Our Only Complaint So Far…

After a 25 min bus ride to the center of town, we checked into the Rossio Hostel and learned that, apart from the whole shared bathroom situation, a hostel can be just as nice as a hotel!  Granted, this is our first hostel experience and the Rossio is rated as one of the top hostels in the world, but we really feel like our expectations are exceeded!

The lounge is comfortable, the kitchen is nice with two fridges to store anything you decide to buy at the supermarket, there’s 3 computers with fast Internet available for you to use as well as Wi-Fi Internet if you have your own laptop, the TV room is equipped with comfy couches and  quite a big plasma TV where you can watch cable TV or DVDs, and the bedrooms here are impeccably clean.

Our only complaint is the bathrooms.  The shower stalls are all behind a curtain area, but if there’s other people showering at the same time as you, it is quite tricky to dry off and get into your clothes without the other people seeing you naked.  The bathroom itself is quite small so if there’s someone showering and you need to do something else like brush your teeth, the bathroom tends to feel quite humid and stuffy.  Also, the toilet stalls are quite small, making it impossible to use them as change rooms, so if you end up in a room with people of the opposite sex who you don’t want to see you change, you pretty much have to hope that no one is showering duck behind the curtains to change in some privacy.

Now we’ll cross our fingers that the other hostels we will be staying at will be close to this clean with maybe better bathrooms?