The Lights Hostel & Rooms

Nice and clean hostel with a great central location — walking distance to the beach, city center, and main attractions. The staff was friendly and helpful. The room was a bit small and walls not very soundproof, but overall it was a good experience for the price. Perfect for short stays if you’re exploring Málaga on foot.

Overall I can recommend this hostel. I would describe the hostel as a family hostel. Meaning if you are a solo traveler this is the perfect place to meet new people. Why? In the evening around 7pm people meet on the terrace for drinks and to connect and if you want for 7€ you can get home cooked dinner like burrito or chili con carne. With other hostels there are pub crawls and other activities available. Rooms were ok, shared bathrooms cleaned regularly. Not anything you wouldn’t expect in a hostel.

I have a great experience in the hostel. It was my first solo trip. The staff are so nice, they are organizing the event every day! I recommend doing pub crawl and city tour. I met with many good people there. Fooood is so nice both breakfast and dinner.

Great hostel in a great location in the city. Lots of shopping nearby and felt very safe. Plenty of food options nearby. Quick easy check in. And they speak both English and Spanish. Beds were comfortable and showers/ bathrooms plentiful. They have a kitchen upstairs and an haddou hour on the roof in the evenings .

Very nice experience, they took up for volleyball, and we had free sangria, and we paid 7 euros for a good dinner, pop crawl was fun. Beds are comfortable, better ac would be amazing

5 Stars for the staff and the Volunteers 0 stars for everything else. Beds are very uncomfortable as the mattresses are either very old or just shit. The Ac in the room can only be controlled by a staff member so sometimes it will be freezing sometimes boiling and if you wake up at 3 am freezing you will have to walk to the reception to turn it down a bit. The bathrooms are very dirty and have a bad smell and they are mixed gender which i wouldn't mind but there is no space to get changed you will have to get changed in the dirty toilets.

Everything in the Lights Hostel is amazing! They have amazing staff and social atmosphere. Free tea and coffee! Along with towels service as well! The best hostel ever literally!

CATFISHED by a hostel. What a nightmare, I did not stay one night. I arrived and the rooms were disgusting and not like the pictures at all! The beds do not have proper curtains (see photo, honestly so dumb that curtain) or full sized lockers under the beds (and I was shown a couple rooms). Lockers were small and did not fit my 40L backpack. Everyone’s luggage crowded the already small rooms. There were dirt and huge stains on the bed/curtains. Mattresses were falling apart. Overall felt dark, claustrophobic, and unwelcoming in common areas, not the clean, airy, seemingly new hostel I was expecting from the pictures (staff said the photos must be from opening 10 years ago!) This place did however have a nice kitchen and a lot of social events, dinner, pub crawls etc. Sadly the cleanliness and welcoming vibe was lacking so much that I did not even stay one night. Staff was very nice, empathetic, and understanding of my dissatisfaction. Staff even helped me switch rooms (still gross) and then find another hostel to stay at when I still wanted to leave. If you are tolerant on the level of cleanliness and want a party hostel, this place might be for you. But I was searching for a clean bed with a little privacy, which this hostel could not provide. Lesson learned to never book a nonrefundable stay again!

Wonderful new find in the centre of Malaga. Right opposite the central market and close to the station. It's part of a really good hostel which offers cheap dinners and breakfasts and Happy Hour drinks on the roof terrace. For us older folk the Suites provide lovely well designed rooms, some with balconies, and lovely bathrooms. How quiet they are depends on the other guests and at time of writing there's a very noisy group through the wall. That said the price is very good value for the quality of the room and is a very good option for a comfortable and cheap place to stay in Malaga.

I stayed there for two nights to discover Malaga (booked via Expedia). I had a bed in a bedroom for 8 People (mixed), breakfast included. It's easy to get to the Hostel - bus stop and train station (to the airport) are nearby. The People at the reception were very friendly and gave me some good tipps what to visit in Malaga... The bedroom is really small, but functional, the only thing I missed was a cupboard (you can put your things into the drawer under the bed) and there is no place to put your suitcase. The aircondition in the rooms is also great (and useful during the hot summer in spain). The whole hostel has free wifi, which I used a lot, a kitchen (with fridges where you can put your food) and there are some events every day (for example 'tapas tour', free sangria in the evening, and you can also book dinner...). The breakfast was also ok for the price: coffee, juices, cornflakes & cereals, toast with margarine, nutella and jam... There are toilets (mixed use) on every floor and a seperate bathroom for men and women on the 2nd and 3rd floor. The rooftop-terrace is the highlight in my opinion (nice shadowy places, bar, and you can smoke there...). If I go back to Malaga sometime I would stay there again!