Geneva Hostel

2.0 star property
your current months are December, 2024 and January, 2025.
December 2024
January 2025

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Interior entrance
Terrace/patio
Exterior
Lunch served
Free daily continental breakfast

Reviews

8.4 out of 10

Very good

Popular amenities

  • Breakfast included
    Breakfast included
  • 24/7 front desk
    24/7 front desk
  • Parking available
    Parking available
  • Laundry
    Laundry
  • Housekeeping
    Housekeeping
  • Free WiFi
    Free WiFi

Explore the area

Map
Rue Rothschild 28-30, Geneva, 1202
  • Paquis Baths
    9 min walk
  • Brunswick Monument
    11 min walk
  • Mont Blanc Bridge
    15 min walk
  • Geneva (GVA-Cointrin Intl.)
    13 min drive

Room options

Shared Dormitory, Men only

  • 16 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 6
  • 3 Twin Bunk Beds

Triple Room, Shared Bathroom

  • 12 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 2 Twin Bunk Beds

Twin Room, Private Bathroom (Private WC)

  • 18 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds

Shared Dormitory, Mixed Dorm

  • 16 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 3 Twin Bunk Beds

Shared Dormitory, Women only

  • 16 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 6
  • 3 Twin Bunk Beds

Quadruple Room, Shared Bathroom

  • 12 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Twin Bunk Beds

Single Room, Private Bathroom (Private WC)

  • 18 sq m
  • City view
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

Quadruple Room, Shared Bathroom (Private WC)

  • 18 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Twin Beds and 1 Twin Bunk Bed

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About the area

Geneva

In the heart of Geneva, Geneva Hostel is within a 5-minute drive of Brunswick Monument and United Nations European Headquarters. .This hostel is 1.2 mi (1.9 km) from Flower Clock and 1.3 mi (2.1 km) from Rue du Rhône.

What's nearby

  • Rue du Rhône - 17 min walk - 1.5 km
  • United Nations European Headquarters - 18 min walk - 1.5 km
  • Jet d'Eau Fountain - 4 min drive - 2.5 km
  • Saint-Pierre Cathedral - 6 min drive - 3.3 km
  • Palexpo - 7 min drive - 6.2 km

Getting around

  • Butini Tram Stop - 3 min walk
  • Geneva (ZHT-Geneva Railway Station) - 10 min walk
  • Geneva International Airport (GVA) - 20 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Glowing - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Mr. Pickwick Pub - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪El Catrín - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪Tag's Café - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪Little India - ‬2 min walk

About this property

Geneva Hostel

Hostel with free breakfast, near Brunswick Monument
Geneva Hostel offers 14 accommodations with laptop-compatible safes and blackout drapes/curtains. Beds feature premium bedding. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Bathrooms include showers. Housekeeping is provided daily.
Make yourself at home in one of the 14 guestrooms. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms with showers are provided. Conveniences include laptop-compatible safes and blackout drapes/curtains, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take in the views from a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access and a picnic area. This hostel also features a vending machine and bike storage.
Stop by the hostel's restaurant for lunch, or grab snacks at the coffee shop/cafe. A complimentary continental breakfast is served daily from 6:30 AM to 10:30 AM.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, multilingual staff, and luggage storage. This hostel has 3 meeting rooms available for events. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
A complimentary continental breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Onsite venue - This restaurant serves lunch only.

Languages

Afrikaans, Arabic, English, Farsi, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • On-site parking available only on request
  • Uncovered self parking on site (CHF 15 per night; includes in/out privileges)
  • Limited on-site parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available

Food and drink

  • Free continental breakfast available daily 6:30 AM–10:30 AM
  • 1 restaurant and 1 coffee shop/cafe
  • Coffee/tea in a common area

Things to do

  • Bike parking
  • Bike storage

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities
  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • Lift
  • Front-desk safe
  • Library
  • Lockers available
  • Vending machine
  • Water dispenser

Guest services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Multilingual staff

Business services

  • Coworking spaces
  • Meeting rooms - 3

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • Outdoor furniture
  • Picnic area

Accessibility

  • If you have any requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Lift
  • Step-free path to entrance
  • Well-lit path to entrance
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
  • Wheelchair-accessible path to lift
  • Wheelchair-accessible public bathroom
  • Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
  • Wheelchair-accessible restaurant

More

  • Shared microwave
  • Shared fridge
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bed sheets
  • Blackout drapes/curtains
  • Heating
  • Premium bedding

Bathroom

  • Shower
  • Towels

More

  • Laptop-compatible safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: midnight
Contactless check-in available
Late check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival
If you are planning to arrive after midnight please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

No pets or service animals allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • A tax is imposed by the city: CHF 3.75 per person, per night

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

Optional extras

  • Uncovered self parking fee: CHF 15 per night (in/out privileges)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
Guests must contact this property in advance to reserve onsite parking
This property accepts cash
Cashless transactions are available
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher

We should mention

Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms
No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property

National rating

Hotelstars Union assigns an official star rating for properties in Switzerland. This property is rated 2 stars.

Property is also known as

Geneva Hostel Geneva
Geneva Hostel Hostel/Backpacker accommodation
Geneva Hostel Hostel/Backpacker accommodation Geneva

Geneva Hostel Reviews

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 143 out of 292 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 95 out of 292 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 33 out of 292 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 11 out of 292 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 10 out of 292 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.6/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

McKenna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This was a wonderful place to stay if you are a solo traveler! It has clean rooms, a big free breakfast, and many of the best places in Geneva are within walking distance. The front desk staff are also friendly and very helpful!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Arianna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Alison

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
3 night stay
Lovely hostel. Staff were great & breakfast was fab! Nice & clean too. Enjoyable stay!
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Sara

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Carolane

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bien
Bien. Quand même bruyant avec plusieurs groupes scolaires ou nombreux. Excellent emplacement, déjeuner plus que satisfaisant. Salle de bain dans le dortoir, très pratique ! Toutefois.. douche très peu conviviale! Le jet ne se bouge pas et va directement dans la porte. Il faut être gymnaste pour réussir à recevoir de l’eau aux endroit souhaités.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Shion

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean bed, including the breakfast that was good Need more bathroom and toilets hopefully
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

2/10 Terrible

Fan

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I wanted to like the hostel, but it just got worse and worse until I had to leave early. It caters to school groups, which can mean long lines at breakfast and a lot of yelling and banging on doors because some of the students are very young. I also suspect the hostel sells any available beds each night at a discount to migrants and homeless people. But this is very late, so I had random people coming into the room at 2 and 4 am, turning the lights on and banging around. This happened three nights in a row, so I didn't sleep for three nights. Oh and on the last night before I left with the remnants of my sanity, I was bitten by bed bugs.
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Abdulkarim

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
It is a hostel so it is what it is. But clean and in a good location. The front desk is very helpful.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Max

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Worth the price, all things considered.
Helpful multilingual staff at the desk 24/7 was very useful as I had a delayed flight. Free breakfast was a good bonus with generous and reasonable timings. I also liked the personally issued lockers that you don't have to pay extra for unlike some other hostels. The communal areas in the hostel were clean and well looked after, and it's a nice neighbourhood too if you want to get some local food or even fast food. I could do with an extra pillow but overall it wasn't a bad stay. Convenient, relatively comfortable and cheap. Good stay!
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Timothy

Stayed 2 nights in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Shui Han Viola

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staffs are kind and helpful
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jenna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Seung hyun

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Bradley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Breakfast was convenient and a good start to the day. The bathrooms were clean and easily accessible. Lockers for storage were big. Rooms did not have easy way to regulate heat which caused overheating at night.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Louise

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely stay at Geneva Hostel
Only had one night stay but was a comfortable one. staff were very lovely rooms and bathroom was clean i had a pleasant experience would definitely recommend stopping here if you are travelling to Geneva!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

D

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Simply welcoming Clean and nice place to stay on budget
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

TETSUO

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
staffs are very friendly. good breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Daniel, Mississauga

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Near the train station
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ana Carolina

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Everything perfect! Great Location ,great stuff, great facilities.All perfect!
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023

2/10 Terrible

Ecklesia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jennifer

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I was totally impressed with the Geneva Hostel. My first stay in this setting and I will definitely recommend this place to anyone needing a clean, hospitable, safe place to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Basirou

Business traveller
Stayed 6 nights in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Lester

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Good: convenient location, friendly staff, dining options Bad: other guests were very loud in the lobby until very late at night. Shower designed poorly - shower head doesn’t hold itself up and is very low so you have to hold it yourself
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023