Rancho Grande Hostel Reviews

This is a very busy place with tons of people passing through. Lonely Planet wasn't joking when they say it's Grand Central Station. The beds are fine, but the bathrooms could use some maintenance - some stalls were missing light bulbs and toilet paper and soap would be a welcome addition at the sinks. The kitchen is extraordinarily tiny. I wouldn't plan on cooking anything here. It's a decent place to stay but lacks any kind of charm with so much traffic going through.

A bit used but really clean!

The hostel itself and the location were lovely. However the kitchen is as bad as other reviews have stated! It is far too small for the number of people in the hostel and the flies put you off cooking anyway! The staff were friendly but did not book me a hostel in cinjunction with a bus ticket they sold me as said I would not need a reservation. Needless to say when I got there no rooms were available - guess they made commission from the bus ticket but not the hostel!

The staff is a joke! There is so much people everywhere that they don't even care to listen to you... When you tell them "there is a problem with the wifi" they answear "yeah, we have wifi and the password is written on the wall". And they talk to you like to a little kid!! A huge lack of respect... And the hostel itself is not worthly to go unless everything else is full!

stayed in a 6bed dorm that could only really fit 4. No lockers.In women's toilets doors don't close. massive problem with the water pump- you shower for 1 minute,get soap all over and then water stops. A nightmare. no plugs to charge cameras and phones,so you have people walking around the big lounge area (has 2 plugs in total) like vampires ready to suck some electricity. Connecting to the Internet takes ages: hostel has a limit on nr of devices.worst hostel I've ever stayed at. Sorry

It all looks like a train station: noisy, crowded, dirty and messy. Hundreds of flies are around and come on you and your food. The kitchen is amazingly tiny for such a big hostel. There are nearly no ustensils. You have to ask every spoon you need at the restaurant. None of the three small fridge is making any cold. No toilet in the entire hostel can be locked. We booked a 4 bed dorm but when we arrived, we were 6 in the dorm! Staying there, we felt like sheeps in a slaughterhouse.

hi, to explain my thought : Positive : - the dorms were perfect. Clean and spacy for 4 guests. - Beds are comfortable and there are big individual lockers. The bathroom was clean. - good security Negative : - The staff wasn't polite but arrogant. I don't like the feeling of disturbing when i ask a question. - The toilets were dirty and we couldn't close the doors !! -The guest's kitchen was dirty and infest of flies. - For the price 80 pesos argentinos, we could expect a breakfast. THX

The place was understaffed and when you were served, it was lacklustre. We were put into a dirty dorm separate from the main hostel with a broken toilet and zero security. Overall a pretty poor experience. Not much ambience as it functions as a restaurant and mostly just resembles a giant mess hall.

Very disorganized, no secure place for belongings, forgot certain sheets, hectic.

The common area also served as a restaurant, so it didn't really have a hostel character. The room was ok. Didn't like the fact that the kitchen was FULL of flies - it's disgusting. No soap in the bathroom, no towels to dry hands. Internet acess expensive and slow.

I missed lockers all doors were always open guy at the reception did not know anything about the hostel he works in Towels were run out, I just got a very small one for the same price as the normal ones

We were a little disappointed with this hostel. The bathrooms were dirty most of our stay, and the staff was not all that friendly or helpful. It is in a good location though, and it is convenient to have the Chalten Travel bus drop you off and pick you up right in front of the hotel instead of at the bus terminal.

In our first day the shower in both bathrooms (male and female) was poorely going out from the shower but this problem was fixed in the next 2 days. To whom is hosted in dorms, there are no facilities as breakfast or towels. The hostel is a bit noisy.

This place advertises a kitchen but has one tiny little kitchen for a huge hostel with probably over a hundred guests. It was poorly furnished and really tiny compared to what would be practical for the size of the place. They advertise wifi, but is is too slow to do anything on. The bathrooms were also really bad, he showers were disgusting and didn't work well at all. I do not recommend this hostel.

I was disappointed by the tired, worn-out look of the interior. What really shocked me though was that the wash basins in the bathrooms did not have soap which was really amazing in this day and age of awareness about how important it is to wash hands with soap!!! All in all, a place to crash for a night but not much longer!

the restaurant in the hostel serves very nice food. The bathrooms in the hostel were disgusting as if no one cleaned them for a long time.

Its a huge hostel with tiny kitchen and expensive restaurant. Breakfast is not included. Otherwise its average. Noisy in the evenings and even though our room was furthest from the restaurant we could still hear the noise there.

Great hostel. Super clean, secure, and nice. The only down side was that breakfast was not included. The internet had was very strong and had a good connection. Much better than most places in southern patagonia.

Horrible hostel.. Rooms never clean, hostel restaurant too expensive and the location is too far from the only supermarket in town so thats no help. And to add to that the kitchen is tiny , not far big enough for the amount of people staying there....

I love this place!