Blue Pepper Hostel Downtown

Well actually I have been very disapointed about the hostel, I was struggeling if to go better to Hostel Tequila or that one, but the recommendations and Fotos were quiet good at Blue Pepper Hostal as well. So I think if you don´t want to go to a good hostel it could be ok. I have been around 10 days there because I arrived for an exchange semester so I didn´t wanted to change with the whole heavy luggage to another place. But the location and the terrace with its alternative paintings are really great! My expierences also varied because first of all the owners weren´t there and later on it got better and the fridge was clean, toilet paper there and the staff bought lockers. ***All the Fotos, as nearly every photos of buildings and hostels are prepared by photoshop! be aware of this before considering going where look at the fotos if they look "pimped up" ** 1. We haven´t had toilet paper at our toilet for about 3-4 days, even I said 3 times something to the staff they didn´t put something in there so I had to "steal" from other toilets toilet paper... 2. the conditions of the hostel are pity, there has to be done a lot of stuff: the tiles are everywhere broken, the beds partially as well, the lockers were broken, there is no running hot water in the showers so I had to shower a lot of times in icy cold water, when it´s raining there´s water running out of the loobie´s wall, many lights are broken as well in the bath room so you even can´t see yourself proper in a mirror, the fridge was full and smelling bad so you couldn´t use it at the beginning, couches and chairs were broken/scuffed and worn. 3. you can´t close your stuff because the/many cupboards with devices for lockers are broken! veeery bad! 4. in the Lobby were sleeping twice homeless? people- or at least they were relatives of the employees. They even had any luggage and were no travelers, some (poor) looking Mexicans... 5. It was everything dirty :/ bathroom always dirty, even a cochrache of around 4 cm in the bathroom, the kitchen dirty, the fridge bad smelling and at the beginning it was very full because the restaurant and the employees that are living there use it too. 6. Lockers and Towels couldn´t be rent as advertised on the website and lobby. Even promoted on the website, the employees didn´t know where and how to take a buses or even how to get to a supermarket xD 7.! actually I also know someone of my exchange semester that got the offer of an owner to stay a day for free at the hostel when he does a good recommendation at Tripadvisor!!! maybe because of that it has so many good recommendations... 7. The Hostel has a kind of bar with was nearly never used by travelers. But up till 2-3 a clock it was always very ! loud and the rooms are just over the bar so we couldn´t sleep well, even there were just relatives of the bar/hostel staff and no "real clients". And it was always very loud because of the street noises, and beds vibrated. Also very hot in the room there was just one ventilator for the whole hostel so from one to the other day the ventilator was gone. Also in the rooms are just 2 sockets which is way to less for the whole people to charge their phone...

I stayed here when I first arrived in Guadalajara. Marcus was very helpful. Pretty nice, great location. No room to sit up in the bottom bunks though and rooms can feel a bit claustrophobic. Staff attentive and always available when needed.

2nd visit to Guadalajara and this time decided to have backpacker travel and wanted to check on budget travel experience . For mxn 250 pesos for single room , This is a good place to spend night . Even better if you go in group and book their dorms . Bathrooms are clean but one issue which needs attention . Bathrooms doesn't have hooks behind door or on walls to hang clothes and towel while taking shower . Only one small hook which already has a towel on it to dry hands after washing . Rest pretty close to Juarez ave and Centro .Staff is very friendly and ready to help you all the time . Room # 7 has not a very good double mattress .Springs like to poke you at night so picked up cotton blankets from next to kitchen and then it was all set .