Blossom Hostel

Very beautiful view of the city from the balcony.

Yaxshi

AVOID - SCAM!! If you plan to sleep, PLEASE GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. Super noisy and dirty place. You don’t have a locker so all the luggage and bags are just piled on top of each others… People listen to music out loud late at night, make phone calls at night, switch on lights and yell. There is no door so all the smells and sounds from the Ground floor (kitchen and common area) go to the bed floor. The manager herself switches on the light at 11.30 and speaks super loudly in the bed space… At 11.30pm and after trying to sleep for 2 hours, I finally decided to book another hotel and to leave. When asking for refund they said no (of course), that for that price I should not expect a silent place and that I should have headphones + a face mask with me (which I do have by the way but still they were not enough at all to cover this mess). As noise seemed to be normal, I decided to start making noise as well. The owner did not wait long to finally call me. She repeated several times that she simply does not care and that I won’t get refunded but put on the black list 🤣. Plus that she would call the police if I don’t stop making noise. Last but not least, this hostel is occupied by many “residents” who seem more like people in social need than travelers and backpackers… The atmosphere there is creepy. Please avoid this scam hostel!!!!

There are 24 beds in the living room, there are 2 entrances to this room. It costs 12 bunk beds and everyone is occupied. There are no doors in the room where the beds are, so the sound of drinking and partying can be heard very well from the first floor. In my presence, they drank and cursed on the ground floor until 2 am. I couldn't sleep for a long time because of this. There are cameras in the rooms where people sleep, therefore, in order to change clothes, you need to go down to the lower floor, go to the toilet and the cramped toilet room, being afraid to get dirty on the toilet with drops of urine, change clothes. In the shower, too, you can not change clothes because everything is wet there. Administrator Lena is a separate story, although she is directly related to many of the troubles of the guests. She pretty much ruins the life of the guests. It looks like she has been sitting for years. People like her shouldn't be allowed to work with people at all. She tries to greet guests politely, but she does not always succeed. Sometimes he immediately begins to command the guests, in an orderly tone, begins to poke and indicate what to do, sometimes, when he hears an unusual surname, he starts joking, mocking the surname, and calls it specially incorrectly. The hostesses of the hotel - two women, also like to make fun of the guests. It seems that the hostesses have also served their time. When they stacked flights in the common area, they forced the guests to help, those guests who apparently already live here longer than the rest. Elena, the administrator, forces guests not to wash dishes behind them, she says that she previously worked in a restaurant as a dishwasher and she does not like the way guests wash dishes behind them. Because of this, sometimes until almost evening, there are mountains of unwashed dishes in the sink. She accuses the guests of distracting her and she has no time to wash the dishes. Somehow a couple of German cyclists settled in the hostel. They parked their bikes in the yard. For some reason, Lena the administrator did not like these guys, although they behaved civilly, quietly and politely. She walked around the hostel and, taking advantage of the fact that the guys did not speak Russian, cursed and mocked them.