I only booked this space because my flight from Mexico was changed, I was forced to spend a night in San Diego and this was the cheapest seemingly decent place to stay.
There are many many stairs to climb up to the hostel and maybe I didn’t read properly and that is mentioned but I feel it must be noted. I arrived with over 100 lbs of luggage at 2am and fortunately there was someone working the front desk and he graciously helped me with the largest bag. I had absolutely no clue this street is party central like New Orleans and wouldn’t have booked it had I known that / I’m also not normally hostel person. I arrived to literal fresh human shit that we had to lift my suitcases over to enter the building and drunk people and piss everywhere. Not a good environment for me (or anyone in my opinion) but the hostel was as quiet as one could be with all the chaos outside. Though I wish the windows could be opened because it lent to a claustrophobic feeling room. But for one night it was fine. The bathroom was clean, all the staff was incredibly nice and I really appreciated the guy that helped me at night.
Just note that It’s just a really weird neighborhood. Even in the morning there were folks clearly on drugs (like crystal and weird shit) roaming the street and confrontational to me and another hostel guest while we were smoking in front at 9am.