Hostal Casa MX Alameda - Hostel

Staff is hard working and polite

Beautiful common areas

The best staff ever

Good

Great price.

Mantengan esos precios. Son excelentes

Good service

Super affordable, friendly, and well equiped place. If you're visiting in a tight budget this is the perfect option.

Good location

They try to scam tourist as I stayed an extra night which I booked via online and I was told when I was about to leave there is a fee for extending my stay. That is ridiculous so they can make extra cash. This should be written up front.

The personal is very kind, they come with you to explain and show the place

Great place to stay for a few days, the staff is very attentive and surroundings all though it's not the prettiest i promise it is quite safe at least in my opinion. The best part is it is located near a public transit station!

I know it's a hostel so my expectations were accordingly. The route from the subway to the property felt unsafe at night, I was not given a key to the shared room as the were no more keys available, and I had to rely on the staff when re-entering. The floor is made of wood, which is noisy when walking. I mean, if you only need a place to sleep and take a shower for a small price, it's okay, but IMO, the Casa MX hostel near Zocalo is way better.

Good

Good

The kitchen was extremely filthy with roaches. This was definitely not the place to try and get any kind of sleep as they would play weird techno music (not the cool kind of techno) starting very early in the morning, during the week and on weekends. Some of the employees were rude, and they would not talk to you when you would greet them in the morning or at night. Since the place is low budget you do get many interesting characters that stay there, also on a budget so you feel like you have to watch your belongings from thieves. I had a few low cost items stolen, they were inexpensive, but it wasn't the cost it was the act. The only good thing I could find about this place, is that I met some interesting people from different places. And that it wasn't too far from the subway, and one of the main strips in the area. But I also met many people on budgets who were probably looking for help or some kind of come up. I definitely would never stay here again. Horrible experience.

The beds are good with full privacy curtains. They don’t include a private lamp however. The electrical outlet in my bunk was loose, so cords fell out too easily. Staff were very friendly. The kitchen and bar area need better signage. The neighbourhood is a bit seedy but I didn’t feel unsafe walking around and it’s not that far from downtown.

The kitchen was usually filthy with Roaches. The staff would sometimes answere you and other times they would ignore you. They wanted to milk you as much as possible and when you don't spend money there they want you to stay elsewhere. Felt unsafe, unwelcomed. Overheard various racist and homophobic comments. Would never stay there again, unless they hired brand new staff.

It's a party hostel, nothing more, and the people going there are the shady sort. The place is filthy & desolate. COMFORT: The room itself seems fine in photos, but is poorly engineered. Your bed shakes violently every time someone steps within the 16-person room, which is quite often. You get woken up easily. LIGHT: The bed curtains are placed poorly, allowing a wide gap of bright light to enter as people enter the room between 10pm and 3am. Again, waking you up. NOISE: One night, the hostel hosted a party that started at 11:30pm, waking me up entirely. I have professional earplugs, and they were of no use. I also tried earphones & blasting music, but I could still hear them. Also, the hostel supposedly enforces silence from midnight onward, but all they do is say "shhhh" every now and then, but just allow conversation to continue. The sound echoes into your room, which has doors & windows open. HEAT: There is no AC nor fan in the room. Good luck in the Mexican heat. Instead, the door and windows are left open. You couldn't even close the doors if you wanted because you're never given a key, so you'd be locking everyone out. If you close your bed curtains to combat the noise/light issues, the heat issue just gets amplified.

The room was spacious and nice. There was a working television. There was an on-site cooler where you could buy drinks. I didn’t like the fact that a lot of people were hanging out in the common areas without masks during COVID. And there was a noise curfew but people were still kind of loud after that.