Comments on: Wombats City Hostel Vienna

By: Hostelio

Hostelio — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:38:38 +0000

Wombats is definitely Vienna’s top rated hostel and also as a chain the highest rated hostel chain in the world. I have heard nothing but good comments from travellers who stayed at Wombats.

By: Dado

Dado — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:42:18 +0000

I’m going to Vienna for three days, and I will stay in this hostel, it just seems like the best hostel in Vienna…
Thanks for this overview, it helped a lot.

By: RennyBA

RennyBA — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:16:55 +0000

Never heard about hostelworld, but it sounds like a great recommendation.

You really know how to live life the fullest and thanks for sharing!

By: Jessie

Jessie — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:45:03 +0000

Amazingly clean hostel wow! It’d be worth a stay!

By: claudie

claudie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:31:45 +0000

The wombat’s City Hostel seems the perfect hostel for a trip in Vienna! I have noticed it in my little adress book!

By: Klaus at Wombats

Klaus at Wombats — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:23:11 +0000

Hej Lifecruiser!
No worries mate, I have to thank you for getting the word of mouth out there. Apart from our website and a small amount of brochures, we don´t do any marketing whatsoever – we totally depend on recommendations like your post.

I´ll tell you why I liked your post so much: We always thought that hostels shouldn´t ONLY be there for backpackers. We were critizized for that by other hostel owners – they accused us we spoil the backpackers by raising the standards too much and we´ll never satisfy other travellers anyway, because people like you would still miss a bellboy, a concierge, a restaurant and the room service. Well, obviously you didn´t!
I put in 40 hours of my time into this hostel every week and I´m not ONLY doing it for making a living – I could earn more elsewhere, but I like working in a hostel too much. I really enyoyed reading your post – it proves I´m not wasting my time here.

Cheers,
Klaus

By: Caroline

Caroline — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:09:00 +0000

I never imagined that a hostel could be so ’5star’. it looks really great! Must jot it down in my ‘places to visit’ book.

Nice photos!

By: Lifecruiser

Lifecruiser — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:38:43 +0000

Thank you so much Klaus for being such a good host to this post and helped me answer my readers meanwhile I was out xmas shopping

I love that you’re so passionate about what you do!

By: Klaus at Wombats

Klaus at Wombats — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:32:32 +0000

“Tell me, with the name of Wombat’s, is it run or owned by Australians?”

No, it´s owned by two locals, but the idea was born in Australia. See here: http://www.wombats-hostels.com/wombats/about/

In addition to that, at the time when most hostels in Europe were still spartanic places with only an abundance of crazy rules, there were already some very good hostels in Australia – so, much of what you see in our hostels is modeled after what the owners first saw Down Under.

Happy travels,
Klaus

By: Mar

Mar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:57:04 +0000

That hostal sounds perfect to me!! and I love the fact that they have duvets, of course, we have a terrible time sleeping with sheets and blankets like the French or Americans do... Mars last blog post..wordless wednesday: tilted