HI - Chengdu - Dragon Town Hostel

This place ripped me off
I didn't have such a good experience here. There was a mouse in my room which kept me awake all night so I had to keep the food from my bag in my bed with me. When I left, I gave back my key and got the deposit back (a 100 yuan note), which I've now found out is a counterfeit. All the locals can recognise it as a counterfeit, so I can only assume the owners knew this when they gave it to me. Not happy.

I liked the hostel. I made two friends from England. They are very lovely. They will travel to Shanghai from Chongqing and go to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, and then back to England in January 2005.

This hostel is fantastic. It's quiet, tidy, cheap and mysterious. It's amazing, the contrast between the street on which the hostel is located and the nearby modern, noisy streets. You can just sit, chilling and drinking tea in the traditional Chinese courtyard, all day long. Chengdu is great. I've never seen such a carefree city in the world. It's elegant.

This hostel looked okay. Rooms are kind of clean. All the tours are very over-priced and they have no English guides. We did a tour alone and the hostel was asking over double for the same thing. We booked a bus to Chongching with them and we ended up being on an old broken down bus with people demanding more money from us. So we had to get another bus and ended up paying more than DOUBLE what it should have cost for an Express bus. Don't use the travel center in this hostel. They are out for one thing, YOUR MONEY!!!

The best hostel in China! Like being in a Chinese Family, reminded me of the 1970s. Friendly staff and well experienced travel agency.