Name: Happy Happy Hostel
Address: 1077 Independencia, Cordoba, Cordoba, Cordoba, 5000, Argentina
Rating: 6

Air conditioning

Smoking areas

Currency exchange

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Express check-in/check-out

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Common kitchen

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Free Wi-Fi

Internet

Airport transportation

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Transfer

Spanish

English

Italian

Portuguese

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Tour assistance

Tourist services

Barbecue grill(s)

Karaoke

Nightclub

Sun Deck

Ping-Pong

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Parking

Swimming pool

Beach/pool towels

Pool and beach

Darts

Cycling

Sports

Playroom

Kids

Pets allowed

Pets

Location

At the hostel

Ingeniero Aeronáutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport

Happy Happy Hostel

Cordoba

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

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king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

It was most pleasant stay! We were looking for a place in a good location for good price. And we found Happy Happy Hostel. Best hostel we stayed in Argentina! The atmosphere is very nice and especially the staff - very helpful with giving us tips and information about the area and things to do. and very friendly too! Thank you!

Best Hostel ever!!!

We stayed in matrimony room with private bathroom. We’ve never paid this much for a room during our 6month trip in South America. It was below the average. Biggest problem was the arrogant receptionist (have to admit that girl next morning was nice) and attempt to charge us for everything, from air con in the room to overpriced drinks in theirs bar (not allowed own drinks to bring to hostel). Internet didn’t work in the room, many rules about using kitchen, below average breakfast. Lot of threatening with the fine for breaking the rules. You have to leave security deposit. Never experienced that before in any of the places we’ve stayed. If you want to leave your bags here, they will charge you extra. 
We planed three nights and stayed only one. 
Thanks for nothing really. 

Not worth the money 

We arrived for a 7 night stay, and dropped our bags off in our private room which looked dirty and had wallpaper peeling off the walls, then went down to pay. However, we were then told it was cash only, and around 20% more expensive than quoted when we booked. We didn't have that kind of cash on us, and Argentinian ATMs have a strict limit on how much you can withdraw, so it wasn't physically possible for us to pay by cash. For us, it would have been much preferred to pay on card because foreign cards do not pay tax on accommodation here. They gave us 3 - THREE! - different stories as to why we weren't able to pay by card, slotting in a cheeky little lie about said tax laws not applying to Cordoba or small hostels. The woman at the desk told us to cancel our booking through the Booking.com website, then she would waiver the $37 USD cancellation fee and we could manually book for fewer nights so we could pay in cash. With seemingly no other option, we made the cancellation, however, they then REFUSED to waiver our cancellation fee. 

The woman then walked off and ignored us before another staff member came to 'help' us (he asked the first staff member what had been going on, but because we speak Spanish we know that she didn't even tell half the story). The second staff member also refused to waiver the fee, even if we ended up staying the full 7 days in smaller chunks. After an hour of trying to get our story through to him in both english and spanish, and him constantly refusing to accept card payments (they say that they have english-speaking staff but trust me when I say they do not), he suddenly brought up a window on his computer for us to input card details to pay on card (magic!). But the price was still hugely different to what was quoted at reservation, which in cash we had assumed was the tax, but it was in fact a 19% "card payment fee". He said he couldn't do anything to help us because his boss was travelling, but we could hear him sending and receiving Whatsapp voice-notes about us with his boss as we stood directly in front of him.

In the end, we gave up. We didn't want to stay in that place with such rude staff (and the communal bathrooms are horrible, by the way) so we just accepted that the $37 fee was worth not having to be anywhere near this dingy hostel. I still can't believe how rude they were, and everything was in their power to change and make us feel welcome/not totally ripped off. And while all this was happening, they tried to stop us going up to the room to get our stuff, which was sat there with a wide open door and all cleaners, builders and guests free to walk by.

There is so much more to this story in how we were treated, but at the risk of sounding like one of those crazy people who enjoys complaining about everything (I absolutely hate complaining, so this has taken 3 weeks to muster the strength to put into words!), I'm going to leave it there.

Even if the staff were not grossly rude and incompetent, the facilities were enough to make us 'happy happy' to leave.

Happy Happy to leave. Avoid at all costs.

The owner of the Hostel does not know the meaning of the word RESPECT.
The owner offends his customers, yells at customers and his employees.
He should not work in this area if he does not know how to deal with people or respect them.
Do not stay at this hostel, otherwise you will regret it.

Horrible! Do not stay at this place!

This hostel was one of the worst I've ever stayed in. It has terrible staff who can't be bothered to try to make themselves understood. It's actually a bar too and loud music goes on until the early hours of the morning and since the walls are paper thin, it can be heard everywhere. An unwelcoming atmosphere made me not want to use the communal areas. They didn't even have space in the kitchen to store food. Go to Hostel Alvear instead.

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