Casa Kiwi Hostel in La Estrella

They moved us to another room on the second night without telling us. They also touched and moved our stuff. Not coming back here again that’s for sure.

The room looked nice upon arrival, but when we came back in the evening the noise from clubs downstairs was at an insane level. Because the door of the room as well as the slide door to the balcony where paper thin and did not close all the way, it felt like we were inside the club. This went on until 4 in the morning. Next to that there was also loud noises from the plumbing every time someone used the bathroom next door. Needless to say I did not get a second of sleep here. The next morning I woke up to my floor (and all my stuff that was lying therecovered with tiny ants. They were crawling around everywhere. Wouldn’t recommend this place.

Just an all around incredible place staffed with the best. They have been so great and have gone out of there way to help me and act like a friend in the thee times Ive stayed there. They even gave me a free night during and exceptional trying time. And can I say lively and in a perfect location? Only mark is you cant bring guests back. Couldnt recommend enough! Especially that cutie Victor!

I love this vibe that makes me feel like home

Really nice hostel! Love staying in here

Very nice Hostel in a quite environment.We had a double room with our own bathroom and balcony, all was clean and comfortable.Prices are excellent and the staff was all the time very helpful.

Very nice hostel with great prices. Accommodations are very fantastic and the rooms are clean. Also close to downtown for site seeing, but quiet and private.

Great place great location great staff great Wi-Fi, will be back

Renowned as a party hostel, it was actually very quiet when we went in the pandemic. Staff, leave you alone and are generally around to give you a drink when you want. The location is excellent and right in the middle of the action. Overall I really enjoyed the experience for the price.On the otherside, the bed was firmer than I would like. The smallest noises travel around every room. A 4 year old was running around the hostel at 7am. You could hear every scream as if they were sitting next to you. If this was the hotel during a quiet period, I cant imagine sleeping when its busy.

There is a nive place to have fun rest andmeet new people.

Excellent location in El Poblano, hot showers, excellent roof tops views. The staff were generally friendly but flat out unhelpful with the surrounding area though. I asked different persons at the front desk several times for food recommendations in the area and got responses like I dont know, I dont live around here. It seemed like a burden to them to stop their conversations among themselves to assist me in this way. The morning I left there was no one to let me out or help with calling a cab, two staples I think of a good hostel.

Great place, chill vibes and super nice staff! Although this place could use an update in terms of accommodation it is still my go to place in El Poblado for many times because of the atmosphere and service!

I arrived at Kiwi Hostel to find a room for 2 persons but the staff was so disinterested and unwelcoming that I decided to leave.

The staff at the fontdesk are really rude when I arrive I need to find my friend so I ask at the fontdesk and she told me I dont no your friend, she didnt check nothing she just tell me that I need to call my friend but was impossible because Shue dont have a Colombian phone🤔😒 so I have to figure out. One of the girl at the hostel need some help because she falling down and the girl have a injur and she need to showed the injur but at a bathroom because she have the injur up in the leg but the girl at the fontdesk doesnt care so she have to take out the pants in front of all😮😑😶🤔. The hostel is really nice but I dont recommend bescuse if you need something the dont mind!

Lonely Planet said it was elegant. Hmm tired sounds better. Chipped paint tiles. Smells of urine. Too old to be cleaned. Sorry needs to be refurbished. Great location.

The night staff was really not helpfull. Took 3 times to ring to have the door opened. Noisy and door seem not to close well. Globally clean and location very good.

excellent hostel in barrio el poblado. Love all the different areas to chill. Good WiFi. Lots of hammocks to hang out. Rooftop chill area. A little theater with Netflix. A nice kitchen with free coffee and tea. Really friendly staff. Only complaint is we thought we’d have room to park our 2 motorcycles in the garage but when we arrived there wasn’t any space.

We spent 2 nights there in a private double bedroom and had 2 completely different experience: first night was amazing, calm and spacious bedroom. They changed us to room 9, next to dormitories and bathroom/toilets for the second night: couldnt sleep with constant noise during entire night (Monday night so supposedly quiet night). Make sure you ask for the right bedroom when you book. Otherwise friendly staff and great hostel.

Great hostel, great social spaces...good for groups and solo travellers. Staff are really nice

Nice vibe and cool hang out areas including hammocks area and rooftop bar/pool. The area that the hostel is situated in is a great area for tourists and very safe. Loads of delicious places to eat in Pablado. Unfortunately water was not available (in toilets or tapsfor 50% of the time and there was little-to-no communication from the hostel about this issue. Toilet paper cannot be flushed in Medellin (afaikso be aware of that when visiting the city. Room was not cleaned during the 4 days that I stayed here.

They were awesome! Perfect cleaning, delicious coffee, attentive staff. The best place ever at Poblado Medallo papá

Very central, close to plenty of bars and restaurants, offer many good tours, clean rooms, rooftop pool, free coffee and water, pool table

Nice Location, friendly staff and a cute house cat!Downsides: the room we booked (2 beds, shared bathroomhad just a little window and the smell was weird. Also the music from the bar next to the Hostel could be noticed in our room until 4am. Furthermore, one of the 2 beds just broke. However, the staff was very quick and removed the whole bed within 3 hours.

Ever get sick of sleeping on vacation? Then come to Casa Kiwi! Beginning at 7 a.m. every day (even on SATURDAY), a symphony of belt sanders, table saws, and bench grinders roar to life - ensuring you don’t waste ANY time in bed.Each morning begins with a bang! Heavy bamboo stalks are dropped at random, sending thunderous reverberations throughout the entire hostel. Nail guns fill brief interludes with a staccato “pop!-pop!-pop!” and screaming workers round out the chorus.“But it’s only 7:30, it can’t be over! Encore! Encore!” you might say. Don’t worry. Right when you think it’s possible to steal a single wink, the cement-footed foreman clomps around dropping bocce balls and paint cans.A can’t miss!

Really nice hostel with a lot of chill areas, its only a shame you are not allowed to hangout at certain spots after 10pm or so.

The rooftop is great however the whole hostel, especially the dorms are quite dark. If you book a private room you are in a much nicer area with hammocks and a courtyard.

Nice staff and a really good hostel that offers a TV room, rooftop, hammocks, patio, bar and restaurant for cheap prices.

Nice food. Great service! Cozy hostel. Super nice location.

Location was perfect for us. Near lots of restaurants, bars etc but far enough from the noise. Great breakfast places within moments (especiallu al Alma coffe roasters around the cornerStaff super friendly and helpful.

Friendly staff, good beer at the bar and the rooms were nice as well. Not the cheapest option but youre really beeing looked after nicely.

We stayed in Casa Kiwi for a night. We met coolest party people there. We made a mistake of booking another hostel for next couple of days so had to check out. But its very close to parque Lleras and is in central Poblado.Only downside, staff were not exactly friendly but great place to meet cool party travelers.

Seemed as a very busy and lively hostel. Great place to meet people.

extremely unfriendly and nonchalant staff.. Would not recommend this place at all. They have a restaurant which is tasteless and not fresh. The price for a private bedroom is the same as the price of a hotel room in the aera.

The main problem with Casa Kiwi is that if something goes wrong during your stay, the staff will do nothing to help rectify the situation. Instead, they will be uninterested about your problem and are generally unfriendly in any case.For example - on the second day of my stay, I arrived back at my dorm to find some of my dorm mates smoking a joint, which was against hostel policy. As Im not a smoker myself, I asked the reception if they could move me to a different room as the dorm smelled badly of smoke/cannabis. I was told this was not possible, as I had already booked (and payedfor the night but they would ask the smokers to stop. I decided not to make a fuss.However, the next day, exactly the same thing happened again. This time, people continued to smoke in my dorm until 3am, despite me asking them to stop 3/4 times. The next morning, I told reception what had happened and the member of staff on duty said this is not our problem. Even after I explained to them that it was their problem because drugs were being consumed in their hostel, they refused to let me move rooms or refund my nights stay in the smoke dorm. Although I was told the manager would email me, this never happened.For me, this attitude sums up what is wrong with Casa Kiwi - the hostel has reached an unfounded level of popularity amongst travellers so that it no longer needs to concern itself with ensuring that each individual traveller has a pleasant stay. I would absolutely recommend staying elsewhere.

Really nice place, but not without cost. Great rooftop. Smallish rooms. Little social vibe: Strict rules on noise, guests aren’t allowed past ground floor, lights in communal areas turned off around 1, no inflexibility for rules. I would recommend if you want a quiet place to stay, or if you already have a group, feels like hotel than hostel. Surrounding area El Polado nicknamed ‘Gringoland’ by locals.

Is such a nice place to hung out and to stay. Prices are reasonably. I was there 8 May 18, and the kitchen was still under major renovation. But the hostel food was good and to average price. Highly recommended

the common areas are cool and they have free water & coffee. BUT the rooms are very basic and not as lovely as the rest of the hostel. a part of the staff is not friendly at all. it was very loud in the room and they didn‘t empty the bin in our bathroom for 4 days. the kitchen was closed because of renovation, but there was no information prior to our arrival.

Good atmosphere, but pool is not a pool and staff arent really involved

Had a great time here till the owner claimed I didnt pay. The guy tracked me down on Facebook to let me know too. I honestly have no idea why he would think that other than to think his staff is stealing. Its too bad, its a nice place.

The hostel is great! Friendly and sociable staff. I stayed in a private room which was exactly as expected. There are great places to grab breakfast right outside the door, such as Bon Marché and Ganso y Castor (best eggs Ive ever had!). Exito is right across the hostel, which is perfect for stocking up on foods and necessities. Casa Kiwi is also far enough from the noise of Happy Buddha on the next street, but close enough where its only a 3 minute walk. Would stay here again!

Terrible hostel. Dont expect to sleep with all the noise from music and drunk people in the night. In the early morning the noisy cleaners will wake you up.It looks more like a bad disco than a hostel.

Very nice hostel but room I stayed in was one of the old rooms. The new dorms look very nice. Stayed for 2 nights love the atmosphere here

The staff is very professional also very friendly the place is clean theyre very kind and do anything to help your stay be more enjoyable. Theyre also very fluent in English and have a great kitchen for fixing meals for yourself or a little restaurant that you can just order the food. at the restaurant food is excellent

My favorite hostel in Medellin.People here were very friendly and at nights you could have lots of drinks on the rooftop with them if you wanted. But this did not disturb the other people who wanted a good sleep.The street it is on is quieter than other parts of El Poblado but the wild areas are only a block away.

Super cool place with a lot of cool Gringo stuff around the area. They also have a place to park a motorcycle. Very cool hostel for a good price!

Casa kiwi...staff is disinterested. Wifi doesnt work. Guests are mostly aloof. Dorm is suffocatingly hot even with a ceiling fan. One night only. I can deal with everything except no wifi and a room with no air circulating. I hate that I paid to sleep in a hot box.

Decent hostel, though the bathroom and rooms werent the best.The vibe was decent without being amazing, but this is made up for by the location and the helpful staff. Worth a look if youre after a decent, quiet-ish hostel.

Its surely one of the best places to stay in Medellin. If you are 2 People ask for a privat room Nr. 13. its the cheapest without Bath and the nicest at the top of the hostal, quite and with big windows.If you pay With Card they charge you 5% which is quite a lot. But the Drinks and Food is cheaper than in Most other places!

Simply Amazing staff was great and my stay was beyond Excellent! Totally Recommend..

One of the best hostel ever seen, more like a 4 star hotel!