Five Elements Hostel Reviews

Nice place to stay, perfect location to explore Dali! Good and friendly staff, helped us with tours and booking incredible cheap flight tickets. (DO THE HIKE!!) Only negative aspect: there is no free laundry anymore, they will charge 25 RMB / 10 RMB if you do it yourself.

Awesome hostel with really friendly and helpful staff. Best hostel I've stayed in so far and I've been backpacking for many years. Enjoyed my stay very much and can highly recommend this hostel to everyone.

Just a great place...rooms clean, staff helpful, giant bathroom...go.

Awesome place. Clean, cheap, delicious food. Great spot to hang out. Staff was super helpful booking train tickets. Best hostel I've been to in China.

The staff was extremely helpful, gave good advice and information, and was friendly and fun. Also, they spoke almost perfect English and some where fluent in Japanese as well. Place is near the center of the old town, but on the other side of the main road, which is good if you like some quite at the end of the day. The room was clean and nice, and the shower had nice hot water 24h, and laundry facilities where just fine.

I just want to commend on Venessa's friendly, helpful and positive attitude. She's made our stay and organising our trip much easier, and her English is excellent.

Nice hostel, excellent staff and very cosy common area. Toilets are clean and there is hot water, western toilet on the 2nd floor. I liked that they organize various activities like dumplings cooking class, movie nights etc. Food is great (best fried eggs on my trip so far!) The only downside was that for most of my stay I was the only non-Chinese person staying and it felt a bit lonely, but I guess that's not hostel's fault and such things happen when off-season.

A nice, basic hostel with good atmosphere and nice rates.

Really friendly staff. I got there at 8 AM after taking an overnight train and they let me into my room right away. They provide both a body and hand towel, as well as toilet paper, soap, body wash, and shampoo in the shared bath/shower room. Rooms aren't heated, so it was a little cool, but the electric blanket more than made up for it. The room was spacious and was nicely decorated. The puppy and cats are also really friendly. Wifi works well enough.

A bright, clean spot in an excellent location. The staff were exceedingly friendly and gracious. The granola with homemade yogurt and local honey was delicious! Not much in the way of a backpacker social scene, but the rooms are nicer than next-door Jade Emu, which has all the backpacker scene you're looking for.

I really spent a good time in this place (actually stayed two more days than originaly planned). Friendly staff and very nice, large and well-decorated common room (cheap beers, sofas and even a not-so-new-but-ok pool table : good place to hang out). Maybe some small details could be upgraded in the dorms : there were no locks on the lockers and not every bed had a shelf to put down things like phone, keys etc. Overall a really good option though to enjoy Dali and its close area.

Nice hostel and friendly employees. However, I made the mistake to arrive around 06 am at the hostel. I expected the hostel to open early, but this was not the case. I had to wait until 08 am and it was very cold outside. So don't make the same mistake as me, arrive after 08 am.

Very helpful and friendly staff and good food. Would stay again.

Stayed there for one night, mixed 4 bed dorm but with no one but us. All in all ok, staff was helpuful with booking bus tickets and leading there. Only thing was missing at this cold weather was a electric blanket...

If I'm being honest, I chose this hostel for the home-made breakfasts, which were indeed delicous! Overall a decent hostel, though the dorms were pretty sparse. Great courtyard!

The most memorable thing about this hostel is the food, the breakfast was excellent!. The rooms were fairly standard, but despite it being really warm in Dali the inside of the hostel was rather cold

really nice place, the location is really good: in front of one of the old town's main gate and the staff is really nice.

Except very slow internet and one sink for a floor was everything fine. The common room is perfect, nice place to chill. I'd definitely stay here again.

good rooms, amazing staff.... the only downside is that its a 5 minutes walk from the old city. still a very nice place!

Fantastic stay. Loved the two cats and puppy! Pool table was nice, too, I hadn't played in months. Wireless was good enough to play League of Legends when I was there, too. Two thumb up.