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Ghajnsielem MYHA Hostel
Ostell MYHA Għajnsielem
Malta is an achipelago with Malta
being the main island, Gozo being the second largest inhabited island and a 2.5 km inhabited island Comino.
There are other smaller uninhabited islands like Cominotto, St Paul's Islands, Filfla, il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral
and It-Taqtiegħa.
Għajnsielem MYHA Hostel (Ostell MYHA Għajnsielem) is in Gozo ...
... arrangements for stays are made at the Pawla MYHA Hostel or with the administration at 17, Triq Tal-Borġ, Pawla.
Viewing and start of stays is preferably on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Donations for expenses barring utilities are Ewro 7 for seven days whether or not one stays for seven
days. Utilies are covered according to use.
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Għajnsielem MYHA Hostel Way
of Life
i.e. youth hostel rules particular to this hostel.
There are bunk beds in each of the two bedrooms. A bunk is two beds, one top and one
bottom. One bedroom accommodate thre bunks i.e. six persons and one bedroom accommodates two bunks i.e. four persons.
Under bottom beds are three lockable lockers, key service on demand at an optional returnable
Ewro 5 deposit. Out of nine lockers in Bedroom 1, six are for guests, out of six lockers in Bedroom 2, four are fo guests,
meaning that there is availability of one locker for each guest.
Clean Air Hostel
This is a non-smoking hostel which endeavours to be free from cigarette smoke in all
parts of the hostel and in its surroundings.
Drugs and un-prescripted medicines
Persons using this hostel should not be in possession of drugs, let alone take them
and if they need to take any medicine they should be in possession of a recognized doctor's prescription.
Luggage
Use of this hostel is for those with a limited amount of personal effects (luggage) enough
to fill one locker. All personal effects to be put in lockers when one leaves out for the day.
All personal effects left out of the locker when one leaves out for the day and those
left in the hostel after one is no longer residing there are disposed of as seen fit after 24 hrs.
Bedlinen
One is asked to bring one's own bedlinen, two bedsheets and a pillow case.
Fans
There is a fan in each bedroom for use in summer, alternating with the availability of hot
water in the bathroom in summer.
Bathroom
Toilet, two wash-hand basins with mirror chest, shower with hot water in winter
and two chairs.
Members' Kitchen
It consists of a table cooker, a two-basin kitchen sink, two food (like bread or preservatives lockers and
a fridge.
Pots and pans are available. A set of plates, knife, spoon, fork, tablespoon
are provided on a buy-back basis. The amount of food prepared should be consumed in the common room. If not, it
should be disposed of. One may bring a thermos flask and take boiling water to make tea or coffee in the bedroom.
The charge is 80c every day.
Use of the kitchen, for use from 17.00h to 18.30h, is optional.
Overnight
This is a donation to cover running expenses such as water, electricity, repairs,
maintenance. This does not include rent because members are collective owners of these premises and therefore the stay
is free of the rent charge. But the membership needs to be paid and the expenses shared. These are set and reviewed
periodically.
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Rooms for Males - Rooms for Females
Since a hostel is intended for the travelling youth going around to learn about the
world around us and not yet of a marrying age, at the Ostell MYHA Għajnsielem there are specific rooms for
boys and specific rooms for girls.
The hostel has a common room where boys and girls may meet, talk, discuss, socialize
and have an adjoining kitchen where to cook light meals.
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MYHA Hostelling is like living
in a community of
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| Street Map Direction to Ostell MYHA Ghajnsielem |
This is a descriptive
direction on how to reach Ostell MYHA Għajnsielem with reference to the map above.
The ferry
from Ċirkewwa port in Malta arrives at Mġarr Harbour in Gozo, every thirty or forty-five minutes. On arrival,
one is to go as soon as possible to reach a bus which says: "Bus to Victoria." "Victoria" is the English
name for Rabat, the main town of Gozo. A few minutes after the bus leaves one is to keep a look-out on the right-hand
side of the bus for a building named (large letters) "Gozo Press." This is shown on the map above. This is the
place where one should ring the bell for the bus to stop. There is a bus stop on the map to show where one is to stop.
One is to walk in the direction of Triq Ta' Cordina, the word "triq" standing
for "street." As seen in the map Ostell MYHA Għajnsielem is at No 21A, with the name "MYHA" on the door.
The colour of the door is dark blue.
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