backpackers park

I had a delightful 2-day stay at Backpackers Park Hostel in Kolkata. The hostel boasts excellent amenities, creating a comfortable and enjoyable experience. From well-maintained communal spaces to convenient facilities, it provided a perfect base for my exploration of the city. The friendly staff added to the positive atmosphere, making it a memorable stay for any traveler.

DO NOT STAY AT THIS PLACE! After reading other reviews, I realize those are paid reviews, none of the high rating people have stayed here! If you want to have a pleasant trip, then stay out of this place, look somewhere else and increase your budget preferable. - Entrance of this place is from backside, where people are literally cooking food, very dirty entrance. - Lift never worked and you have to go to 2nd follow. Dead rats everywhere in the stairs, really horrible place. - They have very small rooms and in a single room there are 3 stacked beds which is very crammed and uncomfortable to stay at. You can only sleep here! - On top of that there's so much water leaking from AC, the whole floor was wet! - Shared toilets/washrooms are unusable! They are even worse than train toilets. You can never use it. I don't know how they have managed to keep such a high rating but trust me, avoid this place at all costs otherwise you will regret it real bad. Try increasing your budget so atleast you can have a better holiday experience.

I stayed here for two nights and felt this is not a worthy place. Except location I give 1 rating to all. Entrance: Dirty, Ugly and disease borne, you need to take stairs for two floors as lift won’t work for most of the time and owners are least bothered about it. Room: 6 beds in 100 sfts size room, even two people can’t stand at the same time Beds are cleaned twice a day, mosquitoes welcome you rather than receptionist Cleanliness: Toilets are not cleaned, they are very small, no hot water, hangers. Overall you don’t feel taking bath here. Kitchen: Very dirty, you won’t feel going inside Balcony: You will feel happy as this is the only place to sit and enjoy the outside view and have drinks but again not neat and clean. They can keep the place clean and comfortable with the price they quote else they should not charge anything as it looks like a government hostel. If you compromise on the above and only looking for location then stay else AVOID.

In my 5 years of backpacking and travel, this is the worst hostel I have stayed at. While the location is good and has accessibility, nothing about this property is worth its price. I paid 650rs per night. Issues: zero cleanliness in the room dirty beds with spider webs and dust around the bunk beds smelly and disgusting pillows, sheets, and blankets cramped up rooms, 6 beds stuffed into a <100 sq feet area rat-infested, ugly, diseases-borne entry through the back alley DO NOT STAY HERE, PLEASE. I don't know how this place has 4.1 on Google. These reviews must be super old because this is the trashiest place I have stayed at.

Perfect Location at Park Street very close to major places of visit in Kolkata. The positives end right there. Firstly, the place is a little difficult to spot. Then entrance to this place will put you off because it is a small gully which is the back entrance of restaurants where the dishes are done. So the gully is almost always wet. The lift that takes you to the backpacker's hostel on the 2nd floor is excruciatingly slow. One would rather take the slow lift than walk up the stairs which are dirty, greasy and has no lighting at all. There are common baths with hot water facility and western commode toilets, but these are extremely small. The Dorm rooms are extremely small and one I stayed had one table built by some novice carpenter thrown in to keep the baggage. There was a carrom board tucked away in one corner which I wonder had never been put to use in ages. There were storage shelves, and one can purchase a lock for Rs. 30 at the reception to keep any valuables locked up. The AC was functional, but only just. The remote was not working and the temperate set was a fixed 25 degrees, which was uncomfortable. The trash was never emptied and the trash bins in the balcony area and the kitchen was almost always overflowing with empty liquor bottles, chips packets and tables littered with cigarette butts. The kitchen area was extremely dirty and badly maintained. The tea sauce pan handle was coming off, one of the two induction cooktops was not functional and the other was greasy and dirty with the buttons on the induction top being non functional and a separate circuit board with buttons put in place to make it functional. All kinds of masala packets were kept open and the refrigerator is something worth not even mentioning. No wonder there was a mouse of two running around the kitchen (felt like the Mouse from the movie Ratatouille, which probably dished out an impressive meal). The owner of the place seems to be least bothered about the place and was only boasting about the location and the price. I wonder if foreigners would ever stay at this place if it is so dirty and badly maintained. For almost Rs. 700 per night per person, one expects a better deal. I have stayed in Agra and Chennai backpackers dorms at a lesser price with are much cleaner and better maintained. I would advice people to think twice before booking this place and would never recommended this place.

One of the worst stay you can find in Kolkata!! The prices are totally different from the online website , and also the location of the hostel is inside a unhygienic gully behind a garbage disposal area of a pub so you can find a long of wildlife life rats and stuffs. If you want a happy Kolkata trip kindly avoid this hostel ☺️.