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16 November 2017
Extremely great value for money in an easily accessible part of the city! Staff were extremely friendly even when checking in at 2AM! Booked a single private room for half what I'd normally pay for a bunk elsewhere!
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01 November 2017
Just met this Austrian guy here to study Krav maga. Funny -- an Austrian comes to Hungary to learn an Israeli martial art.
I wish I had got a picture of this Dutch guy Simon but if you try to remember something without a photograph, like say you're standing on the edge of the bowl canyon above La Paz, with a 360° panorama of stunning beauty around you, then you'll remember it longer just by looking at it and letting it steep in. In the event, I think I called him ridiculously beautiful, not stunningly beautiful. By as he himself said, I was drunk.
Alright I'll clarify. After the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW I, the British Mandate for Palestine was created out of part of Ottoman Syria. About three quarters of this area, Transjordan, the part east of the Jordan River, became independent under Arab rule in 1946 as present day Jordan. The area to the west of the river was further subdivided into into two rough halves. One of them, by authority of the UN became the present day Israel in 1948. So far so good. The Jews agreed to this division, in spite of the unwieldy nature of the state thus created. The Arabs did not consent. They did not agree then, and at no point since then have they agreed to this or any other partition. So Israel's made a go of it. In defending themselves against the combined might of all of their neighbors, they've had an opportunity to occupy some of their neighbors land. They've also, for the sake of a peace agreement, or in response to the request of the US, given pieces of land won in wars back. The Sinai Desert for example, was three times taken and returned to Egypt until finally Egypt agreed to make peace. Without areas like the Golan Heights, and absent a peace agreement with Syria, it's unreasonable to ask Israel to unilaterally return it because the Galilee, or the northern part of Israel, is indefensible with the Golan Heights occupied by an inimical neighbor. Let's say Israel gives the West Bank back. To Jordan, to the Palestinians, whoever. Without the West Bank, Israel is like ten miles wide. You've got a neighbor on your right bent on your destruction and you give him the means to sever you -- to cut you in half. It would be suicide to do. Self immolation, or as the Arab states desire, death by drowning, is not something a reasonable person may expect of Israel.
The pat European position on the Israeli-Palestinian issue is a poorly couched antisemitism. The argument that the world gave Israel to the Jews (in the UN Partition that succeeded the British Mandate after the end of World War II) is grossly insulting, demeaning, and patronizing. How would you like, for example, the Allied Powers to go back and redraw the lines of Belgium? It's reasoning that's beyond the pale. Now you may take the position that you don't like Jews and that, by comparison, the Arabs are a more deserving people. Jews are crass, crude, rude, and argumentative. I myself, when I walk into a room full of Jews, cringe. So say what you mean. You'll find few who disagree. But to question the existence of the State of Israel, or the lines that delineate it's boundaries, drawn with or without the complicity of the belligerent states surrounding it, or to argue in any way that there exists a moral equivalence between the position of the Jews and that of the Arabs, or to lend even the suspicion of credence and credibility to the notion that Israel is in part or in whole situated on land belonging to another, is nothing but a failure of logic and faulty reason.
I'll tell you what it is about the Dutch: they're such a civilized people. Frank, upfront, honest, sincerely kind. So my first encounter was on a People Express flight I think from Logan to Schiphol, however you smush all those aspirants together. I asked for some nuts on the flight, which was delayed; said I was hungry. This svelte Amazon of a woman said: Everyone is hungry. Then later, in a bar on Reguliersdwarsstraat, I asked a guy if he'd go home with me. He told me no, and why.response / report this review -
05 October 2017
Nice hostel, clean, near to the city center, for a good prize
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17 July 2017
Good nice place to stay. Good friendly staff
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25 April 2017
We found this hostel through the airline (Wizz) and it turned out to be quite a find. Pricing was good and location was in our opinion perfect. It was simple enough to find our way there and check in procedure was smooth aided by the helpful staff. No language issues and you could also purchase drinks in the reception.
We were assigned a very large room in an apartment across the street from the reception which was very quiet. Fully equipped shared kitchen with washing machine and shared bathroom + toilet. Everything worked well apart from two things, the wifi had no internet connection (told reception, wasn't fixed the next day as we left) and the lights in the toilet was a bit hit or miss, worked about 40% of the time. These were, at least to us, smaller issues and we cannot fault the place in any other way. A nice big room in a perfect location, comfortable beds and at a very good price. If ever in Budapest again, we'll look for this place once more.response / report this review -
01 February 2017
Ár/érték arányban elfogadható. Némi felújítás rászorulna a lakásokra.
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23 January 2017
Clean and organized, easy to reach, great value to price and nice staff. I totally recommend it, its close to the center and shops.
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15 November 2016
Excelente atencion y precio! Las camas no son lo mejor, no hay muchos baños disponibles, tiene playroom, cocina y wifi free.
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22 August 2016
El hostal está situado en un buen sitio, el servicio es excelente y las habitaciones esta bastante bien. Teníamos el desayuno incluido y nos lo servían en una cafetería que estaba en la misma calle donde se sitúa el hostal, pudiendo elegir gran variedad de platos, café y zumo.
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