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| - Straight up, shout out to Toronto and it's beautiful inhabitants for showing your boy some love - the Asian girl who works at Guess downtown especially, I'd french kiss your elbows if you'd allow it. You fine like a $300 speeding ticket.
I booked for one in a six bed mixed room at The Only Backpackers Inn to welcome 2015 in style, and I must say that overall my stay was quite pleasurable.
This hostel is perfectly located just outside of Donlands subway station off Danforth Ave via green line, which I'd estimate is aboot (about) 20 minutes out from downtown i.e. Bay, Spadina. It's really cool that the trains here in TDot is one entire unit - so you can walk from one end of the train all the way to the other without ever exiting. I geek out over shit like this!
The entrance itself at TOBI was a little confusing to spot at first, but ultimately I figured out that the check-in counter is located in their 1st floor coffee shop. It was a breeze after that, I was given a tour and then proceeded to my bunk. I must say that this joint is quite compartmentalized, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. They also provide a pro bono waffle and fruit breakfast and coffee, the perfect fuel to conquer a city on foot.
My room didn't have a washroom but I didn't mind that too much, I was more disappointed that it hurt to walk on the skimpy ladder to get in and out of bed and also there was no mini lamp lighting for any of them.
There is everything you would need at the 24hr 7Eleven right across the damn street, so you can tame all of your B.O. you've accumulated while shaking that ass at the local hip hop spot with a cheap deodorant stick. You smell me?
It's not the best location if you're looking for the constant surroundings of downtown Toronto and Chinatown, but if you're on a budget and don't mind a little adventure, you'll be pretty satisfied about this spot.
Go Red Sox!!!
-Bean
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