Carmen Pérez del Olmo Teira
A good choice in Xiamen
This hostel is located in Xiamen University, slightly out of the center but accessible in just 15-20 minutes by bus (1 yuan per journey). It may seem an odd choice in some ways away, but the good atmosphere and the services offered outweigh that. Anyway, since when is 15 minutes on a bus a long time in a city of almost 1.4 million people? The hostel is very nice, the rooms are clean and there is wifi on the ground floor (plus a small netbook for quick reference if you don't have your own computer). It also has a small garden terrace where it is tempting to while away the hours over a beer, but beware at night the mosquitoes do not forgive - the mosquitoes of Fujian Province are terrible, I assure you.
The brasserie menu offers sandwiches from 22 yuan and some more "Chinese" main dishes around 35 yuan. The hostel has single, double, triple, 4 bed and 6 bed rooms. In a 6 bed room without a YHA card, it costs 55 yuan/night. Anyway, there is more information (and pictures) about it on their website. To reach the International Youth Hostel in Xiamen from the bus station you can take the number 15 or 45 bus. From any other point of the city, just ask for a bus that goes to the college and get off at the last stop.
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