Cossacks Hostel — Hotel in Lviv Urban Hromada

I was visiting Ukraine (as I do every year since 2004) with my wife and kids to Ternopil, and for our latest visit, rather than go via Kyiv, Wizzair had started direct flights from the UK to Lviv, which was very handy for us.||||Coming back I decided to make use of the chance to use the new routes to get a early morning flight from Lviv to Wroclaw in Poland, but for a 9am flight it was far to early to set off from Ternopil at a good time, so I decided to book a hotel for the night in Lviv.||||While I was there the Lviv Jazz Festival was happening, so accommodation was proving hard, but I managed to get a room booked in Cossacks Hostel.||||Excellent little hostel (which actually has a more low-key hotel feel about it) located just a stones throw from the Opera Hose and from the Town Hall Square (with its many bars and restaurants) it certainly met all my needs.||||A little tricky to find, as its not well sign posted (there is another Hostel about 3 or 4 doors up which is better signed posted and I actually made the mistake of going there first) with just a little notice board on the door side saying this is the building.||||Staff are excellent and do a great job of making you feel welcome and keep the place really tidy.||||My room was basic, but clean and met my requirements.||||Will most certanly stay here again when passing...

Friendly, helpful staff, and a special thanks to Wasyl for getting me squared away with my bus ticket to Poland. Wifi was generally fast and reliable. Hostel location, a notch below excellent. Complimentary coffee and tea was nice.||||Suggested improvements:||||Faster client response time: 2 emails by me 4 days prior to my arrival requesting taxi/tram info were not responded to until I was already enroute and off-grid. Ultimately I phoned the hostel the night before my arrival to retrieve the taxi/tram info.||||The mattress on my single room bed needs to be replaced, a low 2 on a 1-10 scale. That sucker is on life support, guys.||||Add towels (or paper towels) to both bathrooms for guests to dry their hands after washing them.||||Cossacks should have the ability to print a doc, airline ticket, or whatever, even if it has to charge for it. Right now, no...

It is a centrally located hostel. The staff was helpful and arranged a taxi for our airport transportation. ||||However, I think there are many things to improve about this hostel. We stayed in an average double room. Both the room and batrooms / toilets were not clean at all. It was obvious that a regular cleaning was not done.|| ||There was a constant noise coming from a generator (or another device) of the next apartment and during our three-day stay in this hostel, the noise never stopped and that was making sleeping impossible. When we asked about it, the staff said they can not do anything about it. ||||The staff working here just seems like a few guys hanging out in an apartment without an understanding of a hostel management. I would definitely not prefer this hostel for...