(All personal opinion)
Good points first:
- The location is great, right infront of the hostel there is a chill place with a view at night that you can hang out at. Come down a couple of blocks and you will be right by the crowds and busy streets and square where there are people doing live shows: music, tricks, and etc. some of which are amazing. Also only 15mins away from the rossio square which is the downtown Lisbon and where you can find all the trams, big train station for between cities, the lift to a nice panoramic view point and going abit further up will lead you to the more modern part of Lisbon. Going to the right takes you to Alfama and the Martim Moniz and the allies that take you all the way up to the castle and fascinating churches and so on.
Not to mention, you are only a couple of blocks away from the best rooftop bars and best clubs for the ultimate lisbon night life.
- The hostel staff are great and friendly, they try to treat you like their own friends and family.
- They got events of their own so you don’t have to look further away, so its great for someone that doesn’t know anyone from lisbon and wants to hang out with a bunch of cool people to explore lisbon.
- The 24hr reception is great as well.
Bad points (sorry):
- The shower rooms are way too small
- The rooms in August are hot even with fans on and the windows open, the room I was in was super noisy at night with the windows open so you have to choose between some cool breeze or sleeping with less noise.
- The shower curtains seemed like they are not washed regularly, which was the only unclean part to be honest: everything else was decent clean.
- The price is not cheap for the hostel’s facilities and amenities. But then I don’t know if that’s the average price in Lisbon or not for a place like this.
- The beds are triple beds so get ready to be assigned to the top bed on the third level. Not so pleasing if you ask me; so check before hand if you could be on a lower bed.