If you want to live with the locals then this is a great opportunity.The hostel is 3 rooms in an apartment block in Lubylino about 20 mins or so from central Moscow by subway.
Whilst we had the apartment to ourselves during our stay and this was great in some respects there were other aspects that did not work out so well for the 5 days we had there.
The owner who is reportedly fluent in English wasn't or at least for our experience.She was away when we arrived and we waited for someone to arrive to let us in.We were unaware that the owner doesnt live in the apartment so obviously is not always there.
The internet wasnt working and we tried to get across to the lady that let us in that we would like to access it but with no luck.When the owner did arrive a couple of days later to introduce herself she couldnt get the internet working either.All rather frustrating as we couldnt find an internet cafe in the city during our sightseeing.
Despite advertising that breakfast... more