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Reviews of Selfoss Hostel

Austurvegur 28, 800 Selfoss, Iceland

#18 of 20 hotels in Selfoss

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Review Score

Based on 381 hostel reviews

7.6

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    8.0

  • Comfort

    7.8

  • Location

    8.9

  • Facilities

    7.8

  • Staff

    7.5

  • Value for money

    7.9

  • Free Wifi

    9.3

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  • Reviewed: August 16, 2023

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Triple Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Very strong and unpleasant smelling in the kitchen from a big group of chinese people. (Both in the evening and in the morning)

    Very good location in selfoss. Bakery on the other side of the street and a lot of shopping possibility.

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 12, 2023

    5.0
    Fair
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Triple Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Very dirty and the beds were not comfortable.. we were with a group of three in one room. We had the same opinion.

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 11, 2023

    2.0
    Very Poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Kitchen was very dirty, rooms were very small and uncomfortable. Very noisy. Paying 100 euros per night is crazy

    Location

    Stayed in August 2023

  • Reviewed: August 3, 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Triple Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Great that we could check in any time we come without bothering anyone to wait for us.

    Stayed in July 2023

  • Reviewed: July 21, 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Bed in 8-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    Everything was awesome. Not overcrowed, good bargain.

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: July 1, 2023

    4.0
    Rather nothing to say
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    mold in the room, stinks an wet, size of room, uncomfortable beds

    location, kitchen room

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: June 29, 2023

    10
    Overall pleasant experience, would stay here again
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Single Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The smell of wet dog in the hallway and limited parking

    Spacious room. Clean showers. Available washer/dryer.

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: June 20, 2023

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Quadruple Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night

    Basic amenities, but clean overall. Good for a quick stop-over/ overnight sleep.

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: June 18, 2023

    6.0
    good for just sleeping, bad atmosphere
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    street is very noisy all night, no personnel, building smells

    good bed

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: June 15, 2023

    10
    Great
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Single Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    ..

    clean. quiet.

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: June 11, 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Single Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night

    Everything clean, great location, easy to find, strong WiFi, many sockets and toilets, good equiped kitchen, laundry machine..highly recommended!

    Stayed in May 2023

  • Reviewed: June 8, 2023

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Triple Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Nothing to complain!

    Very nice bathrooms and kitchen. Lots of extra space apart from your room.

    Stayed in June 2023

  • Reviewed: May 14, 2023

    3.0
    Poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights

    We stayed at this hostel when it was an HI Hostel 12 years ago. It was clean and well looked after then. The same can not be said about it now. It is run down and not very clean. I will not go back !

    Location.

    Stayed in May 2023

  • Reviewed: May 6, 2023

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Laundry cost 1000Kr each use. washer worker well and cleaned clothes and did not smell. dryer DOES NOT dry clothes as only runs for 30mins which cannot dry wet clothes. we ended up having to transport wet clothes to our next accommodation shower have strong smell and water in taps also have weird taste lots of old kitchen equipment but no trays for oven were available.

    Good location in Selfoss. easy to do self check in and out. can do last minute bookings as spare keys are made available. rooms have bed and sink. lots of available showers to share.

    Stayed in April 2023

  • Reviewed: April 18, 2023

    5.0
    Won't be staying again
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Single Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night

    I didn't feel the safest. There was no receptionist, and you didn't have a designated room. Instead, you had to go behind the desk and pick a random key for a random room based on what you booked. There were no lights on the entire place, and it didn't feel homey or comfortable. The walls were paper thin, and you could hear everything. Every door that opened and shut sounded like it was in your room. The bathrooms didn't feel clean or well-kept.

    There was a sink in the bedroom.

    Stayed in April 2023

  • Reviewed: April 8, 2023

    2.0
    horrible
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    my room was extremely cold when I arrived, the heater took hours to work and our room was stinking of cigarettes

    very uncomfortable

    Stayed in April 2023

  • Reviewed: March 25, 2023

    3.0
    Everything essential is there, but without any comfort or warmth.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    The hostel is really not a place to feel at home at. Nothing is made with love, it feels really „cold „ there. And it was actually kind of cold in our room because we couldn’t control the heater ourself. In the bathrooms it smelled like mould, but to be Date, this is hard to control sometimes. We knew that it was a self check-in hostel, but we didn’t see anybody all day and there was no information, tips where to go in the area or anything like this lying around at the reception. This is something I go to a hostel for. Above us, there were really loud guests (I guess many children or teenagers) and they were stomping around until late night. We also couldn’t go up there, because there was a „private“-sign.

    The kitchen in the hostel was amazing! They had everything you can imagine and it is a very big room with a lot of space for everyone. The four cookingspots and four sinks are very convenient. It was also clean in the hostel. We met one person who is working there and she was really nice.

    Stayed in March 2023

  • Reviewed: March 24, 2023

    5.0
    cold
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    the heater was not even on. no heat in the room.

    so so

    Stayed in March 2023

  • Reviewed: March 16, 2023

    3.0
    Okay for a night but I wouldn’t comeback.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    No sound proofing - the hall echoes a lot and you can hear any time someone uses the bathroom or leaves their room. Bathrooms were not very clean - the shower had mould in the tiles. The toilets are in the same room as the shower so you have to wait for a long time to use them. Lounge area tiny and in a ‘walk throuhh’ zone. Used by tour groups so there isn’t much space in the kitchen once they are all in there.

    Easy self check in, good cooking and kitchen facilities. Room was clean and beds comfortable. Kitchen very large.

    Stayed in March 2023

  • Reviewed: February 27, 2023

    4.0
    Disappointing
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night

    the room was half underground so even if the window isn't small we felt a little claustrophobic. Plus the kitchen wasn't clean enought and there was a smell of cigarette event if smoking is prohibited because people throw away their cigarets butts in the kitchen's bin... We are disapointed by this experience.

    The chek in was easy and the size of the bedroom with twin beds reasonable. There were enought restrooms and bathrooms so that we didn't need to wait long.

    Stayed in February 2023

  • Reviewed: January 30, 2023

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Business trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Single Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    People were loud at night and there were no staff to turn to.

    Clean place and good location. Good value for money

    Stayed in January 2023

  • Reviewed: January 2, 2023

    1.0
    Very Poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Twin Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 12 nights
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Came there and waited longer than hour for someone to pick up the phone because room key didn't work...Got new room... Spend 2 days in room where literally water was dropping from ceiling on bed and walls were all wet from moisture...Got new room... Stayed in third room for 3 days and decided to leave the place because absolutely nobody from staff was there for full 3 days so kitchen and other common area was disgusting... I was suppost to stay there 12 nights so I contacted menager or owner Valdimar and I told him that I can't stay there anymore because everything was ridiculous and I told him that he can't treat his guest's like animals but he was just so incredibly rude and disrespectful...Just part of conversation,he was telling me how for holidays no staff is working there and that is fine if place for tourists is 3 days without any cleaning...I just simply don't understand all that.Yea,almost 100 euro per night and ofcours no money back for 6 days which I stayed there in conditions like that or for rest 6 days after I left.Just incredible.! Still thinking about civil lawsuit because I can't belive that someone could be so irresponsible and treat guest's like animals,especially in Christmas time.

    Absolutely nothing.!

    Stayed in January 2023

  • Reviewed: November 21, 2022

    10
    Exceptional
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveler
    • Single Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    Great room, bathrooms, kitchen and location!

    Stayed in November 2022

  • Reviewed: October 24, 2022

    10
    really nice
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Quadruple Room with Shared Bathroom
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted from a mobile device

    nothing

    agile, efficient process, clean, comfortable, well organized.

    Stayed in October 2022

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