Firehouse Hostel

Good, comfortable pillows. Staff is good at recommending local places. No insects in the rooms. Location is excellent. You also get discounted drinks at the lounge.

Facilities could be upgraded and updated. Pillow protectors need to be washed between guests. Rooms are a bit crowded. Showers should get upgraded.

Location ideal. The free breakfast is better than elsewhere, actual real orange juice on offer. Bagels and cream cheese. More cereal variety. The beds were interesting; clip-on fans for each bedspace. Some beds had windows. The complimentary beer at check-in. The staff is cool.

The top-floor women's bathroom is a bit of a disaster. The handicapped shower lacked a curtain which meant you're immediately down one shower and rendered it unequal accommodation possibly not in compliance. The water pressure and hot water is bad up there so I took showers on floor below. The showers need upgrading/fixing and seem pretty banged-up inside. Place seems vastly overpriced for what it is, and prices have gone up by leaps and bounds last couple years (but then I guess this gets into what the market will bear). Book very early or direct on their website for at least slightly better rates. Pictures make it look nicer than it is inside the group rooms.