Paris' best hostel and other Paris, France Hotel/Accommodation Reviews

I am really glad I did my research before going to Paris, because, for some reason, it is a uniformly awful city for hostels. Everything I had heard or read about the Paris' hostels reviews did not arouse me at all: human body fluids and dehydratated insects' carapaces on your bedding, filthy showers full of molds, rat/mouses traps in the bedrooms, complete lack of security, run down buildings...Lucky Youth is clearly an exception.

I was there for a week, sharing a small flat with 5 other people. We all came from a diferent country: Sweden, US, Norway, Australia, Latvia(I am myself from Milano in Italy)). We really had a GREAT time, to say the less...OK, maybe it was only for one week but what we gave to each other, nobody will ever take it from us. Well, too much talking about Love. Let's talk about the accomodation by itself:
We had a free internet in the flat (there was a computer), a kitchen, a TV, a bathroom, bunk beds. Basically, you enjoy the benefits of staying in a private flat, yet paying the rates of a budget hostel. Maybe the flat is not that big but it was enough to fit the 6 of us.

The apartment I stayed in is old and seconds walk to the moulin rouge, in the area of Montmartre: very lively. The true Paris.

I really appreciated the security service that check if everyone is in the right place, which means you are sure to know people who are not guests of lucky youth will not try and enter.
As for the check in system, it is also unique: you don't arrive at where you're staying but instead phone them once you're in Paris; they then give you directions and a meeting point. From there you meet the representatives, who walks you to the apartment, and shows you around personally. This gives a sense of security.

I highly recommend this unique place and now I understand why it is so popular.
Hakan, Brad, Sofia, Elena, Brigitte, I'm sure that we will meet again someday, somewhere.

Unique Qualities: -no curfew and no lock out
-pick up and guide to the hostel/flat upon arrival in Paris
-free internet access
-fully equipped kitchen with all the necessary kitchen tools
-location in the area of Montmartre

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Theme: Hostel
Comparison: about average
Prices: US$20-40  » Currency Converter
Phone: 00 33 683 119 196
Address: Montmartre area
Directions: Metro station Blanche or Lamarck-Caulaincourt
Website: www.luckyyouth.com

Le village hostel is absolutly disgusting and the staff very rude. When my girlfriend told them that we had bed bugs on our bedding (she showed the guy her legs full of bites), he told her: "Don't disturb me for nothing. We are spraying sometimes. There's nothing much to do".
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Unique Qualities: The only quality: this hostel is located in the area of Montmartre, which is the most gorgeous area in Paris. Montmartre is a safe area too, close to the Moulin Rouge and the sacre coeur.

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Theme: Hostel
Comparison: about average
Prices: US$20-40  » Currency Converter
Address: 20, rue d'Orsel, , Paris, Île-de-France 75018