The warmest of welcomes! The hosts are great, very friendly and helpful. The location is good, easy to find thanks to the yellow feet! Short tram ride to the bus and train station, and centre of Zagreb. Very clean, especially the bathrooms! I was very impressed! Room was spacious.

So, basically this judgement is based on a 2-part stay.

- The internet was down the first time I arrived. I was immidiately told, that it would be fixed next day. Nothing happened. 2 days later he then told other guests that "it will be fixed tomorrow". And this went on a couple of times, but it did not happen. Eventually after 10 days (which was my last day of the first part) it worked. Hurray.

- The toilets are lacking such a basic thing as soap. So you have to bring your own.

- The upper bed in the 6-bed rooms dont have any safety net, so you can easily fall out (and it will HURT, trust me). The door is not working properly either.

- One British guy told the owner kindly that the plugs in the room didn't work, but he replied that thay did work. (and the plugs didn't didn't - I stayed in the same room)

- The guy comes and goes all the time. So people have to call him using their own phone

- The owner tries to lure you into writing good review on the internet by giving you false promises. Due to circumstances (girlfriend) I had to stay in the hostel for long periods. In the first part of my stay he first promised me half price next time I came and then right after he promised me a job. Neither of it was ofc. fulfilled. During my second stay he wanted me to write a good review of his hostel. He would even bring me a laptop next day so he could get it - and he is also very persistent in trying to persuade people into writing reviews so he "can go in the top"

- I overheard a conversation between him and antóther man where he almost bragged about himself not being afraid to throw out people.

- He charged me more than Hostelworld.com said in the email "due amount to pay"

- You cant eat your own food in the garden. And it has no kitchen.

- Its noisy during the mornings. Good luck trying to get some sleep.

- The guy is always trying hard to make a good impression, where as you can feel that it is only because of business, and not because of his personality. The owner is trying to make money out of everything and really aggressive - which I will tell you about in a minute. So as I mentioned earlier, I have a girlfriend in Zagreb. He knew that, and always tried to sound interested and helpful. But halfway into my second stay I wanted to cancel the remaining days of my booking. I went to ask him kindly if I could get back my money for the last days that I wanted to cancel (I didnt have much money, but I even offered to cancel from the next day), but he just told me "no, no refounds". Suddently he didn't care about "me and my love" anymore? Of course he didn't, cause he would loose money. But I thought there was a misunderstanding. Cause nobody would want to keep my money for a service they haven't provided? It had to be a misunderstanding, but later it turned out that it wasn't. So I brought my girlfriend to ask him kindly in Croatian - and she did - but the first thing that came out of his mouth was "LEAVE" with a finger pointing to the gate. He then started to be really aggressive and shouting and eventually he called the police. He stated that I had no right to cancel since I booked on the internet, and this is not true, which I knew. So I told him, that he could show me the paper saying that, and I would leave immidiately without any complaints. But then he just shouted and screamed even more and told me "and you bring you girlfriend here??". No idea what that meant, but obviosly he had no evidence of whatever he was trying to explain. I even offered to shim him my email with the booking + terms and conditions, but he refused and kept shouting and being aggressive. So basically the police came and I had to leave Lika without the 700 kuna that he stole. So if you end up in an emergency and this hostel is your only choice, then at least be sure only to book one day at the time. Just a good advice.

We had a one night stopover in Zagreb and preferred to stay somewhere relatively cheap but still near the city centre. Hostel Lika is located a few tram stops from the city centre (about 20-30 minutes walk), and it was clean and in a good condition.

I was there 3 years ago (for some reason I can only choose dates to 2009 :(( ), and was needed any place to stay so I came here and love it! Funny owner, very friendly, lot's of young ppl to hang out..great place for backpackers and young ppl!!