Name: Bananas Hostel
Address: Pokrovsky Boulevard 8 Bld. 2, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, 109028, Russia
Rating: 7.1

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Kurskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya)

Kitay-Gorod (Kalujsko-Rijskaya)

Chkalovskaya

Boulevard Ring

Moscow Sovremennik Theatre

Chistye Prudy

Kursky Railway Station

Polytechnical Museum

Zaryadye Park

Old English Court

Bauman Garden

Saint Basil's Cathedral

Taganka Theater

Red Square

Lenin's Mausoleum

Bolshoi Theatre

Moscow Kremlin

State Tretyakov Gallery

Pushkin Museum

Gorky Park

ZIL Culture Center

Moscow City

VDNKh

MSU Main Building

Sheremetyevo International Airport

Vnukovo Airport

Zhukovsky International Airport

Moscow Domodedovo Airport

Bananas Hostel

Moscow

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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6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

English speaking, knowledgeable, friendly staff; spacious, clean, comfortable accomodations! I enjoyed my stay very much, it was not crouded and over packed craziness with many restrictions, like other hostels I have stayed at in Moscow, and Russia in general! I will be staying here next time I return to Moscow!

Nice quite place with friendly staff!

Good place for such price! The hostel is situated directly near two metro station and located in a quiet courtyard. Nearby there are boulevard and garden.

Wi-fi is free and works around the clock in the lobby and in the rooms. Since I broke down during the trip my computer - I thought that I would stay without a job, because I freelance, but the hostel offers free laptops.

The housemaid came every day. I also asked her to change clothes - and she can easily do that. I stopped in 4 bad-room and worried-about the neighbors. But young couple from Italy lived with me, who left early in the morning and came in the evening.

The room is warm in winter and there is plenty of plugs!
You can smoke on the landing - it's convenient, you do not need to go out and dress up every time.

The staff were really helpful and efficient, helped me with registration and train tickets to Ekaterinburg.
I ate at the hostel in the morning and evening -there is a comfortable kitchen. But sometimes there is pandemonium at the tables. Plus I saved on the tea and coffee - they were free.

Overall, I would recommend this hostel especially for those who stay for a short time (1 week as I have done), and I'll probably go to this hostel again in the summer!

Friendly staff and good quality for the price

I shall keep this short as I could write a full report on the experience: The staffs here are wonderful and welcoming and great people to talk to. They are helpful and gave us some great advice of places to see and where to go etc. However the hostel is very very basic and suitable if you’re just passing through maybe for an overnight stay. If you are used to clean 4 star or above standards of living then this is not the place for you. The kitchen is filthy with grime and flies everywhere so we resorted to sterilising everything in boiling water and microwaving utensils (not metal objects).  The toilets smell and need a good scrub, no sign of bleach or disinfectant and the shower room is basic again unhygienic and in need of a good clean. 

The rooms are spacious but the bed sheets where appalling, luckily a thin washed bed sheet and duvet cover was given to us but I used my towel over the pillow and bed to add an extra layer as the stale smell of the bed an pillow made me rather uncomfortable. The rooms are rather grotty and untidy, I noticed that the room had not been cleaned after the last tenants with a pair of underpants and a stale food left behind. 

Health and safety warning: The electric cooker is faulty which will give you a shock when using the metal sink to wash things. Please be careful. 

This place is ideal if you’re on a tight budget or as a last resort.

Bananas is a way of putting it

We came to the place and questioned from the moment we entered the building.  The hostel is an apartment on the top floor.  Outside the front door you will see a couple chairs, cigarette butts all over and garbage can full of beer bottles.  The place reeks of cigarettes and stale beer.  Once you enter the place it appear nice.  Staff is very nice.  However, the rooms need a serious vacuuming.  Under the beds hasn't been cleaned since opening from what I can tell.  Both showers were broken, be plugged so it overflowed , the other leaking from somewhere underneath all over the floor and water flowing and making a puddle in the kitchen.  Only one toilet works, the other you need to take the back off and jiggle the plunger to make it flush.  Kitchen was a gross, nobody, except staff cleaned up their mess.  Hostel rules were not enforced.  We contacted the manager to complain and received a complaint from him that it was very difficult and time consuming to get thing fixed.  When we cancelled and found a new hostel he asked his staff to bill us an early cancellation fee, we protested and didn't pay of course.  This place is a true slum experience.  I wouldn't start here or at any other hostels this company owns.

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