Pushkin 10

BED BUGS. I stayed a week and saw some mosquitos, so I thought the bites I had were mosquito bites. Bed bug bites can take days to show up so I just didn’t know. But then I saw them. I told the owner and by his reaction it was obvious he knows. I’m quite pissed that he just said “ohh.. okay. Thank you” :/ I have over 50 bites on my body and feel absolutely miserable. I have never had chicken pox, but I would imagine it feels something like this. Plus, now have to go through the hassle of checking and sanitizing all my things (sorry for my unshaved leg, but here you are so this hopefully doesn’t happen to you.)

Do NOT stay here. I don’t know why it has such a high rating. The building itself is creepy as hell. I arrived at 5am and there was a guest in his boxers at the front desk. I was helped and shown my room in the 8 bed dorm. It looked like the had already been slept in. I left for the bathroom and when I came back the guy in his boxers was with the manager and he was shining his flashlight looking for more bed bugs. I looked at his bed and he had two dark red blood stains on his sheets from the bugs he had just killed. The manager said he could move to the top bunk. I didn’t feel comfortable at all. Between the creepy entrance, the musty smell, the other weird guests, the already slept in bed and now bed bugs. Hell NO!!! The hostel itself is in a good location but transportation is cheap cheap and you’ll use transit to go to other places in the city anyway. Find a different place. Hostel 10 and Aleksandria are also in the same creepy building.

the hostel is great, staff are really nice, but they have a bedbug problem. i got so many bites and even saw them on my pillow at 3am. i hope they change this because i really don't like leaving bad reviews, they do need to deepclean the hostel though...

Overall the hostel was alright, the staff was helpful and it was in a really good location. The beds has curtains which is an extra. However I got many bedbug bites at the second day, I informed the staff an they looked serious about it. I hope they made the further steps, because apart from the bugs it is a nice hostel.

Living in this hostel was quite a low point in my journey. I must give credit to the great location and staffs who were present and tried their best to remediate the situation but three facts remain to be true and problematic during my stay. 1. Cockroaches in the kitchen at all times Living in a hostel, I do not have the highest expectations for hygiene. Having cockroaches from time to time is just what happens. But whenever I look at this kitchen, there will be cockroaches. I did not feel comfortable eating in the kitchen. 2. Bed bug bites starting from my 2nd night After I told them about the issue, the staff did not offer any compensation. It was not that they did not have another bed, but it was that it was a single room and they said I had to pay extra to sleep in there. I don’t think it was fair when the hostel’s bed bugs were the reason why I needed to change my bed. (I came directly from my own home, not another hostel or another country, so I am quite sure I did not bring the bed bugs) On the third night, they finally put me in another room, but it was mixed gender, and again they offered no compensation, despite this was not I booked. Their attitude was ‘You can either live in this room with bed bug or you can move to this room. Your choice.’ 3. Some guest pulled out a knife during an argument in the common area This was honestly an unfortunate event and I cannot blame the hostel but they continued to let the person who pulled out the knife to sleep in the mixed gender room. But after witnessing that person threatening others with an actual knife, I would be lying if I say I was not concerned at all. Again, the hostel staff were sympathetic, but in terms of practical help, I was pretty much on my own.