Nice Hostel Paveletskaya — Hotel in Zamoskvorechye District

I read some people said this hostel is a bit difficult to find, so I emailed them and they told me the more detailed position to show to our taxi driver. It is behind a building called Ul Sadovnicheskaya 667 page 1 ( I don't understand about the word "page" here, but fortunately our taxi driver can drive us safely and smoothly to this place ).||||We stayed in this hostel for two nights. We were greeted by a nice receptionist lady. She explained all the facilities and rules in the hostel. On out trip to Russia, we booked 3 hostel + 1 hotel. I think she is the friendliest receptionist we encountered during our whole trip. She speaks fluent English so we can understand her well.||||You need to prepare a pair of room sandals as they don't allowed you to wear outdoor sandals inside the premise. You can also buy from them. They will give you clean towel and show you the important rooms in the hostels.||||Most of the guests, I think, are local who have stayed for quite a time, so they had a lot of food in the fridge and cooked there. For breakfast itself, they only provided cereal and milk. It is recommended you buy your own breakfast if you are not into cereal and milk. The small supermarket opposite the road seems only open at 9 onwards. ||||There is a bus stop not far from the hostel. We took it to the Red Square. For the metro station, I am not sure about the position as we used taxi most of the time.||||They provide flitered drinkable water. There is a small bagagge storage corner infront where we can store our bagagge for half day before we leave to another city by train.||||The toilets and showers are outside the bedroom. Some of them sometimes are not very clean, but still bearable. It is the not the hostel's fault. Mostly is about the guests we encounter during our stay. Different people have diffetent habit. ||Luckily, there is a lady cleaning them during the day. ||||Overall, the experience staying in this...

I traveled to Moscow for a holiday on the 5th of January, as I was landing late evening I contacted the hostel the same day to inform them of my possible late arrival, they replied that it wouldn't have been a problem and that someone would have been at reception anyway. When arrived at the hostel at 23.30, me and my boyfriend were asked for the passports in order to check in, as you would expect (all the conversation happened through the translator on his phone as he didn't speak english, and we don't speak russian). With my italian one, everything was ok and in the mean while he asked to pay cash as their terminal was broken, I explained that I didn't have any roubles as just landed, but I could go out and look for an ATM machine (-24°C), he then proposed me to phone a russian number that he provided me with, to pay through that, and I said I wasn't very comfortable to give my card details over a random phone number.||My boyfriend gave him his passport, Cuban, he looks at it and says "ah, cuba", and disappear to make a phone call, on his way back he tells us the system for the registration of foreigners is not working since the 1st of January so he can't let us check in (when I contacted the hostel the same day and they didn't mention any problem). I can't believe what I am hearing, so I asked him an explanation, as on arrival he asked for the passports to register us, we have a confirmed booking and no one contacted us to inform of any eventual problem. He disappears again to make another phone call, he comes back and says he called the IMMIGRATION OFFICE (at 23.30) who said he can't let us check in.||We had to leave the hostel at 23.30, walking in the snow with all the luggages, with -24°C, no internet, and no one who spoke english, without having or knowing...

I traveled to Moscow for a holiday on the 5th of January, as I was landing late evening I contacted the hostel the same day to inform them of my possible late arrival, they replied that it wouldn't have been a problem and that someone would have been at reception anyway. When arrived at the hostel at 23.30, me and my boyfriend were asked for the passports in order to check in, as you would expect (all the conversation happened through the translator on his phone as he didn't speak english, and we don't speak russian). With my italian one, everything was ok and in the mean while he asked to pay cash as their terminal was broken, I explained that I didn't have any roubles as just landed, but I could go out and look for an ATM machine (-24°C), he then proposed me to phone a russian number that he provided me with, to pay through that, and I said I wasn't very comfortable to give my card details over a random phone number. My boyfriend gave him his passport, Cuban, he looks at it and says "ah, cuba", and disappear to make a phone call, on his way back he tells us the system for the registration of foreigners is not working since the 1st of January so he can't let us check in (when I contacted the hostel the same day and they didn't mention any problem). I can't believe what I am hearing, so I asked him an explanation, as on arrival he asked for the passports to register us, we have a confirmed booking and no one contacted us to inform of any eventual problem. He disappears again to make another phone call, he comes back and says he called the IMMIGRATION OFFICE (at 23.30) who said he can't let us check in. We had to leave the hostel at 23.30, walking in the snow with all the luggages, with -24°C, no internet, and no one who spoke english, without having or knowing...