HosteLaVie Varanasi

Udeshya Mishra 14 months ago

Only thing good about this place is staff and ground floor atmosphere that too only in night.
We booked two rooms for two nights and has high expectation from the place.
Rooms are congested and suffocating, apart from ground floor everything else looks very gloomy. It's tough to explain what went wrong and right so I will categories it.

Good:
Staff is very friendly and helpful .
Common area is decent and clean.

Bad:
Location is really tough, it may look like it is on ghast but reaching ghats from here can be tricky.
Rooms are very small and dark, a little stinky too.
Washrooms are very congested.
No hostel vibe if you leave ground floor.
Common washrooms, that were visible from the stairs itself were really dirty.(but again that becomes responsibility of travellers like us to keep it clean.)
Finding food can be tricky, since they got very few options. Make sure you had dinner before walk back here in night.

Al three stars are for staff. Rest the property ok.

Vaibhav Gupta 13 months ago

I booked a private room with them, hoping for a comfortable and pleasant stay. Unfortunately, our experience was far from satisfactory. The room we were assigned was tiny, leaving very little space to move around.
To add to our disappointment, the small and unusable bathrooms. As a tall person, I found it incredibly difficult to fit into the bathroom stalls, let alone use the toilet comfortably. The lack of space and awkward positioning of the toilet made it impossible for me to feel at ease during my stay.

Shivani 14 months ago

The place had only a wee bit of hostel vibes, it's more of a guest house. Though rooms and washrooms were clean, it was a really small space with no proper ventilation. Reaching the hostel was a task in itself, situated near Shivala ghat, but the lanes heading to the place were dirty and unsafe.

Staff is friendly and helpful, with good knowledge of touristy things, helped us save a lot of time.

And ofcourse the hostel is nowhere near the one shown in the pictures available online. Booked through Agoda, choose wisely.