Big Bed Hostel - Krāpšana

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Never, NEVER EVER VISIT BIG BED HOSTEL IN RIGA!!!!

This is my story.
On the weekend, 16th to 17th November, I was with a big ERASMUS team from Lithuania. We booked 18 places in Big Bed Hostel on Merkela 1: prices were quite low, and the place is profitable enough: it’s close to the city center and to old Riga at the same time. We hardly could understand each other since the manager’s English was not so good.
Bad things started from the very beginning.
We entered the hostel. We were only 11, other 7 people couldn’t come. The manager told us, that we’ll have to pay for all 18 places even if we are only 11. So, we paid the price for ourselves and 64 LATS MORE FOR THESE WHO DIDN’T COME.
The toilet for men was being repaired when we entered the hostel: the sound of electric drill was really uncomfortable. In our room, there was a mess from previous guests: banana peels, empty cigarette packs and other things. Still, the aromatic candles were on. Very nice, thanks for the great service.
We were split into two rooms and in the evening we find out that we have other people in our rooms, two in one and one guy in another, and let’s remember that we paid for 7 extra places.
I went to manager to resolve this issue and I see more and more people getting into hostel. This is when I understand, that we have got fooled. We paid those 64 lats for the beds we aren’t going to use, and other people paid as much as we did to sleep at those beds. Applause, extra money to hostel’s pocket.
I asked the manager to return the money, since his behavior is absolutely illegal. He started arguing with me, raising his voice at me. A really rude scab.
I called the police and we all signed the assignment about the fact of financial fraudulence. When the manager noticed, that we called the police, he started threatening us, he said, that it’s his hostel and he can do whatever he wants to, and if the police come, he will throw us out of here. He said that all with a working electric drill in his hands, at the same time he was shaking of fear. What a pathetic scene. Also, while we were signing the paper for police, all of the other people quickly packed their bags and left the hostel, which means that something isn’t legal at this place.
Police came to the hostel and took our assignment, and that was it. The manager started screaming at us, saying that now, by the time we come back from our ice hockey match, we’ll find all our personal things on the street and we won’t be able to get back into the hostel. We answered, that we will call the municipal police. The manager said a lot of rude things, insulted us in Latvian language, which was understood only by me and two other people. In the end, by the time we came back, he wasn’t there anymore.

Needless to say, this experience was awful and it ruined our mood for the whole weekend. We were just shocked.
The hostel’s manager is a really disgusting person.
So, please, never visit this hostel if you don’t want to get problems and a bad weekend. It isn’t worth it at all. Thank you for your attention.