Hostel Review II

Here is the second of my hostel reviews:

After almost a week of sleeping at my mom's and my best friend's place I went to the very north of Germany to Flensburg which is at the Baltic sea very close to the danish border.

The hostel I stayed in is called Flensbed. It's location is perfect, because it is a walking distance to both the train station (again, if you are traveling by train, car sharing is the way to go!) and the city centre.

The building is probably from the 60s or 70s and doesn't have much character but the garden and terrace are really nice and inviting. The perfect place to enjoy a beer after a day of exploring the town.

The ground floor of the building accommodates reception and the big common room and kitchen. There is lots of space for both cooking and just hanging out, including big couches and a flat screen. You also have direct access to the terrace and I think you can get to the garden as well. But barely anyone seemed to be using the kitchen and the common room beyond breakfast (they offer breakfast at the hostel, but it was way overpriced).
I stayed on the first floor in a 4 bed mixed dorm, this time without an en-suite but the common bathroom was just across the hall. The bathroom was quite clean but a bit weird, because some cubicles had a toilet and a shower. So if someone had a shower that toilet was also occupied. But since I was there during the week and there were no big groups I never had to wait to use the bathroom.
The dorm  room itself was a bit small, in my opinion they tried to cramp too much into the small space. Besides the beds there were lockers (without locks, as far as I could tell), two coffee tables (one would have been enough), a chair and a sink. Sometimes less is really more.
The beds were comfy although most of the pillows have seen better days and a second one would make sense. But they provide you with 2 towels for free, win!

What I thought was a bit odd is that reception is only open for about 4 hrs every day. So if you arrive outside of the opening hours you can't check in unless you phone them up and arrange for your key being deposited in a box outside the hostel for which you then get a code to open it. But any questions or complaints you have, will have to wait till the next day. At least, if it's anything to do with touristy things you can use the hostel's free wifi.
Really cool is also the bike hire, because the north of Germany has barely any hills and there are tons of bike paths, it's the best way to explore the area.
The one staff member I spoke to was really nice and again we exchanged hostel and travel stories.

All in all the hostel was worth it's 18 Euro per night (although bed linen is extra, so bringing your own or a sleeping bag might be worth it). You can't get more central, the facilities are great (I forgot to mention the TV in the room), but it would be great, if they would extend the opening hours.