Stayed here for a few days in 2010-2011 and it was great. I was with a large group from my university, and very few of us spoke Spanish. The staff did a really great job of trying to communicate with us. It was very clean, and not noisy at night (our group was probably the cause of most of the noise). Overall a really great place to stay!

Hostal up to the previous comments, owner helpful and a nice person with good manners, just a point on one of the receptionist: a moody girl with glasses who, differently from the other two receptionists met in other hours of the day and nightshift, was panicking at each of the two or three questions made during the all staying; all the time talking to her she was staring with hostile and completely out-of-place cold looks and not even the shadow of a smile,God knows why; and never greeting first, just answering, with a clear effort and doing something else without watching at you, to a simple hello or good bye.Wierd character for the kind of work she is in.

This hostal defintely was not one the best on our trip. Service was ok, but often they did not really try to understand our attempts to explain things in our mediocre Spanish.
The room was good enough and cleaned every day.
The area is a bit dogy, especially on Sundays when really everthing is closed and it is not safe to walk around in the dark at all. There are no touristic sights, bars or good restaurants in the neighborhood. The restaurant that is in the hostal itself was pretty bad, worst spaghetti ever.
There however is a restaurant across the street that has really cheap (fried) food.

It is very clean, with great esthetics. Service is wanting. Staff seems uninterested in helping you and there is limited (at best) English spoken. But the beds were nice with comfy comforters. Breakfast was good. There is a store and two inexpensive eateries near by if you are tring to watch costs. Take a taxi from the airport as there is a fixed charge from the airport and it is way cheaper than the shuttle. Over all, not too bad.