Hostel focusing on sustainable and healthy living. Offers a variety of rooms and a vegetarian breakfast with vegan options. Restaurant with multiple vegan options is only available if you book a room. Also has a spa, wellness services, and a mini gym.
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Sint Maartenslaan 11, Maastricht, Netherlands, 6221 AV
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Last update on 29 Jun 2021 by Guest
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Added by Doortjez on 29 Jun 2021
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3 Reviews
First Review by Yesyesyesyes
smhrln
Points +242
Nice hostel for a brief stay in Maastricht - Edit
We stayed at The Green Elephant Hostel for 2 nights and booked the Cooler Room which is a private room with private bathroom. We stayed there with our dog. The staff at the hostel is friendly, the atmosphere is relaxed. Our room was very basic but since we were out most of the day, this was absolutely fine. We didn’t try out the dinner but we did have breakfast at the restaurant in the mornings. I think they only serve vegan and vegetarian breakfast options. The vegan options we could choose from were a bowl of porridge with apple and cranberry, soy yoghurt with the option to add oats/seeds/jam, bread rolls or toast with peanut butter/hummus/baba ganoush/muhamarra, a vegan wrap with veg and muhamarra and fresh fruit (grapes, pineapple, watermelon). They also have different diary-free milk options to choose from. Breakfast was fine but not impressive. Would I come back again? Probably yes, I liked the hostel and slept well, but I think I would skip the breakfast and discover other breakfast options nearby.
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Blobjair
Points +103
Sleep and dash, skip the breakfast - Edit
Describing the hostel is the same as describing the fruit smoothie served during breakfast. The fruit is there, but it is heavily watered down.
Read moreThe staff is polite and helpful with your questions. If you are already familiar with the ins and outs of a hostel, then checking in and out can go without any staff interaction.
We got the cheapest accommodation (50 euros per night per person). The king-size bed was comfy, and the pillows were fine. The power socket came out of the wall when you tried to pull out your charger, so you have to DIY fix some things yourself. The other rooms in the same accommodation area had a welcoming note, some tangerines, and cookies. They left those out of our room. They did leave the pillowcase of the previous guest on the pillow, so we had a free unwashed pillowcase. So the quality of the welcome surprise may vary.
Air conditioning is in the entire accommodation area and in the room. It sadly broke down in the night, and since the rooms were on the upper floor, the warmth made sleeping nearly unbearable. Thankfully, they fixed it immediately in the morning.
Breakfast is great if you're a vegetarian (eggs, croissants, cheese, yoghurts and more). Vegans not so much if you consider the steep breakfast fee. The vegan breakfast consisted of soy yogurt, overnight oats, small wraps (not sure if vegan, they were not marked as vegan...), watered-down smoothie, small variety of fruit, bread, jam, peanut butter, rice cracker, and coffee. Not worth the price if you're a vegan; then it is better spent in the city.
The showers in the shared bathroom were unkempt; it looks like they clean them once every two weeks. Hairdryers work and there was enough space to freshen up in the shared bathroom.
The ambiance in the entire hostel is cozy and nice. They have a "spa" option, which is basically a small sauna. The outdoor space is nice, only problem is that it is sloped. So rain comes inside. This means that during a rainy day all hell breaks loose and you're treading water in the dining/living area. It was more akin to camping than sleeping in a hostel.
To sum it up: Looking for a place to crash but you want to dine outside, this sure is an option!
Pros: Ambiance , Kind and helpfull staff, 50 euro type cleanliness
Cons: Surprise dirty pillow sheet and no welcome snacks, Only a few vegan options during breakfast, Bad design choices (rain collector livingroom)
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Yesyesyesyes
Points +5724
Mixed feelings, rocky experience - Edit
Stayed here last autumn and overall I wouldn't come back nor would I recommend this hostel. Staff was always friendly but often not really helpful with questions regarding dinner times, availability of snacks, extra fees for juices/dinner item prices, or food ingredients. The breakfast buffet could've been better labelled, too, when staff left for a while I had no clue which yoghurt was the vegan one. The dinner was really good, but quite expensive as well, given that the 'restaurant' is simply the hub of the hostel, which has a nice ambiente and decoration, but is not a proper restaurant. Our room was super minimalistically equipped, no fridge or water boiler etc., we didn't even have a bar of soap, and none of the 3 (!) receptionists I asked could provide me one. The bathtub inside the room, right next to the bed, with no shower curtain or tiles on floor and wall, was very weird and inconvenient to use. Showering was absolutely impossible. The room seemed very clean but I found a stranger's hair on the bathtub faucet, left it there as a surprise for the next guests. We peeked into the neighbouring room during room service and saw a proper shower in there, maybe we were just really unlucky with that bathtub. Bolted windows and air conditioning running all night are not eco-friendly at all. I wish I could leave a better review, but the bad experiences outweight the positive ones unfortunately. The concept sounds nice but implementation is not quite there yet if you look behind that green-washed facade.
Read moreUpdated from previous review on 2021-07-23
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