Max's Planet

Recently me and my girlfriend visited Toronto and deicide to stay in Global Village Backpackers hostel. A friend of mine stayed there about a year ago and recommend it, also I briefly looked at some sites dedicated to hostels and the rating were kind of ok. But when we arrived and entered this hostel we started to think that we did a big mistake. Fist the hostel looks old from outside when you enter it also looks old and dirty, plus strange small, like the one where old people live (however after few ours of being there we get use to it). Anyway I may understand this, what is important is the room; bed was ok, even with clean shits and towels (or at least it seemed so), but the carpet on the floor, window and shelf were very dirty. For some reason there was a knife but without a spoon and a fork, what’s happened to them? The worst thing was the noise, of course there was no air conditioner in the room, so in order to make room cool you need to open the window and if you do that you get the noise from the street, which is dam loud. That was one side of the building, on the other side there is bar, I guess if you open the windows there it will be steel pretty loud. Basically, you have two choices: do not sleep well because of the high temperature in a room or do not sleep because of the really loud noise from the street (because of trams). Also the breakfast was included there: cheap cereals, milk, coffee and kind of pancakes were available; probably a bum would be happy to have such breakfast but definitely it is not suitable for normal people. Also the canteen where you can have it looks like there was Hurricane Katrina a night before. The only positive thing is the personal there, they were nice and kind, but I would prefer to have unfriendly personal but clean and quiet room. Next time when I go to Toronto will definitely choose another hostel.