Name: El Guembe Hostel House
Address: Avenida Guarani, Puerto Iguazú, Puerto Iguazú, Puerto Iguazú, 3370, Argentina
Rating: 6

24-hour reception

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Family room

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Common kitchen

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Free Wi-Fi

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Bike rental

Barbecue grill(s)

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Free parking

Parking

Swimming pool

Outdoor pool

Pool and beach

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Kids

Pets Not Allowed

Pets

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At the hostel

Cataratas International Airport

Cataratas del Iguazu International Airport

Alejo Garcia Airport

El Guembe Hostel House

Puerto Iguazú

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Omg air conditioning!!!! The pool was also wonderful. I had to spend 4 days in town waiting on a visa so these were god sends.
Breakfast is minimal but okay to start the day. Bathrooms tend to get messy as the day goes on. Everything works though which is great when I heard so many complaints about other hostels in town. Definitely worth the cash and you'll meet some nice people too!

Best option in town

Relaxed hostel 3 blocks from bus terminal, 10min walk to downtown & restaurants.  Clean bath with hot water. Kitchen with basic tools to make simple meals. Small swimming pool. Very basic breakfast includes bread and fruit.

Relaxed hostel close to bus terminal

A reasonably small place but in a way all the better for it. It's very clean with a top quality kitchen and pretty good free breakfast. I arrived early on an overnight bus from Buenos Aires and they let me have breakfast even though technically they didn't have to offer me it.
There is very quick WiFi and a TV with cable. There is a load of different areas to relax inside and outside including some hammocks and it even has a pool all for a good price.
My 1 issue is with some of the staff. I woke up early 1 morning to watch the final of Australian Open and not only did the guy turn off the tv (which was on) but he turned off the router so I couldn't get WiFi which frankly was a **** move. The other issue is I asked to stay an extra day the night before, the guy told me that he would tell me for definite but if there isn't a place here tomorrow morning as he wasn't sure but there will be a place at there sister property. The next day I go to reception and he isn't there. The lady there says there is no place here or at the other place. I don't mind that they are full, it happens but to be promised a place and to not to have 1 is annoying. To be fair most of my interactions with the staff were absolutely fine but the above ones did leave a sour taste in my mouth.

Nice place but issues with staff

Good hostel, with swimming pool and very good breakfast.
Good situation and nice staff ! 

The wifi is not good, and a dorm 5 beds is very small, but there is air conditioner ! 

I didn't appreciate because they told me I must pay a tax of pollution/ecologic (something like this) to be able to entry in Iguazu falls, in fact, they lied me because nobody ask for this ! And they didn't ask to pay this to all guests ! 



Good

Room - dirty
Showers -  poor
Breakfast - bread and oranges 

the only positive about this hostel was the location, it's in close proximity to restaurants/bars. It cost us 1400 peso return in a taxi to get to the Brazillian side of waterfalls and 1300 to get the Argentinian side.

Stay somewhere else

We chose to stay here for 2 nights as it was located close to the bus stop where the buses depart to take you to Iguassu Falls. This is about the only thing good about the hostel. And the cake a breakfast was good.

The bedsheets had clearly not been changed since the last guests as there was a bad odour coming from them. The shower was freezing cold - no hot water apparently. This also meant that you could wash kitchen utensils hygienically. 

All in all an ok hostel for the price/location. A bit more effort on their part and it could be really nice.


Ok hostel... not great but not bad either

Hostel is an old converted house. A little dated but kind of charming. Nice outdoor areas.
No lockers available in the dorm and storage is tight. 
Internet is very slow but does work most of the time. 
Only 1 bathroom for the 4 dorms downstairs which meant you always had to wait a long time. 
Did not take credit card as listed and charged me more than the booked price. 
It seems that some locals stay here and arrive in the middle of the night. The hostel staff have no issue with turning lights on at 1am for the arrivals. 

Basic

Broken hostel.
My friend put her hand on the sink and the sink broke - they asked from us to pay for it even the sink probably was broken before.
There is no hot water for shower - not at night and not at morning.
The pool is dirty and not welcoming.
My friend opened the kitchen closet and a saw a bug.
Not recommended by me.

Not recommended

We stayed there 3 nights, it was a nightmare!

The room door and bathroom door did not close properly; 
The shower had no curtain (leading to standard 2cm water everywhere);
There was a cockroach net in the wall and the room was dirty;
Breakfast was a joke, and the swimming pool super dirty;
The receptionist and the owner were very rude and repeatedly lied to us.

We were told that the air conditioning did not work ONLY after paying, with no possibility to change room, and that it would be fixed the next morning. Obviously it did not happen, so we slept 2 nights in 35 degrees, 60% humidity. The 3rd night it got fixed by a friend of the owner.

After a long discussion, we got 1200 pesos back (the entire reserve was 7000+ ), but then we were notified that they would mark our booking as "no-show" on Booking.com, in order for them not to pay the commission and for us not to be able to leave a negative review.

I would NOT recommend this place to anyone.

Never again!!

Pay a few extra pesos for a better place because this place is desicable and horrendous. Barely any wifi, 3 major blackouts with no concern for guests or any attempt to resolve the matter! Guests that stayed were ugly disgusting and rude, all over 70 with an attitude to other backpackers. Breakfast sucked was recycled food kept in the fridges unwrapped and served the following morning. Bugs everywhere, even inside the pillows. Dirty bathrooms. Poor excuse.

El Guembe Hostel House

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