This very professionally managed hotel and hostel has an ideal location just east of the Dutch Hospital. In its renovated four-storey building there are private rooms, as well as 73 hostel beds in 17 rooms. There are male, mixed and female rooms. The hotel has a modern cappuccino colour scheme.
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