Hektor Design Hostel in Tartu

Coming here for a day or two is "tolerable", but still unpleasant. Staying long term however, as they offer residency, is multiple times worse which is what I will be commenting on.

If you ever want to lose your sanity and say goodbye to any sense of peace or quiet, this is the place. You will be crammed in with ignorant and clueless tenants, often foreigners who seem unable or unwilling to grasp even the most basic rules of living with others. Concepts like respecting silence, maintaining cleanliness, or simply not disturbing people around them appear to be foreign ideas.
Raising these issues is pointless. Management is incompetent, and the tenants you confront react like hostile children, playing the victim and blaming everyone around them for their own shortcomings.

Management, for its part, does not care in the slightest. Rules are written down but never enforced. Any promises made during the agreement or written into the contract are nothing more than fairy tales, nice-sounding words that collapse the moment problems actually arise. What you get in reality is noise, chaos, and a complete lack of accountability from those who should be responsible. Do not expect assistance with your inquiries. Even the simplest requests are ignored, forgotten, or delayed, just to be told "unlucky".

The building is wedged between a club, a highway and a train track, subjecting it to almost constant, unavoidable noise. Ventilation is minimal to nonexistent. Shared spaces and their contents are functional but in questionable condition, largely due to the behavior of certain foreign tenants and that is not only my own opinion, but also the managements. Walls and doors are thin. Rooms are adequate only if you accept extreme minimalism. Beds are very small, even for shorter individuals. The bathroom is cramped and smells odd no matter what you do there. The floor there is poorly designed, prone to flooding the entire bathroom when showering.
As one person put it, it’s “about one step up from a prison cell.”

Another thing worth noting is the so-called 4-5 star reviews. Most of them come from shallow, blind tourists who care more about parroting clichés or external details than describing the actual experience. If you look past the meaningless lines like “the city is so nice” which have nothing to do with the hotel itself, you quickly see that this place has nothing to boast about.
Look at 2-3 star reviews to actually see proper reviews and the reality of this place.

Pay a bit more elsewhere, and you’ll get a far better experience, both short-term and long-term. Would not recommend to anyone.

Nice minimalistic design, private parking, contact free check in and acceptable breakfast. Otherwise no positive emotions. Clean at least. No TV. Very narrow double bed. Extremly noisy hostel, city's busiest street right outside and you cannot close the window because no ventilation available. Lot of small things keep bothering, like big bathroom but smallest sink ever, cheap plastic shower curtain and no place to hang hand towel etc.