Hostel City Center

I would be happy to stay agin. Excellently located and with good, clean facilities, a reasonable supermarket beneath and plenty of eating places nearby for all budgets. They take over 60s, which not all tourist hostels in Chisinau do. BUT The entrance is not in Pushkin Strada but round the corner in Mitropolit Varlaam Strada next to the Bristol Hotel, the cafe is called Cat Cafe and has 5 or 6 cats wandering around over the furniture which put me off using it, a couple of times I had to shoo a cat out of the dormitory, the cafe serves the general public and has a secondary supervised door to the hostel which is locked at night, the hostel kitchen does not have an oven or rings but only a microwave, the staff are fairly fluent in English but with some limitations and whilst polite and friendly are not over helpful. When I wanted a taxi they wouldn't help at all. Nevertheless I would be happy to stay there again.

easy to get to from the cathedral square, big signs on the building,,, staff not that friendly or helpful, website say money exchange but they didnt for me, didnt like cats going around eating areas, seemed alot of locals living there, very annoyed at no curtains in room-sun beaming in at 5:30!!!! beds very bouncy, nothing to put a drink or phone next to bed,,,, little simple things to fix

Its simple, clean, comfortable, and you can't beat the price. I stayed in both the dorm and then a private room coming back. Both are very affordable, if you're traveling as a couple I would advise the private room as a better deal. The dorm room is very secure and cosy with a privacy curtain and good power outlets. This is a top tier hostel for simplicity and comfort, better than many I have stayed in in Western Europe. As others have said, its not a party hostel and doesn't have a very large social vibe, but that gives you more time to get out and explore the city which is what you hopefully came to do!

Dirty, noisy, overcrowded hostel. There are no possibilities of socializing!! It's full of foreign workers who only like getting drunk in the evening and make noise. No breakfast served in the morning. There are only two toilets and three showers for a total of about 50 beds. It doesn't worth a penny.