OUAKSEL ABDERRAHMANE

Budget-friendly hostel with interesting architecture and kind, helpful staff. I skipped the breakfast for French pastries, but it’s nice to have hot drinks available before leaving. They don’t provide towels, shampoo or soap, so be sure to bring your own. It’s also better to bring flip-flops if you plan to use the shared bathrooms. With the tram, you can easily reach the train station, or you can walk about 30 minutes to Lille city center. Don’t expect a nice view from the windows. If you’re using the hostel mainly for sleeping, it’s an affordable option with an okay location. They offer both single beds and bunk beds. You can use the kitchen. One downside is that the walls are quite thin, so you can hear everything if people are talking in the corridors..

Beautiful building, good warm rooms with clean beds and safety amenities (lockers in the room and a locked room for luggage that only the staff can enter).||The breakfast isn't much but it is cheap so it may be worth it for you. And the showers don't stay running, you need to press a button many times to shower since it stops running after a few seconds (although I do understand it's to save water)||Also good location, I arrived there walking with my bags from the metro station. And most importantly the friendly staff!

It was alright, the person at the counter was nice also cool that the bedsheets already put in place for you although they don't give you towels soap or anything which is kinda mid tier most places even if cheap offer that. The shower didn't have light and every 25seconds you'd have to press the button to get more water.Overall 3.5/5 stars

No bathroom amenities at all, the shared toilet always dirty, blocked. The bed could be better with simple set up curtains, always felt off you stuffs from upper bed, no socket for simple charge your phone on upper bed. Far away from city centre. Not really recommended, there is a hostel similar price in the heart of city centre with better amenities

I shared a room with an elderly person and another person. The elderly person would go to sleep before 9 p.m. but would wake up around 3 a.m., then keep tossing and turning in bed, breathing deeply as if out of breath, and the entire bed would shake. It was a nightmare-like night. The other person's snoring was also very loud. It wasn't until around 5 a.m. that I was able to fall asleep again. This place was definitely not a youth hostel; it was more like a low-cost rental apartment. The bathing facilities were also extremely ridiculous. You had to press a button on the wall to get the water to come out, and you had to press it dozens of times for one bath.

I came here in October on a school trip for 5 days and it was awful. The whole place feels like a prison and the food is shocking, ( i’d rather eat out of a toilet). Most students on the trip and our bus driver only ate 2 pieces of bread for dinner everyday it was so bad. Also i wont forget the beautiful neon orange hallways which make you feel like you’re in an asylum prison. Don't come here with your school or anyone it will ruin your trip/holiday.

The staff are very helpful and kind. The rooms were great! Depending on what you want to do on your trip this location is in a calmer area and further from the city centre which could be good or bad depending.

I am a solo traveller and have stayed at this hostel for tonight and I have following opinions:1. The Wi-Fi is as other hotel or hostels it barely works.2. I booked a room with attached bathroom and that’s the catch they give you attached bathroom but no toilets in it. The toilets are common for the whole floor and there are many many rooms in the floor. So connect the dots3. Location of the hostel is good enough like three Metro station and five minute walk from city centre4. They absolutely give you nothing for amenities not even drinking water dispenser and any water they have is not drinkable.5. Showers in the bathroom are the worst I have ever seen it’s just a very tiny nose that drips water and barely you can wash your hands with it. Let alone have a shower and that’s everywhere in the hostel and if as this says it’s the same everywhere and there’s nothing thing they can do about.6. I booked for four bed dormitory, but I got the three so that’s a good part, but the beds were very noisy.7. Lockers they provided was separate for each individual but the lockers have no way to lock them so literally anything you put in there it’s basically unlocked.8. There is no towel rails, shower gel shampoo et cetera provided.