Jano's Backpackers Xi'an

The pets are great, often just petted them. It's super cheap. You pay for what you get. Don't expect much. Friendly staff who can speak English. There's hot water for showers which is nice. Depends what you like. If you like drinking in small bars its a good location. No good coffee shops in this area but there is the wall to cycle around. Don't recommend the ebavry musuem there's no English translation and it's Chinese Calligraphy. If you're on a strict budget and want to make some friends, this is a good place.

It wasn't clean. I never saw the bed sheets get washed and I contracted a skin infection and had to buy medicine for it. I can't say for certain if it was the hostel but it was very coincidental and around the same time. I didn't sleep. I never slept. I was so itchy and when u wasn't itchy it was noisy. The window is never locked so sometimes I woke up and people were looking through the window watching me sleep. Ehh OK... Zzz. The girl underneath me slept naked, so maybe that had something to do with it? Mosquitos, no. Toilet paper, lights are super bright, no rules. People in and out if the room turning on and off the lights. I was top bunk, I'm a sleep walker and Petrified of heights, again no sleep. I asked 3 times to swap they kept giving me top bunk, I gave up. Lots of rooms were empty. Why check people in at 2am in the morning and put them in a room full of sleeping people and tune the light on? Common sense... They must have slept 4 hours then left. Noise. Dark. Dirty. No drinking water, thirsty. For me I travelled an hour everyday to North Station so the location wasn't good. It is if you want to do something everyday on the south wall.