Love this place literally staying at a beach Nice friendly stuff Sam is a good guy

The staff are really helpful. It's right by the beach and a great stop over if you are catching the shuttle from East London to Hogsback. However, the hostel only accepts cash so make sure you have on you when you check out otherwise you will need to walk about 10 minutes down the road to the nearest ATM.

Great location on the sea! Cozy, rustic, backpacker accommodation. Sadly some socially undesirable people in the public area outside sugarshack. Litter everywhere on the beach. You must be vigilant. Also buccaneers next door plays music very loud until late. Not my cup of tea unfortunately. Ironically, the location in the bay is perfect, really beautiful, but it also is not, due to the urban decay surrounding sugarshack. A sad reality for many SA cities. Very friendly host Jacques, and the accommodation decent enough. Double room we hired could do with an extra blanket as it's winter. Great place to stay but best to have a vehicle available while staying in East London, or pay plenty to Uber. Walking around town and beachfront to be avoided.

The location is absolutely brilliant it's a surfing hostel bathrooms was clean there was hot water kitchen can use some love. Staf was friendly room was nice. No towels only one duvet. Great value for money.

The location is nice, at the esplanade, you hear (and feel) the waves wherever you go on the property, the room was nice and clean a wooden cabin. The kitchen is small and ok equipped, basically everything a backpacker needs :D Not necessarily the best, they have gas cookers on the counter, no oven and not enough pots. Unfortunately when we were there it was rainy and cold and it's rather an outdoor hostel partly. Most of the tables and chairs are outside. I didn't like that they don't have secure parking. You leave your car in front of the hostel along the promenade and they have a night guard there who is supposed to watch it. Also the hostel grounds are always accessible to everybody. The gate is never locked not even at night. But it's really cheap and they have two partner hostels which you should check out, the coffee shack in coffee bay and away with the fairies in hogsback.

Great place to stay over for the night, honestly this place is cool, just its located in Eastlondon, and eastlondon is rather lame. Also the kitchen lounge area seems to always be occupied by the staff and the TV is always blaring out anoying shows. Kind off ruins the peace there could be

Cool place! Nice vibes!

It was an amazing experience. The view is absolutely amazing

Excellent Service, Great staff which add to the festive atmosphere.

If you are looking for a cheap beautiful accommodation by the beach with free Wi-Fi this is it.

Fantastic location within East London, easily accessible from the city busses, and great beach access. The staff were lively, knowledgeable, and just great to hang with. Loved my time there, felt like home.

Great place to get away from the city within the city. The staff were friendly. However the gates are always open, Leaving anyone to walk in and out. The rooms were clean when I got there but had to ask to get it cleaned out.

Location is good but very doggy, Couldn't find a breakfast place on the beachfront for about 1,5km. Only a few hotels down the road and a local Spar store.Buildings are not look after up the road the beachfront houses are deteriorate and and it seems there is lots of Nigerians doing the drugs to the Locals.

Good place to stay the staff members are friendly more especially Jacques...i really had a great time there surely that's the place i would really like to be at next time, wow Jacques made everything possible for us🤙

Didn’t experience the vibe that others were describing. Kitchen seems a little run down. In my dorm room the upper bunk bed had almost no space to the ceiling, so you can’t even sit upright. The next door club was playing music loud enough for my bed to vibrate and made sleeping impossible until it stopped at 2:30am

Love the service

It was very good .Room also clean an friendly people.

Awsome spot

I was Thay the service are very bad

Booked two rooms for my employees on a short business trip to East London. Rooms/facility’s not as advertised on website. Staff was friendly, thanks for accommodating my guys, but I would suggest a good cleanup. I can only guess it’s because of lockdown . Stay stong through the struggle!