Key Hostel Serdika

The location is excellent: in a very quiet part of town but still very close to a couple of quite nice bar/cafes and very close to the superb market place. The "busier" part of the city is only a ten minute walk, while a very good supermarket is only about two minutes walk. The gentleman at reception was extremely helpful. Typical hostel facilities: frankly, everything I needed and expected.

For the cost, it's difficult to find anything to criticise: yes, more space outside the showers would have been nice, but that wouldn't be possible logistically. All in all, to make any adverse criticism would be unfair.

kind owner, easy check in, ok room

shower could be a bit better, no place to put my stuff. someone stole my food from the fridge, despite the tag

The private single room was okay. There is what you need. Location and breakfast is 10/10. I would reccommend this place for a couple of nights.

The public spaces was dirty and the toilet area was a bit nasty. The room could use a nightstand lamp.

The mattress was comfortable and the dorm rooms wer secured with password locks.

The hostel is not easy to spot since it is just marked with a very small sign that almost blends in with the wall of the building. The common rooms just consist of some seemingly randomly collected sofas and armchairs, which did not seem inviting to me to hang out. The door to some of the toilet rooms was taped to stay open and one of the shower rooms did not even have a door (I don't know about the ones on the other side of the floor but heard nothing good either). The common showers in the doorless room just had shower curtains, so anyone could have theoretically just come in a pull the curtain aside. Also, to get into the tiny kitchen, you had to go through said shower room (but at least that kitchen had a door you could close. The kitchen was tiny for the number of people this hostel is capable of hosting and it did not seem clean whenever I was in there. As for the dorm room, it is not anyone's fault, but there were dozens of flies in my room when I entered since they kept the windows open until my arrival for getting some fresh air in. So perhaps some gauze/mesh would be advisable.