Globetrotter Hostel Odyssee

I stayed five nights here in June — I won't stay again. ***Rooms — very poor lighting, only one power outlet per room. Not good when you're in a group and everyone wants to charge their camera battery/phone etc. Most rooms were colorful, some with rather bizarre designs. Beds ok. Rooms very small. ***Bathrooms — not clean!!! The shower didn't drain properly, the floors were fairly dirty, but what was worse — someone threw up in the basin and this totally clogged up the pipe. We asked to have these things fixed, but nothing happened. Not enough showers per floor. ***Staff — fairly friendly but smoked while talking to guests. Didn't always give the best advice. Didn't really communicate information about reservations among themselves well. ***Atmosphere — caters to the pot-smoking, late partying crowd. Smoking is banned in the rooms, but certainly not policed. Very noisy at night. Black paper-maché statues of strange figures in armor adorn the common room. ***Security — the rooms can't be locked from the inside. We don't think anyone tried coming in to our rooms at night, but we didn't feel secure about this at all. ***Breakfast — all you can eat, but not very good. Rolls were those "back at home" ones — sometimes fresh, sometimes left over from the previous day. I've had much better hostel breakfasts for the same price. It's served 8 a.m. until noon. Quite a late start if you have a day of sightseeing planned. ***Location — convenient to Ostbahnhof for travel to and from Berlin. Bus 240 runs every 10 minutes for most of the day. ***Facilities — Internet access ok. No laundry.

I have been here three years in a row. You will not find a better hostel in Berlin. Very clean. great staff, good bar and good music.

Despite some noise a few guests made when coming back from a club at 3 a.m., this hostel was great. The rooms were clean and the wall paintings are awesome. The bathrooms aren't too fancy, but they were very clean, as were the toilets. Breakfast is definitely worth the few euros. The staff were very friendly and helpful. And the drinks at the bar are cheap. If I ever visit Berlin again, I'll go to this hostel.

I had a good time at the Odyssee. It was a good party, for sure.

It was very clean, and most of the staff were extremely helpful (although there was one girl there who was quite unpleasant). The staff weren't concerned about asking loud, obnoxious guests to be quiet at 3 a.m., which wasn't so great. I'd certainly stay here again, and would recommend it to others, but one thing to be wary of is that "things go missing." I accidently left my toiletry bag in the women's bathroom, and it got stolen, but that's not the fault of the hostel.

We just stayed here. It was in a very nice location, close to the East Side Gallery, and only a couple of stops from the main train station. I will show you the good and the bad of this hostel. The good: - location; - rooms were very nice (and so were the wall paintings); - nice atmosphere in the downstairs bar/lounge area; - great breakfast; - staff were very friendly and helpful with the exception of one, the girl who checked us in too early. (There were no beds ready, she tried twice to give our beds to other people even though we called to confirm, and after checking us in she yelled at us for being in the room!!! It was not very pleasant, and not a good way to start our stay in Berlin.) The bad: - the one staff member I just mentioned, she made a bad impression on us and several other travelers; - the fact that we made a reservation, called prior to arrival to confirm and they STILL tried to give away our beds; - one of the cleaning staff stole our pillow and blanket (which sucks as you have to pay a deposit on that); - the price we had to pay was higher than the price quoted to me when I made the reservation, yet they wouldn't adjust it to the quoted price; - they checked in a huge group of immature filthy young teenagers who left the washrooms in a disastrous state, ran up and down the corridors screaming, yelling, kicking doors; throwing the pool table equipment around and basically disrupting all of the other guests at the hostel. Most of the other travelers in the hostel were pissed off by this group, but no one from the hostel management ever asked them to behave in a more appropriate manner.

If you'd like to stay in a clean hostel with little to no hassle, cheap rates, and a friendly staff, in a location near a lot of happening restaurants and shops, stay here. BUT my towel was stolen, so make sure you lock up your stuff.

I always go back to the Odyssee when in Berlin. Surely not the cleanest hostel in Berlin, but it's truly the cheapest I've found, and not only that, the staff are really friendly, they make you feel at home. This is a real backpacker hostel!