The Hostelz.com Review
HI - Helsinki - Eurohostel is a good place to stay if you're not looking for a very social hostel, as it is run more like a hotel than a backpacker's hostel. However, it is very secure and well run, and offers a number of amenities including a washer and dryer, internet access, a café, and self-service kitchens.
The Location
The hostel is located in a quiet little neighbourhood not far from the water, and is quite safe. While it is possible to walk to the centre, the hostel is also on at least two direct tram lines that run frequently between the railway station, downtown Helsinki, and the hostel. There are tram stops nearly directly outside and the hostel is extremely easy to find.
Rooms and Bathrooms
The rooms are very clean, and the dorm rooms are more like small hotel rooms than actual hostel dorms. When we booked a dorm room, we were assigned a shared, two-bed room. The rooms have large individual cupboards, which are allocated based on bed number, so only the occupant has the key to the cupboard. They provide ample storage for suitcases and clothes. Each room is accessed by key card, which also works in the bathrooms and shared kitchen. The bathrooms are quite clean and have three showers and sinks and two toilets.
Common Spaces
The one downside to this hostel is that, as it is run more like a hotel than a hostel, there are very few common spaces. The reception area provides information on downtown Helsinki as well as two internet kiosks, but there is no real place to socialize here. There is a café, but most people seem to go in, order their meal, and then leave. There are shared kitchens with a television set on each floor that can be used as social spaces, although most people seem fairly untalkative. The nice thing about the kitchen in this hostel is that, in order to use the fridge, guests must get a key from reception to an individual box within the fridge. There is a deposit for the key, but it is returned upon check-out.
Summary
This hostel is great if you are simply looking for a place to stay while in Helsinki, and do not care whether or not you meet people. It is secure, clean, well run, and has a number of amenities. If you are looking for a social, party hostel, this is probably not the place for you!
The Location
The hostel is located in a quiet little neighbourhood not far from the water, and is quite safe. While it is possible to walk to the centre, the hostel is also on at least two direct tram lines that run frequently between the railway station, downtown Helsinki, and the hostel. There are tram stops nearly directly outside and the hostel is extremely easy to find.
Rooms and Bathrooms
The rooms are very clean, and the dorm rooms are more like small hotel rooms than actual hostel dorms. When we booked a dorm room, we were assigned a shared, two-bed room. The rooms have large individual cupboards, which are allocated based on bed number, so only the occupant has the key to the cupboard. They provide ample storage for suitcases and clothes. Each room is accessed by key card, which also works in the bathrooms and shared kitchen. The bathrooms are quite clean and have three showers and sinks and two toilets.
Common Spaces
The one downside to this hostel is that, as it is run more like a hotel than a hostel, there are very few common spaces. The reception area provides information on downtown Helsinki as well as two internet kiosks, but there is no real place to socialize here. There is a café, but most people seem to go in, order their meal, and then leave. There are shared kitchens with a television set on each floor that can be used as social spaces, although most people seem fairly untalkative. The nice thing about the kitchen in this hostel is that, in order to use the fridge, guests must get a key from reception to an individual box within the fridge. There is a deposit for the key, but it is returned upon check-out.
Summary
This hostel is great if you are simply looking for a place to stay while in Helsinki, and do not care whether or not you meet people. It is secure, clean, well run, and has a number of amenities. If you are looking for a social, party hostel, this is probably not the place for you!
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
August 2009
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Clean. good location, great value restaurant No negative comments about the place. Free to come and go as you like -- as good as any hostel i've stayed in. Very convenient to downtown Helsinki, & helpful staff — Aussie , AUSTRALIA (2011-05-17) Not very clean, but friendly The staff were indeed very friendly and helpful. The sauna was fun, too. However, we as a family tried to cook meals in the kitchen and enjoy these meals. The lower kitchen was very dirty, and the upper floor kitchen was very crowded. It was difficult cleaning the place, cooking a meal, and finding a place to eat it. The toilets were extremely bad, probably because it was new year's eve of 2006. The staff responded to our complaints, promised to do more cleaning. but unfortunately we couldn't notice much improvement during our week's stay. Probably ok if you aren't going to cook. one cannot complain about the price, because it was reasonable. — Marcel Wolfe , Germany (2009-04-30) Excellent value for money! I stayed here from 7th April 2008 till the 10th April. The staff is genuinely friendly and helpful. The rooms are clean, adequately lit, have nice functional wardrobes and working tables. The common areas though functional need refurbishing -- in my case there was a washbasin that leaked down under wetting my feet! The restaurant serves quality breakfast for E 6.70 and in the mornings, saunas for free. In case you're wondering, the bathrooms and saunas are separate for either sex. The location's just excellent. It is a five-minute walk from the Viking terminal and the Nordic Jet line terminal. Cruise boats to Tallinn (capital of Estonia) leave very frequently -- it costs as low as E 41 if you travel on the Nordic Jet Line. The journey by NJL takes just one-and-a-half hours and by Viking three hours (it's a bigger ship). Viking will cost you as low as E 30 (including breakfast). Cruise boats also leave for Sweden. The city centre is a fifteen-minute walk. All in all, I loved this hostel! — Dr. Maajed J. Wani , Kashmir-India (2008-04-15) Very Good This hostel was quiet and clean. I stayed there in the winter of 2007. It was almost full then, but very quiet. I found the staff helpful and the breakfast very good. I would stay there again. — Joshua Schulze , USA (2007-12-02) Lovely! I stayed here back in October 2004. It was fabulous. I'd just completed my three-and-a-half-week trip from Beijing by train, and desperately needed sleep and clean clothes. This place was excellent. It's only a short walk from the train station, and was pretty easy to find with my simple tourist map. The receptionist fellow was very helpful and arranged everything quickly. I shared a two-bed dorm with a girl who didn't speak English but we managed to use some sign language and such to effect a reasonable conversation. They have a very nice cafeteria/restaurant area downstairs which was neat and well-staffed. The food was good. — Axerati , Australia (2007-09-14) Great place!!! Really close to the city center (about 5-10 minutes on foot), to the tram stop, if you don't like walking;) and to the port (5 miutes to the Viking Line, 10 min. to Nordic Jet Line, 15 min. to Silja Line and Linda Line). Very, VERY friendly and helpful staff. Reception is open 24 hours/day. You can come back to the hostel whenever you want, even very late, because your room key also opens the front door. I am really satisfied! — Aleksandra Wieczorek (2005-07-17) I stayed for 2 nights. This hostel is great. The staff are so friendly and helpful. — Pablo (2005-04-20) This was a genuinely nice hostel — nothing particularly outstanding, except maybe for the only-two-beds-to-a-room thing — but nothing to complain about, either. The prices are more than I've paid in most hostels around the world, but very reasonable considering how much everything else in Finland costs (particularly converted into Aussie dollars!). The sauna is well worthwhile, too. — John (2005-02-22) This hostel is more like a hotel, as there is nowhere to meet anyone or hang out. The staff were great and the place was well stocked, but when I was here in March there were hundreds of Russian school kids running around! I would stay here again, though! — Lydia (2004-12-09) If you're a solo backpacker, you won't meet anyone here — the people who stay here are from the Baltics, Russians or Finns. There is no common area, and it's a pain in the arse to cook, as you have to go to reception and leave a deposit for some things and buy the others!! There are only two beds in each dorm room, so if you get a miserable git as a roommate you're screwed!! However, it was very clean, has a good location, and the staff were friendly. — Pezza (2004-09-25) You won't regret staying at this hostel, even keeping in mind Finland's expensive prices! The rooms are beautifully clean, modern, and comfortable, and the hostel staff are absolutely superb--helpful, friendly, and well-stocked with travel incidentals and local info. Public transport makes this place easy to get to, and it has a great location to boot. — Hostel-O-Rama (2004-08-25) I don't know if I like the place or hate it. Granted, it was nice having a hostel room with only two beds! It's expensive, but that's Finland for you. In the summer I'd just sleep in the park if I were you. There is a laundry, and the sauna is nice after a heavy night of drinking. It would be cool if there was a place to sit and meet other travelers. Hell, maybe there was and I just didn't notice it. I hardly think the lobby qualifies. But yeah, the trolley is close and that will take you all over. — Anonymous (2004-06-04) Good. Not the best one, but good anyway. The location is good, close to the centre of Helsinki. Well, part of it, but to the main street it's a little walk. The hostel is close to the harbour - if you want go to Stockholm or Tallinn. The tram stop is also just at the corner of the hostel. The price is ok, it's clean and quite big. — Anonymous (2004-03-25)