Hostal de Sammy, Santiago

I stayed in April, for a week and found the hostel perfect for me. It is rough around the edges, but the garden is great for evening drinking and chatting with other guests. The bedroom was okay, but fine, as little time was spent in it! The other guests here (for me) were brilliant and so much fun. A good range of people, from various places, were very sociable. The Irish girls, the Spanish girl (teacher) and the American boy, Mike, I think, were very welcoming and friendly. They made it fun and possible to feel at home straight away. There were two staff members, who I found exceptionally rude and distinctly unfriendly and very unwelcoming (the small English girl, who cooked breakfast and the Canadian, guy with glasses, who I think was called Matt). I’m not sure why two people, who are rude enough to ignore even a hello from guests, should be working in a hostel, with face-to-face contact with folk every day. These two made me feel so unwelcome, that I would not stay here again, if they still worked here. It might sound strong, but it was awful. On a plus note, the free pasta dinners are great and the atmosphere (when the rude staff aren’t around), is brilliant. My advice is employ staff (like the Irish girls), who acknowledge people and don’t think they’re too good to talk to guests.

friendly hostel with lots of entertainment like movies, ping pong, playstation and pool table to chill out, but its situation inj santiago is far from everything and kind of sketchy at night.