California Dreams Hostel - Pacific Beach

The beds have curtains! So nice for privacy when sleeping! It's also right next to the beach. Parking was pretty easy, I was able to park on the same block every time I came home.

The shower needs repair. There is a water leak which has been there since March, still not fixed. One night I tried to shower and had no hot water, maybe because the leak had drained the hot water heater. The beds have a metal panel separating them from each other. If you touch them just barely they make a loud sound like a crashing cymbal, wakes up everyone in the room. The ladder to the upper bunk is round metal bars. Easy to climb with shoes, hard to do in bare feet or socks. Would be great if they had actual flat steps like a real stepladder. Breakfast was good (bagels & cereal), but often ran out of juice and almond milk after 9am.

Very nice and helpful staff, easy check-in procedure, close to the beach and good restaurants

Noise at night

The beds have curtains for better privacy. Fairly easy parking, continental breakfast included bagels & cream cheese, cereal with almond milk. Staff was friendly and helpful.

Shower leaks, doesn’t shut off completely. Breakfast ran out of milk and juice by 9:30am one day. Only 1 shower/toilet next to the bedroom, although there’s another 2 doors down. Upper bunk ladder is difficult to use with bare feet, I wish it had wider and flat steps instead of small round bars.

The location is good.

The staff attitude. They are not friendly and some of them the volunteers were even mean. They stay with the guests in the same rooms and give guests an attitude as if it is their room by sighing even if the guests make noise not more than 8 pm which is not their policy. Also, one of the volunteers misinformed me about the number of available beds on their premises. Then, I booked through booking and it went through. However, they said that it was a 'software' or 'system' issue. Also, they put parking signs behind the property in irrelevant places(parking lots for people with disabilities) and invade some other parking lots to keep other people away including you if you are not renting a private room.