Instant Sleep Backpacker Hostel

Really good option but f you’re looking for an affordable cozy stay. Probably more adequate for youngsters that can fall sleep with a rave happening on the downstairs bar. In other words if you’re a light sleeper grandpa this place is not for you… but if you’re young and tired of walking the city during the day you will fall in no time. The atmosphere is super relax and you can meet a lot of interesting people there for sure. It’s also a walking distance from the bunker St. Pauli Bunker and the Reeperbahn.

Clean and cozy hostel in the center of Hamburg. The room was big with lots of air inside and big windows which is very important. Paid €56 for two nights through Booking.com. +€1.3 culture and tourism tax per night. Free wi-fi, kitchen, shower, tea and coffee included. Highly recommend!

I had good time there, meet nice ppl. Rooms are separate for floor. And I had girls Floor which was always very clean 🩵 that was the perfection. Pillows are literally terrible need to be replaced. Reception next to the kitchen which is nice for share with ppl but your clothes stink afterwards. There is not common areas with sofas to chill.

The hostel has a laid-back, creative atmosphere and plenty of common spaces that make it easy to meet other travelers or just relax. The kitchen and lounge are especially nice for hanging out, and the overall vibe is very friendly and open. A perfect spot for anyone looking for a social and comfortable place to stay in Hamburg

Horrible place. It actually deserves zero stars. The room was run down. It has a window to the hall and light came in throughout the night. You cannot sleep (not even with earplugs) until 4am as the hostel is on the first floor above a club/bar. You cannot lock the shower room. The reception wasn't open when it should be.

I love this place it has a really good vibe and I like the access to the kitchen and everything in there. Room clean. Service really friendly and helpful. Great location.

an excellent hostel! super friendly staff and other guests were all interesting and chatty so great for solo travellers. very well equipped kitchen! the bathrooms on the flinta floor were v nice and clean. super comfy beds. the area is also very good with lots going on. someone stole my bagels but other than that an excellent hostel and will come again!

I was staying on the second floor. The room was pretty clean, it wasn’t loud at night either. The shower rooms and toilets were very nice and clean, there were a couple of them, so you didn’t have to wait in line to take a shower. It was convenient that there were separate rooms with a shower and toilet in each of them. The people at the reception were helpful. The shared spaces, like the wait areas, kitchen, etc, were pretty neat. I liked that they offered free coffee and tea. There is no curfew either.

Avoid at all costs during the weekend - you will be treated to ear-splittingly loud music from 10PM-5AM from the bar below. I tried to cancel my reservation for the second night because the noise was so extreme (way beyond "backpacker hostel noise disturbances" as mentioned on booking.com), but my request was denied by the hostel.

This is Hamburg's oldest backpackers located right in the "cool" heart of town: Schanzenviertel. Instant Sleep is only a walk across the street to the Rote Flora, the legendary cultural centre of lefties, sprayers, punks and other subculturalists. Next door is also Saal II, a great place to tuck into a healthy Hamburg breakfast accompanied by a morning paper. The rooms are all lovelingly decorated around varying themes and there is also a guest kitchen and a lively common room. Prices start at around 25 euro. Staff is only moderately friendly but speaks fluent English.

When I visited Hamburg, I looked for a cheap place to stay and the Hall of Dreams 25-bed dormitory at Instant Sleep fit the bill. The hostel is about a 12 minute was from the S- and U-bahn station Sternschanze (although the walk seemed longer with all our luggage) and there is a grocery store along this route in case you want to pick up something to eat or drink. Since my expectations were low, I was pleasantly surprised by the 25-bed room. There were no bunk beds and the room is long and narrow and goes around a corner so only 5 or 6 beds were visible from mine. I had no trouble sleeping, but the rooms are located over a bar so it can be loud pretty late into the night. In general, the hostel seems to operate on a low-cost, low-service philosophy. You make the bed yourself, there is no breakfast, towels are extra. However, the staff is willing to help out if you need something and the necessities seem to be taken care of. When we arrived, the toilets in the Hall of Dreams were out of order and we had to use the downstairs bathroom, but it was back in operation the next day.

Very bad hostel. On the main road. Impossible to get any sleep once the traffic starts up. No reception after 10 and no way to retrieve your key deposit until 9 when they open the reception. They do not make the beds and charge total rip off prices to people on new years. When I complained about the noise I was subjected to further abuse like they claimed the police were their bully boys and they chucked me out only returning 1 cent of my money. I wanted to be provided with another bed where I could actually get some sleep but there was nobody there other than some people sleeping on a raised area in the common area by the reception presumably to squeeze out even more money from this worthless property on the main road. They claimed that a nights sleep was too much to ask for and that it was my problem that it was so noisy despite planning on taking 960 euros over the coming weekend for their dorm room.