So i'm waiting in line at the Chelsea International Hostel for a room. I've been here before and done this but didn't stick it through last time. It is the shits. Here's how it works. You get here at 9am or whatever in the morning get a ticket (like the ones in the supermarket deli) and wait til checkout time at 12.30pm to see if your ticket gets called out. First come first served basis. I am desperate like a lot of my fellow backpackers here so am willing to partake in the farce! So we're all sitting in the courtyard waiting. A review of the hostel will follow.
General Rating *
Repeat Visit * (Only if desperate)
OK I got throught. They didn't have bunks for females and only two private double rooms. This means a tiny room with a bunk bed in it. Luckily I got there early and was one of the first people to get a ticket so we got a room. We - a russian girl from siberia was ticket number 74 so we went in together and got the last remaining room. LUCKY!
So we booked in for 3 nights of which I only stayed 2.
It SUCKED, cockroaches on the walls, the floor below us smelt like DOG and there was NO AIRCONDITIONING!!! NYC summer was a swealtering humid mess, damnit I needed aircon. Luckily the next night it wasn't so hot.
But Hannah, Sam's friend offered a bed for the last night and I gladly accepted. *joy*
I left my russian friend a note to say good luck and walked out of there to never go back.
General Rating: **
Repeat Visit: 0