Name: Revolucion Hostel
Address: Revolyutsionnaya Street, 16, Minsk, Minsk, Minsk, 220030, Belarus
Rating: 9

24-hour reception

Smoking areas

Heating

Washing machine

Television in lobby

General

Soundproof rooms

Room service

Rooms

Luggage storage

Safe-deposit box

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Common kitchen

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

Shuttle

Transfer

Bike rental

Recreation

Free Parking on Premises

Parking

Location

At the hostel

Nemiga

Kupalovskaya

Oktyabrskaya

Rakovskoe Predmeste

Palace of the Republic

Theatre of Yanka Kupala

Belarusian National Arts Museum

Church of Saints Simon and Helena

Palace of sports

Belarusian State Circus

Yanka Kupala Park

Gorky Park

Minsk Passazhirsky Railway Station

Victory Square

Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War

Victory Park

Komarowski Market

Park of Chelyuskintsev

Loshitskiy Park

National Library of Belarus

Minsk Zoo

Chizhovka-Arena

Waterpark Lebyazhy

Minsk National Airport

Revolucion Hostel

Minsk

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

10-beds

11-beds

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4-beds

40-beds

5-beds

6-beds

7-beds

8-beds

9-beds

king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

2-bedrooms

3-bedrooms

4-bedrooms

5-bedrooms

6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

I would have loved to give this place a higher rating but there were a few issues but I'll mention the good stuff first.

The location is fantastic, its about as central as you could hope to get between all the major tourist attractions in the daytime and one of the main drinking and dining areas at night.  The price was excellent too, the cheapest in Minsk on my visit.

The facilities are functional, a small communal kitchen, a cozy common room, a 24-hour reception and a convenient rooftop area for smoking.

The bad points:

Lockers are limited and some rooms didn't have any, there were a few extra ones in the common room but most of those were hanging open with no keys.

I felt the need to spend 10 minutes tidying the common room, clearing the bookshelves of years old catalogues and torn magazines and filling a bin with trash.

You must remove shoes at top of stairs and its a sea of boots and shoes at night.  Must you remove them for hygiene or is it because the walls to the rooms are so paper thin that no one could sleep if people walked around with shoes on along the wooden floors?  The thin walls are also the reason that even a quiet conversation in the evening incurs a visit from reception telling you to keep quiet.

The bedrooms are small.  They've gone for the "As many beds as possible" approach.  There was hardly any floor space in the 2 rooms I stayed in.

Why did I stay in 2 rooms?  Because they'd double booked our beds of course.  We checked in at 9pm, left our stuff and went out.  Came back in around 2 to find every bed in the room occupied and reception had to move us into a different room. after wandering around our first room in supposed disbelief as he didn't seem to believe it was possible despite other reviews commenting on the same issues.

In summary, I hope they read the reviews because they need to sort out the locker problem ASAP, carpet in the corridors would really reduce the noise issues and double-booking beds is an issue with the computer system or staff training ans should be an easy fix.

I would stay here again but I would hope that some of these issues had been addressed.

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