Awkward feeling of being in the way the whole time. Owners, a couple I presume, were always fighting in their native tongue, extremely uncomfortable to be around. Internet was cut off, or should I say, the door to the room in which the computer was, was locked most of the day, and at night. This also meant no tea or coffee making facilities as they were in the same room, not that I really wanted to eat/drink any more of their food/coffee after the first mornings taste.
Rooms were definitely basic, (even for hostel standard), absolutely tiny, small fan, dirty, rusty, and just felt cramped and gross! Did not want to be there for any more than the hours that I slept at night! I didn't even shower a few mornings, as the bathroom was not very clean. You could lock the door, but due to everyone having to lock the door after use (apparently people from the bus stop come up to use it without paying for accom.), people could have unlocked it while you are in there, not realising it was occupied, very silly system.

After being badly let down by another hostal (Lorca), by chance becuase we found a parking place in front of this hostal we thought we would take a chance as had remembered the negative reviews.
What a result we were offered a room at the back of the building overlooking a school,no noise after 1600 and weekends and a one-way street with no through traffic,a small balcony to sit out on,T.V.,fridge,good size bathroom and comfortable bed.The room was spotless.
When we asked for the price for 4 nights wehad to ask again as we could not believe it was 100 euros and that included breakfast!!! this was taken in the inside patio and was a plated continental,plus as much toast as you wished to make and the same with tea and unlimited coffee.
As for the comments about rudeness, Tony is a large man and in a hurry to please this combined with his loud voice and Polish accent may seem to some off putting but rude he is definitely not.
As we travel a fair bit we get asked would you use a hotel again, with this hostal we would say if you going to Nerja use this place it is well positioned,clean friendly and a bargain

We had booked our one night stay at the hostal because it was near the bus station (for our return to the airport) and because it was a reasonable price. The internet booking service told us we could check in at 11am. Unfortunately, the proprietor had other ideas and he was extremely rude and said we had to come back an hour later. I'm afraid we did not think the same and told him so. He got irate and we stood our ground. He relented, eventually, and we compromised on returning half an hour later when we had all cooled down.

The room was clean. The a/c unit was noisy but worked, and we had to empty out the condensation every four hours from a plastic bottle. One night was fine. The owner's wife was very friendly, as was the owner eventually. He could, however, do with a lesson in customer service and manners.

I booked this hostel for some friends of mine as they were coming to visit me,my son and myself had a terrible experience with the owner when we tried to book them in,a very unplesent man,i dont think he was spanish we have used a number of hostels in Nerja but will not be using this one again.