Yes! all my friends and I are bitten by bedbugs after 2days stay in this hostel! SUPER ITCHY!!!

Also, the room is very small and narrow, with little walking space! The bathroom space is super limited as well. Worse still, the heater doesnt work sometimes and cold water runs occasionally.. blahhh

The door to your room has no lock, so anybody can come in basically at night. And the door got goodness sake cant close properly and its very noisy at night when people outside talks in weee hours!

The owner was very friendly or approachable either i feel.

I dun understand why people can write good reviews for this hostel.BUt bascially, i strongly do not recommend stay here!

I got home after a few nights at the Ivanhoe hostel and I am covered in itchy red bites all over my body. Do NOT stay at the Ivanhoe.

I went to Ivanhoe hostel with a friend. I called the day before to confirm (as they asked me to do) and told them that instead of 5 nights I only wanted to confirm for 2 nights. I had the feeling that we might not want to stay such a long time there cause when I booked (directly on the spot) I had to deal with this young useless guy at the reception, and an excited guy who looked like the boss was yelling in the corridor, talking to his friend on Skype. Not a good sign I thought.
When we got there, the change in my bookings was actually a problem (unlike the girl said to me the day before on the phone "no problem !"). So the manager came and yelled (again), saying to his employee in italian "It's 5 nights or nothing !". Five minutes before he was jumping in our arms shouting "French girls ! French girls !".
Anyway we've managed to deal for 4 nights at the end.
On our first night there a bunch of drunk guys came into the hostels by 3.30 am. They were shooting in the corridor. The whole hostel could hear them. It was the manager and his friends. It's just incredible...
On the morning my friend woke me up early. She wanted to leave cause she got bitten all night long by some... beasts... I realised I got bitten too. We were disgusted, well angry, and we just left (at 7am).
We got badly bitten by some (bedbugs I suppose). I had 35 bites, mainly on my throat. As I react badly to bites, I had to go to the emergencies the day after (they took me first when they saw my throat). I had an injection of cortisone, had to take a treatment, and suffered for days from the itching. That was my experience at the Ivanhoe Hostel...

PS : also, you have to be out of the hostel during the day, from 11am to 4pm, for your information

Had a wondeful time at this hostel, met some great people & had wonderful staff which made the stay even better! Definitely a place to go if you want to socialise and have a good time.