HI - Oaxaca - Hostel Paulina

Wonderful, friendly, and clean hostel!
My friend and I stayed here in October 2005 and thought it was like a little oasis. We were in a six-bed female dorm, but there were only three of us in there and our roommate was really lovely. The room and bathrooms were always clean and there's this great garden out the back. The water feature in the lobby is really calming and the staff were very helpful and friendly. It's located very close to the zocala, restaurants, and shops. Plus, there's this awesome free breakfast, which is tasty and huge (I remember there being cereal, yogurt, fruit, toast, and cooked food). It's not a party hostel, but that meant we were able to get a decent sleep before our early starts. I would definitely stay here again!

I really liked this hostel. They offer tour packages of the surrounding area. It is centrally located (just blocks from the Zocalo) and the staff were very pleasant and helpful. I met some friendly folks who told my buddy about places to stay in Puerto Escondido. Also, a group of Mexican students (very young) for some reason all wanted to take pictures with me (ha ha ha). My only complaint was that the first night there were some rather young kids staying in our room who were up laughing and talking loudly past 3 a.m. (take it outside, kids)! I would still highly recommend this place. It was much cleaner then the first place we looked at and has a pleasant little atrium area and pond. Also upstairs there is space up on the roof to soak up the sun and see the surrounding area. Check it out!

An Amazingly clean hostel, but the unfortunate thing is that it doesn't have the same atmosphere as most good hostels do. It's more like a hotel in many ways. For pure comfort it's great. They need a kitchen though and they need to start selling alcohol in some capacity. It'll do the atmosphere the world of good!

It's the cleanest hostel I have ever been to, however the atmosphere and fun factor is missing.