All reviews come with a temporal condition; not all of what I experienced will be experienced by others at all times of year. Specifically, during the occasional hot days of summer -- there are not many in Riga -- you'll need the windows open at night, and with that you're going to get a lot of street noise, particularly on the weekends. It's still very noisy at 0200 in Riga during most nights of the week in the summer.
What's worse is that the curtains are not at all opaque in the bedroom, and there are none on a window the other room, so good luck sleeping in there on the sofa later than 0500. And this goes to why I cannot recommend the place, so much as I would like to. The place suffers substantial neglect in management and in investment. A third of the lights are burned out or just missing. (Lights aren't that necessary in the summer in Riga.) There are no towels in the kitchen at all --paper or cloth -- which makes handling a boiling sauce pan with broken/missing handles very tricky. There is no pasta strainer. Hostels have much better equipped kitchens.
The shower is a classic "garden hose in a bucket" where you have to depress and hold a trigger to operate the shower head. This has become uncommon in Europe, and I've almost never experienced this in Eastern Europe any more, and I've been everywhere from Russia down to Albania and live part of the year in former communist Europe. (Yes, I missed that in the photos, but it looked like the shower head attached to the wall, but that's only to hang it with the head facing the wall.)
And the place really wasn't that clean. It wasn't terrible, but walking on the floor in socks, I would collect the hair of prior guests. I don't have long blonde hair, myself. I wouldn't have cared about this, but you put this all together with the above and the dearth of homey touches and I just think the management corporation is slipping on this one. That goes with a last minute change on who was to greet me; a pleasant guy who was always 10-20 minutes later than others said he was going to be. Probably not his fault and, again, not a big deal by itself.
I debated the candor with which I was going to write this, folks, but when you consider how much certain hosts bust a hump to make you comfortable in their humble homes, and all those folks who do hospitality right, I think it's unfair to them not to put it on the table in this case.