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Reviews of Imaginary Hostel

Vene 33/35/37, Tallinn City Center, 10123 Tallinn, Estonia

#64 of 103 hotels in Tallinn

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Review Score

Based on 671 hostel reviews

7.9

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    7.8

  • Comfort

    7.8

  • Location

    9.5

  • Facilities

    7.8

  • Staff

    9.0

  • Value for money

    8.5

  • Free Wifi

    8.7

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  • Reviewed: March 12, 2025

    10
    Very comfortable & affordable hostel!
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Single Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The building is old, so the staircase is narrow—travelers with very large suitcases might find it a bit inconvenient. This isn’t a drawback, just something to keep in mind 🫶

    A very quiet location, yet right in the heart of the old town. The private room was very cozy. There were plenty of shower cabins, so there was never a queue in the morning. The kitchen had everything needed. The reception staff were incredibly kind!❤️

    Stayed in March 2025

  • Reviewed: March 5, 2025

    6.0
    It was OK
    • Business trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Double Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    I had to ask help from two different people to help me open/close my room door. It was nearly impossible. Shower and WC rooms are not very modern/clean.

    Cosy and clean room. Comfortable bed. Staff polite and helpful. Nice location in the old town. Quiet, i had a good nights sleep.

    Stayed in March 2025

  • Reviewed: March 1, 2025

    10
    Friendly staff and great location!
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 14-Bed Mixed Dorm
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    In an excellent location and loved the privacy of the bunk bed layout.

    Stayed in February 2025

  • Reviewed: February 26, 2025

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 4-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Staff was nice and helpful, pretty clean, good location .

    Stayed in February 2025

  • Reviewed: February 24, 2025

    6.0
    Please replace the bunk beds - they are shaky and not safe!
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 14-Bed Mixed Dorm
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The bunk beds are not only uncomfortable but seem dangerous - the top ones are too high and don't have enough protection on sides and realy shaky. Don't even think to leave anything on a shelf on the side - it will surely fall down. Also I was very uncomfortable because I got a place in a four bed room with three men (I am a woman) who seemed to know each other. The guy who was on the bed under mine was doing something which made the whole construction shaking as hell (I don't even want to guess what he was doing).

    Great location, clean enough, showers are okay, WiFi was working fine, the guy at the reception was very nice and brought me some tea in the morning of my departure when I realised I didn't take any.

    Stayed in February 2025

  • Reviewed: February 5, 2025

    6.0
    Booked another place after first night, too many faulty stuff, would not recommend if not necessary
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 4-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Showering experience was bad. Lights in bathroom, which are activated with movement, kept switching off even though I was moving the whole time. I could not lock the door in shower. No movable shower head so it was harder to wash, but because it is about the design it is not as bad as the lights and lock situation. I booked a 4-bed room for which it was said on booking that it is empty, as I walked into the room there where 2 people sleeping there. I checked later again and it was still written that you can reserve 3 beds in that s 4-bed bedroom. In the hallway in front of the hostel door there was a man sleeping on the floor. Not the hostel's fault but it was scary nevertheless.

    Location is good. It was very easy to check in. Price is good.

    Stayed in February 2025

  • Reviewed: February 3, 2025

    6.0
    Affordable, nice location but the kitchen needs cleaning and air freshener everyday.
    • Leisure trip
    • Travelers with friends
    • 4-Bed Private Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The kitchen which is facing the reception was dirty and smelling. The smell reaches up to the second floor where our room was located. The kitchen is so dirty and messy so we have no choice but to clean it first before we start using it. Used plates, glasses, frying pans are unwashed. Tables and sink are messy and oily. The couple next to our room were so noisy and were laughing out loud until past 4am without considering the other guests who are trying to sleep next door making it impossible for us to sleep until we have to knock on the wall of the room dividing our room from theirs. The property listing mentioned that there are towels but when we asked towels from the reception, the receptionist said that the towels are only for private rooms and not for dorms. Well, it should be clearly specified in the listing that the towels are paid for dorm guests.

    Comfortable bed and location, rate per night is affordable.

    Stayed in February 2025

  • Reviewed: January 28, 2025

    10
    it’s the best hostel in Tallinn
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 10-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    no

    staff <3

    Stayed in December 2024

  • Reviewed: January 25, 2025

    1.0
    Very Poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 14-Bed Mixed Dorm
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Be careful with this hostel, I don't recommend booking there. There are bedbugs in the rooms. The staff knows this but they still take the reservation and cause problems for people.

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: January 25, 2025

    10
    I feels comfortable and happy
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 10-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Nothing

    I likes everything and the location is super everything is near and the staff is so friendly and kitchen Is big

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: January 24, 2025

    6.0
    Big hostel in the old town
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 10-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The whole vibe felt a bit off to me but it might have just been bad luck with the current guests. It was primarily men, there were multiple people that seemed to live there for longer, and there was an old drunk guy who slept passed out on the stairs one of the nights. My stay was cut short and I wasn't unhappy about it. There were no lockers in the room so no way to keep your valuables safe during the day. Towel rent is an extra 2€. Just one USB charging port in the bed. There was little privacy despite the beds being rather closed off. Could be easily solved by installing curtains. Toilets were often dirty and out of toilet paper.

    Very central location, just a few minutes walk away from a supermarket and sights in the old town. Many toilets and showers. You can store your luggage for free. The wifi worked quite well. The staff was really friendly and helpful. The bed was really comfortable.

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: January 23, 2025

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 4-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    I had an amazing stay. Highly recommend.

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: January 15, 2025

    5.0
    Fair
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 14-Bed Mixed Dorm
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Staff is unfriendly and general impression of the hostel is a bit rundown and not the cleanest

    Location

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: January 13, 2025

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 16-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    2€ towel

    Everything was good

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: January 13, 2025

    1.0
    Awful
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Single Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Horrible place, I absolutely do not understand the ratings, or maybe it's just not my "vibe". I got to the city super late (or early, depending on how you look at it) because of a flight cancellation. My room was "ready". This was supposed to be a single room which looked quite nice on Booking.com. Not so the reality. At the reception desk there were a bunch of guys drinking vodka and pretty heavily intoxicated. The whole place looks like a complete dump. The room was less than basic, the door onto the terrace was impossible to lock, there was a modem with blinking lights all night, the showers were gross (hair in the drains), there was no soap at the sinks, but there was laundry hanging around on racks. You could hear every single thing in the place, and as a solo woman I felt extremely uncomfortable. I stayed for a few hours just to get a bit of sleep after 9+ hours on a bus, but booked somewhere else before I closed my eyes and got out of there as soon as humanly possible. A disgrace. The only decent thing is the location, but I am now at a hotel not far away for just a few EUR more, and it's like a different planet.

    Good location, and maybe if dingy hostels are your thing.

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: January 4, 2025

    2.0
    Very Poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 14-Bed Mixed Dorm
    • Stayed 5 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Unwelcoming staff, messy in the bedroom, in the kitchen. Just a small stone age bath. WC too !!( The worst thing: "the Bedbugs" in my bed and I couldn't sleep normally. In short, I don't know why this hostel has such a recommendation but I think it is highly overrated and not worth it.. That was the worst hostel I've ever been to. .

    Location

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: January 2, 2025

    1.0
    BED BUGS and no refund
    • Leisure trip
    • Travelers with friends
    • Bed in 10-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    BED BUGS! We were promised a full refund, which to me seems like the only right way to go about this. So we book the next place and pack our things. At the time of leaving we were told we won’t get our money for the night we already stayed and that they can’t reimburse for my friends booking at all, because it was paid online through booking.com Guys, not cool, figure it out. Bed bugs happen, this kind of shenanigans doesn’t have to.

    I like the place and the vibe, good for meeting people. Great for solo travellers.

    Stayed in December 2024

  • Reviewed: January 2, 2025

    4.0
    Disappointing
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 10-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    It was like a hippie place. Everything was too messy filled with scattered clothes or garbage. Too many unfriendly people like living there. The room smelled. The room was never cleaned.

    Great location, the reception person was friendly.

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: January 1, 2025

    4.0
    Disappointing
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 4-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The bathrooms are not clean, they smell bad The showers does not hold the water temperature so it gets very hot or cold during the shower Shared beds are ok

    Well located

    Stayed in January 2025

  • Reviewed: December 23, 2024

    6.0
    good locatio (but) you get what you've paid for.
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 6-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    there's no outlets in the beds, only USB type A ports.

    location is great, the rooms are bit different from each other but mine was comfortable and clean

    Stayed in December 2024

  • Reviewed: December 21, 2024

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 4-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Too much stairs. If you’ve got a big luggage it’s tough. The second layer of bunk bed is way too high to climb up and it makes loud noise and get squeaky while going up. The bed doesn’t have a curtain. The bathroom area could be cleaner. There was no towel or paper so I couldn’t clean it after using it either.

    Good location 24h reception

    Stayed in December 2024

  • Reviewed: December 8, 2024

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 16-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    Everything was fine

    Perfect staff, great location

    Stayed in September 2024

  • Reviewed: December 4, 2024

    10
    It met my expectations, good for a short stay
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 6-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 3 nights

    kitchen can be crowded sometimes

    Location is convenient, close to tourist attractions

    Stayed in December 2024

  • Reviewed: November 27, 2024

    2.0
    Very Poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 14-Bed Mixed Dorm
    • Stayed 3 nights

    I have been traveling to Tallinn for over 10 years and I have never been disappointed by hostels - from which you do not expect too much for a low price. However, what I saw and experienced in the hostel goes beyond the limits. It was supposed to be four nights, but ended with evacuation after the first night. For over 30 people on one floor, one shower and toilet, the cleanliness of which leaves much to be desired. Permanent occupation of the kitchen by some Latinos, who also treat this hostel as a home. The condition of the kitchen and the filth in it leave much to be desired. And the highlight of the program: !! BEDBUGS !!. I was bitten by these bugs over 30 times. I discovered this in the archives while working and as soon as I returned to the hostel, I reported this fact to the staff and checked out of the hostel. The person at the reception did not care much about it - she gave back the 10 euro deposit for the entrance card (strange), and promised that they would refund the cost of the reservation with them. We will see if the money appears in the account. For now, I'll spend my entire 10th stay in Estonia scratching my bites because the hostel in the center of Tallinn doesn't care about the cleanliness of the beds or common areas. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE!

    Nothing!

    Stayed in November 2024

  • Reviewed: November 16, 2024

    10
    Beautiful Experience
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Bed in 14-Bed Mixed Dorm
    • Stayed 3 nights

    Best hostel in Tallinn and located in the center. Everything works and very kind staff, they always make me feel at home. Imaginary is a big family.

    Stayed in November 2024

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