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Reviews of UBA Hostel

Camino de Uba, 43, 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

#80 of 81 hotels in Donostia-San Sebastián

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Review score

Based on 162 hostel reviews

7.2

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    7.7

  • Comfort

    7.4

  • Location

    6.4

  • Facilities

    7.4

  • Staff

    8.3

  • Value for money

    7.2

  • Free WiFi

    8.5

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  • Reviewed: 3 September 2025

    8.0
    Great value
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    No food available in the evening - very disappointing.

    Nice clean airy building set in trees. Friendly, nice bar. Good beds, quiet through the night. Very good value for low nightly price.

    Stayed in September 2025

  • Reviewed: 28 August 2025

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • People with friends
    • Bed in 4-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Very small room for 4 persons but with very large balcony. The bathroom is even smaller, not possible to move in it and wash your body.

    Very responsive and polite staff. Location in the park. Eating possibilities. Availability of washing machines and dryers

    Stayed in August 2025

  • Reviewed: 24 August 2025

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Its located in a megical place.

    Stayed in August 2025

  • Reviewed: 14 August 2025

    8.0
    Pretty good hostel on the outskirts of San Sebastian.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Bed in 4-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Shower water only ran cold at certain times of day. Top bunks very high up, ladder unsteady and top bunk metal bed guard quite short and wobbly (one fell off, thankfully not onto anyone). Take ear plugs, it's a hostel so obviously people come and go at all times! Do not rely on the self catering kitchen - one tiny fridge which was overflowing with stinking food. No kitchenware to speak of, I certainly wouldn't have wanted to attempt to cook in there.

    Big car park. Perfectly fine bunk room for a family of 4 with en suite bathroom and balcony. Excellent fly net on the door / window. Nice view from top floor communal area, with very cheap vending machine and coffee machine. Nice café with reasonable prices and lovely seats inside and out. Really friendly and helpful staff.

    Stayed in August 2025

  • Reviewed: 6 August 2025

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • People with friends
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    The pillow sheets were not really clean

    The location is amazing, very calm and cool even in summer. The staff was really understanding and kind. This is perfect for the price, I'll come back :)

    Stayed in August 2025

  • Reviewed: 27 July 2025

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Bed

    Cleanness

    Stayed in July 2025

  • Reviewed: 27 July 2025

    7.0
    Basic but affordable and clean hostel on the outskirts of town.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 5 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    The kitchen was quite simple, and had to deposit cash for the pots/plates etc. Also, our keycards for our rooms and the kitchen stopped working most days so we had to get them reloaded at the front desk every time. Minor issues, and was generally quite good.

    Was good value for money, and generally quiet. Was also decently clean.

    Stayed in July 2025

  • Reviewed: 20 July 2025

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Maintenance is needed

    Even though the location is not very good but the place is very beautiful

    Stayed in July 2025

  • Reviewed: 6 July 2025

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Over-priced, cafe closed early, not accessible to the center

    Modern and purpose-built, nice restaurant/cafe, good system, flexible check-in

    Stayed in July 2025

  • Reviewed: 1 July 2025

    8.0
    Good option for a short stay in San Sebastian
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 4-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    Far away from city center, small common kitchen, fridge was tiny

    Nice surrounding by forest and hills, very clean and quiet, big common area on the upper floor

    Stayed in June 2025

  • Reviewed: 16 June 2025

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 4-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    -we didn't have enough wifi connection in our room -although the location is actually super pretty (located inside a park forest), if you don't have a car to move around it's actually really far away from the city.

    Really nice location in the forest. We were with my friends in a 4 bed room room so everything was perfect!! The staff were super nice and friendly also! I would come back again . Really liked the bar cafe inside rhe hostel and the girl working the evening shift there was so nice!

    Stayed in June 2025

  • Reviewed: 13 June 2025

    8.0
    Very good
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 4-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    No earplugs available in hostel

    Stayed in June 2025

  • Reviewed: 3 May 2025

    8.0
    Decent place in a pinch. A bit far from town if and would be difficult to walk to.
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    12 euro taxi from town.

    Clean and modern. Nice guy on the front desk.

    Stayed in May 2025

  • Reviewed: 21 April 2025

    7.0
    Good choice only if you are driving.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Twin Room
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Shower stall very tight. Not practical if not driving.

    Room decor simple and functional. Hostel is in a park setting far from the city. Have free parking.

    Stayed in April 2025

  • Reviewed: 19 February 2025

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    The parking lot, the temperature of the hostel, the staff

    Stayed in February 2025

  • Reviewed: 16 December 2024

    8.0
    great location friendly staff and excellent price. Thanks
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night

    towels were not provided

    nice and clean

    Stayed in November 2024

  • Reviewed: 10 October 2024

    8.0
    Very clean and modern hostel
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Too far from town.

    Purpose built hostel. Very clean. En suites are great. Friendly staff. Plenty of car parking but little far out of town for on foot travellers. Would stay again.

    Stayed in October 2024

  • Reviewed: 13 September 2024

    7.0
    I would reconsider
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    First and foremost, the lady at the reception on the evening time is definetly NOT fit to work with people. Smiling is not necessary. Saying hello, good evening, and at least making a poker face, yes it is. She kept making faces for me as I arrived and on the following occasions. Really uncomfortable to be around her. Second, the rooms with Six beds are tight , there is hardly room to move, it was weird do lay so close to strangers. Third, the place is far from everywhere, and the vending machines were not working or hardly had itens to sell. The ratio price versus distancie and structure really needs to be out on perspective, cause the benefits are not all that.

    The place has a nice structure.

    Stayed in September 2024

  • Reviewed: 2 September 2024

    8.0
    It’s really a nice place especially with the price you pay
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Tostada in the bar wasn’t good

    Nice and kind receptionist Nice rooms Cleanness Nice balcony

    Stayed in September 2024

  • Reviewed: 10 August 2024

    6.0
    Only If Your Desperate
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 4-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    The bad part is this hostel is far from San Sebastian and there is nothing around it. I found it expensive considering all this. However, I am a Camino Pilgrim and was desperate for lodging. I didn't realize how difficult it was to get accommodations in August here. As far as my room, it was mediocre. They use those short sheets for toilet paper. At the price they charge, that's ridiculous. They also have some kind of room card system that controls the power in the room. While I was in the middle of a shower,one of the other guests that left, took her card, and my lights went off! This is dangerous and a lawsuit waiting to happen. The morning that I left there was also a huge roach in the bathroom. The bathroom shower was TINY! Evertime I moved my arm I would hit the faucet handle and I would either shut it off, or make cold or very hot water come out. Totally ridiculous! There was also no soap holder! What do you do with the soap when you're rinsing? Put it on the floor? There isn't any room to move around!

    The service staff was wonderful. Front desk, & the bar tenders. The food available was simple but good. The room had a nice terrace but no chairs to sit on.

    Stayed in August 2024

  • Reviewed: 2 August 2024

    6.0
    An hostel in the forest (not too) close to the city
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    I think fairly expensive compare to what offered for a bed. Expensive water and bar only open limited hours with limited food

    Lovely nature setting. Fresh air.

    Stayed in August 2024

  • Reviewed: 29 July 2024

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    It was quite far out but we knew that when we booked.

    Met expectations.

    Stayed in July 2024

  • Reviewed: 19 July 2024

    6.0
    It was OK but you need a car to stay there. The place is new and clean.
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Bed in 6-Bed Dormitory Room
    • Stayed 3 nights

    too far and no bus running close to location

    price

    Stayed in July 2024

  • Reviewed: 19 July 2024

    6.0
    Was convenient for a short stay in San Sebastián.
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Twin Room
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    The kitchen facilities were poor - solely a microwave with no washing up sink - we were forced to do our dishes in the bathroom in our bedroom. Laundry was advertised but we could not find it despite a long search. Beds weren’t very comfy and there was hair in the bathroom when we arrived - wasn’t super clean.

    Staff were really friendly and it was great that the twin room had a quiet bathroom. Beautiful surroundings parks and walks. Felt safe here.

    Stayed in July 2024

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