Hostel Uppelink

The best hostel I've ever stayed in. The service and common space was exceptional, and the views are unreal. The location is perfect. I was also pleasantly surprised with the breakfast - well worth it in my opinion. The only downside to this place is that it's an older building, and if you're a light sleeper, you may struggle with the noise as people get to/from their rooms (the floors are very creaky).

We stayed at the hostel in one of the 3 person private rooms, this is a great hostel, rooms clean, sheets, bedding clean, bathrooms clean. employees very helpful and friendly, it is not a loud and crazy hostel, common area was cozy and relaxing. the location is perfect, close to food, transportation, and shopping. Breakfast was very simple but fit the bill when needed. (no fresh pastries). definitely would recommend this hostel to those traveling in Belgium.

Location is amazing! People are sweet! Bathrooms and toilet are hygiene! If you are looking for hostel, go for it. Small locker is available within the room where you can store your valuables, but you have to bring your own padlock! They have big lockers at the entrance, if you want to check out and store your luggage for the day! 0.5€ per hour. There is a free city tour which starts just outside of the building at 10:30am which was a good one to know a bit about the history of ghent. Towels are chargeable, 3€! Breakfast options are just cornflakes, breads with spreads, coffee from the machine, 7.5€!

Perfect position, you can't get something closer for that price. The walls are not well isolated so you can hear what happens on the other side. The stairs being in wood make noise as well. You receive bed + pillow sheets but not one for the bath (3€). The pillow is pretty small! Rooms and bathrooms are mixed. Be prepared to see an army of girls putting makeup on in the morning. They say to sell city cards but I arrived there at 11h and they told me they were sold out. Anyway you can go to any museum (Belfort being the closest)

Fair price and great location to the city centre. Stayed there in Nov, not many tourists which is good. The common area is clean. The dorm is bigger than i expected, have enough room to unpack your luggage and store personal stuff.

Great service and great location! Highly recommended! The girl who was attending the breakfast in the morning, was so nice with us cooking for us extra eggs. Thank you for that! That kind of service talks about the great culture they have!

Best hostel I’ve ever been to, the building is just amazing, is next to the most important bridge in the central area of Ghent, the views form the room are just amazing, it also has a kitchen and the bathroom has like around 12 showers so you’ll always find one. It also offers breakfast, drinks and coffee, at night it gets super cozy and you can’t just stop enjoying the views.

I've never seen any sullen face. The staff is excellent, always ready to help. Always clean, including the restrooms. The owner is very lucky to have such a wonderful team.

My favorite hostel to date! :D Staff was welcoming and informative upon check-in, not to forget that they were fluent in, like, four different languages. Incredible! The hostel was inside of a really charming, antique-like building, which used to function as a restaurant, even a family house, at several points in time. Also located right in the center of Ghent, which was convenient. Rooms were spacious, but quite cold; I'm don't think that heating was turned on? Also found it an inconvenience that the showers were on the second floor (I stayed on the first), and so I had to climb up and down for showers. Then again, there wouldn't have been space to add showers on the first floor, anyway, as the building was quite narrow. Breakfast was included, and pretty good. Tons of sweet stuff, though! Overall, a pleasant stay in one of my favorite cities to visit. Recommended!

Best hostel experience ever! Amazing value, Amazing location and Amazing staff... I really enjoyed my stay here, in fact, I'd even extended my stay longer than I was originally planning. 1st night / Dorm Room Great spacious room, 6 bed room but it was very airy and spacious. Views were of the finest in Gent, all for €23 for the night. Bed was clean, free locker available in room and then shared bathroom / showers. 2nd & 3rd night / Private Room for 2. Great room, spacious, clean and transferring room was made hassle free. My hubby was joining me for the stay and they accommodated the room transfer with such ease. Told to leave everything on my bed, the staff seen to it that everything was moved into the new room. There was an initial double booking mixup but these guys were prompt in contacting before I arrived, committed to a solution , we're so apologetic and threw in a beer on the house when I checked in... These things happen and how a business deals with it is what really matters.

I've been traveling Europe for 30+ days now, so I think I have a good feel for hostels now. This one did not fail to impress. Not perfect, but it's a great place to stay and will help you enjoy your time in Gent. First off, the employees are very friendly. In particular, Marieke is very beautiful and welcoming and is mostly why I'd give this place 5 stars and not 4. Breakfast is free, very basic, but free. You get what you pay for. Free coffee til 11am is the highlight. They also have a great beer selection, I recommend the Tripel beers while in Belgium. High ABV, but not bitter at all! 1st floor bathroom smells like death, I'd opt for the bathroom on the top floor instead. Showers are nice, they actually have hot water unlike other hostels we stayed at. A little mold growing on the ceilings, but I'm sure they know that . We had an incident where someone staying in our room puked all over his bed and himself, and since he wasn't nice enough to clean it up himself, the staff at Uppelink cleaned it up for him and made our room somewhat pleasant again lol.

Where do I start? As soon as we walked in the door, we were cheerfully greeted by Camille and she immediately made us feel like we were home. Always had a warm smile and helps everyone, speaks countless languages. The hostel was very clean and well run. And finally, it's location, location, location and Uppelink is located right near to everything. If you are sensitive to a little noise, take earplugs. I can't say enough good things about Uppelink.

Fantastic location and the best quality price,the best Hostel ever! The Gent Free Walking Tours also start from there(don't miss out)and they also rent kayaks Don't forget the Belgian Beer tasting 7 beer to try and a Delirium for free at the end! I could live here without a doubt! Thanks Uppelink for the best time!

So far the best hostel I have ever stayed. Best location, best service, best price and great staff, very humble and cooperative. Definitely gonna visit again!

Incredibly nice people, amazingly good location. Go!

Absolute horrible staff and manager with this hostel. I told them I had a theft when I arrived from another country and did not feel safe leaving expensive items in the room with strangers after they confirmed they cannot guarantee safety I asked for a simple refund and said I would go to a hotel. This is over like 54 USD and they acted like it was money to keep their power bill on? I just could not believe the Flemish arrogance with the manager who seriously acted like the money would break them to refund it. I am having my bank deal with it now which they always do and always will. I highly suggest this hostel gets some new customer service oriented staff as this was just riduclous. Then they tried to come back and say confidentially we never have thefts? I was like so now you're reversing your earlier comment that you can guarantee safety? Again it made no sense! Trust me they now have hotels that are affordable! Stop staying at these gross, dirty, nasty, trashy hostels! Upgrade your lives to privacy and class with a hotel room of your own!