HI - Montpellier Hostel

Very unsafe and dirty hostel
This hostel is very unsafe especially for women. I was in a group with six others (women and men all teenagers or young college students) and two from our group stayed behind one day for some personal time together. A man knocked on the door repeatedly and tried to barge his way into the room when he thought that the room was occupied by a girl on her own. When he realized there was a man there as well he backed off. The keys for the room too are renewed daily by going to the desk and letting them know your room number to have your key renewed for the lock. They are credit card style but the problem is that you can say any room -- there is no checking that the room you state you are in is the one you really are in so I could be staying in room 9 but say I am in 17 and then I have a key for someone else's room to rob them. Very unsafe. You can also walk easily into the hostel without the lady at the desk seeing you as the entrance is not right by the desk. There are cameras around the hostel but it is not enough. On the hostel itself. The bathrooms are dirty, unlit, and non-functioning. There is a womens bathroom but it has only three showers for the whole hostel and two toilets. the door is always open and very unsafe. I never showered there as I felt that I was not safe as any man could enter and did as I was in the bathroom. The hostel is dark and unlit -- there are hallways long hallways that have no lighting because the lights have burnt out. The house keeping comes in daily to your room and does nothing except perhaps check for valuables to steal. The breakfast is measly. I would highly recommend anyone and everyone to stay somewhere else. The hostel itself is also in a bad area of town too. Montpellier is not a bad place to visit but this hostel is a bad place to stay. Avoid it like the plague! HI should remove this hostel from their list I have stayed at many lovely hostels in Germany and Denmark as well as Sweden that were fantastic that were HI hostels but this one in Montpellier, France was a dump! but it is not just that -- it is very dangerous too!

The worst hostel i've ever been. We had a reservation for two nights and we left on the second day. It's a dirty, old building which is calling for a massive renovation. And what makes it even worst, they have curfew from 2 a.m. So, it's inappropriate for party seekers too. It's a real pity because it's quite central and Montpellier's worth the visit. Look for a cheap hotel instead.

it was really good there! it's in the centre of city. Good shops around. Very good staff in the hostel. And the combination price and quality is really top! They have renewed the hostel, so it's smells a bit of colour there.

If you don't have any other place to stay in Montpellier, I'm sorry. The only advantage is that it is well located, but rooms and bathrooms are very very poor and dirty. If you are going to stay for a night or for a weekend it's ok, but do not stay any longer. It's difficult to understand, for example, why you must leave the room at 10 a.m. and you cannot return until 3 p.m. It is also incredible that the staff recommends you not to leave your belongings in the room even if you are a group and occupy all the beds. Staff ok (although if you don't speak french it can be an inconvenience) but the hostel leaves a lot to be desired.

I think you're all lucky who managed to actually get to stay in the hostel! I tried to book online but my emails wern't replied to and I had no success on the phone. If you don't speak good French it's difficult to even get in the door with this hostel. Good luck!

It's not the best hoste I've stayed in, but the staff was wonderful!

Do not stay here! The rooms are basic and dirty and the bathrooms are really bad. I didn't want to take a shower while I was there because it looked so dirty. The group that I was with had their passports and tickets stolen while we were there and they're stuff was in the 'safe' luggage lockers. It's situated in a really rough looking area that is very scary and dangerous at night. The people that hung around it didn't look very nice!

It's not the best hostel I've stayed in. It's in an old building down a nasty alleyway. The room was big but the fact that everything was old took away from that. It's unfortunate because it is, I believe, the only hostel in Montpellier. Although, I don't think you would be missing out on anything if you skipped Montpellier altogether! The breakfast sucked, too. A piece of crusty French bread...yum! Not worth my time.

This was the worst hostel I've ever stayed in. Don't be fooled by the fact that HI is attached to it, it's terrible. It's located in an incredibly noisy area, made all the worse by the fact that the windows have to be kept open as there's no air-conditioning or even electric fans. I'd be very surprised if this place even had a cleaner. Everything was filthy, my sheets reeked of sweat and my room was a dump. The showers were so poor and unclean that you end up being dirtier when you come out. Everyone agreed how bad the place was. Do yourself a favor. DON'T STAY HERE.

This was the scruffiest hostel I've ever stayed in and it is situated in an extremely dodgy area. Men use the women's shower because theirs is so disgusting. Also, there is nowhere to wash your clothes — apart from a poor excuse for a launderette down the street. If you don't mind smashed windows and rusty machines you're ok.