Paris
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8 handpicked hostels in Paris, sorted by traveler rating.
Paris is the Tier 1 European backpacker capital: Eurostar-adjacent hostels, rooftop bars with real city views, Marais-central party nights, 12-minute walks to the Eiffel Tower, and budget self-catering from neighborhood markets that beat bistro prices three to one.
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Best Hostels in Paris
8 handpicked hostels in Paris, sorted by traveler rating.
The People - Paris Bercy
The People Bercy sits at 28 Boulevard de Reuilly in the 12th, a five-minute walk from Gare de Lyon for anyone onward-bound to Lyon, Marseille or Italy. It's the best-rated link in The People's four-hostel Paris chain: spacious family and dorm rooms with private bathrooms, a rooftop terrace that genuinely overlooks the city, and a Boulevard de Reuilly café scene you can walk into for dinner.
Adveniat Paris
Adveniat is run by a Catholic religious community in a grand Haussmann building at 10 Rue François 1er, 350m from the Champs-Élysées and five minutes walk to the Grand Palais. Known among guests for calm, spotless rooms and an unusually generous breakfast for the 8th arrondissement — the highest-rated hostel in central-west Paris and a complete outlier in tone from the city's typical party hostels.
The People - Paris Marais
The People Paris Marais opened in 2022 at 17 Boulevard Morland, in the Félicité development that replaced the former city administration building at Sully-Morland, facing the Seine on the edge of the Marais. Its 90 rooms hold about 400 beds: 24 doubles and 66 dorms of 4 to 8 beds, each bed with a blackout curtain, socket, reading light and small locker. Rated 8.2 from 9,527 reviews.
Caulaincourt Montmartre by Hiphophostels
Caulaincourt Square sits at 2 square Caulaincourt, on the northwest slope of Montmartre between Abbesses and Lamarck-Caulaincourt metro. It's the Hiphophostels chain's smallest and most family-feeling location — simple dorms and private rooms, a TV and WiFi in every room, and a shared kitchen that actually gets used. Sacré-Coeur is a six-minute walk uphill; Moulin Rouge is ten minutes down.
The Playce - Paris
The Playce sits at 66 Boulevard Barbès on the southern edge of the 18th, a 10-minute walk from Sacré-Coeur via the Rue des Martyrs climb. Run by the Happyculture boutique-hotel group, it blends hotel-quality private rooms with a ground-floor games room that includes an arcade machine, table football and board games. Good pick for groups and couples who want private ensuites, not dorms.
The 3 Ducks Eiffel Tower by Hiphophostels
The 3 Ducks sits at 6 Place Etienne Pernet in the 15th, a 12-minute walk to the Eiffel Tower and the oldest hostel in the Hiphophostels chain — running since 1988. It's a genuine backpacker hostel with colorful dorms, a shared kitchen, a small on-site bar that serves cheap beer and a terrace where pub-crawl groups gather before heading out. Classic, scrappy, sociable.
Generator Paris
Generator Paris sits at 9-11 Place du Colonel Fabien in the 10th, a design-led 950-bed flagship of the European Generator chain with the biggest rooftop bar of any hostel in Paris. Right on top of Metro Colonel Fabien (Line 2), 8 minutes walk to Canal Saint-Martin. Famous for DJ nights, a basement club called The Khayma, and the most-reviewed hostel in the city — 12,084 Booking reviews and counting.
St Christopher's Inn Paris - Gare du Nord
St Christopher's Inn Paris - Gare du Nord sits at 5 rue de Dunkerque, literally 3 minutes walk from the Eurostar platforms. Part of the UK-rooted St Christopher's chain, it runs a Belushi's-branded bar downstairs open until 2am, 2 bars total, 24-hour reception, and dorms and privates in a 10-floor former office building. Most backpacker-accessible hostel in the city for anyone arriving late from London or Brussels.
Hand-picked guides.
Paris has a rooftop problem: they're everywhere on Instagram, almost none are actually open to the public, and most of those require a reser…
Paris runs a hostel-party scene with its own geography: 10th-arrondissement design flagships (Generator, St Christopher's), Marais-4th rooft…
Paris's live-music scene is legendary — Django Reinhardt to Serge Gainsbourg to the current Barbès afrobeat vault, you can hear it from any …
Paris is expensive to eat out in — a hostel with a usable shared kitchen is a €10-a-day differentiator on a week-long trip. Four Paris hoste…