Firstly lets start with the view, this YHA is located at the very top of Mount Davis which has a comparable view to Victoria peak. It probably has the best view in Hong Kong for the price you could ever possibly ask for, 5 stars.

Sadly that's where the perfect ratings end. Its unique location at the top of Mount Davis means that to get there you must go up an incredibly long driveway which is poorly signed from the main road. Our first day we attempted to take a taxi up this road which was a painful experience as the taxi driver told us that most taxi drivers wouldn't even know where this place was and the few that would usually wouldn't even take us up because of the road. We had to take a taxi because the shuttle bus had left without us despite us being early for the shuttle bus. We found that the signage and instructions were very poor in terms of finding where we needed to be picked up and even once we found it we could easily have missed the bus.

Because you have to use the shuttle bus to get back down into Hong Kong, the schedule which it runs becomes very important to your traveling decisions, on the weekdays the bus schedule finished at 6:30 p.m. and on the weekends it finished at 9:30 p.m. this means that it was almost impossible for us to stay out and enjoy the night life of Hong Kong because we could not get back to the hostel if we stayed out later than these times. This was a massive inconvenience, 3 stars.

The room itself was pretty standard, it had two beds and an air conditioner and was generally as comfortable as can be expected from a YHA. No issues.

The general environment of this hostel is fine, it looks a little bit shabby around the edges but in general it is clean. However when you go inside the main reception there's a lot of stuff strewn around everywhere this makes it look like no one really takes good care of this place. In terms of facilities, the facilities of this area are pretty much standard, however in terms of laundry facilities there is only one washing machine and one dryer for the entire hostel, fortunately when we went the hostel wasn't very busy but we can imagine that in times where there are a lot of people staying at this hostel it would be very very difficult to use the washing machine.

Public areas like the kitchen and dining room were all clean and we didn't have any issues cooking or getting anything done in them.

My biggest issue apart from the shuttles was the bathroom. The bathrooms are located on the second floor of the hostel of which you need to go up an outdoor staircase to get to them. One of the nights we were there it was raining very hard and I had to go out into the rain which by the time I got back to the room I was completely soaked. 2 stars.

You should also know that once we turned up to the YHA we were charged an extra fee of membership which was not stated anywhere prior to turning up. This pushed the cost of a two person stay up by 150 HKD.

In terms of the people that stayed there. Most of the people staying there were local families having a weekend getaway, we didn't meet anyone there who we could talk to or hang out with in terms of traveling companions like we usually would at YHA's.

To summarize, this YHA has an incredible view of Hong Kong City but you pay for that by not being able to come and go as you please. In future I would opt to pay a little more money to get to one of the inner city YHA's where I could come and go as I please and not worry about being rained on whilst trying to use the toilet at night.