Sorry, this was not at all acceptable. The room was smelly (very unpleasant). It was also hard to sleep due to floors that squeaked no end, sending a ringing noise from anywhere in the building at any given hour. Exhausting! Upsides, Old Town Hostel has nice common areas, if you travel as a group, and is close Kastanienallee (great cafes and the like) and U-Bahnhof Ebersalderstr (tube station). Its location is very good. Still, I have stayed at many small hotels in Berlin, in the same price range I should add, that have been clean and quiet inside. I will not come back to Old Town Hostel.