"My stay here was good, but making the reservations was a bit hard. There is technically a way to book online, but after entering your information, you're asked to proceed to another site (which is in Portuguese) to confirm the payment. As far as I could figure you had to be registered with the site to do this. I ended up contacting a person in the Portugal hostel association – Solange Batista — by e-mail and she made the reservations manually for me. At least in regard to this hostel (at the time I went, in July 2005) reservations are... more »