Rancho Grande Hostel Reviews

the guy at the reception didn`t even look at us, when whe checked in. the kitchen was horrible! the toilets didn't work. the only thing that was ok, was the bed...

Great coffee, but horrible jam for breakfast. Tiny kitchen with few pans and plates for a lot of people. The hostel´s restaurant serves tasty and large portions. 4 person bedroom with private bathroom was excellent. Very Israeli friendly hostel with hebrew speaking staff.

Trip advisor says everything you should need to know about this hostal. Terrible!

This was the first time I have stayed in a hostel that had bad reviews and I thought it can't be that bad. But!!! It was. It was the worst hostel I have ever stayed in and I recommend you take it off your list of recommended hostels. I booked a room at 67 pesos thinking it was too good to be true..and it was. The room was not in the hostel but in a shack next to the hostel. There was no security whatsoever. No room left to finish message!!!!! Very poor facilities and sanitation is very poor!!!!!

My experience with this hostel is that it is an very commercial hostel, with not all the facilities you expect (and which I had in all the other hostels I stayed till so far). For example the kitchen is really bad, breakfast is not included. At other places I felt more welcome, you got a tour through the hostel with explaining of everything.

Bad staff and the worst kitchen I have seen in a hostel. The room was nice and had big lockers. Bathrooms also big. No breakfast included in price, which is a bit of a rip off. Food was nice, but not cheap. Internet was 3 pesos for 15 minutes, which is a joke when its often free in hostels.

Unfortunately this was the worst Hostel i've stayed in. But maybe it was the 1st one that was soo huge as well. The staff was unfriendly when we arrived, my locker was broken, the athmosphere reminded me of an airport and the kitchen was way to small for all the people. There is no intimacy at all when you cannot lock the toilet and have to shower with 3 other people. Nevertheless the beds were good, the showers hot and everything seemed clean. Overall the price is too high for what you get.

friendly staff and good vibe. I heard the restaurant is pretty good as well. The kitchen could be more clean though.

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.

Only stayed here one night. Large and rather impersonal but perfectly serviceable. Breakfast not included but you can buy it in the cafe area.

Wifi is definitely a problem in El Chalten in general but i still believe the signal could be improved in this hostel by having more than the 1 line. This is a huge hostel with lots of people about and can become a bit chaotic. The kitchen is definitely rather small for the number of guests and attempting to cook anything in it after a hike is certainly another adventure!

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.

I did not feel like I was in Argentina when I stepped into this hostel. Every person was speaking in Hebrew and the staff only tried to accomadate the people from Israel. Stay away from this hostel unless you want to be apart of the wave of hundreds of Israeli´s making the same trip across South America. Save your money and go camping. Also one of the employees was marketing trips through Chile, but the brochures were only in Hebrew and the presentation every night was only in Hebrew.

Good location. Our dorm was small but clean. Showers are not in the room but were clean & available. However out of 3 people, we all experienced cold shower at least once! The hostel has a restaurant which can be convenient if you don’t want to go outside or cook, but it makes the hostel busy & loud. Also, if wifi is free, seems that the use of computer is not (3AR$ for 15 minutes if I remember correctly). We used a deal wt Caltur/Hostel Pioneros for our 1st night which was much better.

the staff is very not nice and don´t help with problems. we came in into two room that weren´t clean. too many people in the hostel. small ckitchen for too many people. the cheeper room has no key or lokers (too expencive for such a poor room). the shower was ok.

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