Kelowna International Hostel

Location: 2343 Pandosy Street, Kelowna, ca

Star Rating: 2 Stars

Property Type: Hostel/Backpacker accommodation

About this Property

Important Information

Policies

Check-in: 03:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Check-out: 11:00 AM

Amenities & Facilities

• Offsite parking discounted rates available
• Parking
• Non-smoking rooms
• Terrace
• BBQ facilities
• Luggage storage
• Tour desk
• Darts
• Karaoke
• Shared lounge/TV area
• Board games/puzzles
• Shared kitchen
• Adult only
• Outdoor furniture
• Staff adhere to local safety protocols
• Guest rooms disinfected between stays
• Cleaning standards that are effective against Coronavirus
• Hand sanitizer in guest room and key areas
• Cashless payment available
• Fire extinguishers
• First aid kit available
• Sanitized tableware & silverware
• Smoke alarms
• Shared stationery like menus, pens are removed
• CCTV outside property
• Face masks for guests available
• Broadcast Live sport events
• Stand-up comedy
• Bingo
• Television in common areas
• Free wired internet
• Snack bar/deli
• Golfing on site
• Water park access (surcharge)
• Offsite parking discounted rates available
• Internet access
• Games
• Housekeeping on request
• Private picnics
• Japanese garden
• Fishing nearby
• Snow sports gear
• Hosted evening meal (reserve)
• Beach toys
• Paddle boating nearby

Rooms Available

• Shared Dormitory, 1 Twin Bed (4-Bed Mixed Dorm)

  1 Twin Bed

  54-sq-foot room with courtyard views

  
  

  Internet - Free WiFi

  Food & Drink - Kitchen

  Bathroom - Shared bathroom, towels, and a hair dryer (on request)

  Comfort - Daily housekeeping

  Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)

  • Kitchen
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Free WiFi

Guest Reviews

• Annie (4/5): - Toilette bouchée Ventilation brisée Parking très just Je ne me sentais pas vraiment bien et en sécurité en arrivant
• Ryan (10/5): -
• Hussain (9/5): Overall good experience - Peaceful Old
• Guest (5/5): -
• Peter (3/5): - Heruntergekommen und schmuddelig
• Sshok (1/5): - Ліжко було нормальне. Дуже брудно усюди, особливо душ!
• Danielle (1/5): -
• Guest (6/5): I certainly provided a short walk to the hospital - Didn’t have breakfast, I was on my way to the hospital.
• Yuliia (10/5): - Очень поправилось месторасполодение Наличие полотенец
• Kalyan (8/5): -
• Raphael (1/5): -
• Arthur (7/5): A good hostel for a low price. - Real hostel atmosphere with few people in a house. There is plenty of space in the rooms, lockers, kitchen, and fridge to store your belongings. The hostel is not too far from downtown (20 minutes walk). The staff is friendly. Some of the equipment is starting to show its age (e.g. broken/missing slats in my bed and missing cutlery).
• Guest (8/5): - Price Good
• vincent (3/5): Décrépi, bruyant, Médiocre à éviter - L’établissement va fermer en octobre pour être demoli. C’est très décrépi et aucune amélioration n’est faite dans l’établissement, C’est très bruyant, certains invites long terme ne respectent pas la nuit le silence et ne font pas attention aux autres. Il n’y a pas vraiment de petit déjeuner offer, c’est juste un pot de crème noisette et de peanut! Pas de pain, ou de toast! Le personnel fait de son mieux mais c’est vraiment pas une belle expérience.
• Monique (1/5): Never again would I stay here, nor recommend. The other hostel could teach this place much! - Everything could and should have been better. The sixties are over. Time to move on and set the bar higher than coed sleeping, accepting dirty living conditions, ridiculous bathrooms, and leaving the safety of those guests to ffate with ridiculously unsafe building regarding fire potential.
• Anonymous (8/5): cool experience - easily accessible to means transportation i just feel more money can be spend on this hostel and make it look better.
• Yeongjae (9/5): Superb -
• Devin (1/5): Bad -
• Muireann (2/5): Would not recommend - The location was very good, close to all the beaches. From the get go there was no staff to greet us. We waited a long time before another customer went to get the one member of staff working. She showed us our room which was dated and dirty to say the least. There was no lock on the dorm room door. We were given no key or code for the room or the hostel itself meaning anyone could access any area of the hostel. It would be very easy to walk in off of the street. Breakfast was included but that is an exaggeration. They offered flour and toppings and told us we could make pancakes with that, That was it. The kitchen was constantly cluttered and dirty so making pancakes would have been difficult. There was no dish soap to wash the dishes. The shower did not work and the handle kept falling off. There was a sign in the bathroom saying you couldn’t flush anything but toilet paper and that this would be monitored with cameras. Finally the staff walked into the dorm unannounced with no reason. When we were checking out a male staff came into the room 15 minutes before check out (he did knock in fairness) and asked us were we checking out. We are no stranger to hostels and have stayed in a few that haven’t been overly pleasant but this was unexpected.
• Popal (9/5): Superb -
• Anonymous (3/5): NA - No No
• Ida (3/5): Sweaty - Location was perfect. Close to cool shops and the lake It was a hot day- I mean summer in Kelowna, pretty typical, and the main floor rooms were unbearable. I had to hang out outside until 10 pm then laid panting on the bunk. Window was fully open and a fan was going but nobody could really sleep. The kitchen is tiny with only one fridge and one stove for so many people. Not the hostels fault, but why the heck would anyone be cooking over a hot stove when it’s 38 degrees inside the hostel already. Just have a smoothie, people. It’ll keep you alive.
• Caroline (1/5): Really disgusting - Nothing,we had to cancel our reservation because the place was really dirty and unsafe. Everything
• Dwonga (7/5): Good -
• Ellis (7/5): Good -
• Catalinagg (3/5): Poor -
• Harman (8/5): Very good -
• Anonymous (10/5): Exceptional - It was an event, a place of community and shared stories. Learning about places to see and hearing the travel tales of others. It made my Husbands Birthday richer Thank you
• Sergio (10/5): Exceptional - Great staff and guests. Safe and clean
• Stergios (6/5): Pleasant -
• Judd (8/5): Very good -
• Thibaut (8/5): Very good -
• Doan (9/5): Superb - The location of the hostel is near the downtown, the staffs are friendly There isn't any fan in the room so it is very hot that night I couldn't sleep
• Ruslan (1/5): Bad -
• Ennea (8/5): Very good -
• Anonymous (2/5): Very poor -
• Kiplimo (10/5): Exceptional -
• Omarion_ (10/5): Exceptional -
• Natasha (6/5): An experience - It was definitely a back packers like a fruit pickers accommodation (low budget) had character. served our purpose of getting a good night sleep dorm room people were considerate The phone number wasn’t connected so when we were trying to contact them we were coming in late it was a problem
• はな (10/5): Exceptional -
• Angie (3/5): It was just a place for me to sleep. - They were friendly The cleanness was not up to par, there was mold on the ceiling of the bathroom. Some people were smoking weed in the bathroom as well. The bunk beds were super creaky I felt bad for the person below me.
• Sanjana (6/5): Needs to gear up the maintenance. - Didn’t have breakfast. There was no soap and the room mate we had was like a king treating us as his servants. He was extremely rude. We were staying in Room 7 and were alloted beds 2 & 3. The only good thing was the receptionist Brian. He was amazing and so helpful.
• Pang (3/5): Disappointed. - Not a lot. 1. They did not have a private room per the booking. 2. The property is old and messy. 3. Very different from other HI Hostels. 4. Parking lots are available a block away
• Browne (8/5): Very good - the breakfast was good
• Ty (10/5): Loved Gabby 💞 so much. - Gabby is an excellent host.loved her. Everything is perfect
• Ty (10/5): Exceptional -
• Tegan (6/5): A good place to rest your head - Staff were friendly and beds were reasonably comfy Bathroom ceiling was covered in black mould
• Jess (8/5): Very good - Had a wonderful stay, the staff were friendly and helpful, the other guests were also friendly and respectful. There were events set up by staff like Wings and billiards on Wednesday, movie night on Thursday. Had a great time!
• Toon (1/5): For your safety, please don't stay here!! - I am very disappointed with this hostel. I booked a bed in a 4 dorm room. When I walked into the room, on my left there were dirty tissues, cough syrup a spoon and cereal. I should have left then. When I went to sleep (around 11pm.) I got woken up by my only roommate, he was screaming, I think he had a panic attack. He then stood up and started scratching his back with a pasta spoon, just centimeters from my bed. Then he went outside of the room with a spoon... After that he came back in the room and went to bed. 10 min later he got up again, completely dazed and started scratching his back again with the pasta spoon. He was clearly not in control of himself, so I felt unsafe and left at 2 am at night. In returned in the morning and talked to the receptionist. He wrote down my complaint and said he would talk to the manager. I didn't hear back so I called again. Also when I returned to the property in the morning there were multiple people sleeping around the common areas who had clearly been there since I left in the night. The manager did not apologize and didn't want to give a refund. He said that in the month that the roommate was there, that he didn't get any complaints? He also got frustrated and said that he would not accept BC-residents anymore. The hostel was very old, dirty and unwelcoming. I filed a complaint with booking.com. Please be aware before you stay there.
• Ursula (8/5): I had stayed there before and knew it was a simple place, but pretty cosy and with friendly people. - It was ok - just coffee and a pancake.
• Gennadii (1/5): I even saw the police there, they said it was the bad owners who didn't recommend staying here. - They took the money and didn't put me in the room, I don't advise anyone to book a room there. I even saw the police there, they said it was the bad owners who didn't recommend staying here.
• Masoud (3/5): Poor -
• Justin (2/5): 1/10 - Good vibe Cold and someone steal my stuff
• Sedanur (5/5): okay, cheap, functional - I liked the coffee in the morning. I liked the location as it was close to downtown and the lake. The staff was kind and helpful I didnt like the building of the hostel. It needs new toilets. It was not as clean.
• Lukmani (8/5): Very good -
• Alejandro (10/5): Exceptional - I was only there for two nights but everything was great.
• Dianne (1/5): Didn't find out till days later Canadians are not aloud to stay. - *When booking*, it should be stated that Canadians are not aloud to stay at the Hostel. Booking. Com was not a were of this fact. On the Hostels web site it was not clearly stated, and was accidently found the day of stay. The Hostel after several trys during the day did not answer their phone., I then contacted Booking.com.
• Ortonomy (7/5): Good - Lovely people, homely vibe. No parking despite having 6 spots. It's pretty dirty througout.
• Kim (2/5): Very poor - I noticed the bed smelled like pee. I could smell it faintly during the night then realized it was the bed when I woke up in the morning. I wanted a female room. I got there at night and didn’t turn the
• Marie (8/5): Very good -
• Isabella (8/5): Very good -
• Derrence (10/5): Exceptional -
• Anonymous (8/5): Very good -
• Derrence (9/5): Superb -
• Gerald (8/5): Clean and friendly - Good pancakesnothing Nothing really...
• Randall (8/5): Very good -
• Folster (10/5): Exceptional - I loved how everyone was so wecoming and kind. I felt a very strong feeling of safety and security the weather was humid and hot
• Wasaba (1/5): Bad -
• Mickey (5/5): Cheap but not worth it - The room, beds and bathroom were really clean and they had free parking The front door was still locked at 8am and no code had been provided even though the door sign said they were open from 7am, I parked in the back and told the girl at reception when I checked in. She said that'd be fine, didn't take any other details down. Didn't get told the wifi password, door code and had to ask what room I was in and where the room was. They had my mate move his truck because it had been blocking someone from parking in the back even though he was parked straight, then told me at 10pm that night that they had been looking for me all day because I hadn't parked diagonally? Some better information on check in would have been really appreciated, because there are no parking lines and it seemed like no one really knew what was going on.
• Mohammed (4/5): Disappointing -
• Anna (7/5): Good -
• Charlotte (8/5): Very good -
• Lena (3/5): Poor -
• Thomas (5/5): Passable - Was cheap. Kept fairly clean. Nothing was stolen. Was hot. Could've had fans in the rooms.
• Greenwood (8/5): Very good - The friendliness of staff and others that were staying. Maybe closer to downtown
• Angus (7/5): Good -
• Sina (7/5): Good -
• Ievgenii (2/5): Very poor - location drunk and cannabis-addled teenagers who made noise in the room all night and didn't let us sleep. Had to leave this hostel a day early. The toilet was always occupied. The kitchen was packed with people, it was impossible to cook anything there in the morning. There was only parking near the park nearby along the street, but it was all occupied.
• Soraya (9/5): Great people great feel - Very comfortable & warm Right beside busy road
• Boyko (6/5): Pleasant - Price Too loudly
• Timothy (1/5): would not let me check in without a picture id - Location, atmosphere staff were genuinely unhelpful
• Amanjot (7/5): Lovely night stay - Good All good
• Ilan (7/5): Good -
• Mpho (9/5): Superb -
• Caroline (4/5): Disappointing - The staff was very friendly. The location was great. Guests were loud even during quiet time, no outlets if you stay in top bunks. The room was not very clean. The toilet was fine, but the bathroom were disgusting: hair around and in the sink, including the drain, the faucet were covered in old toothpaste.
• Shiva (10/5): Exceptional - Pancakes and barbeque, pizza nights,
• Diego (9/5): Superb - People are so friendly Busy shower sometime
• Ryan (7/5): Good -
• Franziska (9/5): Superb -
• Alessandro (4/5): Disappointing - Staff was great 👍 The price is to high for what the place has to offer. The room had no key to lock it, the toilet not really clean, a bit crowded and noises.
• Pari (5/5): Passable - Great Everything was fine
• Julie (7/5): Ben & company provided a welcome respite for me during a most difficult time! -
• Dechief (5/5): Passable -
• Julio (6/5): need to be more clean - nothing old, bad shape
• Nathan0606 (10/5): Exceptional -
• Hemen (1/5): I just wanted to leave the place as soon as I could! - Absolutely nothing. It was extremely dirty, noisy and bad smell was all over the place.
• Clayon (10/5): Exceptional -
• Parimala (8/5): Very good -
• Sarag77 (9/5): Superb - Great location
• Szofiz (6/5): Pleasant -

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