Inhawi Hostel

Friendly, helpful staff. Sam the gracious manager is delightful... super friendly, helpful, positive. She takes care of issues and is very committed to your comfort and positive experience there. Big kitchen and common area to hang out, with big screen tv. Nice location in view of the sea and an easy walk to bus stops for any island destinations and shops and cafes. Solid if not spectacular breakfast included with the room fees. This is a very large hostel, with over 100 rooms and many floors, and is very popular. So it's a more social, noisy, busy place, not a quiet peaceful retreat.

The entry doors into the sleeping rooms are made of translucent glass...lots of light comes through them into the room at night from the lights in the corridor outside, and at dawn lots of sunlight too. So bring an eyeshade...the room can be quite light during sleeping hours. Quiet time is supposed to begin at 11pm, but this didn't happen...it was quite noisy and raucous long after that, even until 1am, and the staff didn't seem to do anything to enforce this. So some rooms are in noisy areas late into the night. No curtains on bunks, which of course would help with the light issue.

Common room and cultural mix was really good.

Breakfast has a lack of opportunity and only one toaster machine is not enough when much people are seeking for breakfast at the same time.