When I arrived at the place, I thought it was so beautiful and relaxing! Also a nice location close to Jemeluk Bay for snorkeling & diving. But unfortunately the first impression didn’t last and the negative aspects outweigh for me personally the positive ones.
The dorms are bad. It’s poorly isolated, so it gets super hot, the beds have no curtains, no bed light, so you have to wake up everybody if you arrive late and you have to search something. 0 privacy and intimacy. Besides that a dude had intercourse in one of the hostel beds and the hostel beds aren’t very stable, so it swings with all the movements you make. You get devoured by mosquitoes, no mosquito nets and since there are holes everywhere, they get in anyway. Then, there were even mice (!) in the room. One of the dudes had one in his suitcase the next morning, that was really disgusting and isn’t very sanitary… let’s not speak about the toilets or the showers…
Then the wifi never works (so if you need to work online, forget it, you can barely check your emails).
It’s so overpriced. The food is around 90k even though you can have anywhere else good food for half of that. Rental of snorkeling and diving stuff as well – 150k and just at the beach you can get it for 30k a day.
Now let’s come to the worst part for me: the staff. They were quite rude and narrow-minded but weirdly the dude that had intercourse in the dorm was allowed to stay, even though they announced he’d be thrown out. The atmosphere is horrible, there is no community or a good vibe whatsoever – which is the most important part in a good hostel. The best you’ll get from the staff will be a fake smile that is obviously a fake smile which will make you feel even less welcome and appreciated.
All in all, in terms of location and looks, the place definitely has potential, but the huts have to be reworked and modified and the staff should change entirely and they should reflect on the image they give to others and reflect on what vibe and values they want to embody.
Little advice: if you’re kind to your customers and also people from outside e.g. friends and acquaintances, maybe this would create a nice vibe and community and inspire the others to stay as well. So far you only inspired people to leave. – via 