Aivengo Youth Hostel

Good
I thought this was a very nice hostel, the staff were really friendly apart from the bold guy, the woman was really nice. The toilets were clean and the showers were hot. The location is the best you can get as there are great attractions just a few minutes away, including the red light district.

Cool place
It was a good place to stay in Amsterdam. Clean and friendly hostel. No smoking inside and free internet. I'll try to stay there next time again.

Yeah, it was good, but there are better!
I stayed at Aivengo with my sister for three nights in June 2007. To sum up in a sentence, I recommend Stayokay Stadsdoelen instead. I'll start with the good and end with the bad. The Good: Nice room! Well decorated! The bed, though not exactly comfortable, was definitely clean and private. The en-suite bathroom was also clean, and equally spacious and well-lit. There was even a kitchen! I wish I'd had the time to use it! There's free internet in the lobby, though I didn't get the chance to use it because there was always a line. The staff was helpful and understanding. The location is pretty great-- outside of the supertouristed areas, yet still central (and on a very bike-friendly street). The Bad: Oh my god. FIVE flights of stairs? And I thought four was awful! Even though the room and bathroom were nice, sharing it with ELEVEN other girls was not! Every morning was a race! The room didn't have very good ventilation, so especially after climbing those stairs, it could feel very stuffy. Overall it was a decent hostel, but considering the PRICE (too high!) and the other options in Amsterdam, I'd say go for someplace else.

Good Place, Awesome Staff
visited may, 2007. Great location, Awesome staff (the most helpful out of all hostels I visited on my vacation), clean. Can be noisy, due to people coming and going at all hours of the day/night. Toilets are a bit awkward (small), but they're clean. seems that there were more people in my mixed dorm than I remember seeing advertised. The Lights on/off thing is controlled by the people in the room. I simply asked everyone around if they cared if I turned the lights off, and then did so. Bingo, dark. Overall I would stay again at this hostel. I think it's best to visit amsterdam on days other than Friday/Saturday! I arrived Friday night, and luckily had reservations. It is just too loud and crazy on those two days -- which maybe you are into that, so it would be a good thing. I prefer a mixture of partying and chill, but don't like large crowds.

No heat!
I stayed at this hostel last week. The blankets weren't clean. They don't use heat. The showers are the super old kind that will literally burn your skin, and if the guy thinks you've been in them too long, he will yell at you. The bathrooms are so small that you have to back into them. I bent over to pull my pants up and smashed my head against the door, while i was sitting down. There is no living space. It's one big room with no heat. They don't turn the lights off at night, but they do during the day. They open the room door at 9 a.m. and let the cold from outside come in. Do not stay here! The staff seemed to be nice, but that does not save this place. They also charged us different prices even though we all had the exact same beds. Avoid this place!

The hostel is in fantastic location, five minutes from central station and easy walking distance to bars, restaurants, shops. We spent seven nights in the female dorm with en-suite bathroom which was fantastic, very clean, and quiet, even if there were four flights of steep stairs to walk up to get there! Our last night we stayed in the mixed dorm downstairs which was a lot noisier and cold. The lights were also all turned on at 8 a.m. which was a bit of a shock. The mixed bathrooms were ok, clean and functional but just off the reception area which didn't provide a huge amount of privacy! Another issue was that although it was advertised as no curfew, if you arrive home after 4 a.m. you cant get in so you have to wake up one of the staff which is not very popular! Overall the staff were fantastic and were incredibly helpful with everything, definitely stay here again.

I stayed here for 5 nights. It's ok. The good thing is that it is close to everything....Centraal Station is 5mins, and all the touisty things are walkable or short tram ride. The staff are pretty helpful, and even though there are 2 rooms with 1 beds in each, it doesn't get loud. The place desn't have a common room, so there is nowhere to hang out and it only has a microwave and fridge. There was also a mouse in our room and the toilets smelled bad of urine. The room I was in gets quite noisy outside. But I met some nice people there....

This is the nicest, cleanest hostel I've ever stayed in! Great location, friendly staff, and a fair price.

This used to be called "Anna Youth Hostel", then they changed it as I was staying there. It's good, there's just two huge rooms that each house like, 30 beds. It's feels like a higher class refugee camp. Close to everything, though- great location, friendly staff. And the wall colours are trippppy man....