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Hostival - Hangover Hospital Details
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Location/Contact| Address | Schäringerstrasse 1, Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
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| Website | www.hostivalonline.com |
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
Highly recommended!! I have stayed at Hostival a couple of times and am joining them again this year at Oktoberfest. I can honestly say it is the best place to stay! I cannot believe the rubbish that people have posted on this site. Hostival is non stop fun with great beds to crash on. The staff are super friendly too. Hostival is definitely not a scam, they sent me confirmation of payment straight away and have never had any problems booking with them. I cannot wait for the party to start!!! — Anonymous , British (2012-03-28) Best Hostel Ive ever stayed at! I would highly recommend Hostival to anyone looking for a great place to stay. The price is perfect, the people are friendly and the staff are incredible. We had such a fun time and got very well looked after. Will definitely be back. — Anonymous , South African (2012-03-22) Scam Please do not book with them. Their website is a lie. The pictures on the website are NOT what they offer. Myself and 10 others slept in a tent with wooden grates as floors. It was so cold you can see your breath, and the tents were not heated. All they gave you was a sheet for the mattress, a thin thin blanket, and a pillow the size of a dvd case. They say it's a 10 minute walk from Oktoberfest. This is also a lie. It's a 10-15 minute walk to the subway, then a subway ride across town, then Oktoberfest. If you do stay here and are planning on checking in after dark, be careful. It's in a very sketchy area, down a not-so-well lit gravel road which leads to a bunch of abandoned warehouses. Especially if you're a woman, don't walk alone. I spent 2 weeks in Germany, spending ~50 euros per night at various hotels. If I can get a decent room for that price, WHY did I sleep in a tent and wake up with a cold and a cough from being so cold? because I didn't read posts like this. Please please do not stay there! You will be very disappointed!Response from the accommodation: Hello Anonymous, I'm very sorry about your experience. Please email us at info@hostivalonline.com. As of Jan 2012 Hostival is under new ownership. While we cannot tend to less than fantastic experiences in the past we can encourage that our guests contact us for resolutions. We have a dedicated group of return travellers to many of our events, Oktoberfest included. While we are by no means a luxury accommodation provider we aim to meet certain guidelines, namely those of budget accommodation/hostel travel. Festival atmospheres can often get out of hand quickly but this has never prevented us from keeping clients happy. — Anonymous , Canada (2011-11-21)
These guys are absolute thieves! Do not under any circumstances book with this lot. Yeah I know the website looks great, but it's all a sham. There are no rooms with decent bunks (website shows great, ultra modern rooms, you end up with these sub-thermal paper thin tents), no cool staff dressed as doctors and nurses (just lazy as hell fellow travelers who have no idea what's going on), the place is NOWHERE NEAR the Oktoberfest grounds (despite the website saying it's a leisurely 10 mins walk away), it's not in this idyllic park as advertised (it's in this disgusting industrial site in the middle of nowhere), it's freezing cold because you're sleeping in these terrible, slapped together tents, no hot water ... honestly the list goes on. Do yourself a favour and give these thieves a wide berth, and tell literally everyone else you come across to do the same.Response from the accommodation: Hi Drew, I'd like to start off with informing you that as of Jan 2012 Hostival is under new ownership. I apologize for your experience. Hostival Oktoberfest does maintain the mobile tented setup of years past with the "ultra modern" hostel you speak about being the fully mobile unit which is slowly being implemented across all of our operating festivals. The hostelbookers images depict what was on offer. Social media indicates that at Oktoberfest 2011 there were staff dressed according to the Hangover Hospital guidelines however I would like to address all of your concerns personally so please email me at info@hostivalonline.com. I apologize for any unpleasant experience you may have had but want to assure you this is not a modus operandi for us and slip ups will be corrected. Looking forward to your email — Drew , Australia (2011-11-09)
Rubbish rubbish rubbish hostel. All it is is a scam being run by a gangster. Pretty much every single word they say about themselves is a lie. — Not andrew bourke , irish (2011-10-20) Hostival is a scam! First of all, I am NOT a picky traveler. I can usually sleep anywhere, on anything, through anything, and be grateful for it. But this was abysmal. Some of their lies ... 1. Photos from their website depict a hostel with a ceiling and walls. In reality, you stay in a big tent (only canvas separating you and the cold night air, which seeps through from every giant crack) with 20 bunks. Photos on the website are not digitally composited to look "funky"; they are digitally created because they do not and will never exist. 2. "Clean linens." There were no pillows at all. You had a protective mattress sheet IF you were lucky, and a thin comforter with no protective sheet -- again -- IF you were lucky. 4. "Private parties, and organized group events." They advertised a pubcrawl, which actually only included a couple dreadful, deserted clubs next door to the "hostel" in an industrial wasteland. 5. "15 minute walk to to Oktoberfest gardens." It was a 15 minute walk to Ostbanhof station, then a 15 minute train trip to Oktoberfest. 6. "Complete with cute reception hangover nurses & murses." Staff did not make any reference to the hospital theme in dress nor attitude. Furthermore, they clearly just as naive about Munich and Oktoberfest as the guests. 7. "24 hour hot showers."
True, if you woke up at 6am to get one of the first showers of the day. Otherwise they were ice cold. 8. "Beer garden." Are they referring to the carpark? 9. "4 kitchens." There were NO kitchen facilities. 10. "Social room." Well, there was a couch that the staff lounged on. 11. "Exclusive beer tent closing after parties." Again, perhaps they are referring to having a smoke in the parking lot. 12."Daily cleaning services." Nope. 13. "Free Wi-Fi." Still no. 14. "Lockers in dorms."
None. 15. "Safety deposit." Nein. 16. "Tours/Travel Desk" Zilch. 17. "Free city tour." Nada. 18. "Restaurant." Hmmm, no. 19. "Power outlets" There was NO electricity in our rooms or in the toilets/showers. 20. "Located right in the heat of the action, the famous Kultfabrik which happens to be Europe's biggest party zone with over 40 clubs and the official after party zone of the Oktoberfest."
Absolutely false. There is no official after party zone of Oktoberfest. And even if there was, it would not be Kultfabrik (again, it's an industrial parking lot with a couple abandoned ghost clubs). 21. Photos on their website also depict a full-size football field. I'm not too fussed, but nevertheless, this was nowhere. I don't disapprove of this kind of accommodation AS LONG AS it's advertised truthfully. Travelers have the right to make informed decisions about what they pay for and so they can come to a foreign country/city prepared (with a sleeping bag) if necessary BEFORE they pay 100% of their misinformed booking. I had friends who rented campsites which provided tents and sleeping bags for less than this "hostel". At least they weren't waking up every 10 minutes from uncontrollable shivering. — Tia , Australia (2011-10-03) Deplorable This was by far the worst experience ever! their website contains so many false information it is deplorable. On the first night we were told there were no blankets left. We spent an entire night freezing to death because there was of course no heater! I couldn't feel my fingers after 30 minutes. When we arrived, we saw a poor guy drinking vodka to warm up because he was so cold. He was actually crying and ended up begging a guy to let him sleep in his car with the heater on. The showers had no hot water, there was no electricity in our room and the "hostel" was located nowhere near the Oktoberfest tents.Response from the accommodation: Hello Idriss, As of Jan 2012 Hostival is under new ownership. I apologize for your experience. Unfortunately we cannot undo the past, and as with many reviews the positive moments end with a high five at the door but any negative experience will motivate it being voiced. Thus, please send us a detailed email at info@hostivalonline.com so we can deal with the issue. We value all of our customers and aim to meet the needs of the budget festival traveler. If someone slipped up - we need to make sure it doesn't happen again. Looking forward to your reply. — Idriss Abkal , United Kingdom (2011-09-26)
Hostival total SCAM Dont book this place. Is a total SheetHole. What you find is some tents, you catch cold and no hot water. It totally ruined my holydays in Octoberfest. Several people went there and left some minutes ago. I had to sleep there for 2nights since i hadnt no other place to go. — Anonymous , Portugal (2011-09-26) This place is awesome This place is awesome. Hostival is awesome, the staff is fantastic, and even get dressed up to theme at every event! They run free pub crawls and make sure you meet all the other guests and that you get as drunk as they are! If your a stiff then don't join in because this is for the party animals at the festivals they attend. This is such a unique hostel that I have been to a few of the events the run accommodation at. They are a mobile hostel and are only present in cities at festival period. So if your into having a good time or even into actually going to Hostivals then you should totally visit these guys because they ROCK. — Andrew Bourke , Irish (2011-05-18) SCAM. Do Not Book! Be forewarned -- A day after you make the reservation through their site, or another portal site, Giuliano Giocovazzi, the supposed owner, sends you an email asking you to wire the remaining portion of your deposit to a bank account at least three weeks before you arrive. This put me off at first, so I did some research on the internet. On every site they are unreviewed -- though they have supposedly been open for more than a year. Finally after a good amount of searching, I found a forum thread describing the hostel -- another man had encountered the same problem, and didn't want to wire the money. They refused to answer his emails, and after weeks they told him it would be fine to just pay when he got there, only to send another email a few days later saying the hostel would not be opened as they had a pipe bursting, so NO ONE could stay here. They were stories of people who worked for them and never got paid -- of people who booked through and found out at the last moment. The supposed videos that they have taken from previous experiences are stock footage, the pictures just taken from everyday dorm pictures. Do Not Book through them. Do not send them the money. Do not get scammed. Long and Short of it. THIS IS A SCAM. No, I have not stayed there. And no, I never will.Response from the accommodation: You have never stayed at the hostel yet you call it a scam, you obviously have not been scammed because you were not willing to pay for your accommodation! Hostival accommodates 500+ guests a day at 5+ events a year and you can see all images and videos on our social network posted by guests wh did pay for their accommodation and in turn were not scammed! Fortune favours the brave and sometime paying for your accommodation can be the bravest thing you do! — Helping you Out , United States of America (2010-08-14)
