Name: Hektor Design Hostel
Address: 26 Riia, Tartu, Tartu, Tartu, 50405, Estonia
Rating: 8

24-hour reception

Elevator/lift

Smoke-free property

Heating

Newspapers

Terrace

All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)

Upper floors accessible by elevator

General

Non-smoking rooms

Family room

Linens

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Accessibility

Laundry

Safe-deposit box

Luggage storage

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Diet menu (on request)

Common kitchen

Restaurant

Snack bar

Packed Lunches

Bottled water (at extra charge)

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

Russian

English

Languages Spoken

Library

Bike rental

Recreation

Parking

Beach/pool towels

Pool and beach

Fax and copy machine

Meeting and presentation facilities

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Cycling

Fitness facilities

Sports

Sauna

Beauty and wellness

Playroom

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Pets allowed

Pets

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Tartu Airport

Hektor Design Hostel

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Wonderful yellow-black labeled hostel in Tartu! Very modern and new. Parking lots behind the hostel with automatic entrance.
Friendly stuff, quick Check-In. Rooms are clean. Unfortunately the bed is NOT yellow-black ...

Do You like Yellow-Black?

My experience at Hektor’s was remarkable. I had a long term stay at Hektor’s for about 5 months (September- January) due to my exchange studies.

First, it’s located very close to the city center, the bus station is almost outside the building and a grocery store is over 50 meters away.  

Second the hostel is new built and clean. It provides a comfortable common kitchen, sauna, cafe- restaurant a tiny but well- designed library.

Third the stuff is at your survive for any further assistance and especially Jana stands out with her kindness and her professionalism.

Furthermore, the apartment was nice and cozy, thought it’s a bit small, and it’s equipped with all the basic stuff. One thing that can be improved is the lack of wardrobe, fact that makes it a way inconvenient for a long term stay. 

Overall, i highly recommend a stay at Hektor’s as the atmosphere is friendly, quiet and cozy!

Amazing

First time we stopped in a hostel, but it was a good experience. Nice, clean room with shower and fridge. Parking was in the closed yard. With extra 5 euros you'll get buffet breakfast. 15-20 minutes walk to the city centre. Nice place to stay with family. Very friendly staff.

Good experience

This is an excellent hostel! I stayed there for a week with a large group and everyone had great things to say about their experience. The staff was absolutely wonderful! This is one of the nicest hostels I have stayed in. The room was large with three twin beds, refrigerator, sink, and a full bathroom. The windows were very large and the evenings cooled down and made the room very comfortable. The laundry room was very clean, and only 3 euro for wash and dry. 

The hostel offered breakfast for 5 euro each day. It was totally worth it! The food was quite good. I also tried the sweets and coffee from the cafe on the main level. Best cappuccino ever! 

Great hostel with large rooms, private bathrooms and friendly staff

We did choose this hotel as its new, has intresting design and competitive price. Everything did meet the expectations. Hotel has modern design, nice colours, its functional and very clean.  Comfortable parking option behind the hostel, walking distance to city center. Aparaaditehas with good eating places is next to hotel.

Excellent value for money

I needed to stay for one night in Tartu and Hektor offered price level that was equal to Airbnb apartments. As the location suited me well and the minimalist design looked good I chose Hektor. 
I am relatively satisfied with my stay at the hotel. I liked the room and sufficient equipment in the shared kitchen. What can be better, is mostly the isolation of the room from the rest of the block. You can hear your neighbor going to the toilet like your door is open. And although I like the kitchen with its basic equipment, I would have expected them to have also salt and pepper also on spot. A small thing, but it is the matter of the taste of your breakfast.

Reasonably good

They get you with the price and location - both of which are decent - near center, close to train station, neighbouring a newer hipstery block with several restaurants and small stores. It is still definitely a hostel though with its pros and cons: comfortable beds, tv room, books to read, quirky design and signage; but very ascetic breakfast which gets crowed, nearby train noises all night long and young staff, eager, but inexperienced. I would stay there again though, as for the price you pay, you get a fair deal.

Decent hostel near center

It is very much what you see is what you get, so I'm not going to mark it down for not being high-end or fancy. Would've given it 4 stars otherwise, but sadly cannot rate the sleep quality at all. 

I don't mind the no reception/staff concept and having codes for doors does make it easy. However, in case of issues it does kind of leave you at a dead end, particularly at night. In our case, we arrived at Tartu when it was less than -10 degrees outside, and while the heating was on full, it just wasn't enough to heat up the room with very high ceilings, so had to wait until the next morning to be able to ask an extra duvet from the cleaners (which they did happily give us). The duvet is pretty thin & the pillows, while not horrible, definitely not great either. Same for the mattress. Other than the cold, we found that the beds were quite small - we're both about 165cm and averagely sized and even we couldn't fit our limbs comfortably at times. The pipes also make quite a lot of 'white noise' at all times; definitely an issue for light-sleepers.

Decor is fine, though a little inconsistent. The hallways have a really intense industrial colour scheme, and then the rooms are almost like a one-up from your grandma's sauna-house. I didn't mind the industrial, knowingly half-finished IKEA vibe, but I do think it would benefit from some light laminate to tie it altogether a bit better. However, in general I was happy with the room. It was decently sized for the budget, and our twin had a functioning kitchenette with a microwave, kettle and a fridge. Bathroom looks nice enough, but as others have said, it does have a slight damp smell (nothing like old English houses, though!), probably because the shower nook itself is just a little too small to keep the water from not flooding. We didn't hear much noise from our neighbours or outside (windows were facing away from the main road) except in the morning (doors in hallway). 

The location is good. It's about a 10min walk to either the train station or central; next to a hipster-restaurant area & there's a grocery shop nearby. 

It's probably a decent shout for smaller people in average weather, but any extremities, I would probably recommend a different hotel. 

What you see if what you get

Had a long conversation with my hubby about this. It was our second time here. We both adore the design of the place! Also parking is super convenient. Hostel is aesthetically very pleasing. Side note: our 1-year-old also loved the friendly cat that slept around the reception. I would have given them a 4, my hubby only 3 for the following reasons: they had trouble locating our reservation and therefore the toddlers crib etc was not ready in our room. Also breakfast has the basic minimum selection. Only 2 baby chairs in the breakfast room. Sure: also our toddler kept him/us awake though out the night so this might have affected his judgement. ;)

However I always feel welcome in this hostel. I am fine with the smaller selection of breakfast stuff and we did get the toddler crib etc while we were out & about searching for a place to eat (most places we closed for the 25th of December).

Some was good, some was great

If you want to rest, do not go there. Very noisy because of the road and also because of the neighbors. Every time they would open a door, it would wake me up. There is a lot of echo and the place is poorly soundproofed.
The place was clean and the bed confortable. The staff was friendly.

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