HI Auberge de Jeunesse Lyon

The reviews of this hostel are incredibly harsh considering that our stay was very good. The hostel was clean, the view spectacular, comfortable beds, decent bathrooms. The only small downside was the shower that was only cold and you have to hold a button down the whole time. Overall this place exceeded our expectations considering the plethora of poor reviews.

A great youth hostel! I learned that they are renovated so the installations are all quite new! I spent only one night here. Both the evening and morning staff are really nice to me. We had long and interesting discussion. Breakfast croissant is amazing. Also the location is so good. Cathedral Saint Jean is just down below. When I walk up the hill to the hostel, I can take a bird view of the cathedral facade, a bonus during the light festival. Le Fourviere hill is just above. Walking for several minutes you can get to lots of tourist attractions. If I were ever to come back to lyon, I would still stay here XD. (unless I became super rich:)

Really rundown place with dirty floors, disgusting showers and the one or other malfunctioning toilets, water taps and soap dispensers. All of that would have granted a three star review in consideration of the magnificent view over Lyon and the decent breakfast. But the fact that they have bedbugs for at least two months by now has reduced the fun I had whilst and after the stay in this place.

It was just so horrible I don’t even know where to start.😡🤯 Our rooms were a disaster! After I took of my bedsheets I saw that there were some piss stains which in my opinion is a disrespectful behavior because the staff goes home and sleeps in their clean beds while we had to sleep in those wracks. The bathroom and toilets were like a nightmare. The curtain of our bathroom was so disgusting that we all were scared to get in contact with it while showering🤢Concerning the breakfast I have to say that it was ok but it really disturbed me that our dishes were dirty and I always had to clean everything carefully. To sum it up, I wouldn’t rate to stay in that hostel because it really is so dirty that I didn’t go into my room until I was really about to fall asleep and on top of that I always felt really uncomfortable in there and at the end of the week I couldn’t enjoy my vacation because I didn’t sleep that much and I was very unhappy with our accommodation in general. In my opinion the hostel doesn’t even deserve 1 star...

Nice view from the terrace, very cheap. If you don't mind that it's even for a hostel not a very clean place definitely a good choice. I've stayed there for one night and that was ok, but I wouldn't stay here again. At least working toilets should be there as a minimum standard.

Overall I really like this hostel, it has all the services I expect from a hostel. There is a free breakfast that I find very filling, clean rooms, bathrooms, showers, and big common area. The views are really spectacular, and the staff are very kind. However its bathrooms and showers are very outdated. The shower and sink are one of those timed spouts where you cannot control the temperature, time, or pressure. In addition, the wifi does not cover the entire building so if you live in a room far from the common area, tough luck. The price is however the best I have seen in Lyon, so all these complaints can be wavered. NOTE: to live in this hostel, you need a membership to hostel international

Please don't come to this hostel! It is a disgrease for every HiHostel! There was no toiletpaper (at any toilet!) on arrival, after complains they placed toiletpaper at some toilets. There is no soap in the whole building, there is also no soap for the dishes or to clean the kitchen... The kitchen was full of dirt, everywhere, any corner, any plate or knife.. Washing dishes is like putting cold water on it and put it wet on the other dishes for re-use. REALLY. Federal food service have to close this place. The toilets were dirty and not safe to use without getting ill. Cleaned it myself. The rooms are also dirty, not cleaned by checking in... Never cleaned..? The bed was old, dirty under the sheets, The shower in the room was dirty, the smell was incredible bad. They smoke inside the halls.. 😔 Found used sigarets on the windowsill.. The key of our room didn't work at all, at night i couldn't enter my (by me cleaned) room.. They let me in (staff was ok at reception.) and took the key, but never give us a new one or metallic key... The walls are thin, At our second night the firealarm went off at 1am. Everyone was sitting and enjoying there night.. Strange.. The people were strange, i think some people were addicted or homeless.. They never got out and were drunk all the time. A woman was trowing rocks to birds.. They empty the bin sometimes, this is the only thing they cleaned at/before our stay. But to be positif, the view was amazing in this youth hostel.

The room is filthy, without much cleaning, the toilet is awful, with a lot of flies and the toilet is leaking water. The dormitory is cramping with 16 persons without keys, which would lead to potential theft. The lady receptionist serving breakfast is impolite. Never thought of Hostelling International accommodation would be like that bad!