One of, if not the best hostels I've ever stayed in. Clean. Friendly. Convenient. Fantastic…read morelocation. It was a bit warm in the room but that's to everyone expected of Europe in the summer. I would happily stay here again. They have a dinner every night. I stayed in for it my last night and it turned out to be one of the best meals I had in Lisbon. The staff is so friendly and fun. The beds are a little hard but still on the more comfortable side as far as hostels go. The showers and bathrooms were clean. I honestly can't say enough good things about this place.

Best location for a hostel hands down. Security is great, everyone is buzzed in so the front desk…read moreknows who is coming in. The staff... everyone was wonderful and friendly. Bedrooms were good. The privacy curtin was a huge plus. Recommend you get the dinner deal at the hostel. You get great filling 4 course meal plus unlimited alcohol drinks!! You also get a chance to meet and chat with fellow guests. It was easy to find friends and learn different languages. That 11pm free shot is the best! brb (3 Months Later...) What can I say more? Second time staying here in the past 3 month. The crew remembers me and are always friendly as I remember them. I have nothing negative to say about this place. I did the Sintra excursion and it was great. Despite Luís' car accident he was there and made sure every one enjoyed their time. They exemplify the Portuguese/Brazilian culture of kindness and hospitality. I would go back and back to this hostel. It feels like my second home. Cheers to the crew and the housekeepers.

Travellers House is an excellent hostel. It is really easy to find on Rua Augusta in the Praça do…read moreComercio. The people that work here are fabulous and you can walk almost to anywhere. There is easy bus access, and they are happy to help you at the desk. They gave me 2 very helpful maps of Lisbon and I met some incredible people. The aerobus from the airport leaves you about a block from the hostel. It is really safe, and they give you a lock and key. You have a key card to get into your room. They have different events and get together a each night so you can see the city with the people from the hostel. They had a wine night, chorizo night, and a drink from the keg until you're wasted night. Safe to say it was really fun and definitely worth it. Lisbon is gorgeous, and I'm so glad I stayed at this hostel!

Overall, a good choice for a hostel in Lisbon…read more I enjoyed the prime location right by the arch, fun social events every night, staff with lots of personality, and free made-to-order breakfast. I did not enjoy the average showers, limp pillows, and tons of stairs.

The Sunset Destination Hostel is located right above the Cais do Sodre metro station. It has a…read moregreat view of the water and is located close to many food options. The hostel is fairly secure, with a doorbell with camera at the entrance. Just show your wristband and they'll let you in. Checkin was easy and the staff are very friendly. Your keycard requires a €5 refundable deposit. Access to the section of the hostel with rooms is controlled by the keycard, as is access to your room. The rooms consist of bunk beds. I was in a room with 6 bunk beds with a private bathroom. The bed was quite comfortable and I didn't have problems falling asleep, apart from the music from the roof and echoes from the train station. Each bed has a bed light attached to a single outlet. There isn't room to plug in anything else, so plan accordingly. Below the beds are lockers where you can store your belongings. You can rent a lock from the front desk, or bring your own. The bathroom is fairly small and the shower door is difficult to close, not to mention that you have to continually push a button on the shower faucet to get water. There are washrooms in the hallway that are available to all hostel guests. The communal kitchen is fairly nice. There are refrigerators where you can store your food. Just make sure to label them with your name and departure date. Next to the kitchen is the dining area, where everyone has complimentary breakfast. Breakfast usually consists of sliced bread, a couple of spreads (nutella, cream cheese, various jams), deli slices, fruits (apples, oranges, and kiwis), vegetables (tomatoes and cucumber), cereal with milk, yogurt, various juices, and pancakes. The coffee machine is also available for free during breakfast. It is an extra cost otherwise. Communal dinner is also available to all guests for a small fee. It always smelled delicious every night. There is a rooftop patio with a small pool. It also has a bar and a covered seating area for watching television. Near the front desk is a fridge with beverages. Just leave payment in the basket nearby. The hostel has free wifi throughout, but the wifi signal is much stronger closer to the front desk. There are organized events every day, including organized tours of various cities and neighborhoods, such as Alfama, Belem, and Sintra, surfing, pub crawls, etc. There were only a few inconveniences with this hostel. The first is that it can get noisy from the morning to night because it's located right above the train station and the station is an echo chamber. You'll hear announcement starting around 7 or 8 in the morning. Similarly, the music from the rooftop patio carries and will go until around 11 or 12 at night. Since the hostel is mainly occupied by 20-year-olds, you may hear the occasional woo girls in the middle of the night. The other inconvenience is that the front steps to the hostel always smells like urine. Other than that, though, this is a fairly nice hostel. The location is excellent and makes it a great starting point to explore Lisbon.

My friend who is a local recommended that I stay at Sunset Destination Hostel and I am glad that he…read moredid. I've been to hostels before, but this one is something special. It's located in the same building as the Metro station! That was super helpful because I had to go to the airport the next day quite early. In addition to it's convenience, to the metro and plenty of places to eat, it also had everything you want in a hostel, so I was lacking nothing. It is very big and my shared room was down a few long hallways, but there were not only showers and toilets along those hallways, but also one in the room. The bathrooms were never crowded. After staying on a farm I needed that shower! The hostel has a big kitchen with refrigerators that you can use and a coffee machine (regular, non-fancy coffee is free). They have an optional communal dinner available at either that location or their sister hostel, which costs about $10 Euro and a free European style breakfast (no eggs). As well as comfy loft beds they also have "lockers", big drawers beneath the beds that can fit a large suitcase and then some. You rent a lock and then don't have to worry about where to put your stuff or who has access to it. I was at the end of my trip, so it was important that my Spanish shoes were on lockdown! Also, several doors, including the room door have card key locks, so people outside of the hostel can't get in and you wear a wrist band that allows you access to either hostel. In addition to designing a good system for running the hostel, the owner also designed an amazing environment. The rooftop deck has a huge plastic dome with comfy chairs and bean bags and a bar that serves you a free drink at sunset. They play music while you charge your phone and talk to other travelers. There are lovely plants that line the edges of the deck, with stairs leading up to a pool that overlooks part of the harbor and skyline. If it hadn't been overcast and cooled down with the earlier rain, I would have been in that pool watching a golden sunset with my vino tinto. Truly, from cool loft beds, whose creative cut-outs create the beds' ladders, to special tiles in the bathroom, to a hanging dinner table that snakes around for more face to face with fellow diners, this hostel was a lovely experience. Thanks so much Sunset Destination!

I like hostels. They are more cost-effective than hotels and they offer a great way to meet other…read moretravelers. I've done the shared room arrangement a few times, but having my own room is more my speed. Staying in a hostel was a no brainer for me when I visited Lisbon two years ago. The Living Lounge is a beautiful hostel with colorful and thoughtful artwork adorning the walls of the common areas and individual rooms. Each room has a unique theme that was carefully curated by a local artist. I stayed in the clock-themed Timeless room. This room was right next to the staircase, so I could hear the sound of footsteps up and down the stairs during my stay. Bathrooms were clean and conveniently located on either side of the floor. This three-level walkup is a short distance from the Baixa-Chiado metro station, trams, and other attractions. The staff members were welcoming and accommodating. They even sent me a Lisbon guide prior to my stay that offered helpful resources and tips for navigating the city and making the most of my trip. The hostel's common area features a living room, kitchen, and bar. You can sign up at the reception desk for daily events such as the popular nightly dinners, walking tours or fado performances. I attended one of the nightly dinners during my stay. It featured a delicious and filling meal prepared by a chef and generous pours of wine for only ten euro. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay at this charming hostel and I can't wait to visit Lisbon again!

For a hostel this place is great!!! Clean, cute and cozy!!…read more The place has multiple floors so be prepared! The rooms are nicely decorated. Beds are nice and you feel like you could be in a hotel. The bathrooms are on each side of each floor. Towels provided. Very nice!! The breakfast is delicious! Something hot- sometimes eggs. Sometimes crepes. Variety of juices. Variety of jams. The front desk is manned by very knowledgeable people. Very helpful. Don't forget the free maps of the area! Also they have info on tours-- so worth it. Location is good. Next to a metro stop and walking distance from the main streets and buses. Great place to stay on a budget!!

this hostel is very nice and a great way to meet people. take the sintra trip they offer, our tour…read moreguide Joao was more of a friend for the day taking us on an adventure than just a tour guide. we went to caba da roca, another beautiful lookout, and the beach to swim too. The mamas dinner is so special and she's a great cook. Thank you to the hostel workers who were always there for anything we needed.

I booked this Hostel for a 6 night stay this month, & pre-paid in full. You can imagine my absolute…read moreshock when I was told, too bad for you, your booking was "non-refundable" & we are not going to give you back a dime. Seriously? The country is closed to non-Portuguese. The Hostel is not accepting new bookings. The pandemic is alive & well, & people are dying. Iam on lockdown in my country & can't travel. My airline reservation was cancelled. Seriously? Stealing my money, you won't get away with treating your customers like this. And I thought the USA had serious issues----I guess it's global, folks. You should be ASHAMED to steal money for a service/product that can't be fulfilled. It's wrong, & you won't get away with it,

This will be less a review than a love letter, but I needed someplace to stay for 30 days in…read moreLisbon, & every other hostel I contacted had a two week maximum. These people were kind enough to take a chance on me for that long, & even so, you know, here you show up the first nite in the pouring rain, not sure what to expect from the full month you signed up for... You go through this old green door & up the stairs, it's a building from deep in time, & your room is simple & sweet, just like the breakfast every morning, & week after week you fall into a rhythm with the hilarious kindhearted mother from Brazil who cleans out your room for instance, or the clever Canadian dude who does music, or the young Portuguese gal who watches MTV & loves poetry & ice cream, & her streetwise young friend who stops by to share food with her & also works the bar in the little concert hall downstairs. Ahh, & the concert hall downstairs...so much jammin' gorgeous awesome music comes out of that place, & sometimes it's packed to the gills, & better times it's more relaxed & open, & if you're in the mood you can put on shoes & go down & rock out a little, but either way you'll be standing at the tiny balcony waiting for your food to cook some nite, & the lilting strains of a world class cover of "So Rude" will come drifting up through the alleyway, & you'll wonder how you got to be this classy. I don't want to embarrass him, but there's a guy who works there with his wife, who looks herself like an icon of vintage Italian cinema...& it's the most touching thing, whether it's her, or one of several other employees who do the overnite shift, it doesn't matter what's going on or what kind of day you might be having, they are always, always sitting there in the front room in the dark, sometimes with a full nest of blankets gathered up around them, just there on hand to let you in. I think it's a little on the miraculous side, but in truth not once in all those 30 days was there even a hint that I was being a hassle to them, no matter what time of the night I might show up. You can hardly imagine it. My last nite a woman I'd spoken with a few times, who lived in the States in the 80s, she was the one on duty. It was 3 or 4 in the morning, I had to go get a cab for a very early flight. but she was still up & around to serve me a last beer from the little fridge & take my key & ease me through the pain of saying a very tough goodbye. But anyway this guy, we were watching Portuguese news around the TV one lunchtime, & it was the latest from D to the T, & then it was some shooting at a Black Friday whatever, & footage of all these Americans with shopping bags running through some retail landscape screaming, & I said to this guy, just half-jokingly like "Man, what must you think of us after all this, for real...?!" He responded with some candid & heavy words that I'll never forget, & he talked about some of the indignities of dealing directly with American tourists besides, which one can only imagine. Listen, the neighborhood goes late & loud, & it's definitely not ideal for young children & all that, but there's still a level of poise & decorum that I would assert is very native to Portugal & also very easy for Americans to blow past in their blind appetite for diversion & recreation overseas. Which is me trying to put it as diplomatically as possible. Graffiti from a wall down the block: ENJOY // BEHAVE So I would just say that this place gets 10 out of 5 stars for me, that they allowed my experience in Lisbon to be the life-changing period that it was, by so many simple steady acts of kindness & welcome, & I would ask that if you go there, that you treat the place & its people with your utmost goodness & respect. 'Alface' is the Portuguese word for lettuce, & the designation 'Lisboeta' for residents is typically supplanted by 'Alfacinha'. As I understand it the exact history is somewhat shrouded, but one theory is that in a time of war the city was barricaded by a hostile force & lettuce was the only way the trapped people could survive. That quiet strength & dignity I found among them, & it was so beautiful, & I drank it deep. I could have walked away with a much more mediocre experience & still been pretty happy, but instead, & massively because of Alface Hostel, it was perfection. Thank you. CR

Stunning! Excellent Music between 10-12 pm weekdays ( at…read moreleast on wednesdays :) Good cocrails, very cosy atmosphere and decoration Best Lisboa destination!

A very nice and cozy place! Phillipa at the reception was super helpful and gave us a lot of tips…read morewhere to go in the city (free maps provided). There is AC in the common areas, but not in the rooms; there are some fans, though. The rooms are small, but the beds are comfortable. Also know there will be some noise coming from the street as you are pretty central. However, it is a very quiet hostel as it only offers private rooms and most guests are married couples. Bathrooms are super clean, and usually the wait is not too long. Breakfast was very pleasant, they baked fresh croissants and chocolate rolls and you can get a pod of Nespresso for a euro. Score! Definitely a pleasant stay!

The location is further away from the main tourist attractions, but public transportation was…read moreconvenient. Upon entering the lobby, there was a fun Christmas display. Complimentary breakfast was included in the morning and tapas/ drinks were available for happy hour. Our room was spacious as we got upgraded to a suite. There was a separate living room and 1.5 bathrooms. It was a bit dated though. The view from our room was great as I could see the Ponte 25 de Abril (bridge) in the distance. Overall, it was an enjoyable stay!

Great hotel and amazing staff. Rooms were well appointed with glassed in shower and tub. Plenty…read moreof closet space, desk, safe, and mini fridge. Upper floors have a view of the river. Restaurant in the lobby serves an epic buffet that includes made to order items. Since there is no concierge lounge, credits for food and drinks in the lobby restaurant and bar are included. Concierge can help with booking sight seeing adventures and helpful with questions. Banksy museum across the street for a nice street art diversion. I'll be back and I recommend that you give it a try.