need help with hostels

[tigerlilly]

hey guys, michelle here. Now that i have my route down, I have some hostel questions. Here's a list of the hostels I think I'll go with. Please help me choose the better of the 2 and let me know if there's any better ones or if any in my list are just awful. that would be a great help!!

London (3 nights) - Globetrotter Inn or Ace hostel
Paris (4 nights) - Le Village or la Maison Hostel
Barcelona (staying with family)
Rome (5 nights) - Pop Inn Hostel or the Beehive hostel
Florence (3 nights) - Ostello archi rossi or Ostello Gallo D'oro
Cinque Terre (2 nights) - la Dolce Vita or Mar Mar (both in Riomaggiore)
Swiss Alps (4 nights) Backpackers Villa Interlaken or Funny farm
Munich (3 nights) Wombat's City hostel or Meininger city Hostel
Vienna (3 nights) ?? Wonbats City Hoster or Westend City Hostel or Hostel Ruthensteiner?? (Need help for Vienna)
Amsterdam (4nights) StayOkay Vondelpark/Stadsdoelen or the Bulldog hostel
Back to London - 2 free nights in the Shaftsbury Kensington

thanks for all the help!!
~michelle~

[Kim]

OK, here's what I would pick - and I haven't stayed at all of these but based on what I've heard etc.

London (3 nights) - Globetrotter Inn
Rome (5 nights) - Beehive hostel
Florence (3 nights) - Ostello archi rossi
Swiss Alps (4 nights) Backpackers Villa Interlaken (definately, I have stayed there, it's awesome)
Munich (3 nights) Wombat's City Hostel
Vienna (3 nights) Wombats City Hostel
Amsterdam (4 nights) StayOkay Vondelpark or the Bulldog hostel. OK, this one depends on what you want. The StayOkays are quiet and the Bulldog is more of a fun sort of hostel.

Kim

[tigerlilly]

ok - thanks Kim!

what about Paris? Cinque terre? anyone else been to any of these?

~michelle~

[me]

there was one recently suggested for CT. i stayed at a place called Cinque Terre Holidays. i suggest that you avoid it. it was awful. no, it was worse than awful.

- d

tigerlilly said:

ok - thanks Kim!

what about Paris? Cinque terre? anyone else been to any of these?

~michelle~

[me]

it was www.torrettas.com/ing_html/file_pages/pag2.html

[tigerlilly]

the torrestas looks really nice!! does anyone have a better idea about prices though, they are very vague - double room for 50 to 120 euros??! I'm going at the end of May, do you think it'll be the 120 E? I can't really afford that much.
~michelle~

[WillTravel]

The only way to find out is to ask. It might be that the cheapest room has no bathroom and is up six flights of stairs, and the most expensive is the opposite. I don't know if that's the case, but sometimes it is.

[Jules80]

i stayed in paris in le village. and it was clean and fun. breakfast sucked, but good breakfasts in hotels are rare (exception being ostello archi rossi). it was close to a metro and not far from the gare du nord.

i second kim's suggestions for rome and florence. i stayed in both and were the two best hostels in 6 weeks of travel.

Jules

[tigerlilly]

thanks for all your help everyone!!! I really love this message board, it's so informative and I wouldn't be going on my trip without it!! LoL

~michelle~