YHA Mei Ho House Youth Hostel — Attraction in Hong Kong

The dorm is spacious enough and the bathroom is good. Depends a lot on the consideration of your dorm mates’ sense of cleanliness.

The shared pantry and kitchen is comfortable to chill at. Easy to store your own groceries and eat your takeout meals. They provide utensils, cups, plates and bowls, but you have to bring your own portable electric stove if you’re planning to cook there. There are two microwaves to use.

The hostel is a minute’s walk from a street that has dim sum, Cha chan Teng, bakery, noodle eatery, western pancake steak place, fruit and vegetable vendors, butchery, hair salon. The on-site history museum is really stellar and perfect for a lazy stay in rainy day.

The dorm beds’ mattress can be a bit hard and needs some adjusting to. If you are very sensitive to hard mattress, book another hostel as it’s genuinely hard to sleep here on hard mattress.

As for the pantry- Strongly recommend you to bring your own metal flask as the pantry dispenses only hot water and not lukewarm water. A plastic water bottle will not tolerate the 100celcius degree water dispensed. Also bring your own lock for the locker which is large and useful. You also need to bring your own towel and shampoo. Only bath body liquid gel and handsoap gel is provided. If you are particular, bring along your own hairdryer too. There are none in the dorms.

The location is a slight incline walk up the hill. Also maybe a seven minute walk to the nearest mtr exit Sham Shui Po. Along the way you’ll find shops and eateries. It is a bustling place there. But the hostel is nice and quiet. Not noisy and won’t hear road or crowd...

Pros: It’s a big hostel with over 100 large rooms. The location is good. The price includes the breakfast (the breakfast will cost you at least HK$30 if you eat out). It’s still value for money if they charge the bed for the same price without breakfast included. The hostel has a luggage room for guest to store their luggage before check-in and after check-out. It is free of charge if the luggage is not stored overnight (this is what I love most). There are washing machines available and it costs HKD 30 each time for using the washing machine with detergent provided (but I don’t use it unless I go with my friends). There’s a museum on ground floor that shows the history of public estates in Hong Kong. You can also walk up the hill to enjoy the beautiful sunset in the evening.

Cons: The hostel doesn't provide disposable items but you can buy them at the 24-hour reception. Towels are provided only in double/twin rooms, 3-person rooms and 4-person rooms/dorms. You can rent a towel at the reception at HKD$10 or purchase them at the reception. However, you need to return the pillow case and bed sheet during check-out (a bit inconvenient but acceptable).

Suggestions: I would also like to suggest the hostel to organize some mini activities in the future to explore the neighborhood (but you can also explore alone or open up your mind to know some new friends in the hostel and explore together). The hostel may also consider replacing the big double rooms by 8 or 4-person dorms to accommodate more solo travelers.

Recommendations: Overall I give...

Mei Ho House, a youth hostel in Hong Kong, is good place to stay for a few days. Almost perfect, but you must bring ear plugs, a medical certificate stating that you cannot sleep with closed windows and/or some tools.||||Our room was well-lit, clean and spacious, with a nice bathroom and an electric kettle. The bed was very comfortable. Wi-Fi connection was excellent. Breakfast, admittedly a very spartan affair, was included. Not to worry, there are several supermarkets in the area and you can use the communal kitchen. We simply got take-away food from a busy restaurant just down the road and had it in the courtyard. There is also a hill right next to the hostel, so do walk up there and enjoy your food with some beautiful views of Kowloon.||||What detracts from the pretty picture is piped music in most common areas. In addition, the building is poorly sound-proofed; we could hear other guests and furniture being shifted in a room above even at 3 in the morning. The staff were all very understanding and of course very unhelpful: unfortunately there was no room available for us to move to the top floor. Worst of all: the windows were locked and could not be opened. Policy or something, they explained. So — if you are claustrophobic or simply detest AC like I do — make sure you bring your tools or a medical certificate to get a window opened. Failing that, for ‘fresh’ air you can always jam a towel in the door frame. ...