I never stay in hostels ever. I would always choose a nice hotel over a hostel but in this case it was a stag/bachelor night so I did not have the luxury of choosing the accomodation. As I never stay in hostels I do not know what to base my experiences on.

The owner is a rude woman and oblivous to our concern about the condom wrapper she was leaning on. We had two rooms, one with two bunks and the other with 5 bunks. Thin matresses, thin duvet covers and even thinner pillows. The paint is cracking, the plaster is cracking and there is a flurry of carpet designs everywhere as though she has been collecting odds and ends over the years. The is a communal area downstairs with a kitchenette and living room area with a TV.

There is one mens toilet and one womens toilet upstairs which are of course shared by the entire hostel. The mens toilet is dirty, very very very dirty so I avoided the shower.

She refused to give us the code to the front door until the last... more