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The Hostelz.com Review
A large hostel on the outer edge of Paris. It's about a 10 or 15 minute Metro ride to most of the sites in the central part of Paris from the nearby Metro stop. This one is frequented by a lot of school groups and there are often kids hanging out inside and around the hostel. There's a nice common area with a pool table and a full kitchen and there are usually at least a few people hanging out there. It's a few dollars cheaper than most other Paris hostels. This hostel used to be called "Leo Lagrange".
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HI - Paris Clichy Hostel - Auberge 'Léo Lagrange' Details
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Location/Contact| Address | 107 rue Martre, Paris (Outer Paris), Île-de-France, France |
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| Directions | Take the metro to the Mairie de Clichy stop (line 13) and use exit 3 "r. Villeneuve". When you come up you'll be facing a busy street (rue Martre). The hostel is 200m to the left on the same side of the street. |
| Website | www.fuaj.org |
| Telephone | +33 (0)1 41 27 26 90 |
| Fax | +33 (0)1 42 70 52 63 |
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
Very affordable, close to the metro station and fair for the price I booked this hostel for my first 2 nights in Paris but ended up having my 3rd night here too, I had a great time there thanks to the great helpful staff they had at the time of my visit!!!!. You will be sharing the room with other 2 people, the breakfast is not that great, but ok, what can you expect from a 23 E a night? There's a luggage room you can use when going out to explore Paris, I asked the staff to open the room for me in order to leave my backpack and pick it up once I was back at the hostel. There are video cameras in the room so they supervise who goes in and does what. For the price I think everything is fair, but I would have to say that my accommodation overall was great there due to the friendly, helpful and enjoyable people working there. I really, really appreciated all their help. The washrooms aren't super clean, you would have to share with the girls on the entire floor, breakfast is at 7AM on the 4th floor I think. There's a vending machine with calling cards for sale or plugs for your electronics as the power outlets change in Europe (You'll need this adapter if your stuff plugs in a differently way -- see EU shapes for power plugs). If you are girl coming back to the hostal at night, be careful walking from the station to this place, it's dark and can be lonely too. There's a cafe internet one block south, people will be able to let you know where, they have internet access and long distance service for calls back home. Enjoy your time there! — Juanita , CA (2011-08-16) Cheap the hostel is cheap. and looks cheap. it is in a very bad neighbourhood (the shop across the street had the windows marked with gun shots, lots of them). i was there for quite a long time (9 nights). it was new years eve and i had no where else to go. i dont ask so much from hostels, but this one, i wouldn't stay there again. i saw some weird things also. the breakfast was good (bread, jam coffee -- normal things) and you can use the kitchen (though someone stole my labeled cheese and water). the bathrooms weren't very clean, and some of the showers didn't have hot water. There is a nice and cheap supermarket across the street, where you can buy everything. and the metro is close. the staff is ok. anyway, if i ever go back to paris, i will pay some more to stay in a nicer and safer place, for sure. it was probably the worst hi hostel i've ever been to. — Veronica , Brasil (2010-01-05) Cheap but good You could not see anything of the "red light"-district. I traveled alone in mid of July and I had a very good experience. The rooms were small, but fair for the price and clean. It was summer, but everybody got an extra carped for the bed.
The bathroom was clean, unless the top wall. The breakfast was fair. So, what else would You wait for 22€ per night? It was all right and the staff were very helpful. Thanks for some good days! — Christian , Germany (2009-07-30) Great My first stay in Paris ever was at Paris Clichy and it was great. The staff was friendly and helping. I had more questions then anyone and they helped me out and checked things up for me. The room was ok. It had everything a room needed. They have baggage lookers in the basement and are really safe. Breakfast is really ok and i meet a lot of fun people. I just want to give a shout out to the night security guard. a really funny guy. The hostel is close to everything. the metro is only a minute or two walking distances away. On the other side of the road from the hotel there is an amazing internet café with amazing people who always made me laugh. On the same street is an amazing restaurant, even though the staff is not speaking that much english, they really take care of their customers. just another little bit on that street there is a big supermarket and are cheap and have everything one can need. If you are going to Paris. this is the place to stay. I am going back now in January 2009 and this is the place i am staying at again. And every time i am going there i will stay there. — Anna , Sweden (2008-12-28) Just say no Everything about this hostel sucked. Located in a dodgy part of town, the staff looked like they had been recruited locally. I came back to my room on my last night and found some other guy sleeping in my bed, insisting it was his. When I went to reception to have him removed, the girl made out I was a wimp for not removing him myself. Worse was the fact that another female member of staff was aggressive and rude to me at reception for no other reason than I can work out other than I didn't chat her up when she was serving in the bar the previous night. She also encouraged other guests to bully me. My advice for any single male travelers would be to only think about this place as a last resort and only then if you have a lot of assertiveness and to take special care with the plai-looking girl wearing glasses serving at the bar. — Gareth , British (2008-11-21) Ok This hostel is ok (reasonably clean, friendly staff, breakfast included) but the only thing that I really didn't like at all is that on their Hostelling International informations, it is written that they are near the main touristic attractions, which is totally not true at all. If you want to go to the main touristic attractions such as Tour Eiffel, Louvre, Triumph Arc, Invalides, you need to take a forty-five-minute bus ride or a thirty-minute subway ride, so that's the only thing that kind of sucked, but beside that it is alright, and it's cheap (20 euro by night). — Myriam Renauld-Denis , Canada (2008-06-27) Minimalistic soviet style but functional and cheap the hostel is clean and functional, I have slept in a four-bed room for 20 euros, which in Paris is a bargain. Also it's very easy to locate near to the the Mairie de Clichy metro station. Yet don't expect any concession to art and style, it's very barren and not much social life going on in the living room. Staff were ok, not too friendly but I assume in Paris everyone is that way. — Alessandro Borsellino , Italian (2008-05-07) Good deal for the price I was there September of 2006. You can't beat the price if you want to see Paris for little money. Yes it was sometimes noisy at night, but it is expected. There was sometimes some drama happening which I found interesting. I have recommended it to friends who are on a budget and aren't afraid to rough it. I would recommend groups of three friends to go together so they get placed together in the same dorm. I went alone and was lucky enough to have the room to myself several nights. The staff came across as rude (although I wasn't sure it was a joke) to charming. If you need an inexpensive place this is it. I would recommend bringing you own pillow. I did get bit by something a couple of nights, but then I slept with the window open. There is are markets nearby where you can get water, soda, food as well as some restaurants. The tourist information building is a couple blocks down the street near the entrance to the subway. — Ana , USA (2007-10-02) This was a below average hostel. I wish I could say it was only a place to sleep, but it was so noisy that I got maybe half-hour sleep all night. It is very echoey and you hear every door slam all night. The staff were ok, not friendly, not unfriendly (to me, they were not pleasant to some other people we saw dealing with them). The rooms are at least semi-private, only three people in our room, but no lockers in them at all, so security is an issue, and there is luggage storage room that seems open to anyone, surveyed with a camera. You can rent a locker for $2 a pop. Expensive if you want to take anything else. However, there were no insects in the bed, it was fairly clean and since I was traveling with one person and the other person in the room was friendly and trustworthy, it was a good place to store our luggage while we went out. I would recommend partying all night, don't expect a good night's sleep. The location was seedy looking, but close to the metro, so we could get pretty much anywhere with a bit of travel. Not a fantastic intro to Paris. — Melanie , Canada (2007-05-17) This hostel it's so bad, so horrible, ugly. The staff are very nice. I stay with my girlfriend only two days. The neighborhood is not good. The day i come to the hostel some tourist was trying to commit suicide! and when we go out to the ugly elevator we found a lot of police try to save the man! The kitchen? no comments. The pizzeria in front of the hostel, its very nice and good. I don't recommend this hostel. — Sebastián Bernal - Chile (2006-11-23) Functional hostel that is set in an apartment tower. Staff are ok, room was on the fifth floor, but the room itself was clean and recently renovated. The reason for the low rating is the location -- Clichy is a poor suburb and is surrounded by even poorer ones (Genivilliers, Saint Denis). Keep your head down and run for the Metro stop down the street. — Shakey (2006-08-11) Well, it's one of Paris' cheapest hostels. That I believe was the few thing good about this hostel. By far I stayed in better places in my travel around Europe. The problems are security, and when you tried to cook something you must wait at least forty to fifty minutes. Also there's a lot of family that are not young, and I believed that this hostal was for young people. The few good thing are that you get the chance to get at any time, you meet nice people from around the globe, the staff is also nice (well just the two canadien girls cause rest of the staff is rude), and don't know how speak English or Spanish. — Ricardo, Colombia (2006-05-08) I cannot understand how this hostel is part of Hostelling International. I have traveled around Europe twice, and I never found a hostel as sad and horrible as this one.
There is only one lift that works half of the time, which is a burden if you have to carry your backpacks up to the 6th floor. The rooms are small and WITHOUT WARDROBE! The solution: leave your backpack in the luggage room, which is extremely crowded (to the extreme of not being able to close the door). Ah, by the way, nobody is responsible if something gets lost. So they "offer" you the option of the lockers in the basement, but you have to pay 2 euros every time you open it and close it again. And you are lost if your bag is big, because the lockers are all of the same size (not too big).
The breakfast is extremely small. Etc., etc., etc. I don't recommend this place at all! — Oscar, South Africa (2005-11-15) The worst part of this hostel was probably the kitchen. Far too few hot plates, at times no hot water and no washing-up, broken frying pans, pots and utensils and not enough of them. You were not allowed to use the kitchen in the morning or at lunch. Then there were unclean toilets with missing toilet seats. The staff were rude and the hostel was unclean in general. — Jesper (2005-11-10) This was by far the worst and scariest hostel I stayed at on my last backpacking trip, and we went all over Europe for 5 weeks, so I've seen a fair share.
The hostel is in a questionable neighborhood. I stayed here with my boyfriend and BOTH of us were scared for our safety, especially at night when there were people coming and going loudly up the stairs (next to our room) at all hours. We had no problems with the staff but it is a pain to drop off the key upon leaving the building, and it makes me wonder, what sort of problems have they had in the past that they need to keep all the room keys locked up?
Bathrooms were co-ed and gross — it might not be so bad if you're a boy and you stand up, but as a girl, I found it disgusting.
The rooms were no frills. Mother Theresa must've had more in her bedroom than they gave us — bare walls, cold floors, one scratchy wool blanket each (we were there in December) that looked like it had never been washed, holes in the sheets, etc.
The one saving grace of this hostel, for me, was the pizzeria across the street. Very friendly service, GREAT pizza; the waiter even helped me improve my French some.
I would never go back there. There are so many nicer hostels in Paris. — Lana (2005-09-02)