Zhangye Qicai Danxia International Youth Hostel Review, Zhangye, Gansu, China
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This is an accommodation review for the Zhangye Qicai Danxia International Youth Hostel in Chengdu, China. It also includes directions, pictures and other useful information as well as some not so useful personal opinions.
My train ride into Zhangye was fine and saw fields of yellow (canola/rapeseed I’m guessing) on the way in.
Scenery from the train to Zhangye
Zhanye Accommodation Review – Zhangye Qicai Danxia International Youth Hostel, Gansu, ChinaCost: 50RMB / night for a dorm bed
Address: 182 HuanChengXi Rd, Ganzhou District, Zhangye, China
It took my a while to find the Zhangye Qicai Danxia International Youth Hostel because directions they give on HostelWorld.com were wrong (get the right ones below). After catching a few pointless busses I ended up walking it. It tool about 45 minutes to walk from town.
The front of the Zhangye Qicai Danxia International Youth Hostel
Here are my thoughts on the Zhangye Qicai Danxia International Youth Hostel.
The staff were nice and pretty helpful. At least one of them (possibly the owner) is pretty much fluent in English.
Showers aren’t great. I took four in total. Two were cold. One was hot but pressure was terrible. Last one was hot enough and good pressure.
The corridor was a little flooded from the bathroom.
Okay atmosphere.
No kitchen, which kind of sucks in a hostel. I think it said it had one in the description.
Internet was slow at night, probably becasue every f*kr was on it (including me).
It was a bit far from town a buses stop running at 1930 in summer (1900 in winter). They start running at 0630 and 0700 respectively.
There’s enough restaurants and small shops around so you don’t need to go to town if you don’t need to.
Clean enough, although the bathrooms could be cleaned a bit more regularly.
They offer a shuttle bus to Mati Sit and Danxia which is convienient and I think actually works out cheaper (at least it does for getting to Mati Sit). Check out these posts for more details Danxia Landforms Review / Mati Si Review.
All in all for two nights it wasn’t too bad. For the shuttle bus convenience I would stay again but in a private room with on suite. The bathroom situation was the worst thing about this hostel, but still was not that bad.
The common room has lots of power-points and music.
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Getting to the Zhangye Qicai Danxia International Youth Hostel in ZhangyeActually, the directions given on the hostel world website are mostly correct except for one vital bit. The name they give you for the bus stop to get off at is wrong. Here is what it actually is.
The correct bus stop to get off at.
I did tell them so hopefully they have changed it.
Also my train came in to the west train station which they do not give directions for, but there is only one bus from there so catch it to town. It costs 1.5rmb.
From town you want to catch the #4 to the station in the picture above, and then walk north for a few minutes until you see the YHA sign on your left.
The front of the hostel from the road.
When catching the number one back to the main train station make sure you catch the right one. There are two #1’s. In the picture below it has a character before the 1. DO NOT catch this one.
If you have made it to Zhangye I’d almost bet you know the characters for train station, but if not, here they are. ���������.
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