We were a group of 5 mixed gender travelers staying at the Venice Beach Hostel for 5 nights. We booked a group room and it was perfect for our needs, neat and clean, and the staff helped us with everything we needed (towel that was missing, lamp that needed to be fixed).
The location of the hostel right around the beach is perfect and we were able to spend an extra night in a different room there without any problem.
The breakfast was great (enough waffles for everyone) and it was nice hanging out in the hostel with the other guests in the evenings.
We would definitely stay there again.