Highland Hostel in Yerevan

Overall:
A decent stay that I would still recommend, but the hostel needs improvements in comfort, staff behavior, and facilities.

Positives (+):
• Friendly and welcoming male staff, always helpful.
• Good location, easy to find with the instructions provided. (The photos they share are a bit outdated compared to the current state, they send you a picture of the arch to find the hostel and the building there is showing a Samsung sign which is no longer there)

• clean

Negatives (-):
• Some staff members were also sleeping in the dorm room, showing little consideration for guests by leaving the door open late at night and talking loudly.
• Only 2 bathrooms per floor, with showers and toilets in the same space, often leading to queues and wet floors.
• The AC in the room barely worked – even on low temperature and high fan speed it never cooled below ~24°C. In August, with high humidity, it was uncomfortable and hard to sleep. AC in the common areas worked better.
• WiFi was unstable, frequently disconnecting and quite slow. For digital nomads, this is not a good option unless you plan to rent office space in the city.

The entrance to the hostel is in a back road and it's not marked at all... the door to the hostel are not even marked... if you get through the correct door it's top floor(5th i think) new metal door on the left. definitely ring the doorbell which hostel will send you in email/booking.com etc message or you just won't find it.

The hostel windows face the main road so it's going to be noisy. The are lockers but if you are unlucky you either won't be able to use them because they so high (bed 4) or you will need to use a stepladder/chair...

The common area is quite good, and there are basics in the kitchen. Looking at the tours they offer they are more expensive than other tour providers so I am not sure why people rave about them? Maybe they just don't know how to use Google?

I stayed one night and found cheaper and better hostel in much better location

The owner talked loudly outside on the dinning table after 11pm after I said goodnight to him. It kept me from falling asleep, for a potentially early morning daytrip.
I couldn't find a place to keep my fruit outside the fridge, then the owner threw it away and took the rubbish away!😭😢
My expensive fresh walnuts were shared by the host and eaten by others. How can you know which table is for shared food and which for private placement!? These are the unspoken norms for new check ins?
I expected better for such a price. At least decent and quiet sleep.
During the day, it's very quiet. After 11pm people started to talk over drinks. It's more for night fun owls to sleep during the day time.
The dormitory is too odorous to sleep. It's a rude Russian house.
However, the facilities are good. There's only one 8-mix dormitory with a big lounge room and a big kitchen table. All clean. You can turn on the AC whenever you want. Laundry is free with powder.
But to me, the Dubai €5.5 dormitories are still way better than this €10 dormitory. At least it's quieter for sleep and odor free.
I'm disappointed because of such a high score with such experiences. The host offered last night free for removing this review. I refused because of his sarcastic tone. Then he wants me to leave. It's a capricious host. This is a factual review based on my real experiences.