香港青年旅舍

優點: Absolutely nothing! It was an utter nightmare! A very unpleasant experience. Not even the most hard up backpacker should have to suffer this. But then again, Chung King Mansions does have almost cult status and you have to be able to say you stayed there once in a lifetime. In fact, you need to stay somewhere like this once in a while so that you can appreciate decent hotels. However, within the tiny space, they had managed to fit a safe (on the ceiling!), a hair-dryer, and a TV (which didn't work) with remote control - and in effect I suppose it had an 'en-suite' bathroom, though it was about 1m sq and the whole space was in fact a shower that just happened to have a wc and a very tiny wash basin in it. Everything was soaked if you took a shower. Ah yes, there was one good thing - free wifi.

缺點: The room was the size of a small, custom made bed; ie: the bed WAS the room! There was a space less than 1m sq to stand in, but if you stood there, it was not possible to open/close the door to the room. The bed was so short that we could not sleep with straight legs - and we're only average height! We were on the top (17th) floor with a questionable fire exit, so we found it difficult getting to sleep for fear of inadequate health and safety, and when we did, we had nightmares and 'death dreams'. The 'view' out of the window was the wall of the next block. Beware - some rooms in this place don't even have windows!! Outside in the corridor one set of coffee/tea making facilities (no milk) and a microwave were available for all (the many) rooms on that floor. There is a TINY bathroom inside the room - the shower runs over the wc and the sink is about as big as a breakfast bowl. The wc water tank had to be filled by us using the shower head, as it would not refill itself in the usual manner! We were supplied with some flip flops that looked like they'd already been worn by 500 people. There was one tiny lift servicing the 16th floor, but we had to walk up the last floor, because the lift didn't go to the top! Not only that, but for some odd reason the reception was on the 10th floor. The lift was often full and we had to wait ages for it to come back up to take us down. Getting in and out of the block was horrible because you had to get past a bunch of Indian 'hustlers' trying, very actively to sell you fake watches, handbags, or accommodation.