Hostel Forestal

Hidden in the centre, |Accessible by bus, and metro very nearby.|Away from the noise of the centre like ambulances ect.|Very lovely, helpful staff members.|All of them with a different pleasant vibe.|You will really feel welcomed at home.|I slept in dorm as well as a private room.Mattresses where a bit firm, not soft.|Kitchen is small but good to use.|I would advise them to work on the water tap with a special filter or at least the clean the water kettle regulary, which is full of chalk and that is what you drink. Not very healthy.

Hostal Forestal has a great location and the hostel seemed very nice at first. It took me 2-3 nights into my stay to realize that I wasn’t covered in mosquito bites, but had been sleeping in a bed with bedbugs. I’m attaching a picture of just my hands which both have trails of small red bug bites. I also have bug bites on my face and ankles, which are common places where bedbugs bite. I understand this isn’t necessarily the fault of the hostel, but it’s one of the worst case scenarios while traveling. I was given a new bed in a different room after I reported this to them. No refund was given. I had no problems with bedbugs in my previous hostel so I can only assume it came from Hostal Forestal. The bathrooms were also not very clean, in particular the floors were pretty dirty. Unfortunately I would recommend staying with a different hostel in Santiago.

We stayed in this hostel for a few days. The location is excellent, within a 10 minute walk from restaurants, supermarket, and some major tourist attractions. The staff is kind and helpful, especially Juan and Michelle. The breakfast is a buffet with eggs, fruit, cereal, bread, butter, jam, cookies, juice, coffee, and tea, Tea, coffee and kitchen privileges is available all the time. The room was reasonable, clean and comfortable.

I'm loving my stay here. Each one of the staff are super helpful, special shout-out to Angie who went above and beyond!! Comfy beds, clean nice bathrooms, and a very generous breakfast served every day. The reception is also 24/7. The hostel is full of lots of friendly backpackers. If I'm ever back in Santiago, this is where I would stay. Thank you guys.

The service is simply amazing. I stayed in a hotel more expensive for days and decided to spend my last nights in another place, as soon as I went in to ask for availability the receptionist Angie attended me with an impressive smile, everyone makes you feel at home. The breakfast is very complete, you choose what to eat, the rooms are clean. The atmosphere is just very nice, all the receptionists speak english so it's not a problem if you don't know spanish. I recommend this place to everyone!

This is the place to stay!! Pros - really lovely caring extremely musically talented staff (how can they all sing and play the guitar so well!?) - excellent location to Centro, Bella artes, providencia - older traveller crowd so no parties or excessive drinking - helpful advice - very safe (you need to be buzzed in) - healthy breakfast included - hot water showers - very very clean bathrooms never had an issue Negative - pillows and mattresses could be better but I still slept well Love this place and the people that run it. I will definitely be back

Hostal Forestal truly needs 6 stars! Apart from the clean rooms, perfect 30-40 guest size, perfect location, solid breakfast, and the BEST location to everything. Apart from all this cool stuff what stands heads and shoulders high is the spirit of the staff! I have been here a month and I feel the love of the community here! Can’t really speak about other hostels but if you want a healthy, loving environment in which the whole world comes in every day this is the place. The people I have met along with the community spirit of staff has be WOW WOW!! 😎

Overall, this is a great place to stay hostal-wise. The shared bathrooms were always very clean, in both the AM and PM when I used them. I stayed in a single room (room 2) and was quite pleased with how comfortable the bed was and how the pillows were the perfect blend of firm and soft. Could use just one more pillow though. ||Reception speaks English as well. Major props for allowing me to check in earlier after a 24-hour flight journey! Rooms are very clean and housekeeping is also offered (from an unpleasant woman, a sharp contrast from the cheery reception). ||Breakfast is included and pretty simple but kept me satisfied with eggs (hard-boiled and one day scrambled offered), cereals, cheese slices and fruit. There is a fridge so you can store sundries and a big kitchen to cook. Of course, you should clean up your cutlery and plate ware after use! ||This isn’t a party hostel which I was super glad about. I slept really well each night. The mini fan in the room is super helpful to block out any noise - room 2 is the closest to reception so without the fan you would hear any talking or music there. A slight warning that the room had a slight musty smell of cigarettes bc a patio is right next to it, and you can smoke on there. Still wouldn’t prevent me from booking this room again (and I HATE cigarettes). ||The location of this place is ACE, within walking distance of the historic centre, as well as Bellavista. ||One thing: get rid of the gross bathroom mat! Give guests an extra towel to use to step out of the shower.||WiFi worked really well to upload photos and do video calls.