Choice Backpackers

It quite nice for the price, I had a late check in and it went super smoothly and was easy to follow the instructions. Location is great too, okay bathrooms and didn’t smell horrible as i had read online, smelled like som many other hostels I would say. The kitchen was quit old and worn down but you were able to cook you food and had a separate room filled with refrigerators and a separate room for eating. The resection was nice too. I slept in a 8 bed girls dorm room with okay space, windows with nice view of the sky tower and cooling ventilation. You did have to make you own bed but it was all right.

Well after being there more than one month there are some conclusions. Place is well located and you will get what you paid for the really cheap price. That's probably everything what is good at that place. Girls at the reception are really trying and being helpful especially Blond lady is really nice and doing her job well. Trying beeing nice and helpful to guests. Problem there is an Manager E***. That Guy is being constantly rude on guests. And after 10 years working in hotels, beeing manager in 3-4* hotels, Airbnbs etc. I can tell that man shouldn't work in hospitality at. All.. why people doing jobs they don't like? This place in right hands can me much better in few weeks. Everything is about details. Like for example to tighten bolts at the bunk beds once at two weeks (cost nothing just little bit of effort), clean electric kettles, tousters, windows and manage better housekeeping as place is being dirty most of the time.. it cost nothing, but someone has to try at least. Strongly recommend to change manger to make this place little bit better

The staff were friendly and the check-in/check-out system was really easy to use. Our room was clean and in good condition, but the shared bathroom wasn’t very clean and wasn’t cleaned at any point during the three days we stayed. Overall, the stay was fine, but the bathroom maintenance definitely needs improvement.

In the night of the 28 I booked a room late around 9.50 ich pm when I arrived it was 10. 30. Reception was close, when on the site its written until midnight. I received an email told me to send my passport before 10 pm has I was running away from a violent interaction in the house I was sleeping when i booked and I had to pack my things and take a uber i didn't see the email before also at the time i reserved the time was already passed but i had no idea. When I arrived someone direct me to the person who was working earlier. The blonde girl was just in front of the backpack and even after telling her the violent situation I just lived and try to get away. She refused to let me enter. She say she don't care if I am staying outside its not her problem even if i told her i paid and just want to enter. I stay outside for a long time in front of the hostel. I heard her and her group of friends making fun of me and the fact I will be homeless for the night. The recognition of her unparalleled lack of decency and humanity was absurb. Lucky people let me enter after she left until I find an other hostel. I am still chocked by the lack humanity in this kind of circumstance as I heard by other person its not the first time she do things like this. If one day something similar happen to her i hope someone help her so she can face humanity at least once in her life.

I stayed at this hostel for 15 days and overall had a really good time. The atmosphere was friendly, and it was easy to meet people from different places. The location is convenient, making it easy to get around and explore the city. The facilities are simple but have everything you need for a comfortable stay. The kitchen is available, but it’s quite small and not always very clean, so it can be a bit challenging during busy hours. Staff were helpful and polite whenever I had questions. If you’re looking for an affordable and decent place to stay, this hostel is a good choice.

The location is top and the price very good. There are just a view minor things, like sometimes missing paper towels in the bathroom, a simple toilet brush, the kitchen floor closed for some hours every day even when you don't want to use the kitchen, but fill up your food stock or stay at the eating area. And why do the windows look like they weren't cleaned for a decade. Still a nice place for 24$ in Winter.

Basic dorms but very friendly staff with a good bathroom and kitchen! Plenty of storage space. The outlets were far from the bed but that’s minor.

Just stayed here for the past week. Wasn’t a big fan of this place. Seemed liked bizarre management decisions and definitely lacked certain essential amenities. Here are the pros: in a great location, accessible to so many things. It’s a reasonable price. Excellent water pressure and plenty of hot water. They were also very friendly. That’s about where this list ends. Cons: 1. I’ll start with the showers. I don’t know which rooms have the bathrooms and showers pictured in the photos they use on Hostelworld and on Google, but those are not the bathrooms and showers that my floor (floor 10) had. The showers are crammed in these small closets where there is ZERO room to move, undress, etc (see attached laughable photos); one shower doesn’t drain at all and forms a pond which then overflows; and both showers leak all over not just the little closet it’s crammed in, but all over the bathroom outside as well. In terms of the leaks, I really don’t understand how hostel managements don’t take showers in their own showers they’re trying to market and just fix the leaks. It’s really not hard. In terms of the lack of space, at that point, trying to cram showers inside closets isn’t the move - just give us a locker room shower setup. The photos they advertised are NOT what you get if you get a single room. This should be noted in their listing and photos of all bathroom should be provided if there is variation (which there was). 2. The lack of heat/heater midwinter. My single room was basically the same temperature as outside (midwinter) the entire time (so between 40-52 degrees F and 5-11 degrees C). I asked for an extra blanket and was provided one, so thanks to them for that. I understand not having individual climate control in every room, but at least heat the floors with some type of central heating. They really ought to make it clear that there is no heater. I was either under all my blankets in bed, or was bundled up and sitting on a couch in the lobby (where there was heat). Not a very enjoyable stay if I’m doing everything I can to avoid relaxing/decompressing in my room. Their excuse is probably that heating the floors or fixing the shower leaks/drains would be expensive. But they were also completely repainting the entire lobby 1 shade whiter than it already was. It looked like a normal hostel lobby and repainting it didn’t really improve it. So maybe save the money and invest in some heaters and plumbers. Kinda baffles me that repainting was a priority. 3. There was only 1 double holed outlet in my room, and it was nowhere near the bed. So keep that in mind. I can handle dingy places, or uncomfortable beds, or sour smells, or faded paint (not that it had any of those - if it did I didn’t really notice), but not having the essential of heat in the winter and having crammed, leaky bathrooms that weren’t advertised properly is an issue.