HI - Pompei - Casa del Pellegrino Hostel

Very good
We stayed here in September 2007 and were amazed at the cleanliness of the hostel. Very tidy, pretty new rooms with great beds -- just a very cosy place to stay with a nice terrace and little garden surrounding it (this place used to be a nunnery of some sort!). The breakfast is really ok (if you know Italy, you don't expect much) -- a "croissant" filled with "something" that tasted pretty good to me. I'd recommend this place to anyone! Plus, it's cheap too.

Just an excellent place. We stayed here for nine nights in a row. It was so good, we made it our base of operations for visiting the entire Bay of Naples area. It's just so centrally located – five-minutes walk to the Pompei FS train station, five-minutes walk to the Pompei Santuario Circumvesuviana train station, and ten-minutes walk to the alternate south-eastern entrance to the ancient site (which is a far less crowded entrance than the other entrance to the site, the so-called "Porta Marina" entrance at the western end of the site). With this hostel's amazingly convenient proximity to the trains, you can just stay here instead of in (much more expensive and much more dangerous) Naples, and use Pompei as home base. Ancient Pompeii is just ten minutes walk away. Ancient Herculaneum is just twenty-five minutes away on the Circumvesuviana train. Naples is just fifty minutes away on the Circumvesuviana. You want to visit Sorrento -- just take the Circumvesuviana in the other direction. Ancient Paestum (an awesome day-trip) is only one and a half hours away on train from Pompeii. And the hostel itself is just a pleasure. It’s clean (there is even maid service which cleans your room every day or two!). Nice layout (rooms clustered around a central fountain area, reflecting the layout of the convent which this hostel used to be). Cheap cheap cheap! Yes, noise can be a problem, if others want to hang out and drink/chat all night in the central courtyard (though earplugs solve this problem immediately), but we were here for nine nights during the summer, and only encountered noise problems one night during our stay. Yes, the breakfast is a bit stripped-down. But what does one expect in a hostel? Besides, the rooms here are so reasonably priced, you can buy a full breakfast elsewhere with all the money you're saving and still come out well ahead in the deal.

Has everything you need in a hostel. Located two minutes from the train station and ten minutes from the ruins, the hostel has clean rooms, showers, and a very helpful staff who will do most anything to make your time their as enjoyable as possible. The free breakfast is weak (nutella croissant and choice of hot drink), but everything else is great.

I really enjoyed my stay at this hostel. I found it to be very clean and the area where my room was located was very quiet. I would definitely recommend staying here.

This is a very clean yet consequently rather impersonal hostel. I arrived from an overnight train at 7 a.m. and, despite the office being open from 7 to 10, I was told to return at 3 p.m. to check-in. It was a little irritating but, I suppose, thinking about it, understandable. At least they stored my bags. The unexpected bonus of this turn-away was that I got to go to the ruins, as they opened at 8:30 — the only time you actually walk around a deserted city (the tour groups began to cover the place around 10). One odd thing was the amount of names this hostel went under — Ostello Pompei, Casa del Pelligrino, and something-or-other else. Other miscellaneous points: the showers were blocked, which means any longer than (literally) a minute in them meant flooding; and the breakfast consisted of a hot drink and a nutella-filled croissant (not good for those such as me who can't stand the evil stuff).

This hostel was really nice. The staff were friendly, and the grounds were attractive. It's about a ten-minute walk to the ancient site, which is easy to find! The rooms are nice and modern, and the breakfast is good. I would definitely stay here again.

Generally nice but the showers are too small and didn't drain well causing the floor to flood. The rooms were nice, but one was really noisy because the windows opened directly onto the road. It has a really good location for the station and ruins, but there were no signs to find it from the main station - ask someone. It's on the road opposite the FS (not Circumvesuviana) Station, first right, left at the end, and then about 100 yards on the left.

The hostel is in a great location for visiting the ancient ruin. It takes ten to fifteen minutes to walk there. There is a main train station that's a ten-minute walk in one direction, and a station on the Circumvesuviana line that's a ten-minute walk in the other direction. The staff were very pleasant and helpful, and the rooms were clean. The outdoor social area is very nice in the summer. The modern town is very relaxing, and everything there is cheap. The rooms were large, with one bathroom for about eight to ten people, but the shower head kept falling off! The only problem with this hostel is the lack of a curfew, and the fact that the social area is in the middle of the bedrooms. People sit outside the bedroom windows and talk louder and louder as they get drunker! Pompei is a great place to visit.

We liked it here a lot and thought it was a very good deal, including breakfast (standard breakfast is better than no breakfast). There are a lot of bunks in the room, but there are plenty of sinks and showers, plus the beds have a personal feel to them with your own lamps and desks. Also, they have a place to hang wet laundry and large, new lockers to store things. The actual site is beautiful. I enjoyed it here and would probably stay again.

It was clean, it is really close to the ruins and the train station. From Naples take the train going to Sarno via Poggiomarino. Get off at the Pompeii stop. It is much closer to the hostel. Trust me we walked looking for it. The breakfast is the same everyday. Prepackaged cornettos.. it nice though. We would go back, just not for breakfast.

A decent hostel, though the staff is not very friendly. They hardly speak any English and aren't very helpful. But the hostel is clean and there are almost always free beds.