Toronto Travellers Home is a Hostel at 588 Dundas Street West on the south edge of Kensington Market and the western limit of Chinatown.

Check-in: 12:30 p.m.

Check-out: 11:00 a.m.

24 Hour access, NO Curfew.

Free WiFi.

Rooms are small. There are bunk beds in most every room, and the calendars on the walls have a picture of Chairman Mao above the tear-away months.

Rooms can be as cheap as $25 Bucks a night, BUT, don't be surprised if you show up having paid a deposit online only to be told they are overbooked. The owners have a second property nearby and sometimes they offer you a room there instead.

There isn't a real reception area at all. Just a note on the front door with a phone number. You call the number, the owner or someone he sends over within a few minutes shows up and takes you to the room.

There are small fridges in each room. The Standing showers and toilets are tiny, and in some rooms, the doors don't close. So its kind of awkward if two people are staying in the same room.

There is a cordless phone you can ask to use. Not every room has a landline as advertised.

The linens are not changed on a regular basis. You have to ask for new ones.

Overall, it's hit or miss, depending on which room you end up staying in.

If you're dead broke and need a roof over your head for a night or two and don't care about noise wafting through wafer thin walls, what the hell, save your money and stick it out. It's downtown and pretty much within walking distance of most places a tourist would want to visit.

Oh Yeah, the Staircase is very narrow, making lugging up luggage a nuisance. Also, the owners have this quirk about you taking your shoes off at the front, but considering how infrequent they clean the place, what's the point?