This hostel is NOT a bed&breakfast as the name implies. It is a short walk from metro station Insurgentes although it may be a tad hard to find due to the sharp angles of the dissecting streets. Thankfully, it sits right on a corner. Like most, if not all, Mexican hostels one has to ring the buzzer to enter and at the B&B you also have to buzz to get out so, yeah, coming and going gets old after a short while.
B&B's reception has cable television, lots of DVDs and novels, and free Internet on the one computer. There are also storage cabinets for safe-keeping valuables. The young guy at the front desk is super cool and helpful.
I slept in the basement dorm for $110mxn. Aside from poor lighting it was fine. Sufficient showers and toilets but the water didn't get pass lukewarm.
I called the racist owner a jackass and checked out the next morning
Breakfast is not worth getting out of bed unless you particularly fancy eggs. At the time (early October) the staff was busy painting the place. Future guests can expect a more youthful decor of eccentric hues and colored squares. Guests, however, can no longer expect to receive calls or messages via the front desk---at least that's the case if you are black. A few of the white guests received calls but when a call came for me--international, no less--the owner himself blocked it because, in his words, it was his phone. To make matters worse, I was sitting in the room when he lied to the caller about my even being checked in. We argued and he told me to leave if there was a problem. I called him a jackass and checked out the next morning.
I always find racism to be a problem. Contrary to Mexicans' beliefs, Sí, there is racismo in their Third World country.
Calle Durango #145 (and Calle Tonala)
Colonia Roma
Colonia Roma
+52 55 5207.5585
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