Hostel Milarepa is a good place to stay and located in the heart of Thamel. The bunk beds consists of six beds and room is fully constructed out of wood. The bathrooms and shower rooms are umpteen in number, so one need not worry as there would be four bathroom and four shower rooms on each floor. The staff is supportive and helpful. They have big lockers and some rooms have cupboards as well. So stashing your belongings won't be a worry. These all are travel worries while a backpacker tries to locate a place. In terms of cleanliness, the hostel is cleaned religiously on a daily basis by their support staff. There is a restaurant as well on the first floor. There is water dispenser machine as well to fill water, hot or cold as per your choice if you have your own water bottle and don't want to act extravagant. In cold weather as of now, ai was seeking for hot water all the time. They have laundry service as well and would cost around 170 Nepaali currency for a kilo of clothes. The helpdesk at the reception would help you understand the culture and will guide you with the tourist places you can visit on foot or using Pathao app you can hire a two wheeler or call a cab.Ncell is a mobile network provider which is best in Nepal. Within the hostel premises they have a huge departmental store which does cater all the basic needs and does have alcohol, wines and eatery products. Next to the hostel is the workstation restaurant Himalayan Java where you can sit for hours and work on your laptop. At least that is what I was doing, most of the times. Ordering big breakfast and sitting for endless hours until I finished few pages of my...
Read moreI absolutely loved my stay here. It is one of the most luxurious hostel I have stayed at. The property is merely a month old, so its well equipped with all major things. The room are big with wooden decor. But, the staff sometimes can be very unprofessional, which had me on edge sometimes. ||||Postive||1. This is by far the most luxurious Hostel, I have stayed in. 2. The bathrooms are amazing. They are much more than amazing. 3. Extra comfortable beds. 4. The property is very earthy & quiet (unlike other hostels in Kathmandu 5. The hostel has a coffee shop, which is good. ||||Negative||1. Rooftop could have been better 2. The backpacker vibe is missing. 3. The staff is not understand the hostel culture & can be a sometimes too much...
Read more(1) LOCATION: good, at the beginning of Thamel.||(2) MOSQUITOS: my room was formerly a prayer room. Middle room. No window screens so the roommates closed the windows and shut the door. It was stifling & suffocating.||(3) LOUSY FAN. The fan was mounted on 1 side of the room so only 2 beds of 6 got air.||(4) LOUSY FAN couldn't move/gyrate.||(5) The end rooms were WOODEN PANELLED, even the ceiling. Not my center room.||(6) NO SOAP in showers.||(7) BEDS NO PRIVACY CURTAINS.||||The owners need to fix the center room, panel it with wooden floors, wooden walls and wooden ceilings like they have with the left and right rooms. The center room was a former prayer room of Buddhist idols so it gave...
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