Chengdu hostels

Pros: Good location, very very helpful staff. Good food and a cute cat

Pros: The location is very good, staff so warmly, helpful.

Cons: Only cash!

Pros: Friendly, bubbly young staff who speak good English. Very well and efficiently run, professional hostel. Many services and tours available and clearly presented. Fine, comfortable rooms (located in Traffic Hotel, next door). Good Chinese food at only slightly inflated prices. Decent cocktails, which are cheap during happy hour. Fine location near a metro station and some restaurants (try the small streetside place right next door to the west! ), but a bit removed from the centre and points of interest.

Cons: Slightly cold in the room.

Pros: Tours could be organised easily through the hostel but some were quite expensive / overpriced.

Cons: The double room was actually in a neighbouring hotel and wasn’t part of the hostel. Shared bathrooms were open to the outside which made it very cold to use at night.

Pros: Helpful staff, good location

Cons: Room needs a bit repair

Pros: Some people of the staff were helpful and friendly and the rooms are new and clean.

Cons: This is like a party hostel, it doesn't have a proper common area to sit and work with your laptop. Instead, there is a sort of bar with no natural light or fresh air (people smokes inside) and during the mornings you find many hangover locals sleeping on the couches and smoking inside in the morning. Some of the staff was not very helpful just replying "I don't know" to some normal touristy questions or giving the wrong advice. Common toilets (the ones you use when you are in the common area) were disgusting and not well maintained (graffiti all over the place).

Pros: The staff was wonderful.

Cons: The room was not clean, only the bed was clean. There was other guests smoking in the room even after being asked not to. There were cigarette butts in the bathroom floor. One of the guests would not stop talking loudly in her phone until 1230 am and started again at 430 am. All during the night the door was being left open and not closed and the fellow roommates were all together disrespectful of any other guest. The staff were great but in a location a bit far from all the issues in the middle of the night.

Pros: The room was amazing, massive bedroom with comfortable bed, smart tv and all the decor was very modern!

Cons: The reception weren’t very helpful when asked with a question and the reception bar area was slightly dirty.

Pros: The place is brand new, beds are really comfortable. I hope it approves with time as I can easily imagine having a really enjoyable time there. The staff in nice and friendly with good enough English.

Cons: The location on Maps.me is wrong, so I was looking for the place for about one hour. The hostel is still being renovated (Oct 2019), which means a lot of noise, there's no commun area, and the Wi-Fi only worked 1 day of my 3 nights stay. The female dorm was really messy, not really hotel's fault, some people are just awful; one Chinese girl smoked in the room even after I told her to go outside. The female dorm had a private bathroom, but the sink was in the actual room, which means you're listening to someone brushing their teeth at 5am. Also, there's no safety lockers.

Pros: The night-shift staff member was helpful, despite the fundamental issues at the hostel she was working with. It was pretty cheap. Also, though the location isn't exactly 'central', it is easily accessed by subway (station 5 mins up the road, which goes to the centre), and if you like walking it's even possible to get to central districts of Chengdu.

Cons: Overall, a pretty bad experience. Check-in took 10 minutes and the staff didn't want to communicate in English; they also seemed slightly rude and unwelcoming, despite my positive approach. They also struggled to process my passport details, having to ask me questions such as what type of visa I'm on, and the expiry date. The 10-bed room I was booked for was full - and with a guy snoring like a pig a mere few centimetres from my head, I knew I had to change rooms to get a good night's sleep. Thankfully this process was not too difficult and the staff member helped me to do this. But in my new room the bunk bed shook against the cupboard it was next to every time I moved an inch, making a loud noise. The 100 yuan deposit seemed a bit steep, as did the requirement to make your own bed. In any case the bedding was pretty terrible and hard to fit onto the duvet and mattress, as it was under-sized / badly maintained (i.e. I couldn't do up the duvet sheet, meaning half was open). Also, in my experience the guests there seemed pretty rude (walking around in just underpants, snoring, etc.), but that is just anecdotal, as guests always change of course.

Pros: the location is good, and the staff is friendly. I was told I could order lunch or dinner through the hostel for 20 rmb.

Cons: toilets were not clean. The showers need some fixing. There were four large lockable storing boxes in the dormitory and four smaller ones. I got a small one, enough for my most valuable things. But that box is easy to smash against the floor. There were some which were already smashed.

Cons: The beds are unconfortable

Pros: Good value. Clean. Pleasant communal area. Close to Metro. Overall worth staying at.

Pros: Convenient, near to food stalls and a lot of fruit stalls. The staff on duty were very friendly. There was this girl who spoke quite fluent English

Cons: Bathroom water leak onto the carpet. Obvious air-cond piping. There were a lot of mosquitoes (perhaps it's the mosquito season)

Pros: Reception staff, beds and spacious rooms!

Cons: My key card wouldn't work after I'd just showered, had towel around me still wet, I asked the Cleaner lady to open the door for me but she clearly had no logic and was very rude. She refused to help me, pointed at the wall and floor speaking Chinese and just walked off. So I had to knock and wake up fellow guests because I didn't want to walk down to reception wet in my towel...

Pros: Economical price

Cons: Smoking management is quite bad

Pros: The beds were comfortable and the rooms were large. 10 min walk to the metro

Cons: The room stunk of smoke despite it saying no smoking. The shower room wasn’t the nicest and the water was never hot.

Pros: Good location.

Cons: Staff not so friendly.

Pros: Allowed us to early check-in

Cons: No hangers

Pros: Decent for the price, family room was very spacious with two interconnecting rooms with big beds in both rooms. Kids loved the novelty of the little tepee tent in the room and the animal shaped cushions. We also had some great games of hide and seek due to all the space! Bathroom was fine with okwater pressure and heat. Good location. Breakfast was a nice Chinese breakfast and the breakfast staff were great with the kids.

Cons: Room could have been a little cleaner, but wasn't bad for a 2 star. Was a little cold and when we tried to heat it up with air con it was a little temperamental. People seemed to be smoking a lot in the hotel despite it being non-smoking and the smell would often drift into the room.

Pros: Cheap. Located in good neighbourhood to get feel of Chengdu. The Sichuan hotpot across the road was a big winner. Lift in building handy.

Cons: Room had no windows and was an old dorm converted. Bathrooms are internal and ventilate to room. Beds are very hard. Location a mix of good feel of city but far from metro.

Pros: Nice and helpful stuff.

Cons: The room could have been cleaner. We had a shower block but they came to fix it right away.

Pros: The hotel was very well located, close to Wenshu Temple and at 10 min from subway station. The beds were comfortable, and there was enough storage in the room. The breakfast provided was good. They let us use the fridge in the kitchen to store our stuff. Staff speak a little English and did their best to help us around. Common laundry in the hall (10 yuan).

Cons: The hotel is not very clean. People were spitting on the floor. The carpet was very old and looks dirty. No fridge in the bedroom. The window didn't close very well.