A hard core not-caring money-machine. You don't feel welcome here - but more like you're in the way. No warmth either from the fysical surroundings nor from the rather indiffernt staff. A stingy place where the facilities are scrabby and only offer the bare minimum you can get away with offering to be able to take money for being a "place to stay over night". There are microwave ovens but no cups, bowls and cutlery for putting in and eating the food and drinks to prepare in the oven. There are electric kettles but no kitchen zink with a tap to tap water in (there is no kitchen at all, only a table in the hallway) - you will need to tap water from a tap in the lavatory, that is places, so the water pours beside the zink and splashes out on the floor.
The kettle in my room didn't even have a plug that works in the Irish sockets, so it actually did not work!
The towels, pillows and bed sheeds SMELLED SOUR like a dirty dish cloth. I got one pillow changed to another but it turned out that the smell was everywhere. The smell is probably caused by the fact that all laundry is done in a small, packed and nasty room without windows behind the reception.
The reception area smelled like human pee all the four days of my stay witch made me think that noone ever cared about trying to clean away whatever caused the smell.
The flush in the toilets has yet not been fixed and does only work around every second time.
The litter bins in the toilets have no lid so I had the full view of some others bloody tampon (how much would it cost the hostel to buy a proper bin for each toilet in Ikea???).
The shared living room was locked at any time and you could only get access, if you got lucky and found someone from the staff in the building.
I had a window to the street and was entertained every night by the shouting, singing and screaming from the drunk people leaving the pubs between 2 and 3 and later again around 5 o'clock by the driving and beeping from rewinding of the garbage truck, the machine sweeping the streets etc.
The matress was good though. And once you have got your key and code, it is easy to get in and out. But that is about the only possitive things I can say about the place. Even it is cheap, it is not worth the money. I actually find that this place i not worthy for even low budget accomodation in Western Europe in the 21 st century.
- But if you dream of experiencing a time capsule of a low budget hostel as you would find it in Asia back in the 1990's, you have found the perfect place for your adventure!