HI Hostel Pula
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Fast facts
Check in from: | 2:00 pm |
|---|---|
Check out before: | 10:00 am |
Pets | Pets allowed free of charge |
Amenities
Wi-Fi
Parking
Non-smoking
Laundry
Bar
Snorkelling
More about HI Hostel Pula
HI Hostel Pula
Situated right next to a beach, HI Hostel Pula offers accommodation in Pula. The hostel is set 2.5 km from Pula Old Town and 3 km from Pula Arena. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. Free public parking and free WiFi are available.
Reviews from 
Group traveller
Comment: 24 Aug 2026
Stayed in: Aug 2026
Tolles Hostel und viele junge Backpacker
Super Hostel. Es ist ein toller sozialer Ort und das Wasser ist traumhaft. Wir hatten ein Doppelzimmer und sogar Meerblick. Das war so so toll. Alles ist für ein Hostel ausreichend sauber, weshalb ich die negativen Bewertungen nicht verstehen kann. Es ist ein ganz toller Ort und ich würde gerne wieder kommen.
Group traveller
Comment: 3 Aug 2025
Stayed in: Jul 2025
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Hostel over looking the stony beach which was lovely. Showers were discussing, beds were decent and no air conditioning. Food was ok sometimes but occasionally horrible. Shout out to Andrea who works at reception and was really helpful.
Couple
Comment: 4 Aug 2018
Stayed in: Aug 2018
Never
We spent one nights with my wife in a shared room... Nothing good. All building are very old, that's smell very bad in all parts of the hostel. The sanitary are not clean. And rooms don't gets any air conditioner or even ventilator, a crime for me when it's more than 30 degrés during the night. Everything for 30 euros for both of us
Other
Comment: 8 Sep 2013
Stayed in: Aug 2013
Back to the 70s
We stayed there for two nights last august. The location is really cool: the hostel is in a little bay where the sea is clean and not so crowded. But I think this is the only positive thing of this hostel...the bulding is old and when you get into the rooms you think that 70s are back. The smell in the building is awful...
Group traveller
Comment: 21 Feb 2012
Stayed in: Feb 2012
Better in summer, rather dilapidated whenever
Beautifully located with a (pebble) beach on a bay in the Adriatic immediately in front of you when you walk down the stairs from your room, you'd be forgiven for thinking everything would be perfect.
Unfortunately that's not quite the case. This was my second stay at the YH Pula, the last time in 2004. In the intervening years the beds and sheets have been replaced, but no other maintainance seems to have been done. The hallway is grotty and smells of onions (assumedly because the caretaker shuts off all other ventilation when it's cold so all his cooking smells end up in the hostel). The rooms are clean, but paint is flaking and windows and shutters are held together with bits of string. No breakfast was available because it was winter (not even onions). Fortunately 500m up the road there's an excellent bakery so not such a disaster. Hot water was. The basin taps are fed from some central system that is slow to heat up but works. The showers run off a seperate boiler over the men's shower. It contains enough hot water for at most three showers. After that you have to choose between stinking or freezing. In fact I took a dive in the sea instead of a cold shower. The sea was warmer.
The terrace outside by the beach is also a mix of crumbling concrete and rusting steel, although the view is still so stunning that local wedding couples come here for photographs (I was visiting for a wedding, this was one of three locations for pictures, the other two being the Roman amphitheater and the forum with Roman temple and City Hall).
Also no WiFi available (or the winter staff did not know we could access it).
All in all this is a great place in summer when facilities are open and you can lounge on the beach, but in the winter you have the feeling they only halfheartedly keep it open, and - at least the main building - is in urgent need of renovation (and of better ventilation for the caretaker's kitchen). Apparently a new hostel (Pipistrelo) has opened right in the center of town and it's highly recommended by the locals at least. In summer I'd recommend YH despite it's shortcomings because it gets hot here and the beach is great, but at other times Pipistrelo is probably a better bet even if it is a bit more expensive. Unfortunately it was closed during our visit.
Unfortunately that's not quite the case. This was my second stay at the YH Pula, the last time in 2004. In the intervening years the beds and sheets have been replaced, but no other maintainance seems to have been done. The hallway is grotty and smells of onions (assumedly because the caretaker shuts off all other ventilation when it's cold so all his cooking smells end up in the hostel). The rooms are clean, but paint is flaking and windows and shutters are held together with bits of string. No breakfast was available because it was winter (not even onions). Fortunately 500m up the road there's an excellent bakery so not such a disaster. Hot water was. The basin taps are fed from some central system that is slow to heat up but works. The showers run off a seperate boiler over the men's shower. It contains enough hot water for at most three showers. After that you have to choose between stinking or freezing. In fact I took a dive in the sea instead of a cold shower. The sea was warmer.
The terrace outside by the beach is also a mix of crumbling concrete and rusting steel, although the view is still so stunning that local wedding couples come here for photographs (I was visiting for a wedding, this was one of three locations for pictures, the other two being the Roman amphitheater and the forum with Roman temple and City Hall).
Also no WiFi available (or the winter staff did not know we could access it).
All in all this is a great place in summer when facilities are open and you can lounge on the beach, but in the winter you have the feeling they only halfheartedly keep it open, and - at least the main building - is in urgent need of renovation (and of better ventilation for the caretaker's kitchen). Apparently a new hostel (Pipistrelo) has opened right in the center of town and it's highly recommended by the locals at least. In summer I'd recommend YH despite it's shortcomings because it gets hot here and the beach is great, but at other times Pipistrelo is probably a better bet even if it is a bit more expensive. Unfortunately it was closed during our visit.
Excellent location
Ulica Verudella 4A, Pula, 52100, Croatia|2.3 km from city centre
Check in and check out
Check in from:
2:00 pm
Check out before:
10:00 am
Good to know
Pets allowed free of charge
Please contact the hotel for details about adding extra beds.
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