HI - Gent Hostel De Draecke

Brilliant!
This was a great hostel. It was clean and the staff were really helpful and friendly. The breakfast was great too. Considering how cheap it is I think you get really good value for money (anyone who expects too much from a youth hostel is sad and deluded!). But this was a refreshing change to some other ones I've stayed in.

Very good
It is a very very good hostel! The staff is friendly, the location is perfect, the room are very clean and with private bathroom! This hostel is surely a very good choice.

Crap
food crap, rooms crap, staff losers. hated every minute. never go.

Great
Thirty-two of us, adults and eleven- to seventeen-year-olds, have just spent five days here and we all had a great time. The accommodation was clean and warm, the food plain and good. We were a noisy group, but the staff were always courteous and helpful. It's a very busy place, book early.

Yuck
Ok. So the other reviewers obviously stayed in this place a very long time ago. It is yuck. The food -- yuck (unless you have a particular lust for soggy omelettes). The staff -- yuck (unless you don't mind the fact that they think prawns are suitable for non-fish-eating vegetarians). The rooms -- yuck (unless you have stayed in prison and therefore will be well prepared for it). It was disgusting. Do not go!

Great! Staff very friendly, makes you feel at home, rooms all had a bathroom attached. Downstairs bar and TV room very cosy. Location great -- right near the center of town and close to tram stop for the station.

We stayed at this hostel in November of 2005 for one night. There were four of us and we had a private room with bunkbeds and our own bathroom. Everything was very clean, the view was amazing, it was in a wonderful location -- quiet, but close to everything -- had a great common area with helpful information, a delicious breakfast included and on top of that was very reasonably priced. It is almost worth going back to stay at the hostel again.

I stayed during the christmas break in ghent. The hostel seems to be the best one I had ever visited. The best thing of the hostel rooms is the private WC in each room. Secondly the breakfast is quiet nice and abundant. I would give 10 out of 10 for the cleanliness and the staff. the last but not least, is the perfect location of the hostel, exactly in the "centrum".

The four-bed room we stayed in seemed a bit too small but it had a nice view and the area's a beauty, as the whole center of Ghent, actually. They've got healthy food at the cafeteria.

This was a super hostel. It had a friendly staff, clean rooms, and a lovely atmosphere. I had no complaints whatsoever.

I stayed at this hostel in August and had a real good time! (The hostel is central, clean, and the staff are very friendly.)

I recently stayed in the hostel on a school music tour to Belgium. It was great. Everyone was really friendly, and the facilities were modern.

Excellent hostel, well-located, with friendly staff and cold beers. What more do you need when in Belgium?