Nice stay at the HI-Ottawa Jail in May 2015.
All of the hostel staff were very friendly and eager to help.
I had the chance to stay at a shared 4 bed room at the top floor. It was clean and cozy.
My four night stay was very nice, and for three of those nights I had only two roommates, who were very decent, and friendly.
The fourth night, some new roommate came. Around 1 am we were all sound asleep, and a loud noise was heard, I think the new roommate was drunk and trying to go for the window or something, and crashed with a chair. He was so disoriented and tryed to fight the chair, and then went on shouting and trying to fight the air... then he fell asleep again and tried to fight the pillow. Ha! I think the next morning he was not feeling well, because he didn't even answer to our "good morning". But the three "elder" could get a nice topic to talk about, and we even went on for a tour through the city, and through the jail also.
It was a very nice experience, even with our drunk roommate, but the hostel is not to blame for that.
I really enjoyed it.