Beijing City Central Youth Hostel

Beijing (Dongcheng District)

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Address	1 Beijing Zhan Qianjie (Railway Station Street), Beijing (Dongcheng District), Beijing Municipality, China
Price	Dorm beds from US$45.00. Private rooms from US$67.00/person. Price may vary by season - Check Current Prices by Date Here

Location/Contact

Details

This is a Hostelling International (HI) hostel. A membership card isn't required, but an extra fee will apply for non-members. You can get a membership card before your trip here.

Description

Features

24 Hour Free Hot Showers
Pool Table
Air Conditioning
Washing Machine (laundry)
Lounge / Common space
Travel information provided
Lockers
Kitchen
Bar
Food/Restaurant
Gameroom
Phones (public or in room)
Elevator/Lift
Bike Rental
Free Breakfast
Currency Exchange
Nightclub

Ratings & Comments

3.5 Average from 10 Ratings

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Comment by Greg, USA

October 2009

Excellent!
I live in China and have been going to this hotel for over five years and never a problem and always welcome. It is a very comfortable, clean, relaxed, simple place to escape from the city and over the years I see more foreign (young and old) as well as Chinese tourists and business travelers who maybe have heard about it through friends. The Central location is really the best part of the place right across from Beijing Zhan and can walk/bus/subway to Tiananmen, Wangfujing, Silk Market, Tian Tan Park. The staff is diligent and maybe at times overworked but they understand service and do their best -- I have always had the best service. I highly recommend this place -- give it a try!

Comment by Ling, United States

May 2009

Simply Great
We arrived very late (midnight) and our reservation was canceled but they got us a double. The store was still open and we bought some snacks. The bar was still open so we got a few drinks. The room was so clean, and the floor was very quiet. At the price it was excellent. My wife and daughter had no problem with the bathrooms, neither did I. They were tidy. I recommend this for everyone, including families.

Comment by b112, spanish

May 2009

Clean, excellent location.
Excellent hostel. One of the best. I was in a private twin room. Everything very clean, bed linen, towels, bathroom. Very well located, near train station, bus stop, and subway station. Acceptable breakfast. Excellent english spoken reception desk. Cheap internet. I went booked the Samai Great Wall tour, it was fantastic. But once in the city the wanted us to take the subway back to the hostel, we refused. They did that with other customers. They made us pay money to come back through the express way. We wasted time waiting for some people of the tour who had booked for lunch, we could have been more time in Great Wall. I also booked acrobatic show. Fantastic show, but the gave us money to take a taxi back to hostel. That's not what we arranged. Not very good tour guides.

Comment by TexasDoug, USA

June 2007

Central, good vibe, bad tour desk
The hostel is fine. Bathrooms have privacy curtains, but a little plastic litter and cigarette butts. AC is slow to start cooling, but once it kicks in is plenty cold. Plenty of hot water and force. Rooms are spotless, clean linens, TV, fairly new furnishings. Location right on a subway line is a plus, since subway is just 3 yuan to anywhere. The tour offered to Badaling to see the Great Wall is a disaster, really total crap. I am not sure how to do it better, but the tour two advertises the Chang tomb of the Ming tomb group, but instead goes to another one, which is much less interesting, and has almost no other tourists. Instead, most of the tour consists of visits to two jade factories and a Chinese tea shop, with only an hour and forty-five minutes at the wall, and no interesting commentary about the history and construction of the wall. The lunch is adequate, but uninspiring.

Comment by Raymond Horton, England

August 2006

to be honest i wasnt that impressed with the hostel, altho the rooms were of a good standard. the staff were obviously oveworked and looked as tho they were about to fall asleep standing up. Stay away from the restuarant on the second floor its a rip off. a friend and i went in for what was advertised as a full english breakfast, what was served was a pencil thick sausage, one slice of floppy toast and one egg, my heart sank. the only benefits it has going is the location, being opposite beijings main station.

Comment by Roger

October 2005

This hostel is quite clean, and the rooms are of a fine standard. However, the staff are incredibly stupid, incredibly useless and obviously overworked and disinterested. The room prices are not low for what you get, and the whole place is clearly resting on the laurels of its great location. I don't recommend it... there are many better places to stay in Beijing.

Comment by Benjamin Johnston

October 2005

I wasn't too impressed with this hostel. The reception staff were incredibly slow, and didn't really want to help. The rooms were nice, but the bathrooms were a little dirty. The canteen's prices sounded reasonable, until you see the incredibly stingy quantities of food. My "bowl" of cereal was in fact two mouthfuls. And when I stayed there, they were doing noisy construction work on the hostel until a bit after midnight so I didn't get much sleep after my exhausting travels. Overall, I felt particularly unwelcome here.

Comment by magnus

April 2005

Nice, clean place close to both the train station and the underground system. Make sure you get a room with a window, otherwise it will get really hot, even in winter. English speaking staff that can give you tips on how to get around in Beijing.

Comment by Charity

March 2005

The hostel itself was really clean and quite nice. We enjoyed staying here. However, the trip they offered to the Great Wall was a TOTAL waste of time. We spent the whole day going to everywhere EXCEPT the Great Wall. We were allowed only about 1-1/2 hours there and then they asked for 60 RM EXTRA to ride the cable car up. And we were discouraged from walking the length of the wall by the tour guide who promised she would leave us be behind if weren't able to make it back in the allotted hour and a half. My sister came halfway around the world for this trip, so 1-1/2 hours was not enough. The tour guide was totally not helpful, and we went to a jade factory and a "pharmacy" where they wanted you to spend your money before we were allowed to finally see the Great Wall! DON'T TAKE THE TOUR!!!

Comment by Jack

November 2004

This place was very special and very nice.

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