Name: Mad Monkey Phnom Penh - Hostel
Address: No. 30-32 Street 242, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, 12101, Cambodia
Rating: 9

24-hour reception

Smoking areas

Currency exchange

Smoke-free property

Security guard

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No elevators

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Family room

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Free Wi-Fi

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English

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Indoor Pool

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Pets Not Allowed

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Phnom Penh International Airport

Mad Monkey Phnom Penh - Hostel

Phnom Penh

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Mad monkey is great. Would highly recommend. keo Vyra the restaurant and bar manager was very friendly and great to chat to. The best place to stay in Phnom Penh. No complaints at all. The room was spacious and the outdoor area was great. Good cheap beer!

Highly recommend

I came across the Mad Monkey hostel in a hurry and scurry. Kinda ‘happenstance” as they say. I was passing through Phnom Penh (a city I have traveled to often in my career as a communications officer in the past. I was on a writing mission and needed a place to stay last minute for a few nights. It had to be cost effective and safe with a pool to chill at, which I needed badly. In between waiting for my buses and in between leaving Thailand and coming into Cambodia I came across the Mad Monkey hostel online. It looked good and inviting. I gotta tell you the name made me think twice, as an older, professional traveler, I had to laugh at the cute name. What the heck, I said to myself, let’s give it a try.
 
After two nights at the Mad Monkey I can safely say I had no regrets at all with my sejour here. 
 
These are a few of my all-time favourite things about the Mad Monkey hostel:
 
The hostel building:It’s is like an old bungalow house in Sri Lanka or India and quite amazing indeed. I felt the architectural aura and vibe of the building as soon I walked across the little bridge over water that brings you into the hostel. I had to say ‘is this hostel for real?” It feels someone’s palatial Asian house?
 
It’s a secluded private building. There is a ton of comfy furniture to chill on at the Mad Monkey. A sexy conference room (which can be rented for meetings) and an uber chill library to read, do work in and take meetings in – both fully air conditioned and so modern. Makes for a very productive space for a writer like me.  There is even a bird cage chair to swing in. So relaxing … weeeeeee!
 
Pool: A lovely pool awaits you surrounded by trees by the restaurant and bar. It has a mature beach club feel. It is so shady and chill. Nice but not boisterous tunes play at the restaurant bar all day. The perfect place to spend the day in the sunshine recovering from hours of travel or working on your laptop or writing if you are a journalist and author as I am. 
 
Super social (if you want to be): For the younger travelers, there’s a pool party event on Saturday’s which is not to be missed I am told. Boogie woogie baby under the Cambodian moonlight. Plus, plenty of events, if you want to be social. But if you don’t its chill too.
 
The price: For 4 – 6 US dollars a night if you are lucky you get a lovely building and air con bed in a shared co-ed dorm room. It’s a good location for the easy going, fuss free traveler. 
 
Tours: The hostel offers a ton of exciting tours of Phnom Penh, arranged by a third party travel agent. These include, cycling the Mekong Island or Cambodia countryside to sunset boat parties to evening city food tours and visits through the history of the killing fields of Cambodia. My heart was so heavy but aware of the tragic history of this country and its people. Tours at the Mad Monkey are in the range of USD 30 – 50 dollars. 
 
Staff: I found the hostel staff very courteous, accommodating and professional. They gave the hostel a very welcoming and relaxed feel, which means stressed travelers like me looking for a few day’s break, can bask in the sunshine and know that all is communicated well and patiently in order. I arrived late after a long bus journey with a few complications and they eased my check in and night’s stay excellently. 
 
There is a guest relations officer and a lovely welcome beer or juice awaiting you at 6pm on the day you arrive.  
 
En suite bathroom: This was the only hostel I experienced in South East Asia that offered an en suite bathroom in the dorm room. Nice touch especially for beautifying girls, like me!
 
The hostel has a large volume of guests which may place pressure on the hostel bathrooms and I found the bathrooms messy in the larger 12 bed dorms but quite ok in the smaller 6 bed dorms. 
 
The Mad Monkey has another branch in Siem Reap and Koh Rang (beachside) making it an extensive hostel chain with three branches across Cambodia. They also have hostels in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia too.
 
I hope you enjoy my photos of this totally unique hostel and the amazing things it has to offer. Enjoy your time at the Mad Monkey hostel in Cambodia and join in the madness of super fun travel through South East Asia. You’d be utterly mad to miss this hostel spot!

Hostel life at its exotic and amazing Asian best!

Someone stole 2000 usd which I had in my locker. I believe that the housekeepers are the responsible because they were always in my room sitting in the floor. They weren’t working. The personal ask me why I have a lot of money, why I stayed in my room all the afternoon and he laughed me when I was talking about what happened.

Stole my money

Lovely hostel, stayed in a private room which was very clean and had a massive comfy bed! Very good value for money with amazing views and a very nice and clean bathroom! Food was great and a good place. The staff were really lovely and the entertainment was good at night they even take you too the local night club. Very sociable and a good location would recommend!

Great

Mad monkeys in PP is a very cool hostel. I stayed for 6 days in total. The food is very good and all the staff are really nice. Soso is so much fun. Domrey and Sopheak do a great job behind the bar!  

Best hostel in PP

Really good hostel, lots going on, comfy with good and friendly staff! I only stayed one night but we played some games and went out! Lin made the night eventful and fun by constantly getting us all involved throughout the night

December review 

Good Hostel as all reviews said that. The only thing you have to aware that this is a party Hostel so you can hear music even at midnight. The pool was not so big, I just wonder if they change the water or not.

good Hostel

So we actually ended up staying here on 3 different occasions  over our whole trip. We didn’t intend on doing so but that’s how it ended up being and luckily we were not upset by returning. Firstly the reception are very welcoming when guests arrive and leave. Must say a massive thank you to Sophhorn (soso) she was absolutely lovely and very friendly with a great humour! We did a few tours with mad monkey here including the killing fields which you must see but is awfully sad, and the walking tour with the hostel which was so much fun. It was very clean and a very social hostel. The bar crawl was really fun and showed you some Cambodian nightlife. Prices were reasonable especially with alcohol and the multiple happy hours. They also have lots of food deals including a free drink beer or soft. Overall great stay comfy beds and lovely staff. 

Lovely

nice hostel for joying and making new friends. They had a lot of activities from tours to pool party.  The only thing that I didn't like is the pool so many pp and sometime they didn't keep it hygiene  enough .

good stay

It can be improved. Some of the people from the staff are really nice, some others are not. The private bathroom of the room was huge and the room was clean and comfy; on the other side, it is very loud on the ground floor all the time during the night. I think this was the only hostel (together with the Mad Monkey in Siem Reap) in South - East Asia countries I visitedwhere they asked me to pay in order to refill the water bottle. And they don't even have breakfast included, even if it so not so cheap compared to other places. I think you can do better.

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