Atlantic Hostel

There is lots of seating and shade in the lounge they've created on the rooftop and it has a wonderful view. It's one of the highest in the old city and you can see the water on both sides of the port. The hostel's location is fairly central in the old city and very close to the main road through the old city and thus is very close to the market. After about 4 days, I wasn't pleased with the hostel and I asked about getting a refund for the rest of my stay. The staff asked me what the issue was and I told them that I was here for work and couldn't get any work done. So they transferred me to their sister hostel, Moga Hostel. The rest of my stay there was peaceful and fairly productive.

This hostel is labelled as a co-working space. It ABSOLUTELY is not. It is a party hostel. The tables next to the seating are nearly all of the short variety and ill-suited to working on. The closest thing to a viable working space is on the rooftop lounge. However, if you're a non-smoker, there are frequently smokers there and the faint scent of cigarettes sticks to pretty much everything. Similarly, you can't actually get any work done because people are consistently coming to sit around you to have their conversations. As far as getting any rest , the live-music starts around 8-9pm and goes until late. Even in the rooms upstairs, the music is so loud that you won't be able to sleep. After a couple hours, the bass echoing off the walls gave me a headache pretty much every night. The bathroom stalls are exceptionally small. As a medium height man, my knees were touching the doors when I sat down. The shower stalls were bigger and some have a toilet in them, but the water was barely luke warm and the smell of mold/mildew coming off the walls makes showering and getting cleaned up in the morning fairly unpleasant. In regards to breakfast, the starting time they give and the ACTUAL starting time are not the same, running about a hour behind. If there are guests in one of the top floor rooms, then you're not even allowed to walk/sit on the part of the roof where their room is while breakfast is going on. At least some of the hostel's reviews are fake, created by the staff/managers. I ended up changing hostels after 4 days to their sister hostel. At the end of my first stay at their sister hostel, they changed management and staff. They seem to be slowly turning Moga Hostel into something like Atlantic Hostel. The management lost my trust very quickly when they said I couldn't use the kitchen anymore, no discussion, negotiation or reason given; just cut off.