We're signing the contract with our contractor on Monday and officially starting construction on Tuesday! I can't tell you how exciting it is to know that we'll actually be running our own hostel in just 3-4 short months (barring all unforeseen disasters, of which I'm sure there will be a few). I'll put up some before pictures on Monday and then some after demolition at the end of the week. I'm thinking about adding a link on our website to keep a construction update as well.

Meanwhile, we're busy comparison shopping for mattresses, key card locks, signage, etc. I've started to put some posts up about the hostel on different travel websites. We've already had quite a few reservation requests that we've had to turn unfortunately. We are taking reservations starting June 2008. You can book online at Gomio.com. Hopefully the opening date will be more like March, 2008 but we're being overly-cautious for now.