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YMCA Hong Kong - The Sailsbury

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By Rory Boland, About.com

The Bottom Line
YMCA Hong Kong, the Sailsbury is completely unlike the usual hostel experience. Equal to one of the better three-star hotels in the city, or even a four-star, YMCA Hong Kong Sailsbury boasts excellent service, an excellent location, spacious rooms and bargain basement prices. One of the city's great bargains and not your usual YMCA adventure.
Pros
  • Excellent quality and cheap price
  • Harbour views
  • Rooms equal to four star hotel
  • Large rooms
  • Free use of pool and jacuzzi
Cons
  • Not as cheap as other YMCA hostels
Description
  • Address: 41 Sailsbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
  • Tel: +852 2268 7888
  • Price: US$100 (Double)
  • MTR: Tsim Sha Tsui
  • Travel to Central: 10mins
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Guide Review - YMCA Hong Kong - The Sailsbury

Like many things in Hong Kong, the city's flagship YMCA hostel is far from the ordinary. While YMCA hostels around the world vary from functional to run-down, Hong Kong's Sailsbury YMCA is possibly the most opulent in the world.

This is completely unlike the usual YMCA hostelling experience, and the Sailsbury definitely falls into hotel quality. In fact, the Sailsbury boasts rooms spacier than some of Hong Kong's four and five star hotels.

Free newspapers, pool and jacuzzi propel the Sailsbury into Hong Kong's four star class of hotels. [p/]

Set on the waterfront of Tsim Sha Tsui East, the hotel has a fantastic location, positioned right next to The Peninsula, considered by some to be Hong Kong's most prestigious hotel. Many of the Sailsbury's rooms offer excellent harbour views, which generally cost the earth and stars in Hong Kong.

While the price is slightly more than YMCA hostels around the world, for the quality you get, the Sailsbury is one of the best deals in town and cheaper by 50% than most of Hong Kong's three-star hotels and certainly much better.

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