Hostel 639

do not book in this hostel!!!!! it has been the worst place i've ever been in, and trust me, you cannot even immagine how bad this place is! as soon as we got in , we got hit by the terrible smell of an unclean place, and i think it hasn't been cleaned for years.the receptionnist spoke bad english, i guess she was brazilian or something,the room was horrible, the sheets were unclean and the garbage bin hadn't even been emptyed before we came so there were still used tampons,papers and other stuff in it. The shower was broken so it was almost impossible to shower there. during the night bugs came out, so the next morning i had to kill some of them on the bed...they were full of blood that they sucked from us the previous night,at this point i got really pissed off and completely horrified went in search of another place to stay. I made a scene so they gave us the money back, fortunately they had no objection. I would never even immagine one can actually stay in a place like this...besides it had very weird clients in there, even prostitutes living there i think....have no words to describe the night i passed in there....please avoid it, for your own safety!

The first view upon the so called 'Hostel' caused some laughter ... not of joy, but of shock.

The building itself looks like an old office building and as soon as you enter the building, the impression changes into a prison.

We'd announced our check-in time for 1 pm. We arrived an hour to early, so as we entered our room the floor was (still) dirty, the bin was still full (two bags of rubbish left), the smell was of old cigarettes and there was standing an old dirty mattress with stains (don't want to imagine WHAT kind of ...) besides the door. The beds weren't made either.

We thought this was because we arrived to early, but after nearly two hours waiting the cleaning staff still hadn't arrived.

So we went down to the reception and asked when we can except our room to be cleaned. The lady told us, the staff will be there soon. So we waited and after another half hour someone came (wordless) in the room and took the rubbishbag. The dirty floor and beds (including the mattress) remained. After this 'room cleaning' we went down a second time to ask if the rest will be cleaned, too. The lady told us, now nerved, that it is a step-by-step process. The fact, that our announced check-in time was already scored, didn't seem to matter.

Every guest would except a clean and tidy room by check-in. I don't think this is such a big deal.

We decided to do a little sight-seeing until the evening and hoped to come back and find the room finaly cleaned.

And, surprisingly, it was. The floor was still all over with dirt, but we were able to live with that.

I don't want to describe the excact condition of the shower... but you should bring some anti-bacterial cleaning stuff with you.

On the third day of our stay we saw how the shower and sink were 'cleaned'. An old, grey stained towel was used to wipe over... that was it.

The toilets on the corridor were in a more than awfull condition.