THE UP-SIDE: A basic hostel with all the basics. Those basics are... basic. THE DOWN-SIDE: Where to start? Front desk staff was continually unorganized and befuddled. Rooms like prison cells, with barely enough room to turn around. Literally. I'm not fat but I had to turn sideways to get up the aisle between the two bunkbeds. Even then, I was scraping against the beds. It's that impossibly tight. Keeping up with the prison theme, the ensuite bathroom is a joke. You have to press a button to get the sink and shower water to come out, and it last about 10 seconds. Then, you press it again. And again. It's designed that way. What an absolutely ridiculous and moronic design for a shower. Even with a quick shower you spend half your time pressing the button as you hurry to wash off. Forget about a relaxing shower after a day of seeing the city - this shower is work! There are no shelves or towel racks in the bathroom, making it almost impossible to function efficiently. Oh, and the rooms are hot, and if you open the windows, they open to an inner courtyard - a courtyard filled with young people screaming and laughing till 2 am just outside your window. THE SUM-IT-UP: Stay here for that genuine prison experience. read more

Overall this hostel was extremely disappointing. Apart from the fact that it wasn't particularly clean (when I arrived the bathroom floor was wet and dirty), the staff were unfriendly and incredibly unhelpful. I asked for information from one of the staff members on lockers and received several eye rolls as a response. Hilariously poor customer service. The rooms are more like cells - they pack 6 people into a tiny room, with zero space for people or bags. Security is also minimal at best. So unsafe, unhelpful, and unclean - avoid at all costs. read more

This was a great place to stay. The beds were a bit small, but there was plenty of space to meet other people, there's bathrooms in the rooms and outside of them, and the staff is super friendly. To top it off this place is also close to transit and a grocery store. It's definitely worth the price. read more

Girls especially solo or groups of just girls, should avoid this place like the plague. It's filthy, (possibly unhealthily so... mold can kill) creepy, and seemingly unsafe. Pair that with fantastically poor customer service and you are just a few steps and an innocent mistake away from a hostel experience that mimics the horror film. I checked in and out in under 12 hours and tried to get my money back for the second night booked. I had very valid reasons on why I could not stay there!!! read more

The place has poor maintanance and broken toilet fans that allow fumes from the toilet to spread all over the rooms and kitchens. So, you better eat out if you do not like to vomit. And sleeping well here is also a luck because many people are snoring badly and hostel admins do not enforce their quite time policy against noisy people. So, to get good sleep, you be better off outside of this building. read more