Gîte d'Etape - Youth Hostel Jacques Brel Reviews

The shower of water pressure is too weak.

Cute hostel with friendly and helpful staff. The free breakfast is awesome!

clean hostel and great breakfast. the second day the added an additional person, 7 people in a 6 dorm room. They said they were overbooked but that wasn't right

Love your hostel!

Great Hostel Overall! Staff seemed secluded and not very open to questions. Great idea with the bar and restaurant.

It seems one of few options in Gent. It appeared to act more like a school camp place than a hostel. No real atmosphere. The price is high compared to other hostels in say a town like Brugge, as they are the only ones. Rooms was clean.

The hostel was in a decent part of town, only about three minutes from public transit and not too far from the city center. We ended up coming home very late and were disappointed to find that the luggage room was locked at 1. While I understand the reasons for that, it was still inconvenient. The hostel breakfast was amazing and almost all organic. Normally I don't expect much, but this was on par with a hotel breakfast. Overall, very happy.

24 year old female traveling alone - stayed in 6 bed female. Staff were SO helpful and friendly. Everything was very clean. Location was a bit further from the city, but still walkable. Only disappointment was that there was no toilet in the room - showers, but no toilet. Would highly recommend this hostel!

The place is well run with a good breakfast. It is very functional, but a bit expensive for a single room, more than some hotels in fact, as I had to pay price per bed, as there were two beds in the room, I needed to pay for both! I know that for hygiene sake they need to have these plastic covers on the mattress, but I do not find them very comfortable. Staff were fabulous! There was very safe storage for my bike while there, and my bike box while I was cycling around Belgium.

I really liked the hostel, good place, GREAT BREAKFAST, clean rooms and showers (well, mine was inside the room). Ppl at the reception and the bar were really nice. The only thing I'd say I did not like was the food in the bar, doesn't have too much options, and, I'll add a towel for the floor next to the shower.

It is a youth hostel so if you are looking to party.. it may not be the place for you bar closed at 1pm on a saturday night. It provides a quiet good spot to sleep... We weren't pleased that the bar closed that early, but that is the only negative thing i'd say about this place

So perfect place for passing a days in the city or making tourism. Centric place, near of all. The building is new, the personal very pleasant, room and bathroom clean and the breakfast very good. I recommend this hostel for pass your days. If you like the Chinese food, in Rue du Midi 40 you can eat so much for little money. Greetings for Canary Island

Water was too hot, impossible to take a shower. Only the bathroom's switch plug worked, and only with the light turned on.

One of the best hostels I've ever been to. Atmosphere of REAL HOSTEl. Breakfast is much better than in many expensive hotels. Staff is professional and ready to help you. It is not far from subway, but considering Brussels size, you can reach the downtown in 15 minutes or some by walking.

For sure i will come back again

This was a great hostel. Rooms and bathrooms were clean (I stayed in a four bed room) and spacious. I only stayed there one night (they didn't have space for my other nights) but it was right on the metro so convenient to get to sights in the city. They have a large, cafeteria style breakfast and a bar downstairs. Good value for money. I would stay there again for sure. Worth noting: if you don't have a Hostel International card you pay an extra 3 euros.

Staff was helpful on checkin. However the reception is only open at 8am and we had to rush to catch our intercity train at 9. Thank god the reception opened a bit earlier than the time stated so we managed to check out and got to our train even earlier than planned. The breakfast was nice however i would appreciate if you could label the food. Im a muslim and I almost had the ham luckily my friend came and told me since he had some already.

Well run, not a bad location, and good facilities. I would not hesitate to stay here again.

Best hostel in Brussels. Safe, excellent location and totally clean. Would definitely come back.

Staff was friendly, met some interesting people but I was there only for a couple of hours so I didn't have the chance to see much/interact with many people. Good hostel, though. I would totally recommend it/go back!