CTG Ostello di PADOVA - Padua, Italy

Central location, 10 minutes walking to main sightseeings, 20 min by foot till the train station. All facilities are very basic and old. No sound proof. For one night it is okey. I was lucky because the hostel looked totally empty in the beginning of December. At high season it must be very noisy.

You must leave the place between 9.30 and 16.00. Believe it or not but you can't stay there. Breakfast is quite poor and strictly limited. You can eat freely. In the bahtrooms are latrines, not toilets. Not recommended place

It was the worst place I've ever been in my life. Staff is the worst there is. Starting at the time we can not stay inside the hostel: Between 9:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Imagine a rainy day or a Sunday that has nothing to do in the city. The Staff was lousy. Horrendous. They are completely without any respect. I arrived a day late 10 minutes from the time the hostel closes (11:30 pm), so I noticed that I was late so I called the hostel (11:29 pm), I told them where I was and asked if anyone could wait for me. The person who answered me hung up the phone three times. The second time she hung up she still yelled at me: What are you doing out at this time? The third time she just picked up the phone and said if I did not arrive in ten minutes I could not sleep in the hostel. I still arrived at the hostel, had to ring the bell several times until someone was ready to open the door for me. Also, when I arrived the bathroom was not working, the broken shower throwing water everywhere. A disregard. I still had to put up with the person from the front desk complaining of Erasmus students who bring lots of bags to the hostel. I was wondering where he thinks the money that pays his bills comes from. The price is nonsense near that horrible service they make. I do not recommend it at all.

The hostel is very good value for money. It has everything you need. The only thing i found awkward were squatting toilets altough they had a few normal ones.

This hostel is a pretty good distance from the train station. 20-25 minutes walking, $11 cab ride. The reception helped us but it felt like begrudgingly. The website stated that towels could be 'hired'. They rent wash clothes, not towels so we did not have any towels to shower with. They stated they had wifi on their site but it is only accessible in the lounge and downstairs at reception. It can not be accessed in the rooms. The free breakfast was a pre-packaged croissant or bun and coffee from a machine. They do offer baggage storage after you check out but the hostel shuts down from 0930-1530 so if you need your bags before 1530 you cannot leave them there. Not sure what the building next door was but the noises coming from there were a little disturbing. We stayed in a hostel just a few days before this in another city in Italy and it was excellent. This hostel was many steps down from that stay.

This was a real night mare in this "hostel"! After she in, you pay and then they tell you that you have to be out of room from 9.30 till 15.00 because they lock the hostel at that time and no one is inside. And in the evening you must come back until 23.30, beacause the reception guy is going home. Rooms are spooky like the whole building. This was a real horror experience.

Friendly staff and good location

Most depressing hostel I have ever stayed in. Staff always on the phone so want to spend as little time as possible helping you. Bathrooms stank of urine and disinfectant, shower was mouldy and gross. Rooms were serviceable but small and miserable. Bars on the windows. Padua not a great town. Don't stay here unless you gave to.

Breakfast included, nice service.It's got couvrefeu though.

No one arounddddd so boring.

SERIOUS PROBLEM with mold! Very kind and helpful desk staff person. One closet (instead of individual lockers) and only one key available for the room (with four beds). Breakfast staff person very unpleasant with everyone! Awful (breakfast) coffee from vending machine. Hard to find (even by taxi) in a dark, dark neighborhood. LOUD CHEERING and YELLING for a couple hours which made getting to sleep impossible!

it's very clean and close to the centre. it doesn't have a typical style but it's definitively worth its price! and there is the bathroom in the dormitory!

I was unable to contact them by phone to cancel the reservation. is in an isolated area and without indications, a problem if you arrive at night. I wandered around 20 minutes until I found someone on the street to ask. There is very little people and their few young people, is not the ideal place to meet people. they are not very friendly and the breakfast is very basic. The only positive points I saw was that it was clean, the rooms are not overcrowded and there are many bathrooms.

Terrible. One of the worst hostels I have ever stayed in. There was a bell at 7.30am to wake everyone up, and everybody was locked out of the hostel between 9.30am and 3.30pm, making it very inconvenient if you arrived during the day, as there is no way of checking in in these times. Staff were very unhelpful, and actually made things worse for me a few times, and mostly just watched tv and movies all day. The location was the only thing that saved it, and the rooms were relatively clean, though not spotless.

Its a normal youth hostel, just stayed there for a nigth. There were lockers in the rooms but we didn't have any key, don't know if it necessary to ask for it. The breakfast is rom 7.30 to 8.30 and the check out until 9.30. There is curfew, you have to get to the hostel until 23.30. None of this timetables were a problem for us, we were just happy to have clean sheets. The breakfast in enough, a capuchino, a bread and a croissant.

Everything was ok. We spent 2 nice days there.

There are insufficient bathrooms - 2 x women's toilets on the upper floor for over 18 people - and they stink! Either the plumbing needs fixing, or they desperately need to be cleaned more often.

Nice hostel, but very annoying that they have a curfew at 23.30.

The place could be pretty cool but now the whole thing seems to be inspired in a concentration camp (excuse me for the comparrison) and the admosphere was dull. The size is too big and there is no connetion to the big backyard and the two communal spaces was too separate from each other... Just to try an explanation cuz the worst thing is the admosphere and that they have a sort of latrines instead of wc's.

It is very old, the breakfast poor, closing hours strange, but the geographical situation is exellent.