One of the best hostels and tours - Review of Amazing ionika hostel, Chisinau, Moldova - Tripadvisor
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One of the best hostels and tours
5.0 of 5 bubblesReviewed 3 days agovia mobile
To sum up, I love the hostel and it feels like home to me. I give five stars but it deserves more than five stars:

1. The two full-day tours organizer by the hostel owner Rubens are really amazing. I joined both the Transnistria tour and the wineries-monasteries tour. The price for the tours are only 2/3 of the other companies but we visited more places. There were so many highlights in the tours and Rubens has a perfect knowledge of the local history and answered all the questions nicely. He also has a good connection with locals and we got many privileges. I was really impressed by the formal USSR-style Branesti wine celler. During the tour in Transnistria, Rubens bought us souvenirs and we even got the special plastic coin:)
2. The location of the hostel is amazing, easy to reach everywhere.
3. The hostel offers a nice hand-painted map (yes, each map was marked with color pens). With this map, you can easily do the city tour and find nice local food.
4. The hostel is very clean and tidy. I especially like the designs inside, with many nice paintings and colors. Rubens plan to introduce more arts, looking forward to it.
5. The guests in the hostel are among the best I have met. We had a lot of fun together, dinner, party, tours, and so on. I cannot believe that some of us became friends in a few days, and this is really amazing, as the name of the hostel.

总而言之,我很喜欢这家旅馆,它给我一种家的感觉。我给它五颗星,但它值得五颗以上的星:

1. 旅馆老板 Rubens 组织的两个全日游真的很棒。我参加了德涅斯特河沿岸游和酿酒厂-修道院游。这些游的价格只有其他公司的 2/3,但我们参观了更多的地方。游玩中有很多亮点,Rubens 对当地历史了如指掌,很好地回答了所有问题。他还与当地人保持着良好的联系,我们获得了许多特权。我对正式的苏联风格的 Branesti 酒窖印象深刻。在德涅斯特河沿岸游玩期间,Rubens 给我们买了纪念品,我们甚至得到了特殊的塑料硬币:)

2. 旅馆的位置很棒,去哪里都很方便。

3. 旅馆提供漂亮的手绘地图(是的,每张地图都用彩色笔标记)。有了这张地图,你可以轻松地游览城市并找到美味的当地美食。
4. 旅馆非常干净整洁。我特别喜欢里面的设计,有很多漂亮的画作和颜色。Rubens计划推出更多艺术品,很期待。
5. 旅馆的客人是我见过的最好的客人之一。我们在一起玩得很开心,晚餐、聚会、旅游等等。我不敢相信我们中的一些人在几天内就成了朋友,这真的很棒,就像旅馆的名字一样。
Date of stay: March 2024
Trip type: Traveled solo
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Reviewed 2 weeks ago

One local guest permanently lives in the hostel. He drinks heavily and harass other guests. Once he told me that he doesn't like when I am laughing. Then he told that he is local (he is from this country) while I am from another country. So I am "guest" here and I have no rights here. Then he assaulted me and made few punches, so I got small injuries.

I reported it to the hostel manager. The manager just merely ignored my message. He even didn't speak with the bully, and the bully was still living in the hostel. Later I tried to speak with the manager again about that situation. The manager told that he is so busy to react to such report and just went away not listening to me ..

I believe such racist hostel cannot be friendly for guests coming from other countries...

Room tip: Beware of local bullies living in the hostel
Date of stay: April 2024
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Reviewed November 1, 2023 via mobile

I am travelling for 17 years now and this is one of the best hostels I have ever stayed at across the world. Rubens is the owner of this hostel and he is really living his best life. He and his staff are giving you the best experience possible. The rooms are very good, the location is fine and the atmosphere at the hostel is from another level. I felt so welcome and I am very thankful for the heartwhelming feeling they gave me. On top of this all, Rubens is also an excellent tourguide. So if you want to treat yourself and as Ruben, live your best life, stay here and enjoy the lovely time you will have.

Date of stay: November 2023
Trip type: Traveled solo
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Reviewed July 28, 2023 via mobile

Friendly staff, nice to meet other guests.
Only complaint was people sleeping on the sofas/common area in the dorm (10 bed dorm, we were all very warm, but one person slept on the sofa by the window).
I asked staff, and was assured he wouldn’t sleep there. He was there all night for 2 nights. Not very fair.

Date of stay: July 2023
Trip type: Traveled solo
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Reviewed March 26, 2023 via mobile

Consider staying in another hostel.
I When I arrived the first Thing that met me, was the party of I think Ukrainian refugees, totally wasted. They kept playing so loud music outside, that i could lay in my bed and trace the music number on my phone. Even though i went to the receptionist many times, and he told them to turn it down, 20 minuts later they turned it back up. They had No respect for that Guy in the reception. The rooms are def not soundprof!
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My room was freezingly cold, cause they forgot to "turn" on the central heating. I arrived at 9pm, and the room didnt start to warm up until 01am, so I went to bed in my winterjacket. Wallpaper is coming off in the room, and both the sheets and towls needs to be upgraded.
Last, had to use the bathroom in the night, and someone was also sleeping in the common room of the hostel, with a bucket and puke on the floor.
The sound and smell in the morning from this person, its just not acceptable.
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I think its great if the hostel is helping people out, who needs it the most right now. But its a hostel with paying costumers, and not a shelter, they should inforce some rules, so that other guest feels good and safe too.

Date of stay: March 2023
Trip type: Traveled solo
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Reviewed July 14, 2021 via mobile

Heard some tourists don't go here right now, cause they heard that there are Moldovan workers sleep there.... First of all they are really nice and don't snore and second they helped ionika to survive the crisis. I was only the 3rd tourist since Corona, please everyone come to ionika hostel it is truly amazing.. You will love the decorations and you will definitely love ruebens

Date of stay: July 2021
Trip type: Traveled solo
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