Tatamka Hostel

the noxious smelling chemicals probably meant the place was clean.

The staff is some of the worst I have ever encounter in a hostel. They claim to have quiet hours but do nothing about it when children run around screaming and making noise all night. Multiple complaints and they did nothing about it. They could care less about the comfort of their guests. There were extremely loud snorers in the room, I am not talking about the casual snorer, I am talking about the going to die in their sleep, sleep apnea snorers that are so loud no one can sleep even with ear plugs. But again the staff did nothing, normally if someone is making so much noise that people cannot sleep, something is done about it, here they just shrug their shoulders and say its a medical condition and no hostel would remove a snorer from a dorm. However, I have stayed in plenty of hostels that remove snorers in dorm rooms due to it being a violation of quiet hours (makes no difference what you are doing to be loud and keep people awake). Do yourself a favor and stay elsewhere where they staff will act in a professional manner and care about their guests. The night the staff took over the common area and threw a party for themselves was a really nice touch to show that they don't care about their guests. Side note, this is not a hostel for travelers, as the review above should note. This hostel was full of large school groups of children, and old local men (the guilty snorers). I got the feeling that I was the only traveler there. Wifi was poor and really slow. Impossible to have a stable video call and when I measured it, it was only at 2.5mbs.