Huangshan Old Street Youth Hostel

Comment by Rubia, American

August 2009

Great location for exploring villages
Nice rooms, very cheap rates, nice bar deck, excellent location, mediocre breakfast/good coffee, not the best laundry facilities, staff that speak English and are helpful with planning the Yellow Mountain trip. Wouldn't advise booking a bus to the next city (Yellow Mountain bus is good though). We had a horrible experience with the bus they booked for us to our next destination, so be sure to find out when your ride is coming to bring you to the bus, so if they are late you can just get a taxi. We were led to believe the bus was coming to pick us up at the hostel, so didn't get to worried about it when it was late -- ended up being on a horrible bus that took five hours instead of two. If the Yellow Mountain is your only reason for being in the area, consider the town at the base of the mountain instead of Tunxi for a head start on the first day of the hike. I would definitely recommend staying up on the Yellow Mountain for a night if you want to experience the mountain without an insane amount of tour groups and megaphones -- not only annoying, but terrifying as some of the stairs are on the edge of a major cliff.