Aji Verde Hostel Reviews

Only had one night here as we were just passing through. Thought it was really charming and homely and the staff were friendly. Especially loved the terrace that overlooked all of La Serena. Only down side was total lack of sleep due to noise and socializing happening in the communal area (right outside our room!) until the early hours of the morning, even though there was a sign saying quiet time after 12!

Very good location, friendly, helpful and always smiled staff. I will recomend it for my friends for sure.

Good breakfast and upstairs common room.

Very good hostel. Staff friendly and always willing to help. Rooms clean with good hot water. Wifi could be tempramental but easily resolved by staff by resetting router. Friendly vibe about the place

Great hostel in a nice location. The rooms are spacious with big lockers, although ones at the front can be a bit noisy and get smells from the fish market. The breakfast was lovely - bread, tea/coffee, jam, fruit and we had no problems with a bread shortage.

Up the hill ca. 10-15 minutes walking from the bus-terminal. No problem with a backpack. Not close to the beach but in the center and really close to supermercados and food. Nice rooms and a great atmosphere. Try to get "Puta Madre"... The perfect room for a perfect trip to La Serena.

The hostel was definitely not as good as other comments made us believe. Our room was next to the lobby of the hostel, so we heard everyone coming in and out of the hostel all night, plus people walking by on the street. The location is quite near the big tourist market, but about 30 minute walking from the beach. 2 terraces gave the hostel some character, but if you are looking for a quiet night, this is not the place.

The doorbell needs to answered quicker by staff at night - people were outside our room for 30mins at 3am ringing the doorbell before a member of staff came.

Overall nice hostel...the staff is awesome and usually hangs around even when theyre not working which is nice...beds are comfy (stay on a bottom bunk if you can), bathrooms clean, and really nice outside spaces to hang out in...some interesting characters staying there, but overall the perfect place to hook up with other travelers going north...would, and probably will, stay there again.

Our main problem was the breakfast. Our first day we had to be ready to leave at 8:30 for a tour and although breakfast is supposed to be ready at 7:30, we had to go bother the person at the desk at 8 to get breakfast ready, then she put out about 2 bowls of cereal and went shopping to come back with bread about 8:25. The next day, breakfast was out on time but very little food, had to keep finding the employee and asking him to put out more. Other than that, nice enough place.. just lazy staff.

The Aji Verde was a decent hostel. My only complaint is about the breakfast. Online, the hostel advertises that breakfast is included with your stay. What that really means, is that you will see about 5 pieces of bread, a handful of fruit, a little tea and nothing more to feed a hostel-full of maybe 20 people in the morning. That is if the staff wakes up in time to prepare it. Either offer a real breakfast or don't, because people plan their activities and budget their trip around that.

yeah had heaps of fun at the hostel!! staff where really cool and the hostels really clean!!! great times

Very nice atmosphere! Close to downtown. Quiet. Excellent roofterrace. Friendly staff. Good socialising.

The location was quite good, ans staff were very friendly and helpful.

Nice hostel with good facilities - kitchen, internet, common areas. Would recommend it.

Nice place, very nice and helpful staff. The place isn't the most attractive, but it has everything you need. No complaints.

The layout of the hostel is incredible- a maze of indoor and outdoor corridors and open spaces, and the kitchen is well equipped, if cramped. For the 2 days we were there however, every time we tried to enter the hostel, we had to wait outside for 15-20 minutes as nobody seemed to be working on reception. When we tried to check out, we had to wait similarly. It was great how the hostel seemed to be one of the few to offer recycling, but there were flies EVERYWHERE. Pretty disgusting.

Shower in one bathroom was broken, otherwise no major complaints.

One of best hostel I've visited. Very very clean, hot shower and comfortable mixed room. Big and free breakfast. Well equipped and clean host kitchen. Common room, internet, book. Kind personal staff as usual chilenian people. Next to two supermarket, twenty minutes walking from bus terminal. Very good.