Hostal Brisas y Olas

Pros +

• Location, price
• The staff were super friendly, great location and free coffee!

Cons -

• I expect just two things from a cheap hostel, the ability to sleep and the ability cook in the kitchen. Sadly these two things were unnecessarily difficulty as this hostel. The room was riddled with mould, none visible but a very pungent smell sat in the muggy air, made worse that there were no outside windows. Just outside our room was a light on a sensor, so sensitive that moving my feet while lying in bed would turn it on, sending bright rays of light directly on our face. The fan, very essential in rooms like this would only work on the lowest setting or a persistent ticking would begin. And to top it off at 5am each morning the hall outside our room proved to be a meeting place for the workers, laughing and shouting until about 6:30 So it's safe to say I had a very broken sleep here. Which brings me to the second expectation, able to cook food. And yes I was able to cook, but only after washing each untensil before hand, either sticky with oil or growing mould, the cupboards were gross, the stove sticky. And the whole upstairs was overrun with ants.