khumdan Leqi Youth Hotel

Location: Centrally located near Bell Tower, Drum Tower, and Beidajie subway station , with easy access to attractions, supermarkets, and restaurants.(based on 62 reviews)

Great location, very walkable to the Muslim quarter. Can be confusing to get in (YWCA building, 5th floor) Some people were smoking inside which leads to an odd odor.

The hostel is in a great location: in between two metro stations and very close to the Bell tower. I arrived at around 10 pm and found the entrance door shut and the shutter halfway down ( and was left like that even the morning: so low that I had to take off my backpack to get in). Long story short, we were let in by one of the guests we bumped into as he was trying to get out, as no one was at the reception ( although check-in is until 00) or was picking up the phone at the number provided. Again, following the guests’s suggestion, we  had to go to and knock on the door of one rooms in order to get someone.. The hostel is kinda run down, it has seen better days.  The reception was dirty with also ash on the floor and sigarette butts. The room was also quite untidy and dirty. The bedsheets I was given were clean but the mattress cover and the duvets had yellow stains on them, and hairs. I found crumbs under the mattress as I was making my bed. The en-suite bathroom has a hole in the lower half which is not great in terms of privacy, and there was no toilet paper. The heating seemed to be off, although it’s January. Although I do understand it’s incredibly cheap and therefore, I was expecting something really basic, maybe even not squeaky clean, here I decided to stay only the one night and change first thing in the morning.