Ostello Perugia is conveniently located in the heart of the centro storico. It's a bit of a distance from the bus or train arrival point but easily enough reached by public transport. From the train station, take a local bus up to Piazza Italia and it's only a 10 minute walk from there up past the duomo in Piazza Priori. Take the right hand road past the duomo and continue to veer right. You will find Via Bontempi there and it's another 200m down to the hostel. Buses seem to arrive very close to the centro storico. Take the elevator from the bus stop up to Piazza Italia and then walk through to Via Bontempi.
The hostel is very spacious. The reception is beautiful with a frescoed ceiling. There's a fantastic terrace with views of the city and the rooms are large and clean. They also have a living room with a TV and a kitchen with ample facilities, although the fridges were packed with food. There are usually two bunks to a room and each has cupboards, and even a table and chairs. The bathrooms are common but again clean, with plenty of hot water.
The only unfortunate thing about the hostel is it's opening hours. It's only open from 7.30am-9.30am in the morning. And during this time you can not check in, although you can leave your bags. The receptionist seemed to be there up until 11.30am some mornings and you could ring the bell to leave your bags but the door was officially closed downstairs. In the evening reception runs from 4pm-12pm midnight. At this time you can check in, but it can take a long time. The staff are friendly but quite disorganised, and if it's busy they seem to get distracted with everyone's questions instead of getting people into a queue.
Checkout is 9.30am, although sometimes you can leave your bags until about 11am with the reception. Ask nicely in the morning. Many guests found the whole timetable very inconvenient for arrival and departure. To access rooms you had to get a key from reception that you also leave for others to access the room. During festival times they were more lenient with the midnight curfew and during the Jazz festival were opening also at 1am, 2am and 3am for a few minutes to let people in that were waiting.
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
September 2005
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4.3 Average from 6 Ratings
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