帕米尔青年旅舍 — Hotel in Kashgar City

We stayed at the Pamir Youth Hostel for 6 nights. ||||We booked a 4 person room with bathroom for our family. The room was quite small and consisted of a set of bunk beds for the kids and a large bed for the parents. The beds were ROCK hard, even by Chinese standards. The bunk beds had no mattress, just a very thin blanket on top of a sheet of plywood.||||The bathroom was small but functional but there was a VERY foul sewer smell coming from the shower drain. We stuffed rags into the drain with the hope of stopping the smell, with little success. It was difficult to find a time of day to get hot water and have a decent shower. I think the entire hostel runs on one tiny water heater.||||The doors of the hostel's rooms appear to be intended for a greenhouse or something. They're made with a metal frame and a single pane of glass with many gaps around the edges. I think the rooms must be absolutely frigid in the winter. I'm not even sure the hostel operates in the off season.||||The hostel staff were reasonably nice and helpful but the entire place is very much in need of a deep cleaning. Our room was cleaned once during our stay. The amount of dust that has accumulated over time under the beds and in the corners is astonishing. ||||The best part of the hostel, really isn't the hostel at all. It's the associated rooftop bar. The bar has several lounging tables where you can sit, relax, have a drink and enjoy Kashgar's warm evenings. The views from the bar are great, overlooking the mosque and the square in front of it. The owner of the bar is awesome. She gave us some very valuable advice about sights to visit in the city and also helped with organizing a China Mobile SIM card.||||The hostel has a great location. It's just steps from the centre of all of Kashgar's action. You can easily walk to the night market, the old city, and the mosque. There is a very busy bus stop just up the road where you can catch buses to all the rest of the city's sights.||||Our family room cost us 180 yuan (approx $28 USD) per night, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.||||Anyway. I'm not sure about other options within the city or their price points but I'd look around before choosing...

We stayed at the Pamir Youth Hostel for 6 nights. ||||We booked a 4 person room with bathroom for our family. The room was quite small and consisted of a set of bunk beds for the kids and a large bed for the parents. The beds were ROCK hard, even by Chinese standards. The bunk beds had no mattress, just a very thin blanket on top of a sheet of plywood.||||The bathroom was small but functional but there was a VERY foul sewer smell coming from the shower drain. We stuffed rags into the drain with the hope of stopping the smell, with little success. It was difficult to find a time of day to get hot water and have a decent shower. I think the entire hostel runs on one tiny water heater.||||The doors of the hostel's rooms appear to be intended for a greenhouse or something. They're made with a metal frame and a single pane of glass with many gaps around the edges. I think the rooms must be absolutely frigid in the winter. I'm not even sure the hostel operates in the off season.||||The hostel staff were reasonably nice and helpful but the entire place is very much in need of a deep cleaning. Our room was cleaned once during our stay. The amount of dust that has accumulated over time under the beds and in the corners is astonishing. ||||The best part of the hostel, really isn't the hostel at all. It's the associated rooftop bar. The bar has several lounging tables where you can sit, relax, have a drink and enjoy Kashgar's warm evenings. The views from the bar are great, overlooking the mosque and the square in front of it. The owner of the bar is awesome. She gave us some very valuable advice about sights to visit in the city and also helped with organizing a China Mobile SIM card.||||The hostel has a great location. It's just steps from the centre of all of Kashgar's action. You can easily walk to the night market, the old city, and the mosque. There is a very busy bus stop just up the road where you can catch buses to all the rest of the city's sights.||||Our family room cost us 180 yuan (approx $28 USD) per night, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.||||Anyway. I'm not sure about other options within the city or their price points but I'd look around before choosing...

I wasn't booked in at this Hostel, I had selected another one but at the last minute I was changed to this one as the other was closed for winter (not an uncommon thing in these parts). So I can say I am ambivalent about this hostel. ||||On the plus side, the reception was warm and welcoming. In summer the rooftop area would be wonderful place to meet fellow travellers and enjoy the views. The four bed female dormitory was also very warm and I met the loveliest young women who showed me all around Kashgar. This was the cheapest place to wash clothes and the clothes came up the cleanest of any wash I did in China. Lots of good restaurants. ||||On the downside, the room was dirty, the bathroom was even worse and the western toilet was almost impossible to sit on because the door closed on your legs (I am a tiny person I don't know how any regular adult would fit in there). The location above a shopping plaza was odd, but it was close to the main bus to the airport, to the mosque and the night market which was amazing. ||||They had some lovely dogs there, so depending on your stance on animals, this could be a good thing or a bad thing.||||So on the balance, given the price was incredibly low, I would have to recommend it, but don't...