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Emily Boone Home Hostel & Guest Home Details
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Location/Contact| Address | 102 Pope Street, Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
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| Website | None (if you know the URL of their website, tell us and we'll add it) |
| emilyboone@aol.com | |
| Telephone | +1 (502) 585-3430 |
| Fax | +1 (502) 585-3443 |
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
Emilly is a crazy and derranged!! The amazing thing about Emilly Boone is that her Dog Violet has more since than she does. SHES VERY CRAZY. She will go through your garbage, and impose her will about any thing that she feels necessary. Her ideas are very intrusive. I would advise anyone that is thinking about staying at any of Emilly Boones establishment, trust me the railroad tracks across the st from her house would be more accomidal. SHES CRAZY SHES CRAZY SHES CRAZY!!!! DONT DO IT!! — Anonymous , usa (2012-02-16) Lousyville Basement Emily Boone was a little kookie. Awkwardly quirky. But she a bed, a stove, a warm shower, dishwasher, stove, microwave, washing machine, dryer. Three of us stayed there: two 18-year old girls and a 21-year old male. It was in her garage/basement and there was a dog and a cat, but it was honestly fine (warm, dry, a place to stay for $10 and 30 mins of chores). The only complaints we could have were: we could hear her TV and fridge fairly loudly, she was a bit pushy with chores but not necessarily unreasonable, some alarm went off at 4:30am playing NPR. but really, just grow a pair of balls! life experiences, gotta have em all. But seriously spending an extra 20 on a motel would be worth it. — Anonymous , USA (2011-10-31) Therapy would cost less Wholly-crap! What an experience! We arrive at this persons' HOME after a lengthy drive from North Carolina. My partner had called Emily to confirm our "accommodations", the day before to be told that we would be in an unfurnished apartment with a roll out futon. Little did we know, there was no stinkin' futon! Instead we got a lovely coleman air mattress with a slow leak, on the second story of her house which was a mere 90 degrees at night, which by-the-way, felt like we were sleeping on a box of balloons. She did not allow us to turn on the A/C and had to put a wet cloth over the ten inch fan that was provided to stay cool. Wow! Oh! Did i mention ... She wanted us to work 20 min. of chores in the morning at 8am. We did pay in advance (because we trust too much) $30 per night (not $10), because she said the hostel was "full". We saw no one else around. Ladies and gentlemen, THIS IS A SCAM! A Bamboozle! A Hotel California, A Pit of despair, A toilet in the 4th dimension! One flew over the Cuckoos' nest! In the morning, we had a plan of escape.
1) Get ready to run out the door. 2) Get our money back or threaten bad karma and a police report. 3) Smile a lot. 4) Be grateful she didn't eat us. 5) Sit in the car for a moment with the car running and doors locked and be grateful we didn't have to pick up her dogs' poop or have to clean her filthy house or engage in lengthy conversation regarding anything of the above. 6) Move on with our lives and inform as many as possible about this place and this experience as humanly available. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD! KEEP CLEAR of this WACKO Jacko. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY NOT A GUEST HOUSE HERE! THERE IS A SIGN OUT FRONT ON THE "LAWN" WHICH READS 2 BDRM APT. FOR RENT WHICH LOOKS LIKE IT'S BEEN THERE FOR YEARS AND IS LAMINATED. RUN AWAY! or Check it out! Ask her questions, take pictures and be grateful you did not fall for this one! Sad Sad Lady! — Two people who did not read the warnings , Asheville, NC (2011-06-17) Nightmare This place is a complete dump, and should be shut down. Emily Boone is a very nasty person and off the wall to say the least. Very bizarre! The local homeless shelter would have better accommodations. This place is not a guest house or hostel by any means. It consists of a bed in the garage of this nut's house. She refuses to give heat and hot water, then again, who would shower in this old cement floor shower that is filthy? I would not recommend this dump to anyone. Emily Boone definitely has some "issues" with her mental health, so steer clear! — Anonymous (2010-03-29) Ok, so not so great Emily Bonne's Guest home was pretty much what I expected for 10 dollars a night. I slept on a pad, Japanese style. I scrubbed the shower that had been rusting since 1950. Rust is ok. Minerals sminerals. Ms. Boone was out of town during my visit, but I would certainly enjoy the chance to give her a face to face "thank you." 10 dollars verses like 40 dollars. you can buy a lot with that extra thirty dollars. booze (drive thru style in the vull), food, and grass (sub par in the vull). Let's all get over ourselves and admit the mystic in ms. boone's basement. or maybe it's all the lead in the pipes? — Channing , Nor-Cal (2009-11-19) "Turn Back Now" That line from Stephen King's "It" was what went through my head when I pulled up to this place. I'm by now a fairly savvy and calloused traveler, so when I saw the accommodations, I had no problem saying no thanks and walking out. I've spent a lot of time traveling around Central and South America, actually seeking out the dingiest/cheapest hotels in various countries, but never, I repeat never, did I ever see anything like "Emily Boone" even in the worst (think Managua or Ciudad Guatemala). This place should be shut down immediately. — ML , USA (2008-07-08) Ditto! THIS IS NOT A HOSTEL.
Emily Boone's "guest house" is her garage. It is a cement floor. Dark, dank, and cold. In fact, it flooded while we were there.
There were bikes hanging above our heads.
The "futons," are old egg crates, like the kind you used in college and then THREW OUT. These get put on the ground. The cold ground. But not to worry, she has a large selection of dirty 50 year old blankets to choose from.
She woke us up at 7:40 am and our "chores" were WEEDING HER GARDEN. She only told us this when we arrived, and you have no choice - you have to abide by her schedule.
The shower is made of cement - perhaps something from wartime barracks?
You enter through the garage door.
ALSO, and this is important - as two women, we assumed anyone else staying there (in the same open room) would be women. But no, there were two strange men there. Nice men, but nonetheless, that was sketchy.
Emily Boone, "a well-known local eccentric" I would guess is well-meaning, but not particularly nice.
Trust us. It's worth the extra $20 apiece to stay at the travelodge. Don't make our mistake. — Womryl (2006-04-02) This is not a hostel. The "hostel" is in the basement/garage. It is not heated and the "futons" are disintegrating egg-crate cartons from the 70's. You sleep on cement floors and are warmer when you walk outside. The second night I slept upstairs in Buffy the cat's room -- in the morning I was locked out of this room and had to climb through the doggy door to get my things. Also, if you don't like huge, smelly, oily dogs running over your things, don't stay here. Finally, the twenty minutes of chores -- rather than wanting me to clean up after myself, she wanted me to clean up after her dog. Ridiculous experience! — Melissa (2006-03-10)