Stood 10 nights in Friendsbook and I had a good time. It's clean, quite, well equipped, everything quite new. Huge kitchen. Wifi works fine. The location is not directly in the center but the bus stop is around the corner and it's only 10minutes to the center of Almaty and busses are cheap. The hostel is actually more popular for locals who study or work in Almaty and stay there a longer time. So if you first of all want to connect to other travelers, it's maybe the wrong place. But I found it more interesting to be surrounded...
Read moreIt could be a nice place, BUT its allways depent on the people who stay with you in this place.||This Hostel is more a student home and they have quiete unusual house rules.||You don't find a quiet place in the whole hostel and even in your room everybody can use the phone.||You are surroundet by noisy kids all time.||If you stay just one night its okay, but for...
Read moreThis is without a doubt the best hostel in all of Kazachstan. Great people: very friendly staff and among the guests there are lot of Kazach students as well. Btw truely recommend asking for Jaslan. He was our driver to Charyn Canyon and Altyn Emel for a very very reasonable price, as compared to the very expensive organisations we found on...
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