Our host was over worked and in a terrible temper. The place was dirty. The beds were worn out and the sheets thin. At least the bedding was clean.
Wonderful view and the bus stop was close. It was up a very steel hill and two flights of stairs.

It was hard to get to this place, sure, best thing about this town is that transportation is cheep. and the view is completely worth it. never seen a better view. there is a telescope for guest use as well.
dale, the owner, has filled the house with wondrous trinkets from his world travels. from a collection of bottles, to old railroad signs.
the owner was kinda grouchy, but only to people who thought they were entitled to more than they paid for, understandably.
the thing about hostels and them being cheep is, your not paying for hand and foot service, your paying to be part of a community, so of course you need to clean up after yourself. he does the laundry for you at least.
i was there for 10 days and the maximum amount of people who stayed at any given point in time was 8. he has 6 beds downstairs and 5 in the girls dorm room. there is also a couples room. one of my favorite things was just talking with the other people that stayed there. there was a couple guys from Turkey(taught me some Turkish sayings), 3 people from the states, and many people from Australia. 2 Japanese girls as well. had fun talking with them.
for the bare minimum, your paying for a shelter that you have a hand in maintaining, but what a great shelter it is! point being, id rather stay there than go to one of the hotels in town, except probably the real expensive one on the hill. but thats a little extravagant.

Our group of ten was doing a paddling trip out of Ketchikan and we were looking for ways to save money and settled on this hostel to keep the housing costs down before and after the trip. The pictures online looked okay and via email Dale, the owner, seemed ok to deal with (perhaps the sporadic typing in ALL CAPS should have told me something. But once we arrived in Ketchikan and arrived at the Eagle's View we were sorely disappointed. first the location is convenient to nothing. while you might have a view, the walk up the extremely steep hill to get to the hostel and back and forth to town quickly becomes exasperating and exhausting. Dale's customer service skills leave alot to be desired. He's quite grumpy and acts toward you like he's doing you a big favor by renting you a room for the night rather than you're a paying customer. He overbooked the place on one night and grumpily exclaimed "well, there's a cot in there and someone can sleep on the couch". The living situation leaves something to be desired as well. Typically I think of a hostel arrangement being that there is a caretaker on premises who has a living quarters totally removed from the guests. well, at Dale's (as we not-so-fondly came to think of it) the hostel living space is the same as Dale's space; he just has a bedroom right next door to your room. so you see Dale in the morning, you see him in the evening... the rooms themselves are spartan at best. while he is a stickler for washing the sheets and towels this has resulted in sheets that are threadbare and towels that seem like large bandanas. New sheets and towels would be a plus here. This enthusiasm for clean sheets does not carrying over to the cleanliness of the rooms- vacuuming seemed unheard of and the bathroom was grimey. But probably the worst aspect of this place was just Dale's attitude towards his guests. After comments like "if they didnt like it I'd tell them to get the hell outta here" we didnt feel so welcome or that we could speak up about being overbooked because we worried about being thrown out ourselves.
All in all while the price looks good for this spot I'd say try the other hostel in town or pony up the bucks for a hotel!