Cadiz Inn Backpackers

- Great location, in the historical centre and super close to the bus/trainstation - Friendly staff

- Bad mattresses - Not very clean

The hostel is 10 min walk from the city center in a quiet location. The furniture is really basic but rooms are clean. You’ll have a locker in the bedroom, shared bathroom and a kitchen.

The breakfast was fine, we ate early when they opened at 8 30 am, and near that time the food, and coffee, was ready to go. I am trusting it was enough food there to feed the guests that showed up later in the am too... Met some other very friendly, pleasant and interesting, guests! The staff was friendly enough, and the desk staff knew some English :) The location is good, in the "old" city, though difficult to find, initially, as we came by car, and had to drive in to the narrow "alley way", thinking "this can't be the right road"....

During the day the main door stays wide open.... why??? All guests have/know the code to the door. It was hot in the place, but still.... For safety/security reasons, that door should remain closed. The "free parking" is about 1 km away -- not what we "expected" when being told there is "free parking". The parking was also SO VERY CROWDED; we were VERY LUCKY to have found a parking space in that lot, and due to that difficulty, we let our car stay there during our three day stay, and we went by foot everywhere. We hadn't "researched" enough about the city before we arrived. Our advice is : DO NOT come by car!! Very hot in the room, the fan was not very effective, and when we asked for another one, we were told "I will try to go buy another one".... Very noisy on the streets, and our room was on the first floor (which we did want), so we slept w the window open ( any other way would not have been possible) and w earplugs -- w/o earplugs we wouldn't have been able to sleep at all, I don't believe.... One bathroom on the street floor( where we were) has a shower w no partition so the whole bathroom floor gets very wet -- I saw it once w water coming out into the hallway... not good, of course. Could there be a better solution? The hot and cold water also seemed to be an issue ( shifting too much one way or the other when a person is showering), but now I am thinking it is a general "issue" in some areas of Spain, as I am now at another hostel, and it has the same issue. I can live w it :) -- happy to HAVE a shower! :)

Very clean, good breakfast, beautiful terrace and very well located

Few toilets and showers and the room was far to small to have 4 people (2 bunk beds), considering the price of almost 30€ per night per person