A really nice hostel in a great location close to Central Park and the Natural History Museum. My favourite part was the staff who were all so friendly and welcoming, but the common room is a very cool place to hang out too!
One of the worst hostels I’ve stayed at. No locks on doors, plastic covered the ceiling and the window making it hot and stuffy with no ventilation. No WiFi in rooms and lounge is closed until 12pm so you can’t even use it there. Overpriced
Great value for the price ! The location is really convenient, really close to the underground stations and to central park. It is a cosy place, warm and chill, with a lot of charm and thats what I appreciated there. The staff is friendly and cheerful, I would recommend !
Super kind staff, clean, awesome pricing, and situated in a great area. Honestly couldn’t have found better accomodation during my solo NYC trip.
This hostel is really bad. Desk Manager is unfriendly and the building is old and dirty. It has no free wifi and there is no showers to use if you arrive before check in time. You cant take your luggage to the room, meaning that every time you need something you have to go to the basement to pick it. Lockers are US 5 each (in the basement)
Not as budget friendly as a hostel in South East Asia, but nonetheless, a good budget option to stay in NYC. Close to Central Park, the museums, comfortable bunkbeds, and a friendly receptionist.
Is such a perfect place to stay while you visit NYC. Good environment, cook whatever you want. All services availables! Close to Central Park and Natural Historic Museum
Staff are helpful. Rooms were clean as was the bathroom. Overall good for the price (I spent most time outdoors.)
Nice and great place, and affordable. Needs an elevator though. Beds were not that clean. People on disk are great and friendly.
Friendly staff. Nice common area. Only complaint is no washer and dryer on site (Changed to 5 after reading about the regulations)
Cheap option (in comparison to other hostels) for stay at Manhattan. Convinient location, clean, very kind receptionists.
Strangers are just friends that havent met eachother yet. I loved this place. Really clean, nice, and theres a lot of space.
Overall, it is good, which has a good location and cheap price. Unsatisfactory points are the internet speed and the bed ladder. The internet is pretty low.
Very old building, does not have plugs near the beds. Wifi was very bad. Staff were really friendly.
Rooms were okay. The bathroom was kind of gross, but we didnt expect much out of w hostel
This is a great place to stay. It doesnt break the bank, its very clean, and well located.
Good location. Safe, and no frills hostel. Would stay again for sure.
Hospitality is good they are very sincere but heater has problam and not any internet connection to the rooms
Well located, nice place, but the internet didnt work at the last floor with the rooms, recommended
Its a little weird that they dont let us take the bags to the bedrooms but its an overall ok hostel
Loved it here! Wonderful and friendly staff. Clean and safe building.
Very cool place, a little rickety but for the price its great. Welcoming staff, too!
Great cheap place for accommodation in the heart of the city. Great place for budget travellers.
I was late for check-in, but the guy waited half an hour for me to arrive. Great service!
Perfect location for a perfect price. The staff was awsome. I would repeat with no doubt!
Great experience, everything was clean and quiet when it was sleeping time.
Semi cold shower, buidling needs some repair. Clean and nice though
Friendly and helpfull staff. Very close to Central Park and a metro station
Great location, very close to Central Park and the Subway.
Very enjoyable stay
Overpriced as everything in NY. But apart from that, a pleasant and welcoming environment.
I was here on 24 May 2014, I will live here again whenever I come back to NYC, its so close to Central Park
Very comfortable and cheap place in Upper Manhattan :)
Very convenient to central park subway restaurant on Columbus
Good price and location on the upper west side. Friendly staff.
Great location!Great way to meet people from other places!!
Easy access to all places in Manhattan, polite atmosphere
Friendly staff, close to metro staff. Affordable
Good hostel, great location
The value for money is just incredible
Cockroaches....place ripped me off....
P good
Loved it
Calm
Love it!
Best
Cool people :)
Clean and economic
Nice place.
For having spent long stays there on multiple occasions, I have particularly fond memories of this place. It was not in this century and it was the time of the humanist pioneer Robert Tesdell, who made it the seat of various international exchange activities. Unfortunately, nothing to say about the current state of play, except that from reading various comments it seems that nothing has changed in more than half a century. Quiet street for New York, open to beautiful Central Park and, in the opposite direction, Columbus, a bustling thoroughfare on the Upper West Side dotted with terraces, small shops and just as many restaurants.
Excellent price for your location in Manhattan. A very friendly staff, shared rooms, kitchen and living room very spacious. They do not have wifi in the rooms (at least not on the 3rd floor) and I found that in July the whole hostel is very hot (the shared room has two fans that are very noisy and can disturb sleeping), they should invest in air conditioners.
3B. Good pretty and cheap. In fact, it is the hostel with the best location and price you can find in Manhattan. Clean place, clean bathroom with hot water. The only bad thing and they comment before booking is that if your suitcase is too big you should leave it to the side of the hall and then take your things to the room which in my case was located on the 4th floor. The kitchen is quite complete, there are 2 refrigerators where to put the food, 1 TV, furniture and several plugs. Ahhh if you sleep on the 2nd level of the cabin and your charger is not very long I would recommend taking an extension.
I stayed in this hostel in the spring of 1988 and I have a wonderful memory of this place. The price for the night was $ 10-12 and we slept at 10 per room. Each one reads it. Boys and girls were separated. Kitchen in the basement. Near central park. Great...
I love my stay in this place. The location is superb. A couple of blocks from Central Park. The transport arrangement is perfect because there is a metro nearby and there is also the possibility of taking a bus. The atmosphere is very calm and entertaining for young people.
It has no elevator, the heating has a fixed schedule and it is not possible to change it, just like the hot water. They make you leave the room to clean for 3 hours and do not offer any activity for guests
Great! However the lockers in the rooms are small and there are no activities scheduled by the hostel for interaction between guests
Excellent place for a stay in New York. A few blocks from Central Park and the subway station. The attention is excellent. Cleansed. It has a very complete kitchen and a very nice living room
Human-sized hostel located in a very quiet area. Best location / price ratio you can find in Manhattan!
For the first time in my life I stayed at a hostel for fun. So, For this money - great !!I recommend!
Good location, very quiet. The hostel is silent. The wifi never works in the rooms.
Best Hostel in NYC! For the low price, great location and the atmosphere of the environment is wonderful!
Nice place, comfortable, cheap and close to the largest museums in New York and Central Park.
Good place, very central to know NY, although it is a very old place
Very good hostel and its best location
Very good location and staff attention
Amazing place for good photos
Price, location and friendly treatment
Does the job
Total reviews rating 4.1
78 Reviews for International Student Center Youth Hostel 2023:
Review №1
2018-01-26I had the best experience at this hostel. the staff is incredibly inviting , kind and helpful. i stayed on the top floor (which wasn’t even an annoying walk) the view from my window was an awesome new york skyline. i slept on the top bunk which wasn’t bad at all. you get two sheets and a pillow case and a set of keys upon checking in. after getting into your room you’ll find a pillow and two thick blankets. the bathrooms are pretty clean. everything is very tidy. the place has such character!! awesome people too! it’s a 5 min walk from the museum of national history, right next to central park and by a ton of food and the subway!! a great street too!
Review №2
2019-03-21Located in beautiful Upper West Side in a stunning brownstone, just steps from Central Park. I enjoyed my stay. Staff is helpful and friendly and rooms are very spacious and clean. Common Room in basement is well furnished. Worth the trip. One of my favorite places to stay.
Review №3
2018-06-13It was just perfect. The roomies were great, the room was decent enough for what we paid, the bathroom was great. Dont leave without checking the lounge downstairs, what a charming cultural spot with that mid-XXth century taste!!! They also have a good kitchen for you to buy your own stuff and cook it (so inviting you to save money in a pretty expensive city) and the girl in the front desk is simply lovely and so helpful: ask her just anything and shell help out! The area is also super calm, quiet and safe, Central Park is ridiculously close... Go stay to the International Student Center!!!
Review №4
2019-01-11Dirty, Cold but no heater. You are kicked out of the room during 1-3pm with the reason of room cleaning, but the room is dirty. I stayed in a room for two, but it was on the top floor which was 4th floor, without elevators. A lot of work if you have to take something out of your room or wanna put something in your room. Stairs make sounds, quite annoying when you have to move in the morning or night time since the sound disrupts others sleep.Staff was not very helpful, they didnt provide enough info of the places and didnt give me the tour of the place, so i just explored by myself.The one and only reason to stay here is the location, very close to bus stop, metro station, coin laundry, central park and museums near central park. Also quiet and pretty safe neighborhood.
Review №5
2017-02-17I stayed here, in a female dorm, for 2 days and 1 night. The hostel is well located- right next to central park and about 20 minutes from Times Square, by subway. The staff are extremely friendly and helpful, they are available for most of the day. Linen, blankets, pillows and the bed were washed and clean. The bathroom is very large and clean, though there is a high chance that it may be occupied when you need to use it. You cant take large suitcases up as there is no lift and there were no safes in my dorm. Given the rates, Id highly recommend this hostel.
Review №6
2019-11-15If you are student with low budget, it is okay and could be one of the interesting trip and accommodation experience in youth.However if you are an adult, I recommend you to fine other place to stay. I should have booked more expensive place for me if I knew how exactly the rooms are.They didnt even renovated the building. Old squicky stairs building. Buildings each original room became accommodation by having bunk bed only. My room even had plastic cover on the ceiling which made noise all night long. When you check in, the staff will give you new sheet and you need to cover up your own matress. Bathroom was small and no equipment or amenities at all.(I didnt mean amenitis like hotels but many youth hostel now has complimentary shampoo, conditioner and body wash.)Even though the building itself was horribly old, the room was clean, no dust, no webs. The staff was nice.
Review №7
2022-07-06The shower was dirty. Security is poor.
Review №8
2018-01-15The Hostel is a good Place to visit New York. The location is very good. A lot of stuff to do is walkable, the metro station is very close and the Amsterdam street which has a lot of bars and Pups for not that touristic prices is also close. The staff is friendly and the furniture is not very know but has style and works well.
Review №9
2017-08-20Dorm rooms in summer, especially filled ones are humid and at times uncomfortable.Kitchen area isnt particularly clean though that would more be the fault of fellow dirtier hostellers.The interior didnt leave that good a first impression although it is a hostel so perhaps Im expecting a bit much.Dorm rooms are spacious and bathrooms are relatively clean though and stairs and everything seem to be in working order. Hence the hostel fulfills its purpose however I wouldnt say it does much to go beyond like some other hostels do.Note that you arent allowed to bring your larger bags upstairs to your dorm i.e. anything that would have to be check-in luggage on a plane.
Review №10
2015-03-15It was a pretty clean and quiet place. I like it, but I felt dizzy at my arrival when I climbed the stairs up. When I checked the stairs, they were diagonal!! So I tried to climb the stairs up and down close to wall until I do not feel dizzy. Totally, staffs were helpful. Most people are in same age because of age restriction and I have seen some people from Spain, Canada, and other US states. The only problem that I had it was an old place and I really scare of old places.