Name: The Hideaway
Address: Sauna Street 1-7 Tallinn City Centre,Sauna Street, Tallinn, Tallinn, Tallinn, 10140, Estonia
Rating: 4.2

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City Center

Town Hall Square

St. Catherine's Passage

Estonian National Opera

Danish King's Garden

Kiek in de Kok Tower

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Tallinn Cathedral

Old KGB headquarters

Museum of Occupations

St. Olav's Church

Eesti Meremuuseum

Baltic Railway Station

Port of Tallinn

Tallinn University

Kadrioru Park

Kumu Kunstimuuseum

Tallinn Airport

Tallinn Zoo

Saku Suurhall Arena

Tallinn TV Tower

The Hideaway

I nearly cancelled my booking with the Hideaway after reading the reviews here on TripAdvisor. I'm glad I didn't - the hostel is definitely quirky, but I think some reviews here are quite unfair. Considering the price and location - the Hideaway is pretty good! It's clean, the staff are helpful, and although we had a balcony looking out on to one of the main roads, when we closed the window it was quiet and we both slept well. The decoration is grunge/loft/warehouse in style which we liked but is perhaps not for everyone. 

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Better than expected 

I came to Tallinn for a 2-day seminar and I had after that a long day booked with meetings with colleagues and friends, so I only needed a place to sleep and nothing else. I was not expecting anything booking the cheapest place close to the Arts Academy, but still I was surprised by how ascetic the room was, and during the winter freeze, how cold it also was. The promised towel was not there, and the wifi was slow and cut the connection now and then. The best things about this place are the price and the location, but unfortunately with the great location comes the problem that you will hear sounds of partying from the street below all night long. What I can recommend this place for, is crash landings after you have been drinking all evening with your pals and just need a bed where you can fall on your face and snore away!

Only for crash landings!

The nice thing about this hostel is that it is at the very center. Also it has a kitchen with all need facilities, and the shower was also OK.
The bad thing, it is very very loud outside, all night till 6 in the morning. And inside it is also loud, since the hostel shares the same property with a bar with a very loud music. Was totally impossible to sleep. Also it says you can check-in till 22.00, and they really mean it, i have arrived at 0.30 (i have asked in the booking for the later check-in), and there were nobody at the reception. And the phone number provided was not answering. Someone from the bar has found someone from the hostel (it took like 30 minutes), and they shown me my bed. In the morning there were nobody at the reception as well.

Very loud, impossible to sleep

Having booked 2 nights at that place, even though most of the few comments found online were quite repelling, still it was over the Re-independance weekend so most of the city's hotels and hostels were fully booked, so I had no choice. Well, I should basically have slept in the streets of the city, they are way cleaner. 
Crack-house says it all, everything from the crappy rooms (some were unluckier than I bwas though), the crappy corridors, the weird looking "reception" where you shall be met by a bunch of "receptionist" who seem to have very little overview of the place. 
Come here one night, and all the rest of your stay at any other places in Tallinn will feel living in paradise.

Welcome to a (former?) crack-house

We all need sleep to get going next day. Here you will not have any. Guaranteed. In the morning you walk out like a zombie and your vacation is ruined. It's like russian roulette: you might get sleep ONLY IF there were no group partying on the street. Or then you may not. 

You WILL be awakened at 6:00 by the city's loud rumbling, tile loosening low sound; made by a vehicle that strolls street back and forth several times to collect all the waste from the night.

It's very difficult to find. There are no signs in the street. Look at door which is open to the street. On the doorway there is a call-in phone bell which reads "hideway". That is the only sign of this hostel. Climb stairs to the 1st floor. Enter heavy metal bar (whatever the music is called) with loud music and you are there. Look for a bar tender who is probably the manager to speak to. The rooms are accessed through the bar.

Avoid at all costs unless you are used to sleeping 80 dB ghetto blaster playing next to you. Screaming, fighting, lovers quarrels, moud laughing, girs giggling loudly, cars with stereos pumping all bass all they, people drunk and having fun in their own terms disregarding everybody; this was our experience as a couple in weekend... oh my.

In a nutshell: this hostel has the bad karma of being nearby probably the busiest street of the old town in summer time (July) where people are partying in the street, out of the street in bars and everywhere in the junction of the bars.

It's basic. Very. Rooms are adequate crash places, overall clean. The bathroom and showers are hand made brick by brick and plumbing is all visible.  There is a washing machine for back packers. WiFi does not connect.

The guests are all well behaving. Quite time starts at 23:00. No smoking allowed. Wooden floors which creaks with every step: difficult to avoid disturbing neighbors if you wake up early.

In the morning 6:30 (bar desk staff is back at 8:00) when you leave to catch the earliest ferry to Helsinki, it's a maze to get out. We probably took some wrong turn and got us inside yard. There are no clear signs which way leads to rhe outside street. The door locked behind us. No key fits. All the gates in the yard were closed. No way out. Seriously not funny when ferry was about to leave in 30 minutes. It was pure luck that there was a backdoor to one of the bars through which we were kindly allowed to pass through eventually.

30 EUR a night. If you stay a week or more that may count in total. But for weekend one's quality of sleep is better served in 50 EUR places nearby which also include breakfast.

The Kohver hostel is located in the same building. It may have been better because it's in the top floor of the building.
 

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