Excellent
50 Reviews
Excellent
50 Verified Reviews
2-4 Cron Street, Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand. See map
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When you stay at Haka House Franz Josef in Franz Josef Glacier, you'll be in the mountains, just steps from Our Lady of the Alps and 4 minutes by foot from Westcoast Wildlife Centre. This eco-certified hostel is 0.4 mi (0.7 km) from Glacier Hot Pools. Make yourself at home in one of the 38 guestrooms. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms with showers are provided. Featured amenities include luggage storage, laundry facilities, and a vending machine. Limited parking is available onsite.
No cribs (infant beds) available
No elevators
Qualmark Sustainable Tourism Business Award
Guests will receive an email with special check-in instructions
Guest will receive an email before arrival 24 hours
Professional property host/manager
Pets not allowed
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
English
Spanish
Free WiFi
Parking available
Concierge
Laundry
Entertainment
Non-smoking
Laundry facilities
Garden
Picnic area
Front desk (limited hours)
Billiards or pool table
Parking (limited spaces)
Terrace
Nature reserve
Vending machine
Eco-friendly cleaning products used
Wheelchair accessible – no
At least 80% of all lighting comes from LEDs
Comprehensive food waste policy
Comprehensive recycling policy
Excellent
50 Verified Reviews
Exceptional
14 Jun 2025Exceptional
23 May 2025Great place to stay overnight. Many dining options very close. A bit noisy until 10pm, then quiet, so no complaints.
Exceptional
30 Apr 2025Clean, cosy and well run, highly recommend
Really happy with the room, clean, cosy and well run place.
Fair
23 Apr 2025Great location and hostel has huge potential to be so nice.. rooms and bathrooms were clean on arrival but unfortunately they are severely understaffed and can see the affects after a day or two (no toilet paper and kitchen/bathrooms are disgusting). Not a reflection on current staff who were very nice but something management needs to look at.
Poor
20 Apr 2025The ablution area was filthy and only one woman's toilet for the whole top floor
Exceptional
16 Apr 2025Very clean, good facilities esp smart tv
Excellent
13 Mar 2025Very noisy all around. Our room by communal bathroom, so door slammed everytime someone used it. Staff helpful and friendly great location
Excellent
28 Feb 2025Beds were comfortable, quiet at night. We had workmen making building noise (banging, drilling) outside our room for both afternoons, which was really annoying and hopeless given the cost of the room. Overall, clean and well run, weird having to put our sheets out with the room cost!
Exceptional
19 Feb 2025Really great place to stay
Exceptional
01 Feb 2025This was a great stay. Very clean. Staff was friendly and knowledgeable. En-suite was perfect. Good value.
Exceptional
29 Jan 2025New and clean room, large kitchen, central walking location, and clean bathrooms. All you could ask for!
Exceptional
14 Jan 2025The reception girl is very nice and helpful. Appreciate that. Moden design dorm.
Excellent
04 Jan 2025The service here was amazing. But the only down side is it's so loud like you can hear everything it could just have been bad luck with the person next to our room.
Excellent
30 Dec 2024Nice place to stay . Everything clean and easy going . I didn’t see the staff because no problem at all. I really recommend this place .
Exceptional
27 Dec 2024Great
Exceptional
23 Dec 2024Well appointed comfortable dorm with 4 bunk beds, storage, curtains and individually compartmentalized. We were a family of 7 and with kids. Kids had a ball, large expansive kitchen with games section adjourning and the best but is it is a stone's throw away from the town with all the dining options avail.
Excellent
17 Dec 2024Overall good
Comfortable beds, great showers and lounge area, great location. A little sad that the sauna was only open 3 hours
Excellent
03 Nov 2024We were cold at night and had to unblock the shower drain but otherwise all good
Excellent
28 Sep 2024was easy to find, walking distance to places. happy with our stay!
Poor
18 Sep 2024When we arrived we found that the site had already charged the two nights that we booked. Despite having paid we found the conditions so awful that we did not stay, but easily found a nearby place that was cheaper and much better. I would say that the site and its system borders on unethical
Exceptional
12 Jul 2024Best hotel.in glacier township
friendly and profesdional. Facilities are new and well maintained. Staff gave good guides to sites.
Exceptional
12 Jun 2024Besttt in this town! Please keep the price affordable so I will definitely be here again
Poor
22 Mar 2024I stayed for 4 days and 3 nights, during that time the bathroom facilities were never cleaned despite me raising the issue to staff at reception.They were dirty and quite frankly disgusting. There was no toilet paper until the 4th day so it was lucky I had my own stash. No soap was provided in the bathroom either. Flooding of the bathrooms also seemed an issue. The kitchen facilities were also dirty and never cleaned. On a positive, the room I stayed in was nice and clean.
Exceptional
17 Mar 2024Great stay at Haka House
Fantastic location, great accomodations and great atmosphere
Excellent
17 Mar 2024Great stay, great location.
Great place to stay! The staff was super friendly and helpful. The location was great, easy to walk to food, stores, etc. The kitchen facilities had everything you could possibly need. We had a room with a private bathroom, which was nice. The bed was really tight against one wall, making it necessary to climb in through the end, which was not the best. We could hear activity in the men’s bathroom on the other side of our wall, but fortunately it didn’t keep us awake. I would definitely stay here again.
Exceptional
16 Mar 2024Great spot for exploring the area. Great room & communal facilities. Would recommend
Exceptional
07 Mar 2024Probably one of my favourite hostel stays in the South Island. I stayed in a total of three Haka Houses over my NZ trip, but I think Franz Josef was my favourite. Obviously the location is incredible and proximity to the glacier can't be beat. The kitchen is massive with lots of facilities and storage, the games room/lounge/dining room and movie room are all pretty generously appointed. It also lends itself well to socialisation and I think I unexpectedly made the most pals passing through here (and Arthur's Pass). The front desk staff are really nice and are there from 0800-2000hrs. There was no onsite parking (paid) available due to summer high season but plenty of free street parking available. All Haka Houses I've stayed at have the same bunk style with two AU/NZ electrical sockets as well as a USB-A and USB-C port, plus lockable storage that has the same thing inside (bring a decent-sized lock, I had some tiny ones and had to buy a medium one). This is a great idea. You can charge things while you're away and they're locked up, and if you don't have an international adapter you can use cable only. The privacy curtains are a good touch as well. They also have all had the nice enclosed showers with a detachable showerhead. And bath mats! I also think I had my best hostel sleep here, the beds are decently comfy and I got really lucky with roomies - three other women, none of us snored.
Excellent
06 Mar 2024Mostly everything was fine with our stay, except there was no TV. Please connect the TV
Exceptional
06 Mar 2024Another great Haka hostel. Common areas fantastic and large enough to accommodate the number of guests. Beds super comfortable and private. Staff at check in very friendly and helpful. Only minor gripe was no shower mats. There were some small rubbery mats, which I assume we're just for not slip purposes, because they and the surrounding floor were soaked (and freezing!). Would be good to provide floor mats to actually keep the floor dry
Exceptional
02 Mar 2024The large rooms were beautifully presented,and had all the features one could want.The hosts were friendly and v obliging.
Fair
27 Feb 2024Unfortunately the room we booked was flooded and so moved into a double bunk room with shared bathroom (we booked private en-suite room) Staff were helpful and also gave us the opportunity to cancel but there was no other accommodation available in the town. The manager gave us a part refund and was apologetic about the situation.
Exceptional
15 Feb 2024Amazing location and reasonable price
Exceptional
25 Jan 2024Very good facilities for the price, well worth it
Exceptional
20 Jan 2024Clean, comfortable bed, good kitchen facilities, Franz Josef is small so short walking distance to main street
Excellent
11 Jan 2024Good facilities. Would use again. Spacious kitchen area.
Excellent
10 Jan 2024Fantastic property, clean, super comfortable beds in the family room, lovely ensuite. Just remember your passports for check in. We only had our Canadian driver licenses & it threw a spanner in the works and made check in a nightmare, despite having prepaid for the room.
Excellent
09 Jan 2024post Copland Hike
Friendly staff, the sauna was a bonus and aided recovery after our long hike. a perfect wee stop over, super comfy beds!
Poor
25 Apr 2025只有外面
衛浴設備太少,廁所垃圾桶都滿出來 廚房太髒,桌面、爐台、餐具都髒亂都在一旁 房間的垃圾桶完全沒清,還留著前住客的滿的垃圾桶。 床邊插座沒有共用無法充電
Exceptional
18 Mar 2025Mycket trevlig personal, en av de bästa standarden på hostels!
Exceptional
02 Mar 2025Wir hatten ein Zimmer mit Bad für 3 Personen. Alles sehr sauber, auch das Bad. Der Aufenthaltsraum neben offener Küche war sehr gemütlich. In der Küche ist alles vorhanden. Es gibt einen Kaffeeautomaten (mit Zahlung), aber keinen Aufzug, was aber in den 1. Stock noch kein Problem ist.
Poor
03 Feb 2025Too noisy
Really noisy. Dryer started at 10pm and was finished an hour later but started every 2 minutes for 1 minute the next hour. So only quiet about midnight. it was so loud it was noisy. not even earplugs could block out the sound. really noisy. dryer started at 10pm and was finished an hour later but started every 2 minutes for 1 minute the next hour. then only quiet until midnight. it was so loud that not even earplugs could block out the sound. Furthermore the door to the toilet banged so hard that it could be felt in the bed. so I was woken up every time someone had to use the toilet. But it was clean and the beds/rooms were nice. but there was so much noise that I would never stay there again.
Excellent
29 Jan 2025Rent, men asocialt
Det var meget rent og alt er i god stand, men ingen snakkede med hinanden. I loungen sad folk bare med deres telefoner. Det blev ensomt, at være solo rejsende der
Poor
17 Jan 2025Loud, not clean,
Exceptional
09 Nov 2024Recomendo
Excelente localização, fácil estacionamento, cama confortável e quarto limpo e moderno.
Fair
18 Apr 2024It's ok for a ahort stay in the area
Exceptional
24 Feb 2024Es ist alles ganz neu renoviert in einem alten Haus. Das Zimmer (2 Bett mit eigenem Bad) ist klein aber ausreichend. Die Gemeinschaftsküche könnte häufiger eine Reinigung gebrauchen, sonst aber sauber.
Exceptional
17 Jan 2024Top
Auberge de jeunesse vraiment top. Elle a été rénové il y a peu. Elle se trouve près de toutes les commodités.
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Cute little room - a little small but that was to be expected. Bathrooms and room were clean, and there was a sauna and laundry facilities too. Loved our stay here!