Panela Hostel

Medellin · Colombia

Panela Hostel

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11% SHIT
Medium confidence 57 reviews
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Facilities

🍳 COOKER 👕 Laundry 🌅 Outdoor Terrace 🍺 Bar 🍳 Breakfast
Other facilities (14)
Luggage Storage 24 Hour Reception Tours/Travel Desk Currency Exchange Housekeeping Wake-up Calls Internet Access Linen Included Tea & Coffee Making Facilities Towels For Hire Common Room Hot Showers Free WiFi Free Internet Access

Prices

Dorms $8 / night
Privates $16 / night

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Worst reviews

USA MALE 31-40 Apr 12, 2026 2.0/10

Absolute worst hostel I’ve stayed in…nothing good about it. The staff is rude , the showers are cold and flooded. No toilet paper. The rooms are tiny and get hot. The worst part is if the hostel doesn’t fill up with tourist they let homeless people sleep in the dorms. They let one man in our dorm who smelled absolutely horrible. The smell was so bad, my clean laundry in my bag turned foul. Only a matter of time before Hostelworld picks up on this and removes them from the platform.

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Germany FEMALE 18-24 Apr 1, 2026 2.0/10

Das Hostel war leider sehr dreckig und das Personal leider sehr unfreundlich. Die Lage ist gut um abends Bars und Restaurants zu besuchen. Leider habe ich meinen Schmuck im Hostel vergessen und gehe davon aus, das eine Person vom Personal es genommen hat, da ich ca. eine Stunde nachdem es mir aufgefallen war, das Hostel kontaktiert habe und darauf hin eine Nachricht enthalten habe, dass sie danach schauen werden und dann wurde ich blockiert und konnte das Hostel nicht mehr erreichen.

Translated to English

The hostel was unfortunately very dirty and the staff was very unfriendly. The location is good for visiting bars and restaurants in the evenings. Unfortunately I forgot my jewelry in the hostel and I assume that someone from the staff took it, as I contacted the hostel about an hour after I noticed it and included a message indicating that they would look after it and then I was blocked and could not reach the hostel anymore.

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Switzerland FEMALE 25-30 Mar 9, 2026 2.0/10

Sehr dreckiges Hostel und unfreundliches Personal. Es gibt überhaupt keine Lärmisolierung. Ich hatte ein Privatzimmer mit Bad gebucht, aber bei meiner Ankunft war es schon an jemand anderen vermietet. Die Zimmer haben ausserdem eine schäbige Schiebetür, die kaum schliesst und durch deren Ränder man sogar ins Zimmer sehen kann. Ich hatte eine Nacht gebucht, bin aber mitten in der Nacht gegangen. Nie wieder.

Translated to English

Very dirty hostel and unfriendly staff. There is no soundproofing at all. I had booked a private room with bathroom, but when I arrived it was already rented to someone else. The rooms also have a shabby sliding door, which barely closes and through whose edges you can even see into the room. I had booked one night, but left in the middle of the night. Never again.

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Mexico FEMALE 18-24 Jul 3, 2025 2.0/10

Muy mal servicio la verdad, muy mala actitud del personal

Translated to English

Very poor service the truth, very bad attitude of the staff

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Italy MALE 31-40 Nov 9, 2024 2.0/10

I booked a private room with a private bathroom, but a few hours later, I was told it was unavailable, and a room with a shared bathroom was offered instead. Upon arrival, neither room was available, and I was forced into a shared room. The room was suffocating, lacked a window, and was filthy. The lockers were broken and could be opened even when locked. The bathrooms had a nauseating sewage smell, were tiny, and couldn't be locked. Terrible experience.

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Switzerland FEMALE 25-30 Jul 6, 2024 2.0/10

alle negativen kommentare sind gerechtfertigt. das hotel ist sehr dreckig. die betten riechen streng. in der küche hat es kakerlaken. das badezimmer ist wiederlich dreckig und meistens überflutet. das personal war extrem unfreundlich. wir haben ein depo für badetücher bezahlt was sie uns nicht mehr zurück geben wollte obwohl der mann es uns so gesagt hat. wir haben eig für 2 nächte gebucht aber sind am nächsten tag gegangen. wie viele andere reisende. das personal ist furchtbar unhöflic...

Translated to English

all negative comments are justified. the hotel is very dirty. the beds smell strict. in the kitchen there are cockroaches. the bathroom is again dirty and mostly overflowed. the staff was extremely unfriendly. we have paid a deposit for bath towels which they did not want to give us back even though the man told us so. we have booked eg for 2 nights but left the next day. like many other travelers. this is personal frightfully rude.

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Slovakia MALE 31-40 Jul 6, 2024 2.0/10

I don't recommend this hostel....the staff is not friendly at all... there were cockroaches in the kitchen.. the shower was quite dirty and there was standing water... they asked us for a deposit for the towels and when we left a day early they didn't give us back... we had a reservation for two nights but after the first we left this hostel it was disgusting...

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Netherlands MALE 25-30 Mar 16, 2024 2.0/10

Stayed only 1 night there and i can say its the worst hostal i ever stayed. Rooms really small and hot, bed felt like i slept on the ground. Hostal itself was also dirty. Worst part was a girl from the staff, she shocked the room loudly around 2.00 am for what she could say in the morning 🤦‍♂️in the morning got my laundry bag back and they acted like everything is fine, i opened the bag and saw that my white clothes turned into blue and stains on it.🤦‍♂️Only good thing was the ...

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Brazil MALE 31-40 Mar 13, 2024 2.0/10

I did not had a good stay in panela. If there’s anything good about this hostel is the price and the location. Kitchen was filthy and full of cockroaches, rooms extremely small, bathrooms and toilets you can barely move inside. My friend got the worse part, apart from everything mentioned, he got his clothes washed on the hostel and all white clothes were ruined and the staff acted like it was his fault for not telling them to separate. I was refused to change my clothes when i came to get my ...

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Ireland MALE 25-30 Sep 7, 2023 2.0/10

The staff here are the rudest people I have ever dealt with in my life. They actively tried to make my stay worse and were extremely difficult and malicious people. I highly recommend to stay in a different elsewhere.

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Recent reviews

USA MALE 31-40 Apr 12, 2026 Atm 20%

Absolute worst hostel I’ve stayed in…nothing good about it. The staff is rude , the showers are cold and flooded. No toilet paper. The rooms are tiny and get hot. The worst part is if the hostel doesn’t fill up with tourist they let homeless people sleep in the dorms. They let one man in our dorm who smelled absolutely horrible. The smell was so bad, my clean laundry in my bag turned foul. Only a matter of time before Hostelworld picks up on this and removes them from the platform.

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Germany FEMALE 18-24 Apr 1, 2026 Atm 20%

Das Hostel war leider sehr dreckig und das Personal leider sehr unfreundlich. Die Lage ist gut um abends Bars und Restaurants zu besuchen. Leider habe ich meinen Schmuck im Hostel vergessen und gehe davon aus, das eine Person vom Personal es genommen hat, da ich ca. eine Stunde nachdem es mir aufgefallen war, das Hostel kontaktiert habe und darauf hin eine Nachricht enthalten habe, dass sie danach schauen werden und dann wurde ich blockiert und konnte das Hostel nicht mehr erreichen.

Translated to English

The hostel was unfortunately very dirty and the staff was very unfriendly. The location is good for visiting bars and restaurants in the evenings. Unfortunately I forgot my jewelry in the hostel and I assume that someone from the staff took it, as I contacted the hostel about an hour after I noticed it and included a message indicating that they would look after it and then I was blocked and could not reach the hostel anymore.

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Colombia FEMALE 25-30 Mar 20, 2026 Atm 60%

Buena atención y buen ambiente de las personas, buena ubicación. Puede mejorar el aspecto físico, se ve dejado, falta de cuidado, paredes con huecos y decoración caída, sucio y desordenado en zonas comunes, faltan arreglos en puertas de baños compartidos

Translated to English

Good attention and good people's environment, good location. can improve physical appearance, if left, lack of care, walls with holes and decoration fallen, dirty and messy in common areas, lack of arrangements in doors of shared bathrooms

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England MALE 18-24 Mar 19, 2026 Atm 100%

No issues with this place, spacious private room and nice community here. Slightly funky smell nearby the toilets but for this price I can’t complain.

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Switzerland FEMALE 25-30 Mar 9, 2026 Atm 20%

Sehr dreckiges Hostel und unfreundliches Personal. Es gibt überhaupt keine Lärmisolierung. Ich hatte ein Privatzimmer mit Bad gebucht, aber bei meiner Ankunft war es schon an jemand anderen vermietet. Die Zimmer haben ausserdem eine schäbige Schiebetür, die kaum schliesst und durch deren Ränder man sogar ins Zimmer sehen kann. Ich hatte eine Nacht gebucht, bin aber mitten in der Nacht gegangen. Nie wieder.

Translated to English

Very dirty hostel and unfriendly staff. There is no soundproofing at all. I had booked a private room with bathroom, but when I arrived it was already rented to someone else. The rooms also have a shabby sliding door, which barely closes and through whose edges you can even see into the room. I had booked one night, but left in the middle of the night. Never again.

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England MALE 18-24 Mar 8, 2026 Atm 60%

Kitchen and fridge full of cockroaches, bed bugs in the bedroom, bathroom smells like sewage and showers are pretty disgusting. Would only stay here for 1 night at most.

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France COUPLE 25-30 Mar 2, 2026 Atm 20%

Cuisine et rooftop ferment le soir, le matin on doit demander à ouvrir la cuisine car a 9h personne n'a ouvert. douches et toilettes très sales, du bordel partout. Un matin je veut faire le café, et là je vois qu' il y as un produit blanc dans tout les plats et casseroles, ils avaient mis du produits a cafard partout ! des gamins qui font du bruit toute la nuit, qui laissent leurs bouteilles d'alcool partout, et personnel pas sympa dutout. on s'est retrouvé enfermé dehors plusieurs fois

Translated to English

Kitchen and rooftop close at night, in the morning you have to ask to open the kitchen because at 9am no one has opened. showers and toilets are very sold, brothel everywhere. one morning I want to make coffee, and there I see that there is a white product in all the dishes and pans, they had put caviar products everywhere ! kids who make noise all night, who leave their alcohol bottles everywhere, and not all the staff are friendly. we ended up locked outdoors several times

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France FEMALE 18-24 Feb 20, 2026 Atm 60%

L'auberge est bien pour une nuit, pas plus. La cuisine n'est pas du tout équipée même en vaisselle la plus simple, les dortoirs sont très petits et pas isolés du bruit et le ménage dans l'ensemble n'est pas très bien réalisé mais bon, encore une fois pour une nuit de transition ça fait le travail. Le personnel est sympa et l'emplacement est pas mal pour visiter El poblado

Translated to English

The hostel is fine for one night, no more. the kitchen is not at all equipped even with the simplest tableware, the dorms are very small and not noise-proof and the housekeeping as a whole is not very well done but good, again for a night of transition it does the job. the staff is friendly and the location is not bad to visit El pueblo

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England FEMALE 25-30 Dec 26, 2025 Atm 60%

My stay here was mostly good. The staff were super friendly and helpful, and the kitchen was well equipped. The only thing I didn’t like was that the walls of my room didn’t go all the way to the ceiling so any noise or lights from reception/ the other rooms in that section was a bit disturbing. Apart from that it was all fine :)

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England FEMALE 18-24 Dec 22, 2025 Atm 60%

Good location and very good value for money. Very basic but if you’re just needing a place to stay then it’s fine.

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Mexico FEMALE 31-40 Oct 17, 2025 Atm 80%

es un hostal pequeño, pero no se si por tener la cocina cerca de las habitaciones había muchas cucarachas pequeñas, incluso en el apagador había huvesillos se ve que tiene mucho tiempo que no le dan una limpieza profunda a las habitaciones, lleno de arañas. el persona amable y la está a 10 min del metro caminando, buena ubicación

Translated to English

It is a small hostel, but I don't know if because of having the kitchen near the rooms there were many small cockroaches, even in the fire extinguisher there were huvesillos you see that it has a long time that they do not give a deep cleaning to the rooms, full of spiders. el persona amable and la is 10 min from the metro walking, good location

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Austria MALE 18-24 Sep 13, 2025 Atm 40%

Wände sehr Lärmdurchlässig, Türschloss falschherum eingebaut und dadurch funktionsunfähig, Stockbetten sind nicht fixiert und beim Hinaufsteigen fallen sie fast um.

Translated to English

The walls are very loud, the Türschloss is incorrectly built and therefore unable to function, the stockbeds are not fixed and fall fast during the climb.

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Italy ALLMALEGROUP 18-24 Aug 15, 2025 Atm 40%

The hostel wasn’t that bad, the problem was that the girl at the reception and the security guy weren’t so nice, beds not very comfy but acceptable for the price u pay. The last night started to rain from the ceiling into the bed, we were on bedroom 14. And at 1 in the morning he asked us if we wanted to change bedroom. That was what made me change my mind about the hostel conditions and why my grade are not awesome.

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Spain FEMALE 18-24 Aug 7, 2025 Atm 100%

I was there for the flower feria, absolutely loved the atmosphere, met amazing people, very social hostel. But that was the only reason I was able to look over the dirtiness and bad condition in facilities, kitchen, and lack of privacy curtains.

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USA MALE 18-24 Aug 1, 2025 Atm 80%

Muy tranquilo y calmado

Translated to English

Very quiet and calm

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USA MALE 25-30 Jul 7, 2025 Atm 40%

Owner with the dreads NEVER smiled, some staff was nice, they are too strict with changing pillows and sheets.

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Mexico FEMALE 18-24 Jul 3, 2025 Atm 20%

Muy mal servicio la verdad, muy mala actitud del personal

Translated to English

Very poor service the truth, very bad attitude of the staff

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Germany MALE 18-24 Feb 14, 2025 Atm 40%

They didn't respond to my WhatsApp messages, the staff was moody, the beds were really uncomfortable and I had to ask for a blanket and it is very loud because of all the bars around the area (which of course isn't the hostel's fault, but it's still annoying).

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Spain MALE Nov 22, 2024 Atm 100%

Ambiente súper Familar amables la verdad una maravilla!!

Translated to English

Super friendly family friendly environment the truth is a wonder!!

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Italy MALE 31-40 Nov 9, 2024 Atm 20%

I booked a private room with a private bathroom, but a few hours later, I was told it was unavailable, and a room with a shared bathroom was offered instead. Upon arrival, neither room was available, and I was forced into a shared room. The room was suffocating, lacked a window, and was filthy. The lockers were broken and could be opened even when locked. The bathrooms had a nauseating sewage smell, were tiny, and couldn't be locked. Terrible experience.