Amsterdam Hostel

Some appreciations about the Amsterdam Youth Hostel of San Francisco. It is the cheapest youth hostel that you will find in San Francisco, if you reserve online. Indeed, it is 18$ for a 4 beds room while it gets up to 25$ for the HI Hostels of USA Hostels. Each room, dorms or privates, has a individual bathroom. The shower is completely fine for a hostel, and the dorms I went to are cleaned everyday at noon. There is free WIFI available, however if you are in the rooms up to 309 or 310, you won't get any signal and you'll need to go down to the common rooms (i.e TV room). There is a free breakfast everyday, between 7:30AM and 10:00AM, with free coffee and unlimited waffles. The Hostel crew is really nice and knows everything about San Francisco, so if you have any questions to ask, don't hesitate. The kitchen closes at 10:00PM because of the neighborhood which complains sometimes. You can drink in the Hostel, in the common rooms, which is great to have fun with all the different people you will meet (and you are going to meet a lot of hostellers!). You can play guitar all night and finish your bottle of vodka. There are a lot of bars all around the hostel, most of the time very cheap (3.50$ a beer), and also 2 daily one block down on Sutter, so you can buy whatever you need. There is a subway just next to the hostel, and a fast-food "Jack in the box" (pretty cheap too) on Mason Street and Geary Street (2 block away). There are also a lot of restaurants of any kind (asian, mexican, french...) so you will have the choice.

I had a lot of fun in this hostel during the four days I stayed, and I would encourage everybody to go there. It is very easy to meet the people and most of them are international students looking for fun. It is really well located, in the middle of everything. 7 blocks West you'll find the Victorian Houses of the Post Cards, 4 blocks East you will arrive in China Town, a long walk up and down through Taylor Street North you will arrive on Fisherman's Wharf, and the other way you will be on Market Street. Enjoy!