Rising Cock Youth Hostel is a really great place to stay -- as long as you can get the room you asked for. The owners of this hostel are really nice and wonderful people, which means they let people stay for more nights than they originally planned (and since the hostel is really great, many people want to stay longer). The problem with this is that they don´t take into account overbooking, which means you might not get the room you asked for, or you might be sleeping on a couch or the floor with a pad, or if you are lucky you will get an even better room (like a private apartment) for the original price. Either way it goes, they will do their best to accommodate you but it could take a while and be somewhat frustrating.
However, the wonderful free breakfast of crepes served until around noon, with homemade lemon tea, usually makes the tired backpacker forget about the night before. In addition to this, the hostel has a huge common room with a big screen TV that has just about every movie you could think of, in addition to three computers with free internet access; fun games like Operation and Uno; an out-of-tune guitar; and some of the best fun, relaxed, ready-to-party travelers around.
There are three or four bars within about a two-minute stumble from the hostel, there is a grocery store right next door, and the staff will quickly point you to the nearest extremely cheap burger bar or sandwich shop. You can cook and most likely share food in the kitchen. If you are short on clothes, they sell Rising Cock t-shirts and shorts with the slogan "A cock in hand is worth two in the bush" or "It is our business doing pleasure with you" (this can give you an idea of the mentality of the place). Of course a quick walk of five to ten minutes brings you to some of the most beautiful beaches around. Minus the first few hours, the hostel is amazing.
To get there from the bus station, you walk down the main road with the ocean on your left. Turn right after a parking lot and a before a church and before you start walking uphill. Close to the church you will see a pharmacy -- take that road (though it's not a car road) up the hill until it actually becomes a road for cars. You will then turn left, then immediately right and it is around the second door on the right (right after the grocery store). If you get lost, any time of day you are likely to find someone in a Rising Cock t-shirt nearby that can point you in the right direction (literally, we ran into five before we ever made it to the hostel).
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
April 2007
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3.9 Average from 7 Ratings
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