AAE Chicago Parthenon Hostel in Chicago, United States

Some confusion about which bed to use. Dorm air could have been fresher. Walking distance to the Loop (downtown) and Union Station (Amtrak, Van Galder Bus). Gunnar, from Norway ~ 26th Oct 2009

The staff is very kind. Xiang, from China ~ 27th Oct 2009

The Pathernon Hostel is a convenient place to stay when you intend to visit Chicago. The location is perfect. You can reach the loop (main area dowtown) in less than 20min walking. Furthermore, it is less than 5min walking from the train (amtrak) and bus (greyhound) station. The hostel is clean and confortable. However, the staff is not very nice and this is not really a place to have fun. In short terms, in you are friends book there, but if you wanna meet people that's not the right place. Raoul, from France ~ 16th Oct 2009

Staff were ok generally. Having your breakfast presided over by someone intent on telling people repeatedly to pick up bread with tongs, do this, do that, etc. was so infuriating that it became funny. Fairly reasonable place so can't complain too much. Julian, from England ~ 25th Oct 2009

$1 per bag for storage is a bit much when there is no locked closet for it. Pamphlet rack and transportation maps are behind the half-door in the office area versus in the hallway for guests to view. Great breakfast. Hot showers. Weak Wi-Fi connection. Susan, from USA ~ 14th Oct 2009

The bathroom stalls are not up to code and a gal can barely sit on the 'pot' and close the door. The maids didn't clean the rooms well and regularly and the commons room barely was big enough for 5 people to function. Also, it had not sink or running water. Other than these items, I loved being in the Greek area. Sharon, from USA ~ 1st Oct 2009

well everything was fine some little details ... about the room well the house keeper forgot to sweep and take some trash under the bed the breakfast was good just sometimes we felt like pushing to eat fast coz the guy with white hair always was watching everybody like if he want us to finish rightaway we really aprecciate very clean bathrooms and if we come back we would like to be in ur hostel thanks a lot we ll recomend more friends that right now want to go to visit chicago we like it ... JANA, from Slovakia ~ 25th Sep 2009