El Gualicho Hostel
El Gualicho Hostel descritpion
El Gualicho Hostel sells fast on our site. Bright rooms with free Wi-Fi can be enjoyed just 3 blocks from the ocean. Puerto Madryin’s bus terminal is 6 blocks away. Private parking is free.
El Gualicho Hostel has rooms with shared or private bathrooms. They feature light wood furnishings and are styled in warm colours.
Guests staying at El Gualicho can relax in the reading room, take a 6-block walk to the Oceanography Museum, or visit the area on a rented bike.
A continental breakfast with regional jams and cereals can be enjoyed daily. There are common kitchen facilities and a BBQ area.
El Tehuelche Airport is 3.1 miles away.
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Facilities of El Gualicho Hostel
Outdoors ：BBQ Facilities | Grounds | Terrace
Pets ：Pets are not allowed.
Activities ：Pool Table | Cycling | Bicycle Rental | Library
Food & Drink ：Bar
Internet ：Free!WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge.
Parking ：Free!Free private parking is available on site (reservation is needed).
Services ：24-Hour Front Desk | Currency Exchange | Tour Desk | Baggage Storage
General ：Safe | Non-smoking Rooms | Family Rooms | Heating | All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)
Reviews for El Gualicho Hostel
Review 1：The room was $75 dollars at a a hostel, which was really expensive for what was on offer. You may as well go to a real hotel with full service and amenities for that price. Should have been half of that really. Also the private rooms are set close to the main courtyard so you'll hear people talking till late night, which is a pain if you want to sleep. also the shared bathrooms are next to the private rooms so a lot of commotion going on..for $75 a night.
Review 2：the place was clean and well located. The staff was great and friendly. The general vibe/atmosphere of the place was great too. Good place to meet other travelers. wifi was top notch as well.
Review 3：It is all excelent, the only thing I would add is a clima in the rooms because it was too hot!
Review 4：The good atmosphere in the place! Thank you to the staff and the beautiful place and facilities!
Review 5：There is only one little thing: the personnel is absolutely helpful and nice. Most of them speak English very fluently but some have a lack of information about the different activities you can do in Puerto Madryn.
Review 6：This is the best hostel i have ever stayed in. The rooms are very clean, the beds are very good and comfortable. The kitchen is amazing, big and equipped with everything you need, there is a lovely garden where you can chill out the whole day and lastly the living room is amazing.
Review 7：We had a room (number 2) which is lying in the garden just in front of a bench which is highly used by smokers. This resulted in quite a lot of noise in the evening / night. The house rule was that there would be no people in the garden after midnight but this was regularly the case. The staff did not act upon people not respecting the silence so we had to get up more than once per night to ask for silence.
Review 8：Nice common area - especially the 'living room' very cosy and nice to hang out. Big kitchen as well, everything you need to prepare a good meal. Overall very clean and well maintained.
Review 9：Sheets weren't as clean as we would like them to be. Smoking area is located a bit unfortunate as you have to pass there to go to the bathroom (day and night)
Review 10：Very friendly staff, good atmosphere in general in the hostel
Review 11：For the hefty price of having a private room but with shared bathroom , it is too exoensive for what you get, especially since it is VERY noisey. The heater in your room lets the street noises come in and it seems as if you are outside on the street instead of your room! Plus, you can here the entrance buzzer, every time someone wants to get into the hostel they ring a buzzer and u can here it in the room! Also, too much light filters in through the window...so you can.t sleep be ause of the noise plus light coming through the window, not worth that hefty price.
Review 12：The hostel was clean, the private room with shared bathroom plenty big.
Review 13：They offer a free breakfast, which is nice, but it's a very bad breakfast, so you may want to make other plans anyway.
Review 14：The staff was extremely nice, upbeat, and always helpful. The location is excellent and close to everything. The dorms have large lockers for personal belongings, but you need to bring your own lock.
Review 15：The breakfast was very poor: butter&jam and cornflakes with milk with bad coffe. And if you woke up after 7am you can't find even that. Also the bathroom doesn't have a hair dryer, which completely useful in this cold weather Printer doesn't work
Review 16：The room were super clean, the staff was kind and helpful and all speak english. The place of the hostel right in city center in three blocks from the coast where you can see the whales!
Review 17：Too very small notes for improvement: make towels available for the guests and offer water or juice at breakfast.
Review 18：If you are looking for a cheap, modern, well-equipped backpackers hostel in Puerto Madryn that's the place. Helpful staff, clean confortable rooms and commons spaces, good facilities.
Review 19：Kitchen utensils/sauce pans could replaced Lack of printer
Review 20：Artisan beer from Puerto Madryn Strong WiFi Storage boxes in kitchen for food Scrabble
Review 21：Kitchen was big, but didn't have a lot of utensils and pots/pans, which made cooking a bit difficult. A pity, as the kitchen itself was nice. Breakfast was very simple.
Review 22：Nice hostel, good location (close to city centre and beach), friendly staff (helped with booking tour to Península Valdés), nice room, big kitchen.
Review 23：Very hot during our stay in December Poor ventilation No air conditioning Part place Very noisy until 1 AM
Review 24：Very good location, Friendly staff Nice grounds
Review 25：Nothing !
Review 26：Very nice hostel ! Spacious rooms with private bathroom. Cleaned everyday ! Internet connection that works in the room ! Commun areas very cosy and spacious. Pool table, garden with hamac. Good kitchen and good breakfast ! More complete than any others hostel so far... Staff really nice and helpful!
Review 27：Internet connection was down most of the time during our stay (probably an issue in the whole town, but still annoying). Really tiny 4-bedded dorm with very little space for backpacks. Breakfast could be richer (still ok though)
Review 28：Good atmosphere, very friendly and helpful staff, and possibility to book organized day tours in the area. Nice common areas and garden with hammocks; good position. Everything clean.
Review 29：The Internet didnt work very well in the room...
Review 30：Great service, tour organizing and rooms! the common area is also very cosy and the hostel majes a very clean and modern impression!
Review 31：Feels a bit clinical.
Review 32：Good value for money option in this lovely city. Very pleasant staff where poor Spanish is not a problem as the staff speak excellent English. Very clean and pleasant surroundings.
Review 33：Only one plug in the room in a difficult position(but one also in the bathroom).
Review 34：Everything not at hostel but hotel level. Friendly staff,organized amazing excursions,met every request and need,free and very safe luggage deposit all day, comfy rooms and beds,clean bathrooms,excellent wifi everywhere,good breakfast. Best choice in Puerto Madryn!!!!
Review 35：The wifi worked in the reception but only worked the first day in the bedroom and then cut out and didn't return...
Review 36：We stayed in a private room. The room was really comfortable with a huge bed and clean sheets, tv and nicely decorated. The staff were incredibly helpful, gave us advice on how to get around cheaply and easily and helped us do our online check in. The breakfast had cereal, bread and coffee/tea, simple but nice. The kitchen was well equipped for cooking a meal.
Review 37：I don't have any real complaints about this hostel. The private room was a little pricey but it was huge so for two people it probably makes more sense.
Review 38：Lovely staff and good location. Very clean rooms and common areas are clean too.
Review 39：The staff were so welcoming and profssional and helpful The rooms are spotless Lots of hot water Clean bathrooms Great breakfast 100 % excllent
Review 40：Excelente lugar! todo de 10!! Great place to enjoy your holidays!!
Review 41：Really nice staff. The best common areas and super clean.
Review 42：Great and helpful staff
Review 43：The staff was very helpful!
Review 44：Breakfast simply and fair, cereal, bread and coffee/tea.
Review 45：Friendly staff and other hostel-mate! Clean room, secure lockers. I have a lovely stay in puerto Madelyn.
Review 46：wifi didnt always work, the internet on the computers didnt always work
Review 47：spacious rooms, a lot of computers for poeple to work
Review 48：Poor breakfast
Review 49：It's spacious, clean and organised hostel. Has a lot of places to chill and various computers to work with.
Review 50：Wifi was inconsistent
Review 51：The advice on tours and the friendly staff
Review 52：Awesome atmosphere, really helpful staff- fluent in both spanish and english
Review 53：Staff was friendly and well informed, had tons of info regarding activity's in the area, the hotel is better than it looks
Review 54：Door bell has a special sound, but you get used to it.
Review 55：Tour booking at the hostel, big and clean kitchen, PCs with clean keyboard and internet, nice garden.
Review 56：We stayed on a Friday and Saturday night and the street outside our window was very loud with drunks and drag racing during the early hours. A ceiling fan or pedestal fan would have been nice.
Review 57：The hostel is fine. Staff are friendly and helpful, and our room was clean.
Review 58：This hostel is incredibly expensive for what they offer. We havebeen traveling around Argentina the last week and we have spent daysin better (much better) hotels/hostels for similar, or evencheaper, prices.
Review 59：The staff is friendly and helpful.
Review 60：The four bed dorm number two is located near the sitting area and people were outside our room talking loudly until 3 am. The share bathrooms are not too nice.
Review 61：The 6 bed dorm with ensuite is really nice. Ask for this type of room! There is a nice big kitchen and eating area. Free computers and movie area to chill out in.
Review 62：I enjoyed my stay at the gualicho, the staff was nice and friendly the place was impeccably clean and the ambiance was excellent. I would definitely go back again and again.
Review 63：The computers and internet connection were of low quality. I couldn't copy my pictures to my usb drive.
Review 64：The staff was very helpfull and the room was pleasent
Review 65：Rooms were not very clean and comfortable. But as it is a backpackers hostel, you can't expect the world.
Review 66：good backpackers hostel. They arrange tours themselves. Rent the mountain bike and go for El Doradillo yourself. It is worth the trip. The entire trip to Peninsula Valdez was good value-for money. No need to go looking for other tours, just book them there. Kitchen was ideal for cooking. Good facilities. Walk 100 meter and you arrive at the beach were you already see the wales. Amazing.
Review 67：The rooms could use ceiling fans...we couldn't leave the windows open at night as we were inundated with mosquitoes.
Review 68：Excellent staff, friendly, cleanest place, good kitchen, roomy, helpful , good location and comfortable beds
Review 69：- The female receptionist was efficient in doing her job, but looked always very "irritated" or bored. Maybe that's not quite the right way to deal with any guest when you rule a Hostel/Hotel....- The payment is accepted only in cash, and that's not specified in the conditions here on booking.com.
Review 70：- Clean and spacious Kitchen- the presence of the inner garden
Review 71：This hotel is located by a loud crossroad. It is not possible to sleep there without earplugs. You have the feeling you sleep middle on the highway. The double rooms with private bathroom are overpriced.
Review 72：Shared kitchen to prepare own meals
Review 73：One member of staff made me (and upon discussion I discovered others)feel very uncomfortable, stupid, as though I was imposing upon her timewhen I asked questions at the desk. Not the type of person or attitudeyou would expect at the front desk of any kind of accommodation in theservice industry.
Review 74：The staff were mostly very helpful and kind. The location was great.WiFi works well here. The rooms were cleaned everyday to a highstandard. You can hire bikes from the hostel as well as book excursionswith the help of staff ( they will telephone for you if you wish),breakfast is included, the kitchen facilities are good, the bathroomswork well, shower was powerful and the temperature stayed consistent!The lockers are big enough to store your backpack. There was a goodselection of movies and a great selection of public spaces to chosefrom. Staff speak English if your attempts at Spanish are not goodenough to get yourself understood!
Review 75：As some rooms face the patio where guests have a beer at night it can get a bit noisy at night. Nothing can wake me up when I sleep but if you think it may bother you I would suggest you ask for a quiet room that doesn't directly face the main patio.
Review 76：it was very clean and the facilities for cooking were excellent. There was a very nice mix of guests from different parts of the world, very good ambiance and the hostel offered nice areas to socialise. I think if you travel solo it is very nice.
Review 77：This is a very good backpacker hostel, but a bit too big to my taste... You don't get the "homey" feeling that you may get in smaller guesthouses.
Review 78：Facilities are good, many computers available, parking spaces, good location.
Review 79：The room was rather small and one of the beds had too little space. The WiFi had some problems.
Review 80：The private parking The money exchange rate at the front desk The four computers in the loby, with internet access.
Review 81：Huge hostal. Staff managed a personal welcome non the less. Quiet and clean double room with own bathroom. Central location, with own free parking space behind steel gate. Ask staff for recommendations for dinner. They can also arrange a lot of trips. We stayed just one night and would do so again although for longer stays it's a bit to massive to our taste
Review 82：very basic breakfast: cornflex, bread jam and butter, coffee and hot water, its not that important!
Review 83：the heater was really good, the staff are very nice and helpful. very clean, well equipped spacy kitchen.
Review 84：Noisy late at night
Review 85：Clean and spacious hostel. Most staff happy to help. Good tour information.
Review 86：Kitchen equipments mostly old and only functioning partly
Review 87：wifi also in rooms, great hangout area, staff extremely friendly and helpful
Review 88：Nice garden, Big kitchen and mainarea. Very helpfull staff, who can help you booke other hostel! Nice tour services too
Review 89：The hostel is clean, the staff friendly and a great atmosphere
Review 90：- one bathroom was really sticky and smelling, the other one was okay
Review 91：- the garden is great - the kitchen is huge, with place for asado - 3 pcs
Review 92：had our own room with bathroom. nice size clean good choice. Staff very helpful and shaired areas clean and comfortable.
Review 93：Location - very noisy, Breakfast - unimaginative, Worst hostel, after a month travelling in Patagonia
Review 94：Quiet friendly hostel, clean, excellent service and good location.
Review 95：The breakfest
Review 96：The staff were real nice and helpfull
Review 97：A bit noisy in the evenings- bikers and music too loud.
Review 98：Value for money. Clean and comfortable. Friendly staff.
Review 99：No TV. Poor breakfast. Garage is a fake. Noisy.
Review 100：The room was clean. Comfortable beds .
Review 101：Location and staff outstanding, great kitchen facilities and roomy relaxation are
Review 102：Breakfast could be improved - just some medialunas would be nice!
Review 103：Good location, great staff
Review 104：Clean room, presence of a safe, quiet environment, young and friendly staff.
Review 105：Nice room. Good atmosphere. Cozy garden and common room.
Review 106：the atmosphere was very good, the staff is very nice and friendly, the kitchen is clean, large and fully equipped. very good experience all round!
Review 107：The hostel is very noisy and crowded. The staff was pretty unkind. Wifiwas not working most of the time.
Review 108：Location was good.
Review 109：poor breakfast
Review 110：It's all very basic - the room (private + bathroom) the breakfast overall cleanliness. All in all, over priced for what you get.
Review 111：No AC and no wi-fi in the room. Basic breakfast.
Review 112：The stuff was very friedly, and the atmosphere is very nice. Good location. Rooms are clean.