hey everybody my name is adventure elite and i make travel adventure videos in the spanish
speaking world in both english and spanish and i just want to start this video by saying um
man i i feel for the english who lost last night i was rooting for the english
my last name is smith i have a lot of english blood in me
man that was tough to watch especially because italy eliminated spain and i was cheering for
spain previously but anyways this video that i'm bringing you today is a little bit of a different
video than i normally do but as i said i do travel style videos adventure ones and a lot of times
when you're traveling you stay in hostels hotels etc and so i was traveling in the canary islands
and we were looking for lodging in a town called los cristianos you can see the previous videos
i was in los cristianos with that american girl alexis and basically what happened we
were looking on booking.com because there wasn't many options on hostile world which i usually use
and as such we came across a what appeared to be normal hostile with decent beds decent rooms
cleanly okay reviews and it was only like 15 euros a night so fast forward we get to the place and
there's a lot of red flags and this is like kind of a video you know i i would not recommend anyone
to stay at this place and here i'll explain why and you'll see why after first red flag is you go
into a grocery store and there's an indian man who like owns it and he owns the hostel or whatever
and what they do is they go oh okay you know here you can stay in this room so they bring you up
to the room and you notice wow it's like just a normal apartment that's low quality it smells um
there's a lot of you know sketchy people staying there it's almost like a squatting house that's
the vibe i got so you get there and he brings you to the room and they are she brought a
russian woman brought us to the room they weren't even spanish that was a big red flag right there
weren't spanish business owners in the canary islands and you get there and there's like other
people staying in the room and it smells that's not clean and they go you can stay here or we got
a private room for you for 20 euros a person so we go okay like i'd rather this doesn't seem like
a great environment i'd rather go to a cleaner area where i have more privacy for only 20 euros
a person right so we go up they bring us up to the other private room and the state of it is even
worse there's bed bugs or stains it's not clean the the refrigerator is rotting it has a rotting
smell it's just i've never seen a hostel this bad and so it's not even a hostel it's basically
a crappy abandoned apartment that they use they post on booking.com they i would say even trick
people into going there thinking they're getting a good value and they bring you they make you feel
uncomfortable so that you pay more for the private room 20 years a person so me and my buddy jacob we
ended up paying 40 euros for this area that you're gonna see next and it was just smelly you know
we just wanted a bed to stay so we ended up not spending time there and the the problem is is
that they trick you into staying there you know if they tell you it's bad quality if they tell you
it there's bed bugs and it's not clean that's one thing but they don't tell you and uh it's
right next to this right you know this nice tourist area where you think oh this is gotta
have some standards you know spanish hospitality and tourism has to have higher standards than this
which it does you know usually you have good hostile and hotel experiences in spain
okay so with that said and done let's take a look at the footage that i was able to grab uh here
and you can see um just kind of what happened here and i'm gonna post the booking link below
so that if you are ever traveling to the canary islands tenerife los cristianos do not stay there
do yourself a favor don't waste your money you it it's disgusting you know um and i've
i've stayed in bad hostels in costa rica and panama and colombia you know i've been to some bad
hostels but if i see a decent hostel that accords to the reviews i give credit where it's due you
can see on my videos i have hostels uh in some of my videos and i'm giving a lot of credit to
them because they usually do a great job wherever you are okay let's check out the footage wow that
was quite an experience with the hostel so we had to like it's inside the supermarket hola chicos
and uh adios and now she's bringing us back to the room so i guess a little sketchy but whatever
we're budget travelers here all right so it appears like we're in some apartment building
it's a little uh not too clean but hey there's a oh oh looks nice here let's see what we have here
oh we got a teresa okay not not so bad
not so bad
all right here we go
okay
come on
all right
well we checked into our hostel and uh the only redeeming quality about this hostel is the view
and the proximity to the beach there's a rather large beach right there so that's good
um and this is los cristianos but man kind of what uh what a sham what a disappointing
experience so the first red flag is that it's like you check in in a supermarket but um anyways it
was on booking.com and it was the cheapest uh option we had so let's give you a little tour
of at least we have this all to ourselves but yeah beds not well done mattresses are disgusting
worst hostel i've ever seen in spain what a disgrace now we're standing here and we got sheets
and everything but like oh my god i've been in hostels in a lot of countries
this is basically just the empty apartment that they turned into a crappy hostel and the
bathroom okay the bathroom seems kind of normal all right but uh wow absolute i've never stayed
in a worst hostel and i'm pretty flexible i've stayed in a lot of hostels before but
do not stay here i'll post the address whatever you do avoid this place and i usually don't say
that about places and uh i guess the only consolation is this terrace here oh my god
worst hostel in canary island spain
oh so there it is you guys you can see the quality was you know really bad and i don't want to sound
like a spoiled brat um i stayed in a lot of bad hostels but the difference is you know they're
fifteen dollars um and you can see the place before you stay there
what happened in this one is they get you to this town this beach town los cristianos where there's
not a lot of lodging options except for hotels that are a little more expensive and we were on
a budget and so you get there you have no other option and then they tell you boom this is what
you have and they they sort of uh pressure you into getting this room that you saw that has
cockroaches it smells terrible it doesn't have a working toilet or a shower it has dirty mattresses
and you just feel like you're not in a safe environment especially by spain standards
now if you go to some other countries maybe third world countries you have that
notion in mind that you're going to be facing situations where you do stay in places that might
be like that so that's completely different but for the canary islands and spain standards this
is totally unacceptable and i hope that no one else finds themselves in this situation with that
being said i'll see you guys on the next video i have videos coming from malaga spain i stayed with
some subscribers that invited me down there that was an awesome time i'm going to show you a couple
things the beaches there castile hill faro and so i'll see you guys on the next video hasta luego