The Silk Road Travelers Hostel

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The toilet paper was absent in the toilet.

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

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

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.....

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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.