This is a rural and very quiet small hotel-restaurant with beautiful views over the Eastern…read morePyrenees. Clean but simple. Good local meals.

I have been coming to this hostel since my backpacking days in 1994. Tossa is a beautiful port…read moretown and the family that runs this hotel knows everyone in the town and can provide you the very best advice. They speak many languages.(I spoke English, Catalan, Spanish, and German with them). This isn't your ordinary hostel. It has an amazing breakfast and if you ask, you can request to have your breakfast on the rooftop. It has the very best view of Tossa. I spent many nights after partying having a night cap at the hotel before going to bed. Now that I am older, I enjoy sitting at the bar and talking with the owners after a nice dinner. They also have a pet turtle that I have come to love and now that I have children, even my daughter wants to stop and see the turtle. The rooms are clean. The service outstanding! The price is perfect. We have so many wonderful memories. The hostel is a success because of word of mouth. I used to be able to just show up but know I strongly recommend getting a reservation. There is no swimming pool, but I question anyone who goes to Tossa to swim at a pool. The water, beach and castle walls are wonderful.

+ low price -…read moreunfriendly reception, bad atmosphere, ugly and dirty rooms, no wifi One of the worst hostels I have ever been to. The hostel is located in a place that seems to be the most ugly place of Perpignan. It is hidden in a side street of Avenue Grande Bretagne. On the other side of the hostel, a main road passes and makes many noise. From afar, the building makes a beautiful impression, but the closer you get you realize that the house is really derelicted. When you open the gate to enter the yard a barking dog rushes towards you. We waited nearly 10 minutes in front of the reception desk, despite ringing nobody came. The entrance hall is small, atmospheric simply unpleasant, looks cold and without any personal touch. The impression continues in the room which was large, but was about the atmosphere of a prison cell. It surely hadn't been properly cleaned since the last guests (the toilet actually was ckean). Although I had been advised on the phone, I should not arrive late, at one o'clock in the night the door opened and an apparently drunken Spanish truck driver began to talk to me on Spanish telling me his whole life story. I couldn't sleep anyway, because at that time there was still noise down in the court, which did not cease even after several requests from my part. The breakfast the next morning was typical for the french youth hostels: bread, moldy (!) Butter, jam and coffee. For things to do for the day, the young lady at the front desk didn't have any proposition, she even hadn't the times for the bus to the beach. (Take the bus line direction Canet from Perpignan main railway station). And we couldn't look them up on the internet because there is none, though so indicated on the website of the FUAJ. We were glad when we left the hostel after two days. I will NEVER come back again.

Yeah Hostel in Barcelona made my first solo trip phenomenal. I stayed for six nights in a six-bed…read morefemale dorm. It was so easy to make friends and socialize, especially with the walking tours and hostel dinners. I've had bad experiences with party hostels but still wanted to be social, so this was a good balance of a social hostel that was not too party-centric. The room was very clean with huge drawers under the bed and a small cupboard by the head of each bed. My regular lock didn't fit in the drawer lock, so you need a skinny padlock. It was sometimes difficult to share one en-suite sink, shower, and toilet with five other girls, but I'm glad they were each separate from each other. The wifi was very weak from my bed, so I had to walk towards the inside of the room or go to the common area for internet. The common area was great for working and virtual meetings. There is a small rooftop with a bar and tiny pool. They have nice computers in the lobby you can use. The hostel is in a great location. It is a 15-minute walk to La Sagrada Familia and to Casa Batllo (opposite direction). They have daily walking tours that are very informative and rely on tips. Breakfast is buffet-style and a little pricey at 7€. The dinners are delicious and only 12€. They are three-course meals with two free drinks (sangria or beer). The night tours are 15€ and take you to two bars then a club. They include club entry and three free shots.

My first hostel stay and it definitely didn't disappoint. I'd even day it was better than some…read morehotels I've been to. Staff was friendly and everything from the common areas to the room itself was clean. The location was perfect - walking distance to anything you could want from cafes and public transportation to tourists sites like La Sagrada and other Gaudi architecture. We stayed in a 4-bunk room with it's own bathroom. The bunks had little cubbies to place small things like your phone or glasses at night. And there was storage beneath for luggage. I liked the layout of the kitchen - tables around the perimeter and at the center was where communal dinners were made/served. We tried the paella but weren't blown away. The sangria on the other hand - who knew the boxed stuff tasted so good! There's even a shared refrigerator where you can store food or chill wine (be sure to label your items). We even partook in a night out with others staying at the hostel. It was nice to meet people, and enjoy a night out at 3 local bars that we might not have visited otherwise. The location alone is worth it, not to mention the price and cleanliness.