This place is the worst. If you arrive between 11-4, it will seem as though nobody works there. You…read morewill sit in the lobby for hours being ignored. At around 3:30-3:45 PM, stand directly in front of the locked reception desk.
When an employee does finally show up, a mob will quickly form at the desk. The man working there took nearly 10 minutes per guest at check in, and actually left the line there to get in the tiny elevator with a group and put an additional bed in a room.
Bring your own towels and sheets, or be prepared to pay more. A guest in front of me was at the desk to report that his rented sheets had been stolen from the bed in his locked room while he was out.
Being a hostel, some rooms do not have private bathrooms. This is a tough choice - privacy is nice, but the bathroom made our room smell like poo. The entire bathroom is a shower, and the sink drains through a pipe that ends over the shower drain. The toilet paper was pretty yellowed and water-logged.
The room is somewhat like a prison cell, if the walls in prison could be punched through with a love tap.
PRO TIP 1: If staying one night, use the sheets as your towels and dump them on the floor of your "shower" room to soak up some of the poo smell, helping the next guest.
PRO TIP 2: Ask for a real key to your room. The electronic key cards rarely work, and the 'staff' knows it.
PRO TIP 3: Just watch Hostel instead.
