ITH SURF CITY HOSTEL HERMOSA BEACH

J'y passe 3 jours, l'emplacement est idéal avec restaurant, bars, terrasses et boardwalk.

Nice location exactly on the beach and everything close to you...nice people and nice service im gonna come back of course

Amazing location, good standard clean hostel. Staff is great and people are always friendly, can't beat the location. Some noise outside and downstairs because of the restaurants but not bad with ear plugs!

Great, easy stay in southern LA. Highly recommend for traveling on a budget and not looking for much more than a bed and simple accommodations.

While traveling from out of town for a Spartan Race and other business matters I wanted to try out the Surf City Hostel.

I came to find that the Hostel itself is quite cute and quaint in such a busy area.

The staff on the other hand is where I have major concerns. The owner was in office a few times trying to ensure things were done the moment that they left it was if the staff had no regard to the Hostel.

I would say that majority of staff are in the age range of 18-23 whom just have no understanding that this is not there home that this is a place for tourist/travelers/professionals to come rest and enjoy their stay without having to search for staff, or overhear them conversing about sexual encounters' with eachother and thats why no one was available. As an avid traveler this was one of the worst experience at any Hostel I have stayed at and there is only one other Hostel I have stayed at that had worse staff. I have traveled all over the USA and Greece staying at Hostels and the attitude and professionalism that this hostel shared was just under par by far.

There is free wifi as well as complimentary breakfast in the mornings.

Breakfast includes:
Pancakes'
Bananas'
Toast
Coffee/Tea

There is a refrigerator that is for all to use yet it is not well maintained and quite overrun by expired food and items that are not even contained correctly. Ensuring that you label your items does not stop theft as someone stole not only my food that was labeled but my tupperware as well.
There is a dry food storage as well, however they do have a rodent issue as there where bite marks in packages that where stowed away for cooking later.

The rooms are cleaned to the bare minimum, noting that the bathrooms are not cleaned often. This is due to the staff being young and not caring enough to ensure floors are vacuumed swept mopped and so forth.

There are plenty of options for shopping, food and tourism.There is the pier to the left of exiting the hostel about 100 yards away. This is also a great spot to catch some great waves and enjoy that California sun!

The "boardwalk" is 50 feet from the entrance as well as this is the main district of Surf City its extremely busy.