Chinatown Travelers Home - Toronto, Canada

Comment by Cathy L., Canada

October 2009

Rude staff, smelly, dingy house
What a horrible experience! I arrived as scheduled and walked up to the house. An older Chinese woman was sitting on a chair on the porch and I asked her if this was the hostel. She scowled at me and said "no, no hostel what you want." Uh-oh. I turned around to leave just as a young Chinese guy was walking up. He said yes this was the hostel and let me in past the angry-looking woman. The house smelled bad and was dark and dingy. The guy acted like he was not expecting me and asked for my "paper." I started to dig it out, but was getting a really bad vibe, so instead I asked to see the room. It was awful, dark, dingy, very depressing, and smelled like rotten cabbage or something. Suddenly the young man said "your name is Cathy right, you are booked for two nights?" This just minutes after acting like he had no idea who I was or that I had a reservation. I simply left. What an awful hostel experience.