- He comes from Afghanistan
- In 1997, when he was 12, the war broke out in Afghanistan. Alot of money could be made during the war though selling guns. In order to exploit this, Ateek and his friends would hide in the streets and alleys and steal the guns off dead soldiers.
- One day, Ateek found a dead soldier with a big gun. He told us, "It was so beeeg, I could barely carry it". It was worth about $250 which, as you can imagine, was a very big sum then, with it you could buy 3 donkeys, 12 chickens and wind-up radio. As he was stealing away with it he spotted a taliban soldier, who also spotted him, and ran into an abandoned building. The taliban followed him inside and asked little Ateek for the big gun. Ateek knew then as he does now that the only rule in war is kill or be killed. He also knew that if he gave him a gun the soldier would kill him. Ateek started to give the taliban the gun. As the taliban went to take it Ateek squeezed the trigger and didn't stop until a round of 70 or so bullets were wasted as well as the taliban soldier who Ateek had riddled with bullets. He was 12.
- This incident led to him fearing for his life and so he walked to Iran.
- Once in Iran, a family found him walking in the street and took him in.
- He stayed there until he was twenty at which point he moved to Athens.
- In Athens Ateek had alot of fun and the best three monthhs of his life. He made alot of money smuggling refugees around Europe in trucks with a few melons in them.
- After one successful heist him and his partner made 40 000 Euros by refusing to pay the driver. They blew all of it in one week partying like rockstars in a fancy hotel.
- Four years ago he came to Venice and has been there ever since.
- A month before I left he attacked a mutual friend of ours with a kitchen knife in the hostel "Because he disrespect me". It was about a girl. My friend fled down the stairs with a broom as defence.
- He says things like "Why you make me sad, you want to fight with me?"
- This is the person I ran the hostel with, just the two of us.
While he seems harmless enough with his off-beat humour, mesmerizing card tricks and intuitive palm reading there certainly is something you can't trust about him. It could just be his background and the fact that someone who kills a man when he is 12 is destined to have an obscure respect for human life. Apparently he threw a piece of metal at the guy who replaced me recently. Ahhhhh Ateek, how we used to rock that hostel. Checking the guests in, 'cleaning', cooking dinner, making Sangria and taking out the guests. Here are some comments from hostelworld.com of our hostel while the two of us worked there.
Great atmosphere. Unpretentious. An awesome location to meet new people. Loved the free breakfast and the 3 euro suppers. The only issue is cleanliness.
Stay at the Fish if you like to party and meet other travellers. The nightly pub crawl is wild. We had a great weekend - thanks Matt, Kagan and Ahteek for the fun times!
The kitchen was disgusting and the entire hostel could use a good clean. The staff were very unprofessional, when we arrived we had no idea who worked there and who didn't, it seemed they were there to party instead of run a hostel. It was very unorganized, no one was there for us to check out,and so we were unable to get a deposit back. There were a lot of extra fees involved as well that was not presented on the website, such as linen, towels, dinner, and for the employees to take you out
Possibly the most disgusting hostel I have ever been to. I would not recommend it to anyone, ever. The place smelled, was dirty, and our room was never cleaned after the previous guests left. Mattresses were stained and so were linens/blankets. Absolutely horrible.
If you are an asian guy,this hostel wouldn't be good for you and the 1 star hotel like Rossi hotel would be good for you because you take a short time walking from station to hotel and this is good and clean.
This hostel, rather messy, is more for the guys who are running it as it would be for theirs guests. Breakfast is only available after they get up and that is after 9 pm, so having left earlier, I have not seen my breakfast in the 3 days. I arrived the frist day around 9 am, coming directly from the airport, and the guy "in duty", who I waked up by my ringing, was so annoyed about that, that he did not explain anything about where is what in the hostel and how is breakfast organized.
My favorite hostel in Europe!!! I came just in time for dinner...which is 3 euro...and the guy made us so much foooood it was awsome and delicious! we played drinking games and then the two guys working there took us out to the bar...i was told venice didnt have a nightlife but with all the people at the hostel it was so much fun! the place is great, an awsome way to meet people, great location and amazing staff..recomend it to anyone going to venice! loved it! thank u guys!
The worst hostel I've ever stayed in. The only positive was the okay location. The entire place was filthy. There were bedbugs. The kitchen was filled with mold, old dishes, rotting food... to say that place is livable is an exaggeration. DO NOT STAY THERE.
This is the worst hostel I have stayed in. The staff are extremely unprofessional but that isn't even the half of this hostel\'s problems. It is FILTHY. Absolutely disgusting. Everything looks as if it hasn't been cleaned in years.
Yeah so basically it was what the guests made of it. The comment about the asian guy is priceless. So that was Venice, and now I have been in Greece for four weeks. There is loads to tell, but that will have to wait as its time for a dip oi the pool.
PS I am growing inceasingly distraught about being away for the World Cup with each new day. Everyone asks me what I am doing here andI tell them I don't know. Soak it all up and report the details to me when we get the chance. And here is Ateek.
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