Itaca Hostel

A great hostel.
I had booked to stay here for five nights but ended up staying there my whole trip (two weeks). As it's really reasonably priced i could afford it even on a tight budget. The staff are friendly and helpful and spoke very good english. The place is clean and bright and colorful, i loved the paintings on the walls up the rooms. The kitchen and lounge areas are great and helped me save a lot of money as i didn't have to eat out all the time. The only thing i would say i didn't like was how early they closed those rooms (10:30 p.m.) but that is such a minor thing. The location of this place is great, so close to the centre of the city, although it is a little hard to find at first. Recommend this place.

This hostel was a bit hard to find on the map because it's down a small street, but it was well worth it. The hostel has a very artsy theme to it, with each room being a different color and a beautiful painting on the wall in the main lobby. The showers were push button type showers, which was a bit strange. There is a small kitchen, which was nice to make dinner in. The staff were also friendly and helpful. The lockers in each room are a bit like gym lockers, but are roomy and enough to put what you need, but not big enough to put a large backpack. I would definitely stay there again if in Barcelona.

Very good. I haven't stayed in a hostel for years, since I travelled around the Middle East when I was 19. This one was really well-run, clean, cheap and very well-situated. The only bad points are that the map on their website that tells you where to go is rubbish, the main stairwell has a musty, somewhat sewagey smell and the showers, though hot, aren't great. However, everything else is good, and the staff are excellent -- really friendly and helpful and surely able to get jobs that pay several hundred times what they must earn in the hostel. The curfew is 4 a.m. by the way, not 3 a.m. I took the precaution of using earplugs and had several very good nights' sleep.

Great location, although a little hard to find. The rooms are some of the nicest that I've seen, with large lockers. Very clean! If I were back in Barcelona, I would go here again!

This hostel is fantastic because: - Good location near the center of Barcelona (near the Cathedral) - Good bed to sleep - A nice staff - A good breakfast for only 2 euros But also: the door of the bathroom does not work.

Recently I spent two weeks in Spain and Itaca was by far the best hostel at which I stayed. The staff were very friendly and conversational in both English and Spanish (and some in Catalan as well, if you want to learn) and the facilities were really well maintained. The greatest advantage of Itaca is its small, intimate size — it was clean and conducive to rest but still allowed many opportunities to meet like-minded travelers. The hostel is in an excellent location in the city center near Metro stops — it began to feel like home when we'd come back after a long day. The two disadvantages I'd mention are the facts that you have to pay extra if you want breakfast and it's already not the cheapest hostel, and that the enclosed staircase from the lobby upstairs to the room area smells like sewage. Other than that, this hostel was incredible. Highly recommended.

Superb hostel! It has great staff (except for one guy who listens to depressing music at night). The location was good and the spacious dorms make it a really nice place to hang out!

Just great! The hostel is in a perfect location, right in the city center but on a quiet street, with very friendly and helpful staff. The dorms are spacious with big balconies and it's all really clean and bright. If you go to Barcelona I really recommend Itaca.

This place is in a safe location, which can be difficult to find — take a map with you! The staff are friendly and helpful. It has a great atmosphere, and it's clean.

Nice hostel, very clean. AWESOME location, right by the Cathedral. Fairly quiet. The kitchen wasn't open in the morning, which was a pain for breakfast. The bathroom was rather cramped and only had one working shower for the girls.

Fantastic hostel - best place I've ever stayed. We had the twin room, which was superb, and the kitchen/dining facilities were excellent. The staff were always friendly and helpful, and (whilst they were very patient with my pitiful attempts to speak Spanish!) spoke excellent English.

Clean and quiet with very helpful staff. The showers and bathroom are nice. The bar area was very reasonably priced and I met some great people. The hostel is ideally situated; Las Ramblas is on its doorstep. It is suited for people who actually want to sleep at night — well, some of it anyway. Highly recommended!!

This is one of the best hostels I've used. It was very clean, and had a good breakfast for two euros. My only grumble was the single cooker — it was not enough for people trying to cook at the same time. Apart from that, it was excellent.

This place was very good and clean, too. I think I'd stay here again. I got lost when I was drunk, but I found home okay in the end!

Itaca is simply wondeful! It has a clean environment to come back to every night after all the fun! The dorms are spacious and clean, everyone gets a big locker in their rooms, and the kitchen was fantastic--fully equipped and there is a big fridge to store your food. There is a large dining area for meals, internet was reasonably priced, and the location was central and near to the La Rambles. What more can one ask of a hostel?