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Good location, no common room/extras I am was appointed leader of a group of students coming to Sarajevo to do a project on city planning and architecture. This hostel has accommodated us and provided us with needed rooms and bathrooms just across university campus, which was very useful for our project. Rooms are basic, and bathrooms clean, heating was excellent (especially since we had snow). But This hostel offers no common room except kitchen which can be used as makeshift common room, but it lacks leisure facilities like TV, DVD. We would recommend that this gets added. Staff were there only during check-in and check-out so we lacked a bit of extra info on the city, but we made it up for that by meeting locals during our stay. Good thing was free Wi-Fi internet (courtesy of nearby University campus), but nobody told us that, so we went two days in Internet cafes until local students explained us that. Free Wi-Fi Internet should be advertised by hostel and people should be aware of that. — Annika A. , Sweden (2009-10-30) Absolutely Terrible Our "reservation" meant nothing to them. They took us to a completely different hostel where they charged us more for a worse room. They were rude, threatening, and very unpleasant. We never got to see the hostel and we suggest you never do either. When we got to our next location to review them on another hostels website, they had canceled our reservation so that we couldn't give them a bad rating. Please, never go there. — Anon , English (2008-10-17) Central location, professional staff, very safe Although we came 3 in the morning, we were picked up for free from the bus station, given full and speedy reception along with all needed information. Hostel is actually situated in very quiet and centrally located apartment building and above all we were impressed by cleanliness and safety of the place specially designed to meet the needs of female travelers, after going through not so good hostels in other parts of the region. All you actually have to remember is to give your room key at the end of stay in order to get your ID back, and that is all. Recommend this place. — Mercedes Ferreiro , Spain (2008-10-09) Terrible, worst ever! Absolutely the worst experience my partner and I have encountered on our round the world trip! Free pick up is actually receiving instructions to walk to the Holiday Inn (not easy to find) so the hostel manager can drive by and check you out before you are accepted into their accommodation. When the manager finally met us he walked us to a massive apartment block where the accommodation is actually a flat with no kitchen, internet, washing, common room facilities at all. We booked a double bed and were allocated two singles and told to push them together. The manager then charged us 3 euros each, per night for sheets, blanket, and a pillow! So after paying the 2 euro per night tourist tax (which is probably a sham) we were up by 5 euro per night. There is no reception here and no way of contacting the manager for information, assistance or to check out. We had to leave early in the morning and they must have forgot to come and meet us to check out (as we had previously organised) and consequently did not get back the photo ID we had to provide. Don't give them you photo ID! Actually, just don't stay here. Explains why the place was empty! — Rebecca , Australian (2008-01-27) I have been hosteling for seven months straight and Marin Dvor was by far the worst experience I have had and frankly the worst expeience of my entire trip. First, this is not a hostel, it turns out to be some family rooms in a twenty-story, old Soviet apartment building run by two brothers in a business called Sartour and they have another one on the other side of the city. Marin Dvor turns out to be a neighborhood in Sarajevo, not a hostel with a sign. There is no street number listed so you cannot get there on your own. After help from five people on the street and walking with a heavy pack for ages I gave up and begged a desk person at the Holiday Inn hotel to call the phone number listed. When the owner came to get me at the hotel front I told him his internet description was very misleading and he immediately got angry and said he would just leave me there without a room (ten p.m., exhausted in the dark). I had no choice but to go with him. The rooms were very clean and nicely done but you had no keys and had to have his non-English speaking father buzz you in, no reception or staff on duty, no internet, no laundry, no smoking, no eating in rooms, ten Euros to use the kitchen per day, 3 Euros per night for sheets, not even a pillow unless you paid for it. So it is not anywhere near the price listed on the internet. There was list of rules on the walls like the military. The next morning I received a call from home and it answered in their flat upstairs. They came to get me and a woman said it was ok to talk but when the call was done later the two brothers and old man went absolutely ballistic and claimed I had probably made a reverse charge call. Their list of rules apparently said no phone calls too. How does one stay in hostels unless you have numbers given out to family? They wanted my passport and 50 Euros from me and old man threw papers at me screaming in Bosnian and German. This went on in front of other guests and lasted for ten minutes while I tried to tell them the person calling had used a phone card and they told me I could take the call. I was scared for my safety with three men yelling at me. Their behavior was shocking and they told me I was the one who was unprofessional and not to order them around -- I thought a Bosnia scam was going on. At five the next day after I called them they told me the phone company told them they had been charged nothing and they gave me the money back. I was packed ahead and gone within thirty seconds and forfeited the last night I had already paid for. No wonder most of the beds in the place are empty! This completely ruined my Sarajevo trip. Avoid this place like the plague! I have never been treated this badly in traveling in sixty-six countries. — Elaine (2006-08-26) Don't do it. We made the reservation, and found the place after a long time. The man at the front desk didn't speak English, and he showed us a room. It looked like a gym locker room. We shook our heads "no" and left. — Sandra and Ray (2005-10-08)