This place is pretty terrible. I stayed here for three nights. There appeared to be blood spattered…read moreon the wall in the hallway. The first room we stayed in (we eventually changed rooms) didn't have its own restroom, so we needed to use the common bathroom, which was, itself, gross--people used the toilet and didn't flush; the lock on the stall didn't work. The showers were so gross that my partner insisted on buying sandals to use it. Moreover, there was no temperature regulation in the common shower, so only burning-hot water came out. The lighting in the hallway outside of our room didn't work. The door to our room had holes in it and the lock appeared to have been kicked in at one time (I'm not joking or exaggerating.) The entire lobby reeks of cigarettes.
The hostel is situated in a *very* rowdy neighborhood (Reeperbahn), which is full of drug addicts, homeless folks, and prostitutes (my purpose here is not to judge them, but to give you a sense of what kind of environment you'd be in). The hostel is accessed through an alleyway surrounded by strip clubs, which had vomit in it when we left to go out one night. The place is quite noisy. All in all, it was a pretty sh*tty experience.