HI New Orleans Hostel

Grateful and will return

Liked: Free, fresh, and convenient continental breakfast; CLEAN and safe environment with GREAT staff. Accessible to everything!
Disliked: N/A

Exceptional

Liked: The hostel is nice and big, convenient location near public transportation, the French quarter and the Riverwalk.

Superb

Exceptional

Liked: Great location, clean and comfortable hostel!

Great hostel, shitty guests

Liked: Having travelled across the country and stayed at many hostels, this is the best one in terms of facilities.Spacious, clean and the staff are polite
Disliked: Because this hostel is in New Orleans, it is quite busy and there are some not very decent guests.I had a strange encounter with a foreign guest. I left my room key in my room, so I waited for a roommate to come back and open the door for me so I could retrieve my key. Instead of helping me, the guest stood there in the corridor for a minute watching me before trying to intimidate me and one up me in a strange way to assert dominance, for no good reason. I found the encounter very odd and the lovely receptionist helped me change my room, which I really appreciated.Other weird guests include people smoking in the toilets then coming back to dorms stinking up the place. And another guest threw up late at night in a bag in the room, which was disgusting.Now I know the hostel cannot control who stays but it’s just something I thought worth sharing as bad encounters can ruin your whole stay and your overall perception of the city.Nevertheless, this is the best hostel I stayed in during my time in the US. The staff and facilities are excellent. Maybe I was just unlucky with the people during my stay, but I won’t let that affect my rating, because this place really deserves a full 10*.

Exceptional

Great Hostel in iconic city

Liked: Nice hostel, typical 'Hi USA' hostel, clean, comfortable, nice rooms, with curtains on the beds for privacy, lockers for each bed, complete kitchen for cooking and big common rooms on the ground floor and next to the kitchen. Outlet in your bed for charging phone. Hostel is close to Bourbon street / French Quarter, as well as the WWII museum and the main drag of New Orleans, so very convenient for a tourist visitor. There are a lot of music places in the various streets and quite a few eateries.
Disliked: The street the hostel is on has a lot of homeless people and while I was there, one followed a guest in through the door and tried to enter the hostel. You need to be mindful on Canal street.

Superb

Great location and full of...

Liked: Fabulous hostel experience! Would definitely stay again. Loved the single bathrooms with showers and how clean everything was. The mattresses were comfortable. There was a fan in my room that I was able to use to be cool enough to sleep at night. So close to all the action and right on the trolley routes and 3 blocks from the express airport shuttle.
Disliked: My food was taken out of the frig by another guest. When I talked to the front desk I was told that sometimes happens and that it’s time consuming to go over the camera footage. It happened during a specific time frame so would’ve been easy enough to look at the camera. Also my locker was open twice after I left the room. I could’ve mistakenly not locked it right but since I checked it every time after locking it I don’t think that was it. Also wouldn’t explain why the door was actually open. Nothing was missing from my luggage but I kept all valuables, money, and passport with me. I also talked to the front desk about this since it happened two out of the 3 days I was there and she offered to come show me how the locks worked. Anyways I declined but was more bothered about missing food. Next time I’ll figure out a way to keep food more secure.