Guten Duck Moscow — Hotel in Basmanny District

Strawberry duck were compact and clean. It’s a first class hostel renovated from a historic monument. One of the best hostels in Moscow. Clean, nice design, convenience, quality of service, enough space, usable kitchen, cool coworking space, friendly staff, safe, and perfect location.

They offered free essential amenities: charging, lockable storage, shared bathrooms, towels. If you need slipper, you can buy it in front desk. I suggest you to bring / bought a rubber slipper from outside for bath. The hostel has professional washing and drying machines, 100 rubles for washing or drying.

Staffs were nice and friendly. Fluent in English and are willing to help. One of the female staff, give me a hostel tour once I arrived. You can even keep your luggage for free after you check-out! The service is attentive - they will call a taxi for you if you need. And pay it in front desk.

It's one of the best hostels I've ever stayed in. I stayed here for a weeks in September 2019 and during these days I experienced comfort and safety. I stayed on female dorm in 3rd floor. They fulfilled my earlier request for lower bed.

Each bunk has a socket, a lamp, a curtain and another cabinet with a number in which a large backpack can easily fit. Very clean, spacious, simple and pleasantly quiet room. Although crowded, the place is not noisy at all. The walls do not pass anything from the street or from the corridor.

Lucky enough to have a nice and pleasant roommates from other cities and countries - one of them has been living there for a very long time. None of them is rude or loud. They respect each other in terms of privacy. Glad I got a new friends.

The toilet and shower are regularly cleaned. Fyi, showers do not have doors which is common in Russia. But they do have plastic curtain in each showers. On my stay, toilet & showers in 3rd floor were under renovation. So I have to go down on 2nd floor for toilet and showers. It’s always queuing but it’s okay. Just have to know the perfect time to use it.

It is ideally located - on a quiet street, situated very close to the center which is full of awesome places, supermarket, beautiful park, shops to grab some food and a vibrant neighborhood. The metro station is only a 5 minute walk. In terms of location it's perfect! You can take a walk to Chistye Prudy to sit in the park.

I love this hostel and will certainly recommend. Great value for money. Would gladly to stay in this hostel next time, when passing...

Very modern and clean with excellent facilities and helpful staff. However there are a few key issues that made the stay stressful. The main issue is the size.

The kitchen was too small and always a bit hectic. The sinks always had dirty dishes left in them even though the staff made their best efforts to keep them clean, I assume due to people not having enough time to cleanup.

There were insufficient showers. This is made more frustrating by the fact that there are many pay only private showers. One night I couldn't have a shower because they were all in use.

The toilets were quite far away from our room.

I can see this place has a lot of care and attention put into it but I feel it is a little to large for it's facilities. If the number of free showers could be increased and an extra kitchen added then it would be 5/5.

If you are visiting here when it is quiet or you are not using the kitchen often then you will have an...

Three stars is a generous rating for a barely passable hostel. Those bathrooms that work are insufficient for the number of people, others have permanent 'out of order' sign. For a large floor of about 20 rooms, there are only 3 showers per gender, which means they are always busy and always unclean. Reception staff exhibit famous russian 'warmth', so you soon learn not to ask any questions because you'll be told to 'wait'. Internet is patchy, a problem that staff unable to solve. Kitchen is a dark dungeon that doesn't allow enough space to cook or to store food. Many guests make it their permanent home and spread all over the room, acting like they own the place and being inconsiderate to others, which makes for restless nights and tense encounters. I quite literally sought out ways to avoid coming back and most certainly wouldn't book again. Three stars are for...