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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.
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Believe me, you won't like it! Too expensive & dirty! I spent some days there and I was surprised how dirty a hostel can be. The staff had to change the bedding five times because of big, nasty stains. After all, they weren't really clean. Moreover, the receptionists are always bad-tempered and don't wanna help you, I have the feeling they aren't even able to. Another aspect are the showers. In rooms under 5 persons, you can only have a shower in the hallway. That isn't all. You can't really close the door, there's always a gap, where the others can watch you while taking a shower or going to toilet. Really terrible. In rooms of 5 beds you have the same problem. Everyone can see you and don't even think the bathroom is clear! While I was spending my holiday, there weren't hot water! Every morning and every evening you had to take a very cold shower! It was horrible! And the breakfast, omg, you get three chips and then you have to go to the vendor and get either muddy choco rolls or a bad-tasting coffee. Again horrible! The four days I've spent there were terrible, I am glad Paris isn't! Taking everything into account the price is too high! Overpriced! — the truth-saying/ soothsayer , U.S. (2010-06-07) Terrible Don't stay here. you share one key with everyone in the room so you are constantly being woken up to open the door for someone. very loud At night. Internet is over priced. showers are cold. staff don't give a sh*t. my bed was itchy. — Jake , Australia (2010-05-25) 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. — Eric , U.S. (2008-01-27) 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! — J , CANADA (2007-12-15) 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! — Olga , Canada (2007-08-28) Not bad, not great Stayed here on a last-minute reservation. My roommates for the night were very friendly, and we only had one late-night arrival. The room we were in was fairly spartan, and looked dirtier at first sight that it actually turned out to be. Be warned that, until everyone is tucked in for the night, you won't know exactly how many roomies you'll have, as there were trundle beds underneath the cots that were pulled out to accommodate new arrivals -- what started out as three people in the room turned out to be 6. No privacy curtain in the en-suite shower, though it was angled in such a way as to hide it. There was a sink with no hot water as well. I was lucky enough to get a quiet room, though you could hear talking, shouting, and laughing from down the hall -- clearly no intervention from the surly hostel staff. Breakfast is provided if you wake up early enough -- a simple coffee and cello-wrapped croissant. Not something worth buying, but if it's free you might as well take it. There are no lockers in the rooms, so luggage must be stored in a common area near the desk. It is locked and under surveillance, though this doesn't give it much of an air of security. The area around Gare de Lyon isn't the nicest in Paris, but with the higher-end hotels surrounding the hostel, it feels a bit safer than other locations. — Erin , Canadian (2007-08-03) 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. — alli , ireland (2007-06-17) 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. — Greedy person , Russia (2007-04-03) 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. — Krista (2007-03-13) 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. — Javier L (2006-07-11) 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. — Doz (2006-05-26) 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. — Sheri Zobel (2005-10-10) 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. — Adrian (2005-08-24) 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. — Serhat (2005-08-14) Worst hostel in Europe? No question about it! It has cockroaches and very, very rude staff. Avoid at all costs! — Matthew Hunt (2005-05-16)