Where to stay · Hostels · 15 picks · 10 districts

The best hostels in Paris

Hostels worth the name: social ones with a bar, design ones, a non-profit. Every pick is re-checked for continued operation and grouped by district.

Last re-checked 22 Sep 2026 · 1 awaiting a hand re-check, still listed · all where to stay → · full ledger →

4e · Le Marais & Île Saint-Louis (1)District guide →

• MIJE Marais€ · Historic-mansion hostelThree seventeenth-century hôtels particuliers — Fourcy, Fauconnier and Maubuisson — run as a single hostel within a few minutes' walk of each other, a few streets back from the Seine. Stone courtyards, beamed dorms, a non-profit that has held these buildings since the 1960s.⚑ Last confirmed 5 Sep 2026 · re-check pending

5e · Latin Quarter (2)District guide →

• BVJ Quartier Latin€ · Non-profit hostelNon-profit hostelling since 1948, a few streets from Notre-Dame on Rue des Bernardins: 140 beds in single-sex dorms and a handful of private rooms, plainly furnished, breakfast thrown in, and about as central as a €19 bed gets in Paris.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Long-running
• Young & Happy Latin Quarter€ · Social hostelParis's first independent hostel, in an eighteenth-century building partway down Rue Mouffetard, with a spiral staircase and a vaulted cellar bar at the foot of the market street. The Latin Quarter at its least studious.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026

9e · South Pigalle & Opéra (2)District guide →

• Vintage Paris Gare du Nord€ · Design hostelA pop-music-themed hostel on Rue de Dunkerque, air-conditioned and within walking distance of both Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est — hostel rates with hotel manners, largely delivered.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026
• Woodstock Hostel€ · Social hostelAn independent hold-out below Pigalle on Rue Rodier, with a bar that runs to 2am and a 1960s conceit it commits to fully. Free breakfast, free walking tours, and the foothill of Montmartre a few streets uphill.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026

10e · Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord (2)District guide →

• Generator Paris€ · Design hostelA polished design hostel near the Canal Saint-Martin whose ninth-floor bar looks across to Montmartre and Sacré-Cœur, with a métro-themed club in the basement.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026
• St Christopher's Inn Paris - Gare du Nord€ · Social hostelTwo minutes from the Eurostar platforms, with Belushi's bar and a live-music pub directly below — convenient for an early train, less so for an early night. Privacy curtains on the bunks and two bars are the trade-off.✓ Verified open · 22 Sep 2026

11e · Oberkampf & Bastille (1)District guide →

• The People Paris Belleville€ · Design hostelAn art-deco social hostel in multicultural Belleville with a rooftop terrace and a live-music bar downstairs — the easy budget pick if you want to meet people.✓ Verified open · 22 Sep 2026

12e · Bastille, Bercy & Aligre (1)District guide →

• The People - Paris Nation€€ · Design hostelThe draw is the top floor: a rooftop bar and restaurant with a terrace that looks straight down onto Place de la Nation. Below it, dorms and private rooms in a renovated block on the eastern edge of the city.✓ Verified open · 22 Sep 2026

15e · Vaugirard & Beaugrenelle (1)District guide →

• 3 Ducks Hostel€ · Social hostelA long-running 15th-arrondissement hostel, since gutted and rebuilt, with a bar and a small courtyard on a church square a walk from both Montparnasse and the Eiffel Tower. Open round the clock.✓ Verified open · 22 Sep 2026

18e · Montmartre & Pigalle (2)District guide →

• Caulaincourt Montmartre€ · Boutique hostelSet by the Lamarck-Caulaincourt steps on the quiet north flank of the butte, with a terrace that looks out over Montmartre's staircases rather than its crowds. French breakfast included.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026
• Le Village Montmartre€ · Boutique hostelA first-floor terrace with a swing seat faces the Sacré-Cœur head-on; downstairs there's a pub called On the Road and a small library. The Abbesses end of Montmartre, below the basilica steps rather than at the top.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026

19e · La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont (1)District guide →

• St Christopher's Inn Paris - Canal€ · Social hostelThe waterfront terrace is the reason to choose this one over its Gare du Nord sibling: it sits on the Canal de l'Ourcq in the 19th, with a bar that runs late and a chill-out room for the mornings after.✓ Verified open · 22 Sep 2026

20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant (2)District guide →

• JO&JOE Paris Nation€ · Design hostelAccor's social-hostel format dropped into the 20th: bunk rooms and soundproofed doubles arranged around a bar and canteen, with a rooftop terrace that runs events through the warm months. Street-art finish, more considered than the price suggests.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026
• The Loft Boutique Hostel€ · Boutique hostelA 29-room hostel up the hill on Rue Julien Lacroix, in the thick of Belleville's bars and Chinese-Tunisian restaurants. Air-conditioned rooms, a shared kitchen, and a furnished terrace with a bar for the climb home.✓ Verified open · 22 Sep 2026