The hostel is situated at the end of an anonymous residential street, with no sign or name on the cage-like double fenced gate. But don't get fooled by the name: this is no Ritz! it is a big hostel, very impersonal and with a cold atmosphere. Chance are that if you stay here is only because you're killing your time waiting to join some tour or some other the next day, so since it is not the staff friendliness or the livelyhood of the surrounding which brought you here, you only have to be patient and make the most of it till they come to pick you up.
So for the time being, while you sleep in the huge crowded 18 bed dorms (en-suite), pass in front of the reception and TV lounge to get to the showers, and submit to the rip off prices of their "restaurant" (all the other restaurants around close at about 4:30pm [16:30] on most weekdays), internet and washing machine, you can relax next to the small swimming pool or enjoy the view of Jo'burg from the back of the old mansion's turrets.
Otherwise go shopping, see a movie or go eat in the nearby two big shopping centres (Hydepark at a 15 minute walk and Rosebunk 30-40 minutes away). Although, if you have money to spend, there's Soweto and Suncity tours and night restaurants and pubs tours and shuttles you can book at the reception desk.
— Recensione esclusiva Hostelz.com
February 2004
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