Panda Hostel

room

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The staff is friendly

No hair dryer 😞

A cozy hostel with so many books and beautiful paintings. The location is great. The guy at the reception was very friendly and helpful. Would visit again.

I booked a 4 person mixed dorm bed with ensuite bathroom. The staff were very friendly, and were very kind especially given my late arrival during the peak of the recent European heatwave. As stated, I was able to rent a towel and purchase a padlock for 5 euro, however it is important to note that they charge a 2 euro deposit for the towel. The staff were very accommodating and were able to slot me into an empty room, which I was lucky enough to have no one else come into the rest of the night (essentially allowing me a 'private' room). The room had straight forward hostel bunks and lockers, with underbed suitcase storage (it is important to note there is no way to lock these, however given their size/location it would be hard to not wake up if someone was attempting to drag the drawer with a heavy suitcase out from underneath you).

The lockers were very loud and would have definitely unavoidably woken up other people in the room due to normal use if there were others in the room. The room wasn't the cleanest, which given that it was unoccupied when I arrived was a touch disappointing. Additionally, there is no AC in the entire building, meaning that it was brutally hot during the heatwave (I recorded a temperature of 91 degrees Fahrenheit at 12:30 am). The room I was provided surprisingly did not lock, meaning the keycard access I was given was useless, however I am unsure if this was a malfunction of that specific room or a standard throughout the facility.