We stayed as a family with a small child. The hostel did not seem to prohibit a smoking indoors, so the entire hostel and rooms were filled with smoke. All three of us left in the morning with a horrible cough. The staff is lovely and the amenities are clean. The building is old and the rooms do not insulate any noise, so we hardly slept. We felt like we smoked a pack of smokes though, horrible experience, specially for our ten year old.