The Wandering Paisa Backpackers Hostel Reviews

I would definitely recommend this Hostel. It was fun, clean and safe. The location is great, close to all the local attractions and the staff are very helpful.

Really well run hostel with really enthusiastic helpful staff, fun events, and in a location which is near everything! I had a really great stay here, met lots of fun locals and saw a different side to Medellin off the typical backpacker route. Definitly going to come back!

Staff were extremely unhelpful.

Really nice staff. They speak English and Spanish, and are very willing to help you find whatever you need in the city, whether it be a SIM card or a map of the Metro. The attached bar makes it easy to meet other travelers. One room was sort of cramped and didn't have enough light, but that was my only complaint. The hammock room is a very nice touch.

The staff is very helpful, many special thanks to Gisela for all the tips.

I almost knocked out that hippy tour bus driver. I chose not to because I like the owner. Good person, good hostel... Sorry to bring such negative vides to your place. That doesn´t usually happen to me. Anyways, great hostel. Sorry and thanks.

great location: not in the middle of the touristy party area but right next to the local Zona Rosa. Safe to walk at night. The hostel is close to a metro station and close to an Exito supermarket. Really nice and friendly staff although their English is not great. The bar a bit weird: closed a lot and when opened a lot of guest were behind their laptops :( But the language exchange was great fun. Pablo Escobar tour with his brother was nice as well

Awesome, friendly, helpful staff. Cheap laundry services, good internet, hot water...but the location (while safe and in a nice part of town) is a ways from the other hostels and bars, restaurants, etc that most backpackers would want to be around. If you're just looking to chill out and get away from the backpack crowd, it's great. Another oddity - the dorm room door wouldn't close...because a bed was in front of it?? Weird, for sure.

Great hot showers. Good neighborhood, but not near anything interesting. Easy to take the Metro, though.

Great easy going stuff. I'll be back

Good hostel, good shower, good location close to Metro Friendly bilingual staff.

Great location. Great people. Great facilities. Safe for a female solo traveler and especially nice for Americans since the owners are from Seattle. Highly recommended.

Excellent place, clean and friendly atmosphere on Fridays they do the POPCROLL where all the hostel gather together and go to la Zona Rosa take some shoots really funny and cool !!! rooms are cool and they owner Brent is really cool and easygoing

This is a nice and clean hostel, but the location is a little bit off. Most travelers want to stay in Poblado. It was therefore that the hostel was pretty quiet and I moved to another hostel after 2 nights. Staff didn't seem very guest-orientated and didn't speak English well. Really strange is that you have to pay to use their computers/ Internet. It's not a lot, but guests shouldn't have to pay for that. We rented bikes for $15 for 24 hours, which was a good deal.

Awesome stay with Brent and the Crew. Great hostel with a great atmosphere.

The hostel is good, the only problem is that the rooms aes to small and the lockers are very samall too.

This hostel was good but didn´t live upto the reviews previously added. The hot water was good but the rooms and bathrooms were dirty. There were lockers available for your small personal belongings but nowhere for your backpacks and we werent provided a key for the door. It was really noisy from internal noise, the bar downstairs or the hammocks out the back which were provided. We needed to ask people a few times to be quiet. The owner is lovely and they offer a great pub crawl.

Really good and well run hostel away from the gringo ghetto of El Poblado. Near the metro with restaurants and bars nearby. The bar and common areas are really nice and well thought out and the staff are very helpful and friendly. The area is very safe and staff very security conscious when opening the door. A few obnoxious Aussies were there when I was there and I thought the staff could have done a bit more to control them but other than that, highly recommended.

Probably the best part about this hostel is that the owner hosts some sort of even every night, so there's always something fun to do. The staff was super friendly, and the bar fills up at night. Beds were comfortable, people were cool. No complaints from me.

I have enjoyed my stay here very much. The staff were always kind and willing to help when ever I needed assistance. It's a clean and safe place close to the metro. They also have a range of activities you can do, from tours, to salsa lessons and a language exchange in-house. There's a laundry service and 2 large supermarkets both within 5mins walk. All in all a fabulous place. Would recommend to all of my friends. I've even extended my stay an week.