Kaya's Place

Not your best choice for rainy season

Plusy: The hostel looked nice, well decorated, room was reasonably comfortable and the breakfast at the restaurant was expensive but good. Easy to walk into town and across the road was Playa Negra, a black sand beach.

Minusy: They have frequent power outages which means there's no lights, running water, or food available in the restaurant. The outage lasted for hours on our second night. During the rainy season it also smells terrible around the hostel and we found cockroaches in our room. Only cold water in the shower. The receptionists were all friendly, however they knew almost nothing about the area! When we asked about renting bikes, surf lessons, restaurants etc they only knew what was next door and didn't have any idea of what was in the town (which was a 5 minute walk away). The restaurant was very expensive, and we had a mediocre at best dinner there. We were two college students staying there and everyone else seemed to be part of large tour groups, so we felt out of place and in the way. Would not recommend a stay here, as there are many places on the other side of town which are closer to stuff you want to see, and are geared towards smaller groups.