Service World Chinatown (chin Swee) Hostel

location_onSingapore, Singapore | Youth Hostels
A premier hostel located close to shopping centres, and supermarkets in Singapore's Chinatown. It is clo
Starting at $19 per person
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Free High Speed Internet Broadband Access - ideal for serious work, as testified by most guests. FREE BREAKFAST. The ServiceWorld Chinatown Hostel is unique. It is close to the bustling streets of Chinatown, but is also at the entrance of the City Park. It has won several top hostel awards including the Top rated Hostel award 2009, the Best Staff Awad 2008, Top Rated Hostel in Singapore's Chinatown and Best Atmosphere Award, 2008. Highly commended for Fire Safety. Open concept concrete structure with multiple fire protection corridors and stairs with fire sprinklers and smoke detectors.

ServiceWorld Chinatown is a well established hostel. It is located within Chinatown, yet with the entrance of the Pearl's Hill City Park just below the hostel. Moreover, it is located exactly on top of a leading Supermarket and near a major shopping complex in historic People's Park, the original Chinatown and now Chinatown MRT Station site. Almost a perfect location for any traveller.

FEATURES: Free High Speed Internet Broadband Access and use of computer, fridge and kitchen. Al Fresco Outdoor seating, common area, Free Wifi, Free Breakfast, Lockers, Linen, free high speed internet broadband access, free computer PC use, Kitchen facilities, TV. 24-Hours security cameras. No Curfew. Supermarket and City Park below hostel. Within heart of Chinatown and close to 4 shopping centres and the Chinatown MRT Station.

Service World Chinatown -
A unique experience ! A great way to travel in comfort and indeed a home away from home.

The hostel features an Executive Family cum Group Room with 5 single beds and a double bed. Normally it is to be booked on a mixed use sharing basis. It can be also be booked for exclusive or private use if 6 persons book it together. Guests can enjoy shopping in a supermarket below the Hostel. Truly, this is a home-away-from-home.

The ServiceWorld Chinatown Hostel is a premier hostel adjacent to Peoplei s Park, the site of the original historic Chinatown in Singapore, which site is located at the entrance of the Chinatown MRT Station. At the ServiceWorld Chinatown Hostel, one could feel the verve, vitality, excitement and the alluring ambience of Chinatown, a district known for its exotic and colorful crowded streets, authentic shop houses and the long stretches of eating places in various cuisines, cheap souvenir shops and shopping centres. Although this hostel is located in a crowded Chinatown street, one could still get close to Nature to enjoy morning exercise or take a stroll in a garden setting, bearing in mind that the entrance to the Pearl's Hill City Park is at the rear of the hostel building. This is, indeed, a powerful reminder that Singapore is a garden city.
The ServiceWorld Hostels at Banda Street have won a number of awards and awarded the title i Top Rated Hosteli in 2009, i The Best Atmosphere Awardi by HostelWorld in February, 2008 and i The Best Staff Awardi by Hostelbookers in November , 2008 through a million+ customer ratings. This Hostel was given the Fire Safety Certificate by the Singapore Government in October, 2009.

The ServiceWorld Chinatown Hostel often acts as a central point for the discerning guests to visit the historic sites in and near Chinatown and numerous tourist attractions nearby. It is well known as a starting point to visit every scenic point in Singapore, in view of its proximity to bus routes that lead to Orchard Road and Tanglin and to the Chinatown MRT Station.

Indeed, this Hostel, like other ServiceWorld backpackers hostels, is conceptualized as a heritage hostel where one could get to know the historical and cultural elements of Singaporei s past, present and future.

Accommodation Information
This Hostel is indeed i A Home Away from Homei . It offers a very clean and comfortably spacious dormitory, a kitchen, toilet and bathroom and a shower room. The Hostel is equipped with security-enabled electronic door systems and fire and smoke detectors for fire safety, a high speed wireless broadband connection for PCs, laptops, notebooks and PDAs.

Latest Check out time : 12 noon.
Earliest Check in time: 2 pm.
No reception after 11 p.m. Max. Nights = 7 nights.

Location Information
The ServiceWorld Chinatown Hostel is located at the junction of Pearl's Hill Road and the Upper Cross Street. The nearest MRT station is the Chinatown Station that connects to the East West Line to the Changi International Airport. It is located on a third storey of a commercial complex and a leading supermarket is just right downstairs so shopping for some necessities is a lot easier. It is very close to cheap eating places that operate on a 24-hour shift. One can walk within minutes to the famous Clarke Quay and Boat Quay along the banks of the legendary Singapore River, or to Empress Place, Raffles Place, Asian Civilization Museum, the Chinatown Heritage Centre, the Buddha Tooth-Relic Temple, Sri Mariamman Hindu Temple, the Chinatown Pagoda Street that is famous for its long stretch of shop houses. For shopping , especially for apparels and electronics, the People's Park Complex, People's Park Centre and OG Department Store are close by. One could also visit the many tourist attractions or take a swim at the beach in Sentosa Island by taking the MRT to Harbourfront which is only two MRT stations away. Also, the Keppel Railway Station is quite near for one to take trains to Malaysia. To go to Arab and Queen Streets and the Beach Road, one could just take a bus that takes one to Malaysia and Thailand.

*** Should there be a NO SHOW , guests will be charged the first night's stay.

The hostel caters to backpackers tourists and visitors to Singapore, and reserves the right not to accept local residents, except those who just return from overseas and need immediate accommodation for valid reasons.

Cancellation Policy - No cancellation of booking is allowed after arrival at the Hostel for short stay of two (2) nights. Cancellation for those who have booked for longer periods is allowed and refund given, subject to removal of any discounts given earlier and the payment of cancellation fees equivalent to hostel fees for two (2) nights' stay, with the proviso that notice of such cancellation must be given within 48 hours of the nights to be so cancelled for valid reasons.

Directions


Take the train from the Changi International Airport , transfer at the Dhoby Ghaut Station to the North East Line to the Chinatown MRT station. Exit the station , using the exit that leads to People's Park Complex. Walk from there to OG Departmental Store to the main road at Upper Cross Street. Turn left and walk along that road until you reac the junction of Pearl's Hill Road and Upper Cross Street. Here, you will find a tall building with light blue parapet walls marked as Block 52, Chin Swee Road. Look out for the Supermarket in that block. From the Sheng Siong supermarket, walk up the stairs to the 3rd level to find the ServiceWorld Chinatown (Chin Swee) Hostel.

Another way is to take the train from the Airport and exit at the Outram Park MRT Station. From Pearl Centre next to the Station, take Bus Number 143 to Upper Cross Street, and stop at the bus stop opposite the Subordinate Courts at Block 34; then walk a few steps to the hostel at Block 52 Chin Swee Road at the Pearl's Hill Road /Upper Cross Street intersection.

Facilities


Breakfast Included, Restaurant, Internet Access, Bicycle Hire, Linen Included, Towels, Security Lockers, Luggage Storage, Telephone/Fax Facilities, Key Card Access, Common Room, Lift / Elevator, Non Smoking, Air Conditioning
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Block 52, Chin Swee Road, #02-33, Singapore, Singapore 160052

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Service World Chinatown (chin Swee) Hostel

Block 52, Chin Swee Road #03-45, Singapore, Singapore
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Block 52, Chin Swee Road, #02-33
Singapore, Singapore 160052


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