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Corner Hostel is one of our three favorite hostels in Krakow. (The others are City Hostel and Goodbye Lenin Hostel.) What makes Corner Hostel—and, incidentally, Goodbye Lenin—stand out from the perfectly acceptable Krakow Hostel pack? They're both thematically organized. If there's one thing we love, it's a well-executed concept.
Corner Hostel, simply but attractively outfitted in grays, whites, and blacks, has several theme-driven rooms. There's the Music room, the Rainbow room, and the Sentimental room.
The Sentimental room sports wicker chairs, stone floors, artfully distressed bedframes, and gauzy fabrics draped over the walls. The Music Room has bed ladders made of chains and framed covers of Polish recording artists' albums on walls. Four rooms (two doubles and two triples) coexist with four-, eight-, and ten-bed dorms.
Shared bathrooms are not just new and fresh but also kind of edgy, alternating intentionally distressed, spackled walls with smart black, white, and gray tiles that match the hostel's dominant color scheme. The hostel kitchen is decently-stocked and decorated in a spritely way.
The Corner Hostel staff is helpful and direct. In particular, we found staff member Pawel to be uncommonly knowledgeable and friendly. The hostel's location, on a side street close to the busy Westerplatte thoroughfare, is another plus.
Those traveling as a large group should know that some rooms are located in an adjacent building and must be accessed via a separate entrance.
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