Nouméa Youth Hostel

Overall, it’s a good hostel with city view and located at a convenient location. It is the cheapest option in the town for budget travelers. The point I don’t feel happy is about the church which made bell alarms every hour even in the early morning. It’s annoying. Luckily my room was not fully occupied so I could stay on the lower bunk. Sleeping on the upper bunk really has risk of rolling over and falling down.

One of the best hostels I have stayed at in years. Solo friendly, very helpful to a non-French speaker and very nicely organised. I was traveling solo and wanted a private room, that was $65 AUD per night. The room was huge, clean, had a fan and access to a veradah with great views over Noumea.||The kitchen is excellent, each traveler has a key to a locker with eating utensils and to another in the walk in cold room. The kitchen itself is clean, contains pleanty of cook ware and is a good size. ||There are plenty of eating and socialising areas too.||Negatives, really not many: There are mosquitoes, and the room is not screened, next time I would bring mozzie coils. The entrance, on google maps looks sketchy, ignore that and go anyway!

Super-basic, not 100% clean or comfortable, weak internet only available in the common areas, and not safe to walk to or from after dark, but fine during daylight hours and close to the town centre, and all in all, it's the best budget place to stay. The hardworking reception staff were welcoming and super-helpful with advice on where to go and what to do (thank you Sophie!) Great views and also very noisy at night (from the town), plus the outside light goes on and off every time someone moves on the balcony.

An averagely good hostel, comfortable enough bed, wifi is pretty good (though only available in the common area, not in the rooms). They offer laundry and staff is friendly enough. Nothing special, but a good alternative given the price. The view from the balcony is pretty sweet though, since the hostel is at the top of the hill. You don’t have to go all the way around, there are stairs giving you a shortcut down the hill and into town. It’s steep, but not very long. Perfectly fine if you’re an averagely unfit person like myself. ||||Showers and sinks are on timers so you have to press the button a few time while showering, but this is no problem. The pressure was good and there was enough hot water. Everything clean enough.||||I’d stay here again.

I have to leave one star review simply because I slept in the bunk room, never in anywhere else except this place I see a top bunk without a barrier by the side of bed, below is concrete floor, the top bunk is above 1.5m, if you are side sleeper it will be your nightmare if you roll over. I'm not kidding. This is a big safety concern.

An excellent hostel. Staff are very friendly and speak both English and French. The hostel is well cleaned and maintained. They have a great system of providing each guest kitchen and fridge lockers, cutlery and crockery so that each guest has incentive to wash and put away their own dishes. This means the kitchen is kept much cleaner than other hostels. Maybe this is a french thing, I've never seen it used in Aus or NZ. The location is great, just walk down the stairs and you're in the Nouméa town square. Overall a very good hostel, merci beaucoup for having me stay!

If you (as a non-French speaker) search for "Hostel Nouméa" on the net, this is the one that will come up - although there is in fact a second one in town, halfway between Centre Ville and Anse Vata. ||||Anyway, this place was built in the sixties and you can tell immediately, because it hasn't been renovated since; I assume either because the cost is prohibitive or simply because they don't really have competition.||||The dorm rooms are absolute barebone: Old bunks, power plugs, and one locker for each bed. Coming from AUS/NZ, it's pretty hard to swallow however it's really all I needed since I didn't plan on hanging around the dorm anyway. If the balcony shutter is closed, it can get quite stuffy; you get your pillow and sheets from reception upon check-in and have to return these before checking out.||||As mentioned in older reviews, the staff is friendly, knowledgeable and speaks excellent English (in fact much better then the staff of the city's official Tourist Information). Be aware that nine out of ten guests here are from France, hence if you're not fluent in French and not much of an extrovert, you can easily feel left out, especially if you only stay a short time. The non-French guests you meet here tend to be interesting people, as New Caledonia is not much visited by non-French speakers (that's not to say the French are boring - I met some great folks!).||||Back to the hostel. The kitchen operates on an erratic locker system which holds your bowl, plate, glass, and cutlery - one of each. The walk-in fridge also has a locker, your key opens both lockers assigned to you. Kitchen utensils are as barebone as the rooms, sometimes you'll have to wait for a chef's knife to be available. There's nothing like a free food shelf here (save for some leftover salt and tabasco sauce).||||There's a nice outdoor area overlooking the city, as well as a dining room, a "lounge" with ping pong table, and an "attic" with public computer. There's a laundry room as well, using the washing machine is quite expensive at almost 5 €/load. They also have a dryer however there's a massive clothes line outside, so during good weather (which is common in Nouméa), I used these.||||You can arrange yourself with all these things, even with the steep stair shortcut (don't use it at night if you can make out young locals sitting there) leading from Boulevard Bauvan to the road that terminates just behind the hostel, but the worst thing here is the WiFi. You have to buy vouchers from reception: 1 hour for 200 CFP or 5 hours for 500 CFP. Then you have to go to a login site, log in, use it and log off again in order for the timer to stop - each single time. Is hugely annoying and a lot of money! Use the free WiFi in town (ie McDonald's) whenever you can.||||Overall not a bad place to stay, but it could be so much better! Four stars only because of the nice atmosphere and because there are no comparable alternatives; it is and will probably still be the first address for backpackers and budget travellers in Nouméa/New Caledonia.

Forget about all the reviews that say no AC, no mirror etc etc,.. they should pay twice the price and go elsewhere. This is a 'youth hostel' so you shouldn't expect hotel standards. We found it great. Close to town, affordable price, very helpful staff. Beds very basic but completely adequate for a budget stay. Good view over city. Basic crockery/utensils provided, secure chiller compartments, adequate cooking facilities and dining area. The one shame is that the local church rings its bells every 15 minutes, day and night, which doesn't make for the most wonderful sleep, unless you almost completely shut the glass sliding door, then you don't get any cooling breeze and might find it all too hot and stuffy. If only, they could give us some peace at night. Thanks to all the helpful staff, you guys are awesome :-)