Five Elements Hostel

The staffs are nice and approachable. The Haus and Margharita Pizza were great. The place is clean and comfortable. My stay was great and i'm satisfied.

Das Five Elements ist ein Sehr freundliches und offenes Hostel mit hoher Sauberkeit. Die Leute sind super freundlich und der Service lässt auch nichts zu wünschen übrig. Das einzige was mir noch etwas gefehlt hat, sind Vorhänge vor den Betten, aber das ist meckern auf hohem Niveau. Alles andere ist super. Das Hostel liegt leider im Rotlichtviertel, aber dafür ist es nur 5 Minuten vom Bahnhof entfernt und drinnen bekommt man davon auch nichts mit.

Die Lage ist schrecklich, die Leute dort auch teilweise gruselig und man fühlt sich eklig. Man muss das Bett selber überziehen und man muss vor Ort nochmal was drauf zahlen.

Inside the hostel is good, it's the outside that's scary. Do your best to be inside before it gets dark. It is close to the main station, but there are many drunk and high people in the area at night and some still during the day. I stayed in an all female room, and for how soon I booked beforehand it was quite a good price (14€ a night). Also loved the 2x1 happy hour and free coffee!

It's an economic place to stay near the train station. The beds and general arrangements are pretty standard, nothing extraordinary. But they have €5 of mandatory fees that they take in cash, and another €7 in deposit (including the towel). Check-in is at 4pm which is a little late. The location is quite dodgy. A lot of people looking like junkies even during the day, doesn't feel safe. The Wi-Fi was a lot better in the common area than in the room, it's a little spotty at times up there. I stayed in a dormitory and there's a guy who had a deafening snore and would basically shout at any disruption himself such as when he turned around with a bad back.

Location is in red light district but it’s very nice

De mis mejores estancias la pase aquí. El personal fue muy amable y ayudaron mucho, los servicios adicionales como cena y estación de café fueron increíbles. El cuarto es muy espacioso y cómodo. Solo mejoraría la recepción del wifi en la habitación. Es una pena que quede en una mala zona. Es bueno que quienes van con familias o viajan solos lo sepan, afortunadamente nada sucedió.

Ein einfaches Hostel mit sehr nettem Personal und einem guten Frühstücksangebot. Die Ausstattung ist ausreichend, aber nichts besonderes. Die Lage ist einerseits gut, weil nah am Bahnhof, andererseits fühlt man sich nicht besonders wohl in der Gegend. Das liegt nicht am Hostel, sondern eher am Frankfurter Bahnhofsviertel. Insgesamt eine ordentliche Adresse beispielsweise für einen Transfer zum Flughafen.

I had booked a single room equipped with own bathroom and kitchen for one night along with the complimentary breakfast facility for the next day. The room was clean, hygienic and well-maintained. The location is just 5 mins walk from the Frankfurt Main Hauptbahnhof which is a very big advantage. The hostel is also very safe with good security of doors and maindoors. The staff were friendly and kind. The staff at the reception was kind enough to arrange a person who helped me take my luggage and dropped me till the platform on which my train was arriving. Truly grateful for their help. Definitely recommending a stay here.

I enjoyed this hostel. Great vibes, quite clean, and surprisingly quiet in the rooms. I am a solo female traveler and did not find the area to be too concerning, as other reviews suggest, though I come from a city with a decent sized homeless population, so my standards may be different. Two things I found slightly frustrating were that paying for bedsheets did not include a towel (needed a seperate deposit), and the showers did not provide soap.

Clean, calm and cosy. No party hostel. Cosy cafe area. Very close to main train station. The area is just really weird, but locals will pass the street too and it’s quick to walk through.

The location was awful and terrifying! The street is full of sex hotels and strip clubs- I dont know how no one made a comment about this already. As a woman traveling by myself, I felt like the street was incredibly dangerous. You could not be outside at night. 0/10 for the location. It is a shame because the staff was nice. I cut my stay short because of how scary it was

We booked a private room with bathroom. The bathrooms smells very stong, so does the corridors where the communal bathrooms is. Moreover they was hair in the shower right after we checked in, which was obviously not ours. The location in quiet uncomfortable for young people and unsafe especially for young women. The hostel is based right next to a brothel and casino. To enter the stairway to your room, you’ll have to contact reception to open in anytime, a bit uncomfortable but good for safety.

location is not that far from the central station but it located middle of the entertainment section so it's too noisy at night.

superangenehm, schöne Aufenthaltsräume mit Charakter, Tee Kaffee zu jederzeit vorhanden, sogar Hafermilch und echte Blumen. jeah !, sehr nette Mitarbeitende, Frühstücksbuffet für 7,50 und saubere praktische und schöne Sanitärräume. 5 min zu Fuss zum Bahnhof ist sehr praktisch. Die Stimmung draussen: sozialer Brennpunkt, drinnen sehr sicheres Gefühl.

Stay clear from here, if you're not street smart. I couldn't even find the entrance before I had to evacuate. My gut tells me it's about time to leave quick, but calm, when junkies, beggars, thugs and aladeen looking engineers start slowly closing in on you. What an experience. almost like from a movie. I ain't dying for 40€ keep the money, I'll book elsewhere

Ostello ok, ho scelto la soluzione con tre letti e bagno in camera. Letti vecchi ma comodi anche se un pò rumorosi, stanza pulita. Ricordo ancora una volta che si sono 3 euro da pagare all’arrivo per le coperte (strategia di marketing molto discutibile). Collegato molto bene con il centro citta. Problema non insignificante è la zona in cui è ubicato, sei nel red light district con tante persone all apparenza drogate che sembrano zoombie

The chamber was really cheap so it’s was cool. For the location, the hostel is not in the best area of Frankfurt. I didn’t feel really safe as a young woman, while walking in the street especially in the evening. Although I didn’t had any trouble. The real problem in the hostel was the cleanness. The bathroom was ok, but I find a lice in my bed (and it was not mine.). Also someone let hair (WITH LICES) in the sink of the common bathroom, that was disgusting. Otherwise the staff was really nice!

I stayed here back in Apr. 2024. If you're going to stay at a hostel in this area of Frankfurt, this is probably the best choice. It's not the hostel's fault at all, but the area outside the hostel is really terrible. It's right in the middle of the red-light district, which I normally wouldn't care much about, but I did almost get mugged by a couple guys across the street from the hostel late one night, but the hostel staff let me in right away because they recognized me, frankly saving me. The inside of the hostel is pretty nice. The lounge area is very comfortable and spacious. The staff are really chill, really nice, and they'll take your stay seriously. My room was high up, which had an alright view. You get a huge trunk under your bed to put your luggage in, which was kind of nice. Pulling it out over and over again was a bit of a pain (that's my own fault for being forgetful), but it's definitely spacious, so you'll likely have room for all of your things. I personally had a ton of extra room because I traveled light. The overall quality of the room was alright. There's nothing wrong with it, it just was... alright. Sometimes, that's a great thing. There's a pool table in the basement and there's an entertainment area: tons of DVD's and Blu-Rays to watch on a decently sized flat-screen. There's a small kitchen area that is in the same room as a washer and dryer that guests can pay to use. It's frankly too crowded in the kitchen/laundry room once more than 2 people are in there. I recommend they find a different setup for these two services. Each floor gets a couple private showers to use. I don't know if it was a fluke with mine, but it was THE DARKEST shower I've ever been in in my life. It was really difficult to see anything in there, which made me feel really uneasy.

Es war großartig, wie ich bei Euch schlafen und duschen durfte! Dass das ganze Haus etwas bebt, weil unter ihm die Bahn fährt und um es die Straßen-Aktivitäten manchmal etwas laut werden, hat meinen Schlaf nur befördert, sodaß ich Eure freundlich vorgelegten Ohrstöpsel gar nicht brauchte. Eure freundliche Begrüßung und Eure Fürsorge für mein Wohlergehen über den ganzen Tag haben mich sehr beeindruckt! Einen ganz herzlichen Dank,

A limpeza do quarto não estava boa, encontramos um pacote de lenços atrás da cama e restos de bala atrás do aquecedor. Ao tomar banho o chão do banheiro molhava inteiro e os corredores do hostel cheiravam muito mal, como se não tivesse nenhuma ventilação no local

It's real hostel for social and backpack, I love it.

Ist halt direkt am Bahnhof gelegen wo komische Leute sich aufhalten aber ich habe mich sehr sicher gefühlt. Wenn man mit den Vibe klar kommt dann ist es definitiv witzig. Atmosphäre war auch sehr gut als ein Volunteer gratis Bier für alle mitgebracht hat! Aber die Bettwäschegebühr finde ich etwas übertrieben. Für eine Nacht war das voll in Ordnung.

Really nice people, liked the breakfast. It sad that you can't lock up your bad without a padlock or paying, but that's a minor issue, most people have one.

It should be your last option…

Super recomendable :)

Todo cool, solo que la zona no es nada buena, del resto excelente

great hostel, I happily recommend a lot of the rooms including the showers reek very strongly of smoke, despite the no-smoking policy

No curtain on the beds. Was pretty quiet the night I stayed. Really close to the central station. It says it has a microwave and it does not :(. There is a lot of older men and d*** users around the area of the hostel and it’s next to a brothel. There is DID NOT feel safe walking around outside the hostel as a woman.

This was not my favorite hostel. While this hostel does note the location may not be best suited for everyone, I wasn’t expecting to feel that unsafe. Inside the hostel I felt safe but on the street outside the door I did not. You had to pay for the bed sheets which I’ve never had to do at a hostel before. The bathroom/shower situation was very limited. I think this hostel could use some renovations.

It was alright! The elevator doesn’t go all the way up to all the floors, upon arrival you have to pay about 10€ even after you already paid for your whole stay. I have never really had to do that before so it was weird to me. People were straight up fighting outside all night and the rooms door was really hard to close and took many attempts. The staff was chill but I don’t think I would go back again

Se ofrece un servicio calidad-precio bueno, tener en cuenta que al llegar te cobrarán 2 euros por noche y 3 euros por las sábanas, lo dice en la información del antes de reservar y como no lo leí en el momento si me sorprendió un poco, del resto todo muy bien en general.

Nicht viele Wörter zu sagen, dann noch 4€ für Bettwäsche.. das hab ich zum ersten mal gehört?!

Me encanto el sitio. Habitaciones muy cómodas …aunque yo aconsejaría poner cortinas en las literas principalmente en las mixtas…sería un detalle . Yo no tuve problemas con la zona donde está situado el hostel…pero es para valorar (ellos lo dejan muy claro con anterioridad) Está a un paso de todo, estación de trenes, centro, río, etc. El hostel tiene muchoooo ambiente y te dan gratis café, te , agua fría y caliente. La cocina está muy completa y limpia.

Everything fine, the Hostal itself is really nice, the staff was kind and the living lounge is really comfy, the only thing is the location, as a woman traveller I wouldn't have felt comfortable walking around the outside of the hostel if I hadn't gone with my boyfriend. The area isn't nice to walk around.

Terrible, don't stay here. They charge extra for bed sheets... imagine charging extra for bed sheets on top of the listed price then not even making the bed and on top of that minne had stains. There's two men's toilets on my floor, two showers with the two showers having a glass door inbetween each other so you see the other person. It's also in the red light district so it's disgusting outside full of homeless people

Bin sehr zufrieden und komme wieder

I liked this hostel because it had some personality in the main room, it had a good vibe. The location is perhaps a bit weird at night but again I don’t mind. I felt safe, no worries. Would stay again.

This is really not a very good hostel because it is in a terrible neighborhood and is basically no frills. The thing it has going for it is a relatively cheap place next to the Frankfurt HBF.

Seedy area but near the main train station so we tried it, go for someplace a little nicer unless that’s the goal

Todo muy bien. La mujer que me atendió para hacer el check in no fue para nada amable, me trató mal a mi y a la persona que estaba adelante mio en la fila. The woman how works in the reception was very rude with me in the moment I was doing the check in. I coment this situation with a other guy how arrived some minutes later and he said that he have the same experiencie with her

J’étais plutôt inquiète après avoir lu la plupart des commentaires mais au final j’ai été plus que satisfaite ! Les chambres sont clean et spacieuse, l’espace commun est grand, j’ai eu le droit à la soirée pâte gratuite, niveau sécurité vraiment top…Bref merci beaucoup !!! Pour ce qui est de l’extérieur, eh bien oui vous êtes dans le quartier rouge, vous avez juste à marcher un peu ou prendre les transports et vous irez très bien ;)

The property was not clean. I have seen fungus on the walls.

Good things - the place is located bang in the middle of the main city. Opposite a station that straight connects to airport. Very close to main tram line also. Lot of places to visit within walking distance. To improve - the staff is always grumpy. The coffee was cold and I was told to go and microwave it (they had just refilled the container). The kitchen is in basement and also has the washing-drying machines. No regular cleaning by staff. stinking sink. floors are damp and smelling too

Great Place.

its located in the red light area which can seem a little off but also theres loads and loads of noise coming from outside in the rooms its not quiet like i said being the red light area the prices are too high i feel because they charge 3 euros extra for bedsheets which is again too much. yeah the rooms were as expected but idk wouldnt go there again. The reception was nice free coffee yay but other than that underwhelming at best.

About a 20 minute walk from the old town but it was nice to be right next to the train station. Friendly and helpful staff, cool vibe, it was social in the lobby and quiet on the dorm floor. The locker was nice and big (a top-opening drawer under the bed, allowing easy access). Even the doors automatically close quietly, so as not to wake dorm-mates. Super clean. I was in a dorm and my only real issue was the minor smell from other people in the room but that's dorm life. Great stay overall.

While some might have their qualms about the neighborhood, it's really a great place to be if you're just passing by or want to get around FFM quickly. The staff was friendly and helpful, there was complimentary coffee and tea, quite a few entertainment options, a decent room... I just wish there had been one more shower on our floor.

Ein tolles Hostel mitten in Frankfurt. Die Lage mitten im Rotlicht-Viertel ist abends vielleicht nicht ganz ungefährlich, aber aufregend ;-) Die Zimmer sind rustikal und sauber.

Bom para a qualidade/preço. Funcionários/voluntários super simpáticos e prestáveis. Zona menos agradável por alguns motivos, mas isso é devidamente explicado pelo hostel. No geral, uma boa estadia, os colchões eram bons, mas os beliches frágeis, o que qualquer movimento da pessoa se cima levava a abanar tudo.