HI - Seattle at the American Hotel

The rooms are very small!

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I’ve been to many hostels on the east coast and this was the first one on the west coast. This hostel is very central and easy to get to and from with transportation. The rooms do not have AC and that was my bad for not checking prior to booking. Each bunk does have a small fan, but it still got really warm in the rooms. We left the windows open at night and that helped, but the window doesn’t have a screen and we kept getting small, little gnats or flies in the room. It was pretty noise outside with the traffic, but earplugs helped a bit. The room was really tiny! Basically only one person could be moving around at a time. The bathrooms were my biggest issue. Two bathrooms on the floor were single use, but one of them the shower didn’t work. The other two were community shared. The door on one of the bathrooms wouldn’t shut unless it was pulled all the way shut, so that was fun when people would go in to use the restroom and not pull/push the door shut that anyone could walk in while you were in the shower. The showers only had a curtain on it and that was between you and the open door that leads out into the hallway. Other places I’ve stayed had a lock on the door before the shower. First night there I heard a man walk into the women’s bathroom while I was showering. Not super comforting. They also like to clean the bathrooms in the mornings when everyone is trying to get ready. I think our room was suppose to have a mirror, because there were nails in the wall, but no mirror. So we had 5 girls in one bathroom trying to get ready, because the other one was being cleaned. Super cramped and not fun. The place did have breakfast, but nothing too exciting. I felt like it had a lot of carbs. There was oatmeal, fruit (bananas and oranges) and bread, bagels or English muffins. Other hostels have had some form of protein like a hard boiled egg or yogurt.

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