L Hostel

Comment by Gudrun, Austrian

October 2008

Only for young people who like to party
The building itself is really beautiful and the staff are partly very nice and helpful, partly unfriendly. Everything is brand new and stylish. But they shouldn't talk about luxury, that's definitely something else. First, the hostel is not finished yet and there was a lot of bad planning (no restrooms on ground floor where breakfast takes place). Also it is very noisy. We could hear each step on the whole floor. Dorms are too close to private rooms, so I really would only recommend it to very young people who like to make party all the time and are able to sleep like a stone even if there is light or noise. Breakfast is a joke -- it is from 7 to 9, which is really not long time. If you arrive later than 7:30, you don't find a seat but you are not allowed to eat the food in your room. If you arrive later than 8:15 there is nothing any more. There is a kitchen in each dorm which is still unfinished. We shared bathroom with a dorm occupied by six boys, that was the same as having no bathroom at all as they needed to shower a lot. Especially annoying was that the toilet was in the bathroom so we had to wait all the time for it. And the only alternative was one toilet in the cellar (we were in fifth floor).

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