Rocking Js

Nice access to the beach

Staff didn't really help, the structure didn't respect the quiet time at night although there were not a lot of people as guest . Bikes available were old and not well functioning.

Good location

They have far too many beds for the facilities. The area we were in had one toilet/ shower for 100 people. This meant there was always a queue and they couldn’t keep on top of cleaning. They don’t really clean the tent area, just brush the dust away, so you can see old food and ear buds within the grates the floor is made up of. We spent 3 nights here and got no sleep the whole time. They have terrible music pounding through the hostel even until 4am. The whole place was full of people taking drugs. Even at 2pm we wanted to sit by the beach but felt so uncomfortable with people snorting drugs from the table next to us that we couldn’t. The staff are also really unhelpful and even though they supposedly have a tour desk when we asked the hostel said they didn’t have any tours. We’ve been backpacking for 9 months and this is by far the worst place we’ve stayed.

The tents were surprisingly comfortable and cool on an evening. The hostel itself was pretty cool.

There was really loud music playing until at least 2am every night and then I'd usually be woken up around 5.30 - 6 am by people talking loudly or alarms going off. There were about 6 showers to accommodate the 200-300 people stopping there and not many more toilets than that. The kitchen was also very small considering the amount of guests. I also think the tent and dorm room prices were bumped up for Easter weekend, and given the increase in people staying there and the lack of facilities, I think this was totally unfair and just indicates that the hostel was more concerned with making as much money as possible over Easter weekend, rather than the comfort of the guests. More facilities definitely needed!!

Cool layout and art. Service was good

This place is cool but definitely a down and dirty party spot. Got a private room to try to get a decent sleep at night, but slept VERY little the two nights we were there. Very noisy room. Lots of loud music very late at night/morning. Was woken up at 5am by a group of people who decided to BLAST their Trance music and have a dance party for the next few hours. They kept partying into the late morning yelling at each other and smoking cigarettes all over. I saw the same group throw their trash on the beach and roads around. Found reminiscing of blood on our bed sheets. Got a shuttle through the hostel to a neighboring town in Panama that should of took maybe 2 hours but ended up being 7 hours of waiting around outside in the heat at various points because of drivers not showing up between drop off points. Burned a whole day “traveling” when I had plans to do a boat trip that day.