Brasov is a beautiful city and our stay with Kismet was awesome. The dorms and beds are exceptionally clean, along with the kitchen and bathrooms too. The lounge area downstairs is very cool, with a big TV, movies, comfy couches and some art on the walls you really must see! With WiFi, breakfast and laundry this hostel is fantastic value for money and in a great location too. After a long day out, it was really comfortable to come back to, cook some dinner and chill. Maybe we were lucky with the other travelers but we also made lots of friends here! Receptionist was super friendly and helpful. We really wished we could've stayed longer than 3 nights! We would definitely stay here again and recommend to anyone else going through Brasov.

I didn't know what to expect after having read so many negative and positive reviews.
Well,mine is 100% positive!The staff was very helpful and the location was convenient.
The hostel was nicely decorated,esp the walls. It's quite cheap for what you get,highly recommended!

I wish I'd booked my stay at Kismet Dao through one of the big hostel booking sites so that my review could reach more backpackers, as I think there are some important things to know before booking a bed or room here.

I always like to stay in smaller rooms in hostels, and while there were no six-bed rooms available I did get into a seven-bed room on the top floor, called The Snorer's Den. In addition to the seven beds advertised, there was also a mattress placed on the floor (under the window that didn't seem to close properly), and with someone on the mattress every night it was actually an eight-bed room. I think this practice is standard for the hostel. Outside the room there was a toilet, and down one or two floors there was a bathroom with two showers. I think there was one more toilet below that, and another shower (for men) on the ground floor. Anyways, access to showers and toilets was not a problem during my stay. There is also a lounge area on the ground floor, however I did not find the couches very comfortable and didn't really like hanging out there. There is one computer with internet access on the ground floor in addition to free wifi throughout. Breakfast consisted of milk, cereal and coffee, served in bowls that had a permanent layer of grime covering the insides.

Having been on an awesome tour through a hostel in Suceava, I was looking forward to going on another tour through a hostel. I booked a tour of Bran Castle, Rasnov Fortress and Peles Castle through the hostel. While it's great to do these as a tour (as you need a vehicle to do it in a day), the entire thing was a disorganized mess. The tour was scheduled to leave at 9:00 am, but the bus driver didn't show up until after 9:30. Then, we were rushed from site to site, barely given time for lunch, told Peles Castle closed at 3:00 pm (when actually it was more like 7:00 pm) and made to make a detour in the tour bus to drop the guide off at home first (I don't believe she was a licensed guide, either).

However, all of that paled in comparison to my final night in the hostel. In the middle of the night I woke up to an extremely strange sound. It was so unidentifiable that I actually thought I might be going crazy and would need to see a doctor the next morning. When the sun rose and I woke up again, there was a head peering down from the top bunk, staring at me. It was a small child. A small child who turned out to be extremely ill, on medication, and occasionally hooked up to a ventilator. The hostel had allowed him and his mother to SHARE a bed in a dorm room (which was already over the posted guest limit due to the mattress on the floor). As the child's meds wore off he coughed and hacked, and his mother kept going up and down the bunk bed ladder. I know hostels need to make money, but allowing a SICK child and his mother to SHARE a bed in a dormitory is totally inappropriate. As the morning progressed many of the people in the room also started showing symptoms of a cough or flu, and I ended up being sick for the next three weeks (requiring me to pay for more expensive private rooms so as to not spread my germs to other people in dorms).

I can't recommend Kismet Dao when there are other hostels in Brasov that are much more comfortable and much better organized.

Kismet Dao is a great place to stay. The receptionists are extremely friendly, funny and helpful, not to mention beautiful, and all speak perfect english. We arrived at 4 am and didnt have a room to stay in until the next night, but the receptionist let us sleep on the coaches in the basement and told us romanian bedtime stories until we nodded off. The atmosphere is relaxed. and there are views over the surrounding town and hills from the top floors. One negative point is that there is only 1 shower for males, and you will have to wait to use it in the morning. If you're into eastern philosophy, there are little pearls of Taoist wisdom posted all around on the walls. I'd stay here again, the price was right too. Unfortunately, they don't accept small pieces of string and smiles as payment.