Blue Planet Hostel

Paris (12è - Vincennes/Gare de Lyon Area)

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Address	5 rue Hector Malot, Paris (12è - Vincennes/Gare de Lyon Area), Île-de-France, France Map
Price	Dorm beds from US$15.00. Private rooms from US$18.00/person. Price may vary by season - Check Current Prices by Date Here

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Their Description

Features

Free Breakfast
Kitchen
24 Hour Free Hot Showers
Air Conditioning
Lockers

The Hostelz.com Review

This is a friendly little hostel that attracts a fun but not too wild crowd. It's located just a couple blocks from the train station, so it's easy to get to if you're coming in by train. It has a few tables and chairs to hang out outside and a tiny indoor common area with a projection TV, small kitchen, and computers for internet access (after you pay a high usage fee). There is a daytime lockout period.

Ratings & Comments

2.6 Average from 30 Ratings

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Comment by Eric, U.S.

January 2008

Parisian hospitality at it's worst
The dorm rooms are awful and when I was there, you had to share one key amongst all of the strangers in the room and people were getting locked out left and right and banging on doors in the middle of the night. The staff doesn't care. The bathrooms are some of the nastiest I've ever seen. Only minor plus is that for Paris, when I stayed, it was fairly cheap.

Comment by J, CANADA

December 2007

Crap
This hostel is awful! It's expensive, has rude staff (I actually witnessed the staff yelling at a traveler). If you like to shower, don't stay here. No water, and when you do get water dripping from the gross shower, it's freezing cold! The best is the breakfast, stale croissants from a vending machine. Whee. No thanks!

Comment by Olga, Canada

August 2007

Will keep coming back!
I've stayed here for a couple nights twice over the past two years and wouldn't dream of going anywhere else. For 21 euros a night I couldn't have asked for anything more convenient. Steps from the subway, clean, private bathrooms, and showers in both rooms I've gotten. During the 11 to 3 lockout period, stop nursing that hangover and get out and see the city! Grab the free coffee if you really need a caffeine fix, but go to Le Killy Jen on the corner for a real breakfast -- great staff, fantastic pastries!

Comment by alli, ireland

June 2007

Bad, bad, bad
well if you want to stay in a room with no running water, or toilet, or plug sockets that work, that kicks you out for "cleaning" during the day, then this is the hostel for you. very rude staff. i would not recommend this hostel at all! don't go there.

Comment by Greedy person, Russia

April 2007

I rented a single room for 42 euro. A towel and linen cost another 2 euro and there were no soap at all. All the night water flowed somewhere in the wall very loudly. Plug sockets didn't work. Shower turned off every thirty seconds. Breakfast consisted of one croissant and one tea (all from machine). Storage room has nor lock neither lockers, all stuff is piled up together. Maybe all this is normal for a hostel, but then it's too expensive -- for this price I saw single rooms in hotels near the Lyon station.

Comment by Krista

March 2007

I stayed in this hostel for three days last April. I thought it was a pleasant place to stay. It was quiet and pretty clean. It was close to the train station and underground. The staff was friendly -- maybe too friendly and I met some interesting people there. The internet is overpriced and the breakfast was horrible. I didn't notice the lockout because we were out in the city all day. The only thing that worried me was having to leave my bag in a back room. I didn't like the idea of leaving my bag in a public room, even though it did have video surveillance. Nothing got stolen though. Overall I enjoyed my stay. It's a decent place to stay with a good price.

Comment by Javier L

July 2006

Blue Planet Hostel would be a solid place to stay if not for the stubborn and rude service. In addition to kicking you out of the rooms from eleven a.m. to three p.m. for "cleaning," the internet is six euro an hour and the hostel promotes very little social gathering.The manager resembles Watto from Episode One of Star Wars and runs too tight of a ship here for it to be enjoyable.

Comment by Doz

May 2006

Worst hostel ever. Rude and unfriendly staff. Terrible facilities. Stupid daytime lockout. No real communal area. High priced internet. Just in general, terrible. Do not be fooled. I stayed there three nights and it was the worst of my seven-month trip.

Comment by Sheri Zobel

October 2005

When I was living in the suburbs of Paris I would stay at this hostel on the weekends if I wanted to spend the weekend in the city. The rooms are very clean and there was a shower and a toilet in the room, a big luxury for veteran hostelers. F.Y.I for virgin American hostelers: a toilet and shower is not a given. I don't recommend breakfast. A stale pain au chocolat is a crime. Go to the cafe next door and have an authentic French breakfast. This is a place for people who want to be safe and sleep. Go to another hostel if you just want to party.

Comment by Adrian

August 2005

The Blue Planet has good facilities and is kept clean. Those are the only positives it has. It is incredibly strict! I'm sure monasteries are more laid back than this place. If you do anything wrong you're thrown out with no refund. Drink, eat or smoke in your room and you're kicked out. Bring people back to the hostel, you're kicked out. Drink alcohol outside the hostel, you're kicked out! Make noise after 10 p.m., you're kicked out. The staff are so rude! They kick you out of the hostel every day for three hours to clean the rooms. You are not let back in until 3 p.m. The kitchen has few utensils and no stove for cooking. All you have is a sink with plates. Do not stay in this hostel.

Comment by Serhat

August 2005

I didn't like this hostel very much, because it wasn't worth that much money. I think it is expensive because it's in Paris. There are cameras for security and doors you open with electronic cards, but there is no need for that much security in a hostel. They could make better showers and toilets for that money.

Comment by Matthew Hunt

May 2005

Worst hostel in Europe? No question about it! It has cockroaches and very, very rude staff. Avoid at all costs!

Comment by Peter, US

January 2005

This is a good hostel. It's safe and clean and has a very pretty receptionist, Celine.

Comment by Anonymous

January 2005

This is a decent place to sleep but the staff are horrible. It seemed every time I was in the lobby they were in a yelling match with a different traveler.

Comment by Anonymous

November 2004

I have to say that this is the worst hostel I have ever stayed at until now. As a global traveler, I had been to one of the most obsolete places in China, but even there the hostel was able to offer a clean bed. But in Paris, assumed to be one of the best cities in the world, I slept on a bed full of bugs. I had to clean them from my underwear by using boiling water after I got back home. The staff here are rude, and they never smile. Don't be misled by these word sin their description: "many of our rooms now have hot showers and toilets for no extra charge." I rented a single private room, and it had a tap and a basin only, no shower, no toilet, and the water from tap flowed like tears. I would rather stay in the Lyon station for a night than sleep in this hostel. By the way, one night in this hostel cost me 42 euros.

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