Last New Year's Eve we stayed as a group at Maayan Harod youth hostel. There is a nice grass near the rooms. We happened to get the Mamad room which is a renovated room and looks not bad at all compared to hostel rooms. The other rooms were also reasonable. There are many places in the area to walk with children: Gan Guru, the spring park and the kibbutz stream which is open for free, the sauna and more. There was shampoo in the shower and small soap, towels. There was a kettle with disposable cups and bags of nes-coffee, black coffee, sugar, tea. There is also a playground and if I'm not mistaken, a basketball court. Good mainly as a place to stay and travel in the area. One thing was really bad - And that's the food in the dining room. I've stayed in other youth hostels in recent years, and the food here was nothing at all, and not only that, there was no selection, the amount of food was extremely sparse.