Beijing City Central Youth Hotel Reviews

If you're catching a train (i.e. Trans Mon/Sib), the location is perfect, right across the road from the station. The hostel is large, very busy, rooms are basic. We had twin room, no wifi, can connect with phone cable on request or go to The Club for wifi. The club is dingy and generally empty except for people on wifi - not a great place to hang out. Pretty average hostel, but good for trains.

You can't beat the location if you've got a train to catch. In fact, you can see the station from many of the rooms. The common area is large, but was dark and mostly deserted during our stay, and the place itself is much more like a giant low budget hotel than a hostel. The staff was consistently unhelpful and rude. Probably the worst of any of the dozen or so hostels we stayed at in China.

Was much bigger than I expected - more like a big hotel than a hostel. Was a bit of walk from my room to the bathroom, which was a pain in the middle of the night. And as a non-smoker I noticed a bit of a smokey atmosphere at times but other than that it was fine. Air conditioning in room was good and a massive plus, wouldn't stay in Beijing without it at this time of year.

Very good location, clean Locate near train station, subway station, bank, post office and department store but staff at the front desk are not friendly

Metro and Beijing Main Railroad are right outside, with McDonalds, Pizza Hut and KFC within walking distance. We stayed in hotel double room - cleaned daily, spacious with nice bathroom. Bed was very uncomfortable with springs digging in my back all night. I'd prefer a traditional Chinese bed made of wood with a small mat on top. Fast Internet access in room. Staff was loud all night and didn't speak much English. Info/travel desk lady was rude and uniformed. Breakfast was great, 18 Yuan buffet.

no character but clean.

Very uncomfortable sleep due to a concrete bed with paper thin pillows, not to mention the noise from people passing through the hall at 4 am. Overall, ruined my Beijing experience because I was knackered!

The location is great - right near the subway and train station. The rooms were clean and comfortable. The staff at reception spoke decent English and the bartender in the lounge area was really cool and friendly. There are also lots of options for tours to the great wall and around the city that are arranged by the hostel!

The hostel was just so so. Location is great because its across the road from the central train station. The rooms and the food was just so so. The internet either was slow or didn't work, the self catering kitchen had bugs and the reception staffs English had some problems

Great location, clean hotel, but very abrupt and rude front desk staff.

This was a good basic hostel. great spot close to busses and the subway and very close to the tourist area of dongcheng. the rooms were clean and comfortable and so cheap. I would stay again :)

Everything is fine except kitchen

The staff were unhelpful the only nice friendly person was Monica on the information desk. Everyone else needs to learn some manners, they cost nothing no matter where you are from.

The staff at the front desk were very helpful. The buffet breakfast was good value but it would have been good to have been able to get food at other times of day, as sometimes when you have arrived after a long journey you want to eat in the hostel. There didn't seem to be a comfortable seating area and the IT facilities need updating.

I booked a private room, and only needed a place to sleep for a few hours before a flight the next day. Served its purpose well, very good value. Not sure how the atmosphere is because I checked in at about 1:30AM and out at 6:30AM. I would definitely say it rates better than most Chinese budget hotels.

although i had stated in the booking i would be arriving at 2am i was told that my booking had been cancelled at midnight and i would have to pay for the room twice. staff seemed completely unwilling to help. dissapointing