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Stayed in March 2024

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Nice staff

Stayed in March 2024

Great friendly front desk receptionists, helped us out with tours and recommendations. Got a free room upgrade.

Stayed in January 2024

The lady boss was very friendly and helpful with information about our visits in Zhangye. She helped us to arrange transport to the interesting locations. The price of the hotel was very worthwhile. I would recommend it to people who will travel to Zhangye.

Stayed in October 2023

Great hostel with helpful english speaking staff They organise good value tours

Stayed in September 2023

Bed was hard but room was clean, perfect location

Staff was wonderful and atmosphere was cozy

Stayed in September 2023

The owner was so nice! He helped me with my trips. Also the place has trips for the people staying so is easyer to go to the different turist places. Is close to good food and stores

Stayed in September 2023

Hard bed

Staff, tours

Stayed in August 2023

Staff spoke good English, very centrally located close to a food court and in walking distance to downtown sights. A coin laundry is available as well as guided tours to the national parks and other attractions around Zhangye. We would stay here again.

Stayed in August 2023

Lovely place run by lovely people. Easy to arrange tours of local highlights

Stayed in June 2023

The room lacked another source of light except of the main, bright one. We had a kettle but no tea was offered, which I thought was a bit strange. The room can get a little hot.

Very cute interiors and very easy to spot from the outside. After booking the room, the hotel stuff contacted me first to ask about details of my arrival, stay, give me instructions on how to get to the hotel. It was very easy to contact them. The hotel offers trips to the most common places of interest in reasonable prices and is happy to help you with any inquiries. Located very close to the Dafo Temple and Zhangye Museum. Also offers warm tea at the reception desk for free 😊. The room was small but cozy.

Stayed in June 2023

The beds are a bit uncomfortable and all sounds in the hallway echo quite loudly into the rooms.

A very organized backpacker hostel with a cheap place to stay and excellent tour organizing to make things stress free

Stayed in May 2023

The toilet paper was absent in the toilet.

The breakfast was in a small restaurant. There a lot of them around the hotel, very cheap and tasty. In the hotel, the staff was very friendly and helpful. They wrote me in Chinese a few phrases which I used later, to get the colored mountains and airport. The double room (for 121 yuans per night) was very clean.

Stayed in May 2023

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Sta ff are all so helpful and genuinely kind. they provided free trips to and from the train station. They organise tours to tourist attractions with their own vehicles and drivers, price is lower than tours in the market. We rented a whole 7-seat vehicle from them, including a driver. The driver took us into the Mati Grottos - inside the gate, all the way, saved a lot of walking. The driver is a long term employee with them, he knows the separated sites within Mati Grottos. The location is fantastic. There are 2 big supermarkets within 5min walking. One of them is located within a big shopping mall, where you can get restaurant food from level 5 and street food at level 1. The "street food" is actually inside the shopping mall, not actually in the street. Also you can read many travel stories/friendship/recoveries from breakups etc on the wall.... the owners left the wall open to travellers to write and draw... it was a good fun to read them.....

Stayed in April 2023

Everything was clean, staff was super nice, really cute place with drawings and texts from previous guests on the wall. They spontaneously organized a driver to get us from the train station.

Stayed in April 2023

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It is so very good hostel. Only 15 minutes from train station and surrounded by local market and stree foods. The owners are so kind, helpful and friendly which makes me feel at home. Should take tour from hostel. It is cheap and convienient. Also can have owner arrange cab to train station. It is more cheap than taking Didi or taxi. Love everything!

Stayed in September 2021

Personal was amazingly friendly, felt more like a hotel than a hostel!

Stayed in July 2021

Perhaps the breakfast choices regarding Western food choices could be better, but really there is very little to improve. This was a great hotel

The hotel and location were great, but the stand-alone aspect was the staff. The manager, Eric, gave me his personal wechat, came and checked on how we were, organized train station pick up, early check in, late check out, and just generally took amazing care of us. He is a true manager trained in making guests have a memorable stay. Thank you, Eric, and all staff at Silk Road Dunhuang. I will definitely recommend this hotel.

Stayed in July 2021

The location was perfect and the staff very helpful and nice: they arranged the tour for us before arriving and helped out with train tickets:everything was super easy! Next time we will choose this hostel again, it was a pity we stayed just one night!

Stayed in July 2021

Great atmosphere and helpful staff. They did arrange trips to the main spots of the area. Great!

Stayed in July 2021

- shower had 2 temperatures: too hot or too cold, very hard to get a 'warm' temperature - not the best pillow

PROs: - very honest, helpful, friendly, fair staff! - complete facilities, clean - 2 min from a fun night market for snacks - excellent quality tours (we took several!) - met other nice travelers here - good wifi - washing machine to wash clothes

Stayed in July 2021

Very minor issues with the room: fairly hard bed (not the worst), kettle did not work properly, and a weird light set-up

The staff was outstanding! They spoke fairly good English and helped make all our day trips completely hassle free for a great value! The driver was extremely helpful, had a translator, supplied water and some snacks, and was extremely friendly. Staff recommended different activities, food, restaurants and answered promptly to any questions we had. Highly recommended for the staff alone as a foreigner. We also met multiple other foreigners staying at the same place and we had a great time thanks to the outstanding planning from our hosts.

Stayed in July 2021

Staff were so nice and helpful, and took us to and from the train station. Hostel located in walking distance of good food, Big Buddha Temple. Room was big, comfortable and clean. Really happy to stay here, one of the nicest hostels I’ve been to in China.

Stayed in July 2021

I'm so happy that I chose this place. After booking, they sent me all the information on how to get to their hostel from the train station and copied the most important things in Chinese. It is really helpful. They were always on call. Moreover, after arrival, I found that it's quite easy to take tours from here to the most fascinating neighborhoods of Zhangye. Prices here are really logical, and they are not trying to earn more on you because you are a kinda rich foreigner. Sometimes it happens in other places. In general, a strongly recommended hostel. Even not in every big city, I could find such a good place. I hope they will be doing great.

Stayed in July 2021