Lyon
France.
France · 6 districts · 4 vibes
7 handpicked hostels in Lyon, sorted by traveler rating.
Lyon is France's gastronomic capital and a UNESCO old-town mid-sized city: Renaissance Vieux Lyon on the Saone's west bank, Pentes de la Croix-Rousse nightlife in the 1st arrondissement, and Part-Dieu TGV station that puts Paris at 2 hours and Geneva at 2 hours the other way. Backpacker cluster splits between the 1st arrondissement (Pentes bars), the 3rd and 7th arrondissements (cheap food, metro access), and the Fourviere hillside (HI Hostel, Vieux Lyon rooftop views).
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Best Hostels in Lyon
7 handpicked hostels in Lyon, sorted by traveler rating.
YASI Hostel
The highest-rated hostel in Lyon (8.6, 4357 reviews), on Rue Baraban a 10-minute walk from Part-Dieu TGV station. Forty-bed independent property with a dedicated on-site chef for breakfast, a garden terrace, and the most consistently praised staff in the city.
HO36 Hostel Lyon
Design-forward 67-bed hostel on Rue Montesquieu, a 15-minute walk from Place Bellecour and two minutes from Guillotière metro (Line D). Opened 2019 in the Guillotière district — Lyon's gentrifying, multi-cultural 7th arrondissement where a bánh mì costs €6 and the metro gets you anywhere in twelve minutes.
SLO Hostel Lyon les Pentes
Seventy-bed hostel in a 19th-century building on Rue Alsace-Loraine, deep in the Pentes de la Croix-Rousse — six minutes from Place des Terreaux and a one-minute walk to the nearest metro. The Pentes party-adjacent sibling of SLO Saxe: loud ground-floor bar, bar-hopping energy, bunk accommodation without pretension.
Le Flâneur Guesthouse
Thirty-bed boutique guesthouse on Rue Sébastien Gryphe, Lyon's 7th arrondissement, 12 minutes walk to Place Bellecour. The small-and-charming option — Haussmannian conversion with a quiet courtyard, a communal kitchen open all day, and a snack bar. Check-in is personal; reviewers consistently name the hosts in reviews.
SLO Hostel Lyon Saxe
Fifty-bed hostel on Rue Bonnefoi, Lyon 3rd arrondissement, on the Saxe-Gambetta metro line (Line B and D interchange). The work-friendly sibling of SLO Pentes — same family, quieter neighbourhood, better for long weekends with laptop evenings. Has the breakfast, the kitchen, and a small courtyard; skips the party scene.
The People Lyon Hostel
French-chain 180-bed hostel on Montée des Carmélites, at the base of the Croix-Rousse slopes (the Pentes) in Lyon's 1st arrondissement. The biggest social hostel in Lyon: on-site restaurant-bar, air-conditioned rooms with city views, lift to all floors. Base-of-the-Pentes location puts you three blocks from the Rue Sainte-Catherine bar circuit.
Hostel Lyon Centre
Lyon's Hostelling International flagship, 130 beds on Montée du Chemin Neuf overlooking Vieux Lyon from the Fourvière hillside. Renovated 2018, with the single best terrace view of any Lyon hostel — the Saône, the cathedral, the old town roofscape. Institutional-feeling but genuinely renovated. Cheapest rate in Lyon.
Hand-picked guides.
Lyon's social-hostel scene is compact by European standards: five independent houses, zero mega-chains (The People is French-chain but acts …
Lyon has a legitimate food culture and the hostel kitchen matters here in a way it doesn't in Barcelona or Prague, because fresh produce is …
Most French hostels cut breakfast entirely — croissants aren't part of the standard backpacker offer. Lyon is the exception. Four Lyon hoste…
Lyon's hostels with on-site bars split clearly into two camps: the big-chain bar (The People's ground-floor restaurant-bar open to non-guest…