White Hostel

Great hostel in a prine location at the heart of Limassol. Close to all Cafes, restaurants and attractions. 2 min from the beach front. Plenty of supermarket and buses nearby. The dorms room is big enough, comfortable beds and mattresses. Places to hang clothes. You get clean linen and a towel. Shower has hot water all day long. Well equipped kitchen, nice common area with sofas and screen projector. There is also a big balcony. Need to rake off shoes inside the hostel so bring your flip flops. The hostel is sparkling clean. Strong free Wi-Fi. The staff is amazing and make sure to take care of everything, even if you check in late as I did.

I hate to leave bad reviews because I know everyone TRIES to run a decent business... however, this was the worst hostel I've ever stayed at. Limassol is not a nice town despite being on the coast with beautiful blue waters. Nothing else is beautiful about this town. The people walking the streets seem a little oppressed; the flea market was even a little scary... it's just not the typical town with tourists enjoying the sights. I don't think it's worth the time of a tourist when Paphos is so close. My daughter and I were backpacking and saw that the reviews for this hostel were pretty good, so we thought we'd try it out. Limassol & Directions: This hostel is extremely hard to find. You will NOT find it without help from someone, and you'll be better off arriving before dark since you don't know who's lurking in the dark alleys & stairway you'll need to pass through. We took the airport bus from Larnaca and a friendly man on the bus helped us find the city bus so we wouldn't have to walk a long way. The bus was full of men that even made us nervous. We walked to where we thought the hostel was, but 2 different locals pointed us a little further into the alley. The directions on the HostelWorld app are incomplete, and there are no signs anywhere. Even when you find it, you're not sure if you're entering someone's apartment with the front door open, except there may be a small sign at the front door as well as construction trash all over the hallway. We saw a tiny elevator after we had carried our luggage up 3 flights, and it was pretty decent, so if you choose to stay here, look for the elevator before going up the dark stairway. Check-in: We arrived at midnight and there was no one to check us in even though it advertises 24-hr check-in. There were a few girls sitting on the couch watching TV, and one got up, so we told her that we had booked 2 beds. She told us to stay on the couch until she could confirm our booking and called someone. She made us some tea which we thought was so nice, but really it was to keep us from wandering around the hostel while we waited. Once she got confirmation, she gave us a quick tour of the mixed dorm room by flipping on the light at midnight while men were asleep in their beds. I quickly explained that we had booked the female room, and she made us wait some more and made another phone call. Female Dorm Room: Finally she took us into a room where there was only 1 available bed and she tore off the bedding from a second bed and told us those were our beds. (We think she had to give up her bed, and that many of the girls live there long-term.) In the morning, it looked like one of the girls had slept on the couch in the living room and was made to get up when we saw her. We were given a towel with new sheets in a store-bought package. There was stuff everywhere, under every bed, in all the cubbies except one, and the clothes rack was full of clothes, so we didn't even think of hanging anything up. There was no