LyLo Auckland

The pods only have a tiny 120mm fan with bad bearings and poor airflow for ventilation. An upgrade to Noctua fan would be good! Otherwise the only AC is in the rooms themselves but it's absolutely nowhere near cold enough. Practically everyone sleeps with the doors open just to get some air, fans in the room are common. There's no windows too, which is odd. It's really hard to gauge the time of day, like being in a self storage locker. They have the ceiling lights on a timer to simulate sunlight but almost none gets into your pod, especially with the door closed. Even if it did It's indistinguishable from the floor lighting that's always on. Overall the place is really just a hotel with dorm rooms, decent bar and cafe downstairs with good prices. Travel agent selling tours, the usual large hotel hostel stuff. 24/7 check in was useful as I didn't arrive till 3AM. I would stay again but the value is hard to justify, over $50/night per pod.

Amazing lovely clean hostel lots of bathrooms, showers etc. nice clean comfy pod bed which is very different to any other hostel I've stayed in - means you get a quiet dark place to sleep which is great. My one gripe about the pod is the lighting is very bright and quite harsh if you turn it on in the night. Big loud bar when I stayed there on a Friday night but it's easily avoided as it's a big place with plenty of seating