La Maïoun Guesthouse
The 9.4-rated boutique guesthouse-hostel hybrid with Nice's best staff and included breakfast
La Maïoun is Nice's top-rated hostel (9.4 over 940+ reviews): a boutique-feel guesthouse on quiet Rue Pastorelli in Carabacel, 6 min walk to Place Masséna and the trams to anywhere. Small dorms, included breakfast and a terrace that makes it feel more like a B&B than a backpacker dorm — which is why it books out 2 weeks ahead in summer.
La Maïoun sits in a converted Niçois townhouse on Rue Pastorelli, two blocks north of Boulevard Victor Hugo in the Carabacel neighbourhood — where the real-life Nice happens, not the tourist Promenade version. You're a 5-minute walk from Gare Nice-Ville (so the TER to Monaco or Cannes is basically at the door) and 6 minutes from Place Masséna and the start of Vieux Nice.
The guesthouse keeps dorms small (6 or 8 beds) and has exactly the cleanliness and quiet that its 9.4 rating implies. Breakfast is included — a genuine spread with fresh bread, jam, yogurt, coffee and fruit, not a sad buffet. There's a small garden terrace, a proper shared kitchen and the staff (consistently the top-mentioned thing in reviews) will actually sit with you and plan a Riviera day trip.
This is the hostel for travellers who want hostel prices with near-hotel comfort and intimacy: solo backpackers who've aged out of 12-bed party dorms, couples on a budget, and anyone who wants to sleep well and still be a short walk from socca stands. The trade-off: it's tiny, so you need to book 2+ weeks ahead in shoulder season, and it genuinely sells out July–August.
- 019.4 rating over 940+ reviews is the highest in Nice, and it's earned: staff, cleanliness and comfort all score above 9.5
- 02Included breakfast is actually good — fresh bread, coffee, yogurt, fruit, not a grey-buffet afterthought
- 03Rue Pastorelli is the best-located hostel street in Nice: 5 min to Gare Nice-Ville, 6 min to Place Masséna, quiet at night
- 04Small capacity (18 beds) means staff remember your name by day 2 and will help plan day trips to Monaco, Menton, Èze
- 05Garden terrace for reading and a proper shared kitchen, neither of which the big party hostels bother with
- 9.4/10 rating (highest in Nice) over 940+ reviews
- Included fresh-bread breakfast and quiet garden terrace
- 5 min walk to Gare Nice-Ville, 6 min to Place Masséna
- Tiny 18-bed capacity — feels more B&B than hostel
“The location was very nice and staff were extremely friendly and accomodating! Breakfast is small/simple, but good. Was a great stay for less than a week.”
“What a lovely guesthouse! I had a wonderful time thanks to amazing staff. The place is impeccably clean, quiet, and in a perfect location. Breakfast was lovely.”
“Loved it here. Felt so homely. It was really peaceful and near to everything. It was so clean and the staff were so welcoming.”
- Place Masséna6 min walk
- Gare Nice-Ville (TER to Monaco, Cannes)5 min walk
- Cours Saleya flower market10 min walk
- Vieux Nice bar strip9 min walk
- Promenade des Anglais beach12 min walk
- Tram T1 République stop2 min walk
