HI - Innsbruck - Reichenauerstrasse Hostel

This hostel has a few problems. The rooms are cramped and not very practical -- there is no floor space so getting dressed is difficult. The showers are unisex with no lock on the door so anyone can wander in while you are showering/drying off. The staff were a bit uninteresting and didn't go out there way to be helpful. The seven-hour lock out and curfew make it difficult to go out at all in the evening because its at least a twenty-minute walk into town or pay for bus. However, breakfast was free and good.

Average it is. Not good but not awful either. The rooms, although cramped, have habitable, though not the most comfortable, beds. The showers were clean and hot, though you can't lock the door. The breakfast was ok for the price, and the staff were neither friendly nor rude. Like many HI hostels, there was no atmosphere -- the TV room, an ideal meeting spot for travelers, was dead (but then who came to Innsbruck to watch TV?). But it was cheap, and as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. If you don't spend too long in the hostel, and don't go out at night (strict 11 p.m. curfew), it's a bearable experience.

Average hostel -- not good nor bad. I didn't find any mice in my bedroom which was averagely clean, as well as the bathrooms. However I found the room somehow small and sometimes I felt like a packed sardine. The staff is ok but unfortunately the hostel is far from the train station. Breakfast is good and it's included in the price.

The place looked ok. the staff were pretty dull. I had to change rooms in the middle of the night when one man in the dorms got pretty wierd. They had no rooms except private and said it would be ten extra a night. I paid but when i checked out the woman tried to say i owed sixteen more and that i was lying and i tried to deceive them on purpose and threw my hostel card back at me and shouted at me to go.

This place wasn't so bad. The kitchen was clean when I was there and you do have to pay for the gas, but it is very cheap. Good location, right next to the bus stop to town and a big supermarket. Beds were clean but the showers were terrible. There's no privacy because you can't lock the door.

The staff were rude, the kitchen was closed while I was staying here, there were mice, it was snowing outside and the heating was not on — it was freezing. But this hostel is cheap, so if you are a budget traveler like me, what the hell, it's a place to sleep, and Innsbruck itself is definitely worth a visit.

I found this hostel to be clean, secure, inexpensive and relatively comfortable. However, it is a tad 'institutionalised and dreary'. It is also a hike from the station, which necessitated a couple of taxi rides (getting to and from), as when you're carrying a whole bunch of crap with you (and you've already been hauling it on and off trains), you don't want to have to deal with a bus. Most of the staff were pretty friendly, though there were a couple who were totally anal--almost school-teacher like in attitude--so I felt like I was on a school camp again.

Very average! Not that expensive but given how far away it is, next time I would probably stay somewhere else. You can catch a bus, though, which only takes 10 minutes or so. Just don't try to walk with your pack. It isn't that clean, there is only one bathroom per floor (with toilets that don't lock)! The kitchen is disgusting so don't try and cook there. You have to pay to turn on the gas to use the stove! Gross, Gross, Gross.

Not too bad, but like most IYHF hostels it's quite institutionalized and dreary. It's clean and everything, though, but it's a bit of a trek from the station! You're better off getting a taxi in a group. It works out to be just as cheap as the bus, if not cheaper.

Far from the train station--the tourist office gives you the bus route to the hostel. I stayed for one night and it was pretty decent, clean, and well kept. It offered a good breakfast and a friendly staff. However, it is far from the main tourist places, but is well connected by buses.