This place is cheap, but if you paid 3 times more for your night in London, you'd get 20 times as much in return. The place is like a maze and the doors are unlocked by an app on your phone. All I could think is that if there was a fire, we'd all have been deadas there's just no escape. The room was internal, 15 beds, 5 triple bunks, no window. There was something that looked like an air conditioner and it was making a noise, but it wasn't cooling anything. In fact, at about 3 am it actually started to heat up. It's honestly was so much like squid games that you might as well just imagine spending a night in the squid games dorm. It was boiling.
It was no less rowdy either. Power farting, pillow humping, bed shaking, drugs, alcohol, prisoners just out of jail with their clothes still in prison bags, homeless (fair enough I guess, but I've not seen it in other hostels in Europe). PS. Someone stole my clothes from my bed while I was asleep. Scary and annoying.
Security wasn't great. Anyone could walk in and out up to 10pm and could just wait by the door for someone to open it for them to walk through. The main door to the dorm broke and locked us in at one point. They propped it open with a screw. Didn't feel safe even leaving things in lockers.
Bathrooms were abysmal. There was one shower for well over 30 people.
The staff at the nice and fresh looking reception were nice, but the place was a hell hole. I've been in a prison building (as a visito
