Description: This hostel enjoys an enviable position on the southern side of the Ljubljanica River, on the edge of the Old Town and close to the bars and eateries. We stayed two nights in June 2007.
It COULD be one of the best places to stay but our experience was disappointing. Be warned - this is a party hostel and is likely to be booked up with groups of stag do-ers and the like. Unusually for a hostel there was not one notice asking guests to be respectful of other guests.
Each floor has a couple of six bed dorms and a double bedroom. Alas our double was next to the showers and people would stand chatting outside our door. Our room was spartan to say the least and the decor - supposed, I think, to be modern and funky was plain nasty. Hideous bright colours. One light overhead that was too harsh and one switch miles away. No curtains other than a flimsy sheet that didn't cover the glass.
Drunken blokes kept everyone awake and the staff never told them to shut up. This was disappointing. Of the two showers on our floor, only one ever worked and the toilets smelt strongly of urine. It would have been nice to use a bit of the space in the double room to have a wash-basin.
There is free Internet but none of the three computers was ever free to use; there was always a queue.
If you stay midweek - and not when the drunken British guys come for stag weekends - you may well have a better experience.
Breakfast can be bought at one of the myriad cafes in the area. There is no air-conditioning and the hostel was very hot and stuffy in June. We arrived early and were able to store our bags but when we went back two hours later they were buried under a massive pile of luggage and it took several minutes to find ours.
My advice to Alibi is - ditch the dorms and split the space into double and triple rooms. Then upgrade the decor. People will pay more for this lovely location - you won't lose out. That way you can make more and not have the awful stag parties upsetting your guests.
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