The staff at Vieux Lyon Youth hostel were rude and patronising, one day they sung a song during breakfast about guests coming to breakfast after the (very early) 9am cut off point late and how annoying guests were when they got up late. They also ignored people when they first arrived at the reception desk. This sums up their attitude; guest are an intrusion and need to be told off like naughty school children. There are signs all around the hostel telling you what you cant do.
The cooking facilities were dreadful; the hostel was full and only 2 rings on the cooker worked. The kitchen is also around 2m x 1.5m so only a couple of people can prepare food at any one time. They then turned the cooker off at 10pm before everyone was able to cook.
The plumbing needs sorting out, you can’t use the tap in the room because the sound of pipes will wake everyone in the room up.
I read the bad reviews before I went and thought people were just being fussy, normally if somewhere is cheap I don’t mind what its like but this was truly awful, I would not recommend anyone to stay here. Lyon is amazing city severely let down by its only hostel.