The Society Hotel

The hotel had so many problems (see negative evaluation) that all the staff was friendly, helpful and efficient, even more than what I expected, to compensate for everything that the hotel is lacking.

I was aware that the hotel was actually a hostel and my expectations were not that high, so I won't mention it all but most importantly: (1) Some of the rooms face another wall and have no daylight. (2) But even when it faces the street it is not possible to open the window. In a tiny little room, you cannot open the window to get fresh air, and the air is cleaned with a central air conditioner. And because it is central, the staff cannot turn it off for you (they put it down when you ask but the next person comes and it's up again). Instead, they give you a small heater to raise the temperature in your room back up. As a result, you end up having an annoying constant wind in the room. (3) Leaving aside that it is annoying, I find it ridiculously wasteful to lock the windows, make the room fresh and chill with one thing and then heat it up with another thing. They have these notes in the rooms for you, kindly asking you to re-use the towels to save water: complete fake eco-friendliness. I saw them using 4 ventilators on top of a burning fireplace at the lobby, when it was neither too cold or too hot outside.