Name: Samesun Toronto
Address: 280 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, ON
Telephone: (888) 608-6346

Very good

It was a pleasant hostel...

Liked: Staff were friendly. The midnight ‘be quiet’ requirement was great. Bed was clean and comfy. Shared showers and toilets were clean. Help yourself breakfast was simple but worked and people were washing up their things well.
Disliked: When I dropped something beside the desk, it came out covered in a mat of long black hair. Really not pleasant and disappointing as everywhere else looked so clean. I was also woken by talking and giggling at 3am. It didn’t stop so at 3.15 I went out and found a lady on her phone, in the corridor. When I politely told her she’d woken me up, it was 3am and there’s a quiet rule from midnight, she apologised and went into the corridor. This isn’t the hostel’s fault, although maybe the quiet from midnight could be a bit more prominent.

Pleasant

Liked: Good location
Disliked: Neighbors are very noisy and one of them was smoking weed in the room

Some pros but a few...

Liked: The location is great. Right by Kensington Market with lots of restaurants and shopping around. The staff has been very friendly and polite.
Disliked: There is only one bathroom with 2 stalls on each floor, which can be an issue when the foot traffic is heavy. Overall, the spaces are small and rather crammed in. The curtains by the cots are held on small pegs, which kept falling off, and there is no possibility of sitting up on the bed - the space is too small. The lounge area mats looked unclean to me. It was not the worst experience but certainly not the best. Overall, it is too pricy for what's offered.