Lucky Youth Backpacker Apartments Hostels

Great experience!
Lucky Youth Hostel is an organisation that makes sure that people between eighteen to twenty-eight years can live in a backpacker friendly real Parisian apartment. Centered around the Sacre Coeur, living in the Montmartre area with new made friends, there's nothing better! In every apartment one can find a kitchen, bathroom, radio, and sometimes even a washing machine. Because you are living in someone's home, there's a real home-feeling about the rooms, with plants, books, and paintings of the owners. When you arrive in Paris, you'll have to give the manager (Eloise) a call, so she can tell you which metro to take. Because there is more than one house, they'll tell you where you will be staying by picking you up at the confirmed metro station (for me this was just across the famous Moulin Rouge). They (one or two representatives of Lucky Youth) will walk you to the apartment and give the key, entrance code, and the address. For me this worked perfectly, because I immediately met some new people and felt personally welcomed. But some people didn't really understand that this is what you'll have to do (and became a bit frustrated about it). So: call, make an appointment, wait for a bit, go to your room, and then go and entertain yourself! There's no hostel lobby where you can go with all of your questions, only the representative(s) and Eloise -- whom you'll have to call or send an e-mail. Because there's no curfew and the apartments are not dorm-like (ranging from two beds to six per room), the contact between the other globetrotters goes smoothly. I met some very interesting people and I'm glad that in a spur of a moment, I decided to go to Paris -- and Lucky Youth!

A great concept
You really are living in a Parisian apartment, which is very cool. The location is great, and the price is good for Paris. It's more personal than a dorm room. You should reserve by phone rather than email, if possible, because the owner is much more prompt and polite if you do.

Great location and concept
What an amazing way to see Paris! This is by far the best experience of a hostel/accomodation in 2 months in Europe and provided a very rare oportunity to live like a parisian. Yes, It was really a great Parisian experiance being in a fully serviced apartment with a limited amount of people. A representative welcomes you at the train station, walks you to the apartment, and shows you around personally: as a woman travelling alone, I felt very secure. You get your own key upon arrival. And of course, the location in Montmartre is one of the best in Paris! I highly recommend Lucky Youth to anyone who can spare a few extra euro per night - it's well worth it (I paid 26 euros per night).

Lucky youth is great if you've been staying in regular hostels for two many weeks or months. I wanted somewhere to stay where I didn't have to keep all my stuff in a locker, where I could have a continuous hot shower without a thousand other girls lining up after me, have a leisurely breakfast that doesn't need to be eaten by 10 a.m. on the dot or and that doesn't cost a fortune. The apartment I'm staying in is old and seconds walk to the moulin rouge -- the whole area is lively and has a lot of character. You do have to remind yourself that it's not your own apartment and that you could probably never afford it normally! It gives you the chance to live like a parisienne, a lucky one at that with a chic, old apartment.

Lucky Youth is the best hostel I have stayed in in Europe. It is a series of several appartments in montmartre with about six people in each. I would say the hostel has changed a lot in recent years. There were two great staff that I met, who picked everybody up (on time) and who cleaned the appartments (really well, even the fridges). The apartment was really nice and the people were very cool whom I shared with. The appartment is very secure as there is a code to get in to the building, then each guest has their own key. I would definitely recommend this hostel to everyone, as it is such a nice change from your twelve-bed dorms.

Lucky Youth was the best hostel I had in my ten countries visited. The staff is incredible. They pick you up at a prearranged metro station and show you to the flat. They give you plenty of freedoom but you feel safe behind two double locked doors that include codes and keys to get into. It is in prime location. Blocks from the Moulin Rouge and blocks away from the cathedral. Clean, safe, fun -- Lucky Youth was really a wonderful experience.

I just got back from a weeklong vacation in Paris, and my first night there was awful. I stayed in a grungy little hotel and was so grossed out by everything there. When I finally (after a sleepless night at the hotel) met up with the people from Lucky Youth, I was so excited. The apartment was INCREDIBLE. The people were awesome, we had place to kick back and relax, and we were close to everything. It was so great! I would totally recommend this place to anyone who wants to have a memorable time in Paris, and not feel too much like a tourist. I'm currently planning a trip back there next summer, and I will most definitely be back at Lucky Youth, for sure. All thumbs up.

This hostel was great. I was stuck in Paris without a reservation and this place arranged things so that I could get a bed. Eloise, the owner, was really friendly and helpful. Super location, it was in a nice gothic apartment. I found it was kind of expensive, 29 euros if you don't book in advance. There were also meetings for everyone to meet in a pub and party. I recommend it if you want something a bit different than a regular hostel.

The Lucky Youth is the best budget accommodation I could find throughout my trip to Europe. Basically, you enjoy the benefits of staying in a private flat, yet paying the rates of a budget hostel. To make things even better, the flats are very well located in Montmartre, which is a great place to stay in Paris. During my stay there, I had the opportunity to visit other flats from Lucky Youth and they were all outstanding. Eloise, the owner of the business, is a very sweet person. During our stay in Paris, she was always concerned whether we were satisfied and whether the flat was fulfilling our expectations. I would like to congratulate her for making our stay in Paris so pleasant. I strongly recommend Lucky Youth for everybody planning to go to Paris!

It was annoying to have to wait almost two hours for the lady to come get us. The location wasn't the greatest. (Although this could change because she just rents apartments and uses them as hostel rooms, so every four months or so it's different.) The room was not very clean. And the key system was a little annoying. (The only key is in a locking mailbox, and each group of people gets a key to the mailbox. So you have to rely on people you don't know to put the key back. Plus you only get one mailbox key per group, so if you have multiple people you can't really split up.) I don't really recommend this place.

Lucky Youth for me was an amazing place. It's so much more than just a hostel. I really appreciated the fact that a cool girl met me at the station and brought me to the hostel upon my arrival in Paris: it was very nice, really, especially in such a big town as Paris. My friends and I shared the apartment with three nice girls from Finland and we really had a blast all together. The apartment was clean, and very conveniently located near the subway. Lucky Youth was the only place I could find in Paris that had no curfew and was well located, and this makes a very big difference for sure! I have planned to come back here around Christmas. I hope it will be as great as it was in the summertime!

I was a guest at Lucky Youth in early July and I must say it was a remarkable experience! First of all, it is really a break from the usual hostel reality, since you are in an apartment. Yes, maybe the apartment is not all that big, but still it was more than manageable: the six of us shared a bathroom, kitchen and common area really comfortably, with no long shower lineups. Secondly, the apartment was super-cool and in a super-stunning location (by Abbesses station): I especially loved the really personal decoration, made of tons of pictures in the kitchen/darkroom, and in the bathroom. (The cow toilet was really cool; I wish I had a place like that!) For once, I really had the feeling of not being pushed around Europe, with my backpack and my stuff, from one prison-like room to another. For the first time I could rest and take care of my cough, sleeping one rainy afternoon on my top bunk (there is no lockout. and that was really neat). It really felt like for a few days I was actually a Parisian, sharing a cool flat with cool people and taking my time visiting the city. Because yes, thirdly, the people are cool! And sharing such a cool and intimate space with a handful of people really creates a connection between you and them. You meet everybody rather quickly, and hanging out together—cooking, visiting sights and sometimes even continuing on your trip with them—becomes really natural. For me, who is a bit shy making friends, this place has been ideal. For me Lucky Youth has been great in that sense; it gave me a really interesting perspective about Paris, from my second floor apartment in Montmartre, allowed me to relax and also put me in the best condition to meet people. I feel like recommending this place to anybody, whether you are in Paris for just one weekend off work, or if you are travelling the world for months in a row. Alone or with company, Lucky Youth is definitely the most interesting place to be.

It was not what I expected, but I'm still glad I ended up here. Paris for me was all about the people I met, and this place was a key part of my amazing stay. True, the apartment was small (five of us in a studio), the toilet kept running, there was no phone, and the TV did not work. But even in light of that, it was a great place to stay. It's in a good neighborhood, convenient to the Metro, a cheap supermarket and Internet, a post office, and Sacre Coeur.

All I'm gonna say is that, it's all a matter of perspective. Some people could never be happy on a vacation in Hawaii, nor in Paris. While some people could find a small tent a great place to stay overlooking the Santa Cruz beach in California. So, not trying to be funny yeah, but the key things about staying at a hostel, for me, are: 1) People you stay with, 2) Location, 3) Convenience of living quarters, and 4) Price. I believe that Eloise's place provided that for me. I suppose coming in with an open mind helped out a lot, because I realize that not all things are perfect, not even me. But, what I found on this trip was amazing. The people I met were wonderful and I look forward to life-long friendships with them. Eloise was very helpful when I found myself stuck in Paris. If you are a Neat Freak, and have some phobia about "un-neatness" then you may want to check into a hotel. But, if you want to see Paris from a local lifestyle point-of-view, where you feel like you're living in an apartment in the middle of Montmartre (which I consider the more beautiful part of Paris--not the Latin Quarter), then you'll want to stay in this area around Sacre Coeur. (It's also where the film Amelie was filmed, just down the block from the hostel on Rue LePic.) At the end of the day, you'll want to see Paris' Montmartre, the view from Sacre Coeur, the artists at Place du Tertre, the area behind Montmartre, and, for guys: Pigalle. And of course, cafes where you can order a coffee and stay for the whole day--and what better place than to stay in the middle of this menagerie of senses which the Lucky Youth Hostel provides. In life, I believe that there are no accidents, and it was no accident that I stayed at Lucky Youth. My stay at Lucky Youth propelled me into a new dimension in my life's journey. Staying in Lucky Youth was the beginning of an adventure in Paris and became a beautiful prologue for me to stay in Paris weeks longer. Even the name has no coincidence, for Youth is an essence, a way of being, and not an age. Fun, Love, and Life are timeless. So, who the heck knows where you'll stay, end up, or what you'll find in Paris. But if you have a good feeling about yourself and the world, then you will know what you must do.

Although I can imagine this place to be nicer, our experience wasn't so great. Someone had cancelled our reservation so we only had a place for the first of three nights we stayed in Paris, which was a total drag having to move around. Eloise was an hour late picking us up, and it took us a lifetime to get to the apartment, so our first day in Paris was basically a waste. When we got to the apartment,it was a total mess although to Eloise's credit she did clean the whole thing up. Finally, although it was advertised at 24 euros, she charged us 29. I'm not sure if I'll be willing to pay 29 euros again to stay at the Lucky Youth. On the up side, we met great people at the apartment, and it has its own kitchen if you want to cook! Talking to past backpackers, the stay can be pleasant or it can be disastrous, so take caution if you're planning to stay here!