Hostel Lika is making a concerted effort to be Zagreb's best hostel and provides guests with a warm welcome and many services. The owner-operators, Ilona and Marko, do their best to ensure that guests have a wonderful time whilst at their hostel and in Zagreb. They can help to organise tours to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Plitvice Lakes -- a must while in northern Croatia -- as well as offering helpful advice on local restaurants, services, and transport.
The Location
Hostel Lika is located within approximately thirty minutes' walk to the city centre and about fifteen minutes' walk to the main bus station. Additionally, the hostel is located down the road from a convenient tram stop which will take guests to the bus station and city centre easily. Street parking is available should guests be driving. The hostel is situated in a quiet residential area and guests should be aware that while there is no curfew, common and outdoor areas are off limits after 10:30 p.m.
Rooms and Bathrooms
Hostel Lika offers double rooms as well as four- and six-bed dorms. Rooms are bright and airy, providing enough room for guests' luggage and comfort. Lockers are available to rent and easily fit a laptop computer, for example. Toilets and showers are located on the floor outside of the rooms and are maintained to a high standard. Showers are hot but not terribly high-pressured. Some showers require the shower head to be held, rather than being mounted on the wall.
Common Spaces
The hostel has two large communal areas. Indoors is a large room with two free internet terminals, lounge seating, and a television. In this room is also helpful information about Zagreb, transportation, and tours. Outside is a lovely terrace area where the owners cook a well-priced barbecue each night. Seating is provided outside underneath the grape-vine where a cheap, simple breakfast is available in the morning. Hostel Lika does not have kitchen facilities available for guests and common areas must be vacated at 10:30 p.m.
Summary
Hostel Lika is a fun and sociable hostel run by owners who have been backpackers themselves. Guests can expect to meet other like-minded travelers while staying at this property and despite the relatively early closure of the common areas the atmosphere is not overbearing or disciplined. Rather, guests are comfortable and well-cared for at this hostel.
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
August 2009
Location/Contact
Impolite! We tried to book this hostel for our friends (re-enactment groups from Europe) for festival we are trying to organise in Zagreb. Since they don't have any information about their accommodation, we called them for more information, about price and number of beds -- so we would know should we book them or not, since we need twenty-five to thirty beds for our guests. We asked for those information, but the guy on the phone told us to email everything on his e-mail. Since we needed this information really urgent (just the number of beds in hostel), and didn't have access to the internet we polite asked him to just tell us the number of bed they have. He started do be really rude and impolite, and he literally told us to f*** off -- that this is not anyone's "dowry/whorehouse"! Can you imagine that! Since they were so rude and impolite over the phone, we hang over and never called them again. What was such a problem?! We only asked them for number of bed in their hostel. 
2 Average from 6 Ratings
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