Soma Youth Hostel

Located just 10 minutes walk from Tianfu Square and just a couple hundred meters from the river, the Soma youth hostel is a bit of a secret in Chengdu. Fang Chao Yang, the Yi minority owner of the hostel, is extremely proud of the clean rooms and bathrooms as well as his honest staff at the hostel. The hostel has a large common room on the top floor with a pool table, free internet, DVD player, free coffee, and very cheap beer for sale. There is even a rooftop balcony adjacent to the common room.

The hostel has been open for more than 13 years and features a staff of entirely Yi and Tibetan ethnic minorities. The word Soma is the name of a flower which grows in Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet in the region where the Yi people live.

The staff of the Soma can pick you up at the train station or at the Minshan hotel at the terminus of the 303 airport bus if you contact them in advance, so please do so.

Dorm beds, which are not cramped, cost 20 Yuan. The nicest double rooms with bathrooms cost up to 128 Yuan for 2 people. There are a range of prices for accomodation with and without bathrooms in between.

Directions: Walk south a few hundred meters and turn left onto HongZhaoBi. Stay on the left side of HongZhaoBi and then make the next left onto NanDaJie. The hostel is a few hundred meters down NanDaJie on the left side, you will see a sign.

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