Hostel Faubourg Montmartre

Really bad
Horrible. all dirty. My bed was spoiled, with half of the woods below the bed, and couldn't sleep. not recommended.

This Pink Lady hostel was by a long shot the worse hostel i have ever seen! It is really really dirty, not that the "Pink Lady" cares. There are bedbugs and insects everywhere. The kitchen in our room was so dirty it could not be used (there was also a jar of jam sitting in the kitchen that was maybe as old as me)! The Pink Lady herself is totally mad! There is no locks on doors (just bits of cardboard wedged between the doors). I did meet some nice people but i can't give the hostel a star for that. Really bad hostel and it's lucky it can't be rated with no stars!

I stayed at this hostel years ago! And i was there for weeks because there was a train strike and we couldn't leave Nice. It was a dump then and I see it has remained a dump. The only cleaning it ever got was when the crazy 'pink lady' would come in and sweep the floors at seven a.m. and wake us all up. There were cockroaches and bedbugs. there was only hot water in the mornings and not in the evenings. it was really really dirty. However, the people you will meet there will be the coolest in Europe. The parties you will have in that hostel will be the craziest in Europe. And you will form some serious bonds in that hostel. Forget about reunions. I'm about to marry a man i met in that hostel. it was a classic experience.

The hostel wasn't particularly clean, and there was sometimes trouble getting hot water for showering. But the two french ladies that ran it were really sweet, and they had a young guy helping them who was very friendly. It was a good place to meet people, and very close to the train station. The neighbourhood was a bit grubby, but really interesting.

The first day was really terrible. It was a shock to see all the insects, the cacarachas, the two old ladies, the pink lady and her old sister. After the first shock, we meet there so beautiful, interesting people, and we had a great time, which we never forget.

It wasn't as described at all. It was unbelievably dirty -- there are plenty of cockroaches and bed bugs (which have obviously been there a while since the old graffiti on the beds and walls mentions them). When the water had to be shut off in our room and bathroom, the "Pink Lady" who runs the place told us we could just use anyone else's on the floor. it's communal living even though it's described as a room with private ensuite on the internet. Security was nonexistent -- we could not lock our room and those staying in the room next door had to walk through our room to get there. The Pink Lady told us that we could give her our valuables to keep safe -- she then told us she would put them in her fridge for safekeeping. We had water dripping on my bed from the ceiling (which the Pink Lady blamed on "the Swedes living upstairs" and then ignored). We found very odd "long term residents" standing in our room when we got home. This was not value for money. I don't usually have a rant, but I don't want people to make the same mistake as we did -- there are plenty of other better places than this one for about the same cost. It's a shocker!

This place was an absolute hole. I'd give it no stars if I could. It was dirty and full of cockroaches. Avoid it like the plague.

Last year I stayed for three weeks at The Pink Lady's hostel, and I can't even begin to detail how wonderful and horrible it was at the same time. I don't know when the pictures on the Web site were taken, but do not expect the place to be that clean. Further, don't necessarily expect your host to be as "gracious" as the site may make her out to be. At times she can be a wonderfully sweet old woman, but at other times she has a horrible temper, usually taken out on hostel guests. The people who tend to end up at this hostel, though, are the best I have ever met in Europe. The ones who are brave enough to withstand the Pink Lady, the dirty hostel, and the freezing showers will form a bond that can never be broken. In fact, I plan on meeting back up at the Pink Lady's later this summer with a group I met last year.

I was offered one of the nicer studios photographed, and was instead given an old, dirtier, much less well-furnished and equipped apartment for the same price. Then I was told I would be given a nicer studio as promised "once it was ready," which still hadn't happened months later. Instead it was rented out to someone willing to pay a hundred euros a month more. For shorter stays, it is a decent hostel. But if you plan on staying for more than two weeks, beware that the owner doesn't hesitate to overbook and shunt lower-paying clients to very mediocre accommodations to do so. I finally decided to post this comment after being asked to move to a smaller (yes, smaller) place to make room for a couple who were willing to pay more for my current apartment. Also, their WiFi is not on 24 hours a day — it's turned off between midnight and 9-10 a.m.