Name: Poramba Hostel
Address: El Uru 120, 3370 Puerto Iguazú, Misiónes, Argentina, Puerto Iguazú, Puerto Iguazú, Puerto Iguazú, N3370DBD, Argentina
Rating: 8

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If you're looking for a spot to purely lay your head and lose any other luxuries you get from the other hotels around here, this is a solid budget spot. The host is very accessible and friendly, can communicate in English. 

Pool, kitchen, and plenty of spaces to meet like-minded travelers! Forest-y vibes as well, good post to see the natural grandeur of Iguazu!

Good stopping point after the Nature, Solid amenities

This hostel feels as if it used to be loved but has been hit hard by Covid, but reading through other reviews it looks like it has been bad since way before Covid.. 
No one on reception, another guest had to let us in with her key. The one fridge that works in the kitchen is extremely dirty (a bit scary actually). My pillow had black damp mold growing within it.. luckily my boyfriend had extra pillows so stole one of his. No one on reception to ask for a replacement even if I had wanted to.
The good part was that the showers were warm and it was very cheap! 
Mainly writing this if you’re traveling on your own and want to meet other people/feel comfortable in a clean room- try somewhere else. This was a ghost town (early nov).

This hostel needs serious TLC in every area- almost a health hazard


Worst hostel in 5 weeks of traveling through Argentina. I do not know how this hostel can have good reviews after seeing the rooms (worst bed and smelly sheets ever), the state of the pool, and the service we received. There are so many other nice places (even cheaper!) and much much better in Iguazu. 
Checked in to our private room around 6.30pm. Room smelt quite bad, our private bathroom looked like a hundred years old and not clean. What surprised us was no air conditioning in our room, only a useless ceiling fan (unsafe too). 
It is advertised with air con everywhere but NO AIR CON IN SOME ROOMS! When it’s 35 degrees outside, makes a difference.
At 10pm after trying really hard to cop with the heat in the room I went to the man at reception and asked why we did not have air con. He answered that I have booked the Basic room and that this does not have A/C. I showed him my reservation which was for standard not basic but he denied although written black on white. He tried for 15 min to prove me that it was written on the website but failed at finding it. Obviously. 
Kindly found us another fan to make it through the night. Pointless to say we did not sleep well at all. I went and spoke to the « manager » in the morning, he was even more rude and did not let me explain. Bare In mind I’m French trying to explain the best I can in Spanish. He pretty much yelled at me that I booked the « basic » bla bla bla and that it was my own fault. Although my confirmation said differently. Got my refund for our second night and walked away and found another (amazing and air conditioned) accommodation. Please, if the owner is reading this, next time something like this happens, maybe an apology for the confusion or the mistake would be a smart thing to start with. I was very nice when bringing up the issue to start with, and did not get an apology once. This is not a way to treat paying customers. And get your website sorted, there is no air conditioning in all your rooms. That will save you some trouble and for your dear clients too. 

Worst hostel in Argentina (5weeks of traveling)

I booked Poramba Hostel for our stay in Argentinian Puerto Iguazu mainly based on the pool, and exotic-looking Hostelworld pictures. The price was pretty reasonable, and it was but a short walk away from the main bus station of the town where we would be coming in from Brazil; also where we would be getting the bus to Iguazu Falls, so the location seemed perfect. In comparison to Ciudad del Este and Foz do Iguacu, the Argentinian town is a lot more compact - most bars and restaurants are also within walking distance from the centre.

The area around the hostel is a residential one, but it is not a particularly loud or party hostel anyway and we did not expect it to be such. One staff member, a young woman who seemed to work the late night-early morning shift, spoke good English; the rest of the staff were friendly and tried their best to always be helpful, but spoke no English at all. Check-in went mostly okay, except that they only take payment in cash and ATMs in Argentina are renowned for completely ripping people off (think a 6Euro charge for a 10Euro withdrawal) - our advice would be to visit the Argentinian National Bank branch in the town centre, not the ATM they recommend nearby, at least that one is a smaller ripoff than the others. 

As other reviewers have commented, the rooms are incredibly cramped. Our dorm was supposedly a four-person, but even that was a squeeze: the front door did not open properly because the room was so cramped with the two bunk beds, there was no space to put our backpacks as the other two beds were already occupied along with most of the floor, and it was a squeeze getting to the back of the room where the toilet was located. The less said about the toilet the better: the door did not lock, which can be VERY problematic for solo female travellers, the shower was dirty and the floor was even worse, the toilet did not flush properly and there was no hot water. No one fixed the broken things in the bathroom or even cleaned it during the whole duration of our stay, and the wifi was sketchy at best.

The pool was immediately outside the room, but it was more a small pond than a pool. Again, no one cleaned it during the whole duration of our stay, and the water itself was murky and looked pretty disgusting. It was definitely not the kind of pool I would want to swim in. Adjacent to that is the kitchen, which is half-equipped; it would be enough for making some basic cold food but the fridge was so overstocked with old moulding food that I wouldn´t have risked putting anything except our alcohol in there. There is an electric stove which can be used to reheat leftovers, albeit badly, though no oven or microwave. Most of the kitchen equipment was not cleaned by the previous users either, which is something that really should be checked and enforced by the hostel - as it is with most.

The corkscrew was at the front desk, not the kitchen, just in case anyone else brings some wine and gets confused as we did at how to open it. The front porch was pleasant enough in the evenings to sit and have a drink in but bring some insect repellent because there are a LOT of them - our legs were bitten to shreds within an hour of sitting there. There is also the noise; I had no idea that cicadas and other bugs could even be that loud, but sitting there on a December evening it was reaching bar levels of volume just from the chirping; the noise extends to the room as well, because of course it does, so some earplugs may help you sleep if you decide to stay here.

It was not a terrible hostel, and like other guests have commented, I do believe that the staff were genuinely trying their best. They were friendly, and did their job well though they could be a little more sociable. Unfortunately though, there were too many small problems with the hostel; particularly with its cleanliness, for me to give it a higher rating - and I really wanted to be able to. However, the simple fact remains that despite how pretty it is being able to sit almost completely surrounded by rainforest, it is not somewhere I would choose to stay again.

Kind of basic; kind of dirty

We loved this hostel because we met a lot of cool travellers and the common space made that everyone was talking to each other. It is also closed to the bus station and puerto iguazu is lovely. Bed was confortable although Pillows felt a bit like potato bags. The WiFi did not work well at all, even in the common spaces. 

Great to meet people 

This is a challenging review to write. After reading so many good reviews, Poramba Hostel was a real disappointment for me - so much so that we ended up choosing another place to stay in Puerto Iguazu. However, the staff, specifically the manager/owner, were standout in their service and helpfulness when we shared our concerns and reason for leaving. They are reason this review has more than one star.

Poramba is a basic hostel. If you keep your expectations at a minimum hostel-level, then you should be fine. It's good value for the money, and for budget travelers it is a good place to lay their head for a quick stop.

I personally found the bathroom to be quite difficult to deal with. My friend and I were staying in a shared room with two other people - so two bunkbeds in the room, typical hostel set-up. The bathroom, ensuite for all four people in the room, was incredibly small. The toilet didn't flush all the way. It was also impossible to take a shower without the not very clean, disposable shower curtain sticking to you on all sides, because the shower is so very small. Unfortunately, when we arrived to check-in at 6 pm, the hostel was also puzzlingly out of towels - we paid for a hand towel and an old terrycloth wrap (the kind with velcro that you use as a coverup) because that was all they had. This was quite disappointing, especially after a day at the Falls where we had gotten wet and were looking forward to a shower.

That being said, when we shared our concerns with the manager/owner the next day - whose name I am very unfortunately forgetting at the moment - he was very understanding. I really appreciated his willingness to work with us.

My main recommendation would be to know what you're getting. This is not a cushy hostel, but it fills basic needs and would be good for budget travelers. It also may be more welcoming in warmer weather when you can take advantage of the hammock and the pool - we were there in the winter so that wasn't an option.

Basic hostel for budget travelers

A bit off the city centre, but not that far. The room was Ok, nothing special, and with some damp smell. Kitchen wasn't great and neither the swimming poll (could be cleaner). Overall the facilities need some care

Nothing special

We stayed here for one night whilst visiting the Iguazu Falls.  Ines the manager was very helpful in providing us lots of information via email beforehand.  The room was very spacious but had some local wildlife staying too (!) which was a little unsettling, plus it was missing the wifi code.  Breakfast was included and was very nice.  The only other downside was a notice by reception promoting the "best exchange rates in town", but when we tried to change money we were told that couldn't be done so we had to go back into the centre.

Good value for money

We got the double room with bathroom that was called ‘deluxe’. Absolutely nothing deluxe about it. We have been travelling for 5 months and this is one of the worst places we have stayed. Bathroom was disgusting- soaking wet floor, dirty, old toilet. An alarm clock in the room went off at 2am so loudly- we had to take our batteries to turn off. When we told the reception, the woman just laughed and shrugged. No apology. Breakfast is breads and no coffee (well, coffee out a teabag if you want that). Whole place felt dirty and in need of improvements. Wouldn’t have gone near the pool- huge snails all round it. Only good thing is location near bus stop which you need to use to get to the falls. 

I wouldn’t recommend 

The Falls are amazing, reception on our arrival were great! I had to rebook my room changed from single to a double, me and my sister had a flat all to ourselves, it has kitchen and private bathroom and very quiet, not far from the bus terminal.

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