Perhaps, this budget Chinatown hostel is the cheapest in Chinatown. You could pick a bed for just SGD $18.00. It really offers the best value for money. Just below the Hostel is a 24 hour Supermarket and Laundromat. The Hostel offers free high speed internet broadband access at 18 mbps, good for any sort of serious remote work for scholars and businessmen. Hostel is also unique in that it is located at the entrance of the City Park, where one can get some respite from the hustle and bustle of Chinatown. The hostel won several top hostel awards, including Top rated Hostel, Best Staff Award, and award for cleanliness , and Top 100 Singapore Excellence Award for 2013 / 2014. It was highly commended with a Fire Safety Award, as the building is entirely built of concrete, unlike other hostels made of wooden structures. Perhaps, the Hostel is also unique because the owner of the Hostel is a university doyen and guru, a top university administrator, psychologist, housing developer, poet and consultant and former Singapore's Director of Planning and Trade director. A rare person for you to meet in your world travel. Read the books he authored, and enjoy viewing his father's photographs of world fame, as Yip Cheong Fun was elected in 1980 as the "Outstanding Photographer of the Century."
The Hostel itself is within the heart of Chinatown, and close to the Chinatown MRT Station. It is close to the People's Park and Chinatown Point where you can enjoy shopping and dining. A short walk leads you to Clarke Quay and the Singapore River.
The Hostel features an Executive Family or Group Room and is ideal for group stay. Indeed it is home away from home, where one could feel the verve, vitality , excitement and the alluring ambience of Chinatown, and taste the exotic food of the orient in the nooks and corners of this famous Cultural District of Singapore.