Soho People's Square Youth Hostel Reviews

Sweet hostel in a good location with super friendly and helpful staff! Definetely worth a stay!

I would highly recommend this hostel to anyone.

Really cool building, nice location right along the river. Would stay here again, but also might check out other locations around the city.

One of the best hostel experiences I had while in China for 20 days. Staff was great, location was perfect (close to metro and an easy ride to the airport), price was reasonable and the atmosphere was the epitome of hosteling. Next time I'm passing through Shanghai, I'll stay here.

the staff were very friendly and helpful. only one computer for such a huge hostel, and the locker wasn't very secure. i would stay here again.

Had a great stay at the SOHO . The rooms were good and the staff were great!

Friendly and helpful staff; the front desk was welcoming and helped us reserve train tickets.

nice location close to downtown Shanghai and People's square, located on a greenway next Suzhou Creek (more canal than creek)... I recommend staying here when in Shanghai

The location is great , I stayed in twin double room and I was so impressed with the way it looked , very cute . The down side was that on the first 2 days the hot water didn't work , no one notified us of this , and then when it did work again , the water was tepid and it was set to only let the minimum amount of water out . Staff was great except for the fact that they were talking so loudly in the morning that it wakes every one up . We were meant to get free breakfast but had to pay :(

Loved this hostel! It was so perfect except for one (rather major) point... the beds were as hard as rocks; wooden slats with a very thin "mattress" on top so we had to ask for extra blankets to sleep on top of. A real shame because everything else about the hostel was great, very social, great location near subway, clean and modern. The food and bar was expensive for hostel standards (and very small portions for the western breakfast) but those are my only complaints.

No place to store your luggage, but excellent otherwise.

Overall good but we were a bit unlucky with our room. The bathroom had a weird smell and the carpet was wet. Please note that the room with a "window to the corridor" is essentially the same as having no window. No need in paying extra for that. Shanghai is pricey but we thought that the value for money was just OK. Pricey for a hostel.

The location of the hostel is brilliant. Just five minutes walk to the subway and from there one stop to famous People's Square. Staff was very friendly and helpfull. Room was okay but not outstanding. Bad bad smell from the toilet which could not been avoided.

This is a nice looking hostel with very nice staff, but the hot water was not working on the night we were there. We were told several times it had been fixed, and to wait, but even by morning....no hot water! Also, no pillow cases on some dingy hair covered pillows was a big oopsy on their part. I really want to like this place, so hopefully they get it together for future visits.

Great location. The staff is kind, but they definitely needs to work on answering questions more directly... Lots of confusion and time wasted due to the staff's unwillingness to articulate directions (in both English and Chinese) regarding sightseeing around the city, efficient ways to purchase train tickets, and various other requests in detail. A ton of young, native Chinese people stay at the hostel, so it's great to practice your language skills if you got them.

Too noisy at night

Definitely best hostel as a whole I've stayed at (granted, that's three in total). Location good, a little hassle if you have bags without wheels since it's maybe 2/3 minutes from the actual road, but if you do then no problem. The real issue, the only one we had, was the shower, a faucet in the I decided to take one in the middle of the night and it was a chilly lukewarm; in the morning I can not even say it reached that level. Only stayed for a night though, so perhaps this isn't the norm...

good location , staffs speak very good English and very helpful but the room was very small , old and a bit bad smell from toilet.

A leak of water just in front of our door :-(

Great hostel, beautifully decorated, clean, nice small rooms, cheap, Ideal.