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No showers. Paper thin mattresses. Staff not reliable. Avoid. There was NO hot water. I couldn't take a shower after a 10 hour train ride. Had to go to sleep dirty, with greasy hair. The bunk beds are so cramped, you can't sit up if you are in the bottom bunk. Just crawling in is a major pain. Once you get in the bed, you will find a paper thin mattress which allows you to feel every bump and ridge in the bed frame. The pillow is huge and hard. If you try to put your head on it it bends your neck at an painful angle. No one is available to fix problems if they happen after reception is closed. There is no phone or internet in the building (they claim you get internet access in their literature, but once you get to the hostel you find no computers, and it says on the wall you can go to their restaurant and pay at a "discount" for internet. Which does not agree with what their brochures say. No one to call if there is a problem. When I told them about all this the next day, I expected at least a discount. But they had my passport and would not give it back until I paid in full, 23 KM. When you check in, they demand to keep either your passport or a 20 Euro "key deposit", which of course they won't return to you unless you pay for the bed in full no matter how bad it was. The chain smoking woman behind the desk tried to pretend it was my fault there was no hot water, and tried to pretend the reception office was open last night, when it wasn't. When I first arrived a male staff member was very nice to me and helped me a lot, but he wasn't there the next morning. Niceness of one person can't make up for the poor quality of this hostel. There is no excuse for unusable showers and rotten beds. It may be close to the old quarter, and the staff were friendly enough at first, but this place severely overcharges for what you get. 23 KM (about $16) doesn't sound expensive by Western European or American standards, but in Sarajevo you can get a nice private room in a house for much less than 23 KM. Avoid this place. — Melinda , USA (2011-05-19) This is just great! 16 beds. 1 bathroom. cold water. AWESOME! at least i think so! if you are going on vacation to have all the comforts in the world, forget it and go somewhere else. If you are looking for a great conversation, great rakija and sweet fruits from the garden climb Barice. On the top of the mountain sits a little coffe bar and Edo, its owner. — justyna lamek , Poland/US (2010-03-03) Good location The hostel arranges private rooms in private apartments. The room in which I stayed was very good, bright, and big. Our host was very helpful. The agency staff is very useful with a lot of information. In the price is included a good breakfast. — Pezzente , Italy (2008-08-26) Horror this is the most horrible place where I was. this is some old house on the hill with two dogs in front of it. old person on reception desk is a cheater, beware, she took too much money from you. I needed to pay 17 euros, she took 20 without any reason, never again. — Tomica , croatian (2007-08-27) Great staff, potentially horrible room conditions the staff if very friendly and helpful. However, they will farm you out to a private home (fifteen minutes' walk from hostel), which was nice my first time in sarajevo. the second time i was passing through, i was sent to what looked like a private home, a solid ten-minute walk from the hostel where there were two rooms, each having ten cramped beds in two tiny rooms. There was one shower and one toilet for twenty people. the condition of the bathroom was not good. beds were horrible, got no sleep. i feel bad writing this, because the staff is so helpful. they'll give you a free pickup from the train station and lots of info. they need to do something about those two rooms however. — dave , american (2007-08-11) While my room was in a good location, it smelled bad and other people walked through my room to get to their room. I stayed for two nights, but did not use the shower facilities as they were very nasty. While Sarajevo is a wonderful city, I will stay elsewhere on my next visit. — Wayne , USA (2007-05-08) Ljubicica really sucks. it's not a hostel it's an agency. they put us somewhere to a one family. lucky for us, we found better accommodation in centre. Otherwise, Sarajevo rules! — G. , Slovenia (2007-05-03) First of all Ljubicica is not a hostel but an agency which arranges beds in Sarajevo. When we arrived they seem to be nice but then we had an agreement that we will sleep in a hostel ten minutes from the town center, but they took us on a hill at least half an hour away from the town center. We had an agreement for one room with four beds and one room with two beds. the room with two beds was not really a room, but a transit room where everybody could pass (no privacy). We arrived at the agency at 2 p.m., but we got the room at 8 p.m. When we finally got the room at another hostel (it was ok, but not really what the agency people promised when we booked it), we discovered that the bathroom in our room was collective (for all the residents in the hostel). So, if anybody from the hostel wanted to have a shower or brush teeth, he passed trough our room to use bathroom that was in our room. Very big safety issues! We also think that Sarajevo is a boring place. not much to see and people try to cheat us when ever they could. So the next day, we paid for one night and went the hell out of Sarajevo and went to town of Mostar. — Peter V. (2007-01-02) Ljubicica is not a hostel, is an agency and they have a lot of kinds of accomodations. — Tommaso (2006-09-13) The hostel is filthy, but we had a great party -- went on til two a.m. when the cops were called! Much has been said elsewhere about the city tour the hostel owner takes. Its far from objective and it is always worth remembering there are two sides to every story with some of the stuff he comes out with. While he admits to the lack of objectivity -- which is no doubt excusable -- the sheer arrogance in refusing to answer certain questions and the "are you not listening to me" schoolteacher type approach on the bus made me think this guy was a bit of a muppet and really soured my experience of the tour. — Geebsie (2006-07-28) Dirty as hell (especially bathrooms and kitchens) but one of the most fun places I've ever stayed. Staff deserve six stars for how helpful, informative, and friendly they were. Free pickup from the train station, convenient laundry service, amazingly informative city tour (recommended), information on anything to see and do and more. The hostel had a great apartment-style layout that ensured there was nearly always a full common room full of friendly people chatting and hanging out. The common room was small enough that you could make friends easily. The kitchen wasn't the cleanest but had the basics to cook, and the dorms were noisy but very sociable and comfy enough. The location is the best in town, right next to Pigeon Square and the old town. Definitely the place to stay in Sarajevo if you want to meet other backpackers and have fun in this incredibly cool city! — Sarah (2006-07-09) The bomb! We spent there five nights, four people, it is perfect for open-minded backpackers as well as low budget travelers who want to meet good people. Staff is excellent, unique atmosphere. — ya-neck (2006-06-06) Stayed at the hostel part which is two flats with 8 and 12 bed rooms.
Stay in the 12-bed flat if you're going, otherwise it's cramped and there's no common space.
Good fun, dirty as hell :P. — Daniel (2006-05-07) We spent a night. The staff was friendly and helpful. The bed were very confortable. The only negative point is that many things seemed to be broken and the bathroom was not so good. But still, that is perfectly situated in sarajevo and not expensive. — visitor (2006-01-13) A bit down-at-the-heels, and many of the appliances seemed to be broken, but a friendly, homey place. The location is great, right in the middle of the Turkish Quarter. — nlc (2005-05-03)