Michie Hostel

If you really don't have the money I arrived, and the room they offered me was full of garbage bags and extra furniture. Luckily, they answered my call and gave me another room, but I was supposed to have a king bed, not a queen. The ceiling light didn't work, so I gathered lamps to light the room. I felt unsafe as a man was sleeping in the shared space and was bothering my friend. The bathroom smells awful, but there was toilet paper by the sink. There is a hole in front of the urinals, which I suspect was an attempt to make a peek hole into the room I was supposed to sleep in. Someone put a fork in the shared kitchen, which attracted 100s of ants to the kitchen, and there were fruit flies around the trash can. It's a very eccentric and interesting room, but it was a bit unsettling. Our first night, we didn't hear anything from the 1st-floor nightclub, so I thought we were safe, but Saturday night, they played music well past 2 am. My friends wanted to get up early to go home for work, but we lost a lot of sleep to the pounding music. It would've been great if we didn't have to get up early, but it's just not the right place for a hostel. I looked in and there were only 3 people in the nightclub. Frustrating that I lost sleep over it. The area is nice, 20-30 min walk to the canal and close to There, There- a great sandwich from there. The lock on the door made me feel safe, and it was a nice room, aside from the broken light. The towels they provided me were dirst and had bits of rice or something in it.

The management is terrible and you’re better off going somewhere else. Staff is not on-site, communication with them is difficult &time consuming plus some of them are just plain rude, safety & security: there are no secure areas really anybody can walk in and crash in any room, cleanliness is a joke the place is absolutely filthy, rat droppings, and the dorm room itself is uncomfortable. I stayed for a few days out of the week I booked due to concerns regarding the safety and security of myself and belongings in addition to the lack of cleanliness.

The whole place had a weird smell. The fridge in the room looked like it hadnt been wiped down in ages. The bathrooms were dingy and didnt have any toilet paper.