Jason E
Google
This is an excellent hostel, well located for Sule Pagoda, the railway station and within walking distance of chinatown (ten minutes). Many fine restaurants nearby. The street it is located on is interesting enough but beware of cars creeping up behind you as there is no pavement. The hostel itself has an amazing reception area/bar. There are steep stairs up to the top floor where the dorms are - not great if you have heavy bags. Aircon is fantastic, there is a privacy curtain on each of the beds and the wifi was great. there's a balcony for smoking and just hanging out. The bathrooms are OK but not as well presented as the reception downstairs for example - functional would describe them best. Breakfast was a joke though - just bread and jam as far as i could see. my first night breakfast was included, next day i booked using a different site - breakfast was not included it seems. i didn't notice and after i'd put some bread in the toaster a guy told me not to eat it! i felt like shaking his hand and thanking him! i trotted off to an indian place and had some samosas and rice. even so pretty dumb incident over two slices of toast.||||one other point - day one cost me USD$5.5 using hostelworld. i said to the chap at the desk i'd stay another night for the same price. he said no, not possible price is $7. so i booked again (agoda i think)- $5 this time (no breakfast i now know) - presumably they have to pay a dollar to agoda for commission. so how stupid is that? i offered to pay $5.5 - they end up with $4?? however it is annoying and fiddly so be aware, scott hostel, by taking this position you are causing mild perturbation for your guests. Finally - 5% on top for using credit card!?? c'mon - everywhere else is 3%. ||||however this is a review of the hostel and not their pricing scheme - i rate the hostel 10/10. all staff members were helpful and polite - a well run outfit.
