchen facilities and the breakfast was not nearly as good as expected (we didn't bother with it). The rooms were clean but very cramped and the bathrooms were dirty. And the hostel was noisy.
Comment by Anonymous
February 2003
This has has lots of kids and the worst beer in Munich.
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