HI - YHA Franz Josef Glacier Hostel

The best place to stay!
I and my family stayed here one night during our seven-week odyssey Down Under late Spring and Summer 2006. We had come here by bus from Queenstown, and it was fantastic, very clean, excellent reception, and had a sauna! Unfortunately, we only stayed overnight, but it was more than adequate, it was superb! I highly recommend it to anybody!

Stayed three days here and found the whole place excellent. Enjoyed an en-suite room. Beds comfy, rooms warm, kitchen great, and really good dining and lounge. Loved the cat! Plenty of off street parking. Only complaint was not the hostel's fault -- it's great to see families hostelling but wish someone had stopped the kids yelling from 6 a.m.!

We stayed here in November 2006 and found the place to be outstanding. Compared to Europe hostels -- well there is no comparison. Europe hostels are disgusting. This place was well maintained, clean, and comfortable. The only problem we had was with the deodorizer they place in the rooms. We can't take any kind of odors but that's just us. We had an en-suite room and having our own bathroom sure makes a world of difference when you are diabetic. Blair was awesome and the local cat "Hat Yai" was a pleasure -- since I had left my own cat at home, he filled that vacant void. I would recommend this hostel to anyone. After our experience with Europe hostels being disgusting, this was the only hostel we booked on this trip. We decided to play it safe and stick with our four-star or five-star hotels but this place far exceeded my expectations. The movie room was very relaxing and the common room with the internet, pool table, and table games aplenty were a welcome bonus. A1 on my list and if you are looking for a place to stay in Franz Josef, this is it.

Nice place. Very clean, however, our room was right next to the communal bathroom so we kept waking up with the door slamming and the fan going on and off. Kitchen was huge though and there was a large carpark with off the road parking as well.

Sauna is great, good clean facilities. Good place for meeting people.

I stayed here in Jan '06 and found it to be a clean and well run hostel. The kitchen was always clean and the facilities good. You can even buy a breakfast pack at reception -- great idea! Plus it had a sauna which was well needed after a day hiking on the glacier.

Staff are very friendly and the onsite cat is fat! Other than this, the kitchens were a little cramped and not the cleanest. The double room we stayed in also had a broken window stuffed with tissue paper to stop leaks!!

This is one of the best YHAs in NZ. It's extremely clean and well kept.