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Reviews of Hostal Yakumama

Luis Cordero 5-66 Y Honorato Vasquez, 010150 Cuenca, Ecuador

#70 of 89 hotels in Cuenca

Guests' Choice

Review score

Based on 51 hostel reviews

8.1

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    8.5

  • Comfort

    8.7

  • Location

    9.5

  • Facilities

    8.2

  • Staff

    8.9

  • Value for money

    8.5

  • Free WiFi

    9.0

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  • Reviewed: 2 January 2025

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night

    great location and restaurant on the premisis

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: 29 December 2024

    7.0
    A great cheap overnight stop.
    • Solo traveller
    • Standard Double Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    For the price … nothing.

    Great value for money.

    Stayed in November 2024

  • Reviewed: 24 February 2024

    9.0
    Excellent choice.
    • Solo traveller
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    When your room is located at the courtyard, it's hard to sleep early when there is live music (usually during the weekend).

    Great location, very nice staff, great food.

    Stayed in January 2024

  • Reviewed: 22 January 2024

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Standard Double Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Room was a little noisy. The bar is very popular with locals and tourists and has live music at weekends and cocktails hours. Can be quite noisy untill 11 pm so fine for adults but maybe not for young children. Not sure if it possible to get quieter rooms away from bar area.

    Big spacious rooms tastefully decorated. Comfortable bed. Great food in restaurant. Extremely helpful staff. Central location.

    Stayed in January 2024

  • Reviewed: 12 January 2024

    9.0
    Nice stay
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Single Bed in Male Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Sometimes noisy because of the street next to

    Bar/restaurant with events and good food Good location near the center

    Stayed in November 2023

  • Reviewed: 25 July 2023

    8.0
    Would recommend to other people. Friendly staff, great location
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Single Bed in Male Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 5 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    The showers were cold but very clean

    The location was excellent, right in the centre. I was in a dorm but during off season so it was just two of us in the dorm and it was very quiet. The bar downstairs is good with nice cocktails

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: 21 July 2023

    9.0
    I would stay here again.
    • Business trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Single Bed in Female Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    The loud music and noise from people at the bar

    Location,…food on site

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: 15 July 2023

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    The lock on the door

    Great vibe

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: 10 June 2023

    9.0
    I enjoyed Cuenca and Yakumama made me feel at home
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    accessibility and staff

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: 7 June 2023

    8.0
    Great location
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 5 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    No activities were offered

    The location and the staff. The hostel is closed to all major attractions. The area is safe to walk at all times. Very good restaurants and bar nearby.

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: 19 May 2023

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights

    I guess if I have to put something here it's that the showers take forever to get hot. But that's a problem all over ecuador, so I can't really hold it against them.

    Nice staff, cool room, the building is quite nice. Not much to complain.

    Stayed in April 2023

  • Reviewed: 19 March 2023

    9.0
    Superb
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Reception is sometimes without attention. It's basically okay, but room keys are not completely hidden.

    Nice place, very spacious with a very nice patio and a quite good restaurant. Would go there again. Ask for a quiet room if you prefer.

    Stayed in March 2023

  • Reviewed: 15 March 2023

    8.0
    central, artistic designed place, nice people
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    you hear everything from neighbors especially the bathrooms and also people on the stairs

    It is a nice place with a lot of artistic details. I liked the yard with the plants

    Stayed in March 2023

  • Reviewed: 11 March 2023

    7.0
    Good but could be better
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Single Bed in Female Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    The rooms were really dark in the day, the shared area was not good to meet people, the bathroom for women didn’t lock and often ran out of paper.

    The staff was really friendly and helpful, and it was really close to the historical centre of Cuenca!

    Stayed in March 2023

  • Reviewed: 21 January 2023

    8.0
    good location, great food
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    the bathroom smelt a bit funky

    the private room was good. the food at the restaurant is amazing

    Stayed in January 2023

  • Reviewed: 9 December 2022

    8.0
    Clean, friendly staff, central location, a pretty building but no kitchen - more hotel than hostel!
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Single Bed in Male Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    I assumed that a 'hostel' is traveller-friendly but this was more like a hotel with dorm options. Staff were friendly but didn't make any effort to tell me about what to see in Cuenca or getting to/from Cajas or Ingapirca. I was disappointed to realize that the kitchen was only for the expensive restaurant and there wasn't so much as a microwave, knife and cutting board or hot water on offer to prepare simple meals.

    Beautiful old building remodeled and converted into a hostel in a very central part of downtown Cuenca. Spacious dorm room and medium sized lockers a plus.

    Stayed in November 2022

  • Reviewed: 23 November 2022

    9.0
    Very nice area with a lot of restaurants just around the corner and laundry directly in front.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights

    Room was in ground floor, so without curtains closed the people in the garden and restaurant had a direct view on our bed..

    Very big room. Friendly staff. Clean and very big bathroom.

    Stayed in November 2022

  • Reviewed: 7 August 2022

    7.0
    Good location and food, but loud in the evenings
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    There is a restaurant inside the hostel. it really felt like the restaurant was the priority and the bedrooms were an extra. There was live music/ stand up comedy on every night I was there, it was so loud and when it went on past the advertised time and I complained, I was made to feel like I was being boring/ unreasonable. guests should be able to rest at any time in their rooms and not depending on the schedule of events at the restaurant. if I had known about these events, I wouldn’t have booked. I wouldn’t stay again.

    The location. The food in the restaurant is very good.

    Stayed in July 2022

  • Reviewed: 7 June 2022

    9.0
    Superb
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Nothing

    Great location, good staff great restaurant

    Stayed in May 2022

  • Reviewed: 2 April 2025

    5.0
    Big spacious rooms tastefully decorated. Comfortable bed. Althought witout communal kitchen.
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Single Bed in Female Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 2 nights

    The lack of a communal kitchen, which is essential for backpackers, so I decided to change to a hostel after a couple of nights.

    I appreciated the spaciousness of the room and the hostel in general. Hot water and a warm duvet with a blanket.

    Stayed in March 2025

  • Reviewed: 18 January 2025

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Single Bed in Male Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    the front desk not attended as it should be - concerns about safety that anyone can enter from the street. I stayed 4days in the dorm and there was nobody else in the dorm during this entire time. I think they had 2 other guests for one night in a private room. Not a place where you will likely meet other travelers.

    the location is good.

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: 23 August 2024

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    I loved everything about it. If I go back I would definitely stay there again.

    Stayed in August 2024

  • Reviewed: 8 August 2024

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Double or Twin Room with Private External Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    The best

    Stayed in August 2024

  • Reviewed: 9 December 2023

    6.0
    Old school.
    • Solo traveller
    • Double Room with Private Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Toilet paper dispenser always broken on men's toilet.

    Lots of room. Quiet at night. Hot showers. Location

    Stayed in December 2023

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