POUSADA DE JUVENTUDE DE ALMADA

Estive lá numa festa de chá do bebê, o espaco era muito bom para festas. Recomendo o espaço ara festas, não só para a que foi mas sim também para aniversários.

I stayed here for a week, with the rest of my class for an exchange. We stayed in the -1.0X (X being a number 1-9) rooms.

The only positive things I have to say, is that the view from the rooms is amazing, over the river and being able to see the bridge connecting to Lisbon is great, well worth the walk up the hill to get to the hostel.

Apart from that, there is not much I can say was good.
The rooms themselves, seemed fine, even though we didn’t receive actual blankets (we only got brown-ish ones which were not comfortable to sleep under), it was not much unlike other hostels.
The connection from the rooms to the connected balcony was good fun as a class, but I don’t know how well it would’ve worked for individuals/ individual groups.
The communal showers (not one big room, but a bathroom with 7 showers seperated by walls and a shower curtain) was simply disgusting, from the week we were there I did not get the impression it was cleaned once. Also the ‘bowl’ that collected the water from the shower did not drain fast enough, so you’d have to hope your water got warm enough before you were swimming in a pool.
The same counts for the toilets, most of which the lock didn’t work, the floor was not clean and one was out of order.
The staff are fine, the reception staff did speak fine English and the breakfast was alright but a bit limited (a piece of bread which you could put jam, cheese or ham on, you could also choose cereal or chocolate-cereal stuff and there was water, orange juice and milk for drinks)

The final ‘surprise’ we got the day we were leaving the hostel and cleaning up, as we were taking off the bedsheets and other laundry so they could be cleaned, we found out that many of our rooms had bed bugs.
And I don’t know what health regulations there are in Portugal for hostels but I highly doubt that this hostel conforms to any of them.

Ponto positivo: vista bonita
Ponto negativo: Fantasma mijão de almada

fantasma mijante de almada

Verry good (i'm hungarian)