This is a communal hostel, not appropriate for families with young kids. Two shared showers and only 2 toilets (1 male, 1 female) for potentially close to 24-36 guests. There is no privacy except in the closed toilet room. We were awakened at 3 a.m. with door pounding and shouting. Someone in the next room was being thrown out by the host (using all manner of 4-letter explicatives) for smelling bad. Sirens howled outside the window--may not have been related. The host who checked us in was nice enough, but the neighborhood doesn't have a safe feeling to it. We had a terrible experience here and would not recommend this place for families AT ALL.