we booked it from Italy, 20$ for a private room, shared bathroom. Friendly staff but mould smell everywhere, due to the humidity of the city. Clean bath, but very small, and quite always busy. Linen of the bed already used by someone else, as we found hair on them. comfortable location if you need to go the the Ormeno bus station, as it is reacheable on foot.

I stayed in Malka at the beginnig just for 3 days but then i decide to make it longer..Lima is a very nice city with a lot of options and not too expensive, malka its located in sanisidro which is very near to all the tourist places and well next to the main avenies so that was excellent, then the satff was for me the best thing tey treat me like from the family all of them they were lovely all this grils work really hard to make the best to every guest ( and believe me, some of then are too no tolerable) but anywas i travel a lot this year and staying in malka was a really good experience!!!! rooms are good and cheao hot water the 24, which was amazing and it was very safee!!!

If you like your hostel with a large dose of bad attitude (staff´s), incompetent staff, and prudish single-sex dorms, then this is the place for you. The workers lie to you, roll their eyes at you, make you wait 15 minutes so that they can write e-mails, refuse to get out of their chair to help you, order you around (!), refuse to tell you whether you left items (though they know), yell your full name several times in front of everyone in the hostel, et. al. Don´t forget that you will never meet a member of the opposite sex here; the dorms are sex segregated.
Males sleep only in male dorms and females sleep in only (eight person per room) female dorms; this is unlike almost all hostels in Peru. There are four bunk beds in each cramped dormitory. There is no heating (i.e. hot air) at night; Lima gets cold at night! Some of the customers are locals who live at this hostel for months at a time. The owners are no help, staring at you and using their horribly accented English. A worker named Melisa has the worst attitude.