Yakety Yak Hostel

Great balcony area to hang out. Lovely, welcoming staff. Dorms feel really cozy. I felt very comfortable here. Hostel was in a great location. Bathrooms were very clean. Cool vibe. I would recommend to any first time travellers to Kathmandu.

Great hostel in the Heart of Thamel. Thanks first to the lovely staff: R/Yakesh, Hrithik, Joti & Alina: they will allow your stay to be super-pleasurable. Friendly, fun, helpful with all sorts of Nepali info. (Sorry it took me so long to scrawl a review, folks: I was there for nearly a week in Oct 23; now it's Jan 24; but better late than never.) Some key benefits of staying here apart from the abovementioned lovely human yakky beings: Thamel is backpacker central, and Kathmandu is hectic, yet just through a well-maintained passageway & up a couple of flights of stairs is a safe haven of calm (not that Kath is dangerous - folk are so friendly, not too pushy, even in tourist areas, gentler than Indian comparisons - but it can wear down energy levels). There's a safe ATM area at the passage entrance where guards are at helping hand, 3 restaurants in the building, a fair variety of cuisines, so if Yakety closes early - as it often does by 7pm if guests are few - you can hop down the stair to one or other by 10pm & grab some decent nosh. Please eat at Yaks if you can tho: nothing fancy but tasty & wholesome enough - and the beer is decent value - a big wide balcony area, bit of an oasis. First couple of nights I stayed was lively, great people-meeting venue, chat, laugh, sing songs. Quieter as the week went on; hostels ebb & flow with personalities yadda-yakety. What is really great is that the rooms & dorms are behind a wall dividing the social areas & the slumber ones, so even if it happens to be a rowdier night, you're well padded for shut-eye. Toilets are at the end of the hall, clean & functional enough. If you're needing photocopies of onward flight tix etc, the cheery faces at reception will oblige. And Hrithik is a sports fan, so if there's a big game of football at 2am for example, you can ask to lounge on the sofas with him & cheer on your team; at a reasonable volume, because of the design, it doesnt disturb your fellow guests. Happy 2024 All Good People who work at & frequent Yakety Yak. Keep doin what yer doin & everybody's gonna be sayin Hello!