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Really Central Hostel Kiev
The point is that when a manager girl named Vita gave us bedsheets they were wet. We asked for another bedsheets, and she gave it to us, but they were wet too. Like all the rest.
The reason was that Vita decided to use all the couches in hallway and even her own chair at the reception table as a place to dry the bedsheets!
She just laid all washed bedsheets over the couches and chair to dry them.
Actually I never thought that such things could be done in a hostel.
Photos:
pic 1 - http://homo-creativus.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/DSC_0038.jpg
pic 2 - http://homo-creativus.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/DSC_0039.jpg
As a result all the air in hostel (including the living rooms) was humid, and it was very uncomfortable to sleep!
One more disaster was the manners of that girl. First she admitted that the bedsheets were wet, but suggested us to use them "as is"! Then she started to insist that the bedsheets are actually clean and so we're nuts. In order to get an absolutely new (and so probably dry) bedsheets we had to call her boss Kristina, and only after that call she did something. But the brand new (and, thanks God, dry) bedsheets soon got wet too, because all the air was humid, and you felt as if you slept in a laundry and not in a hostel.
So I wouldn't recommend that hostel to anyone.
HOWEVER: some permanent residents in the hostel (2 girls and an occasional boy) ruin the whole atmosphere. Chances are, when you are there, you WILL encounter them... and you will have NO sleep because
1) they have sex with different people in the same room as yours (at the bed below mine to be specific)
2) They will YELL and SHOUT all the time, as a result you will not get ANY sleep
3) They will ask you for money (they have done so to a great number of travellers
4) They will want to have sex with you (for very obvious reasons...)
The hostel owner should take these statements very seriously, since all of the people staying there were complaining. It's a shame, because the staff is amazing and the location is very very convenient. However I would not stay there again, unless these permanent residents would leave.
With best regards to all travelers