Riverside & China Town Hostel

Staff were very friendly and helpful when our tour to Brest Fortress and airport transfer were cancelled, the staff tried calling the tour company for us. Luckily the hostel ran day tours for the local area and Stalin Line, so we were able to sign-up to that and had a great day out. They also had airport transfer service for a reasonable cost, which was convenient and punctual.

We booked the Riverside Hostel and was placed in the Chinatown Hostel, way back from the river and quite far from Trinity Hostel which was their main reception. The kitchen facilities were not as expected- a sink, fridge and microwave in the hallway with a kettle on a shelf was not what was advertised on the website. There were not enough bathrooms/toilets - one shower room with toilet for 7 double rooms. We had to run to the Trinity Hostel to use the toilet there one morning as the only shower room with toilet was occupied by one of the 12 other people in the building. Our room had a double bed but only a single duvet and the heating in our room did not work, so we had to request for additional bedding. The bedroom curtains were very see-through, so with the bedroom window being next to the main walkway for general public, we had little privacy especially in the evening and night. The room itself is made up from fibre-boards, so we could hear our neighbours talk in their bedroom and the ‘communal area/lounge’ (a few cushions on a rug) was outside our bedroom, so we were woken up at 5:30am by a group chatting before leaving for the day.