Dongzhimen Golden Pineapple Youth Hostel
Beijing, China

Adjacent to the famous Sanlitun Bar Street entertainment area. The airport shuttle bus has stops at Dongzhimen every half hour daily. Our Hostel is also a conveniently situated 10 minutes walk from Dongsishitiao Subway station (line No.2) or Dongzhimen Subway station (line No.2).

Nearby attractions:
Chaoyang Park is located 2km from our hostel, and Dongyue Temple is an even closer 1km. For your shopping needs you will find the Yashiu market with in a 15 minutes walk, and the Oriental Ginza Mall Plaza shopping complex located opposite the Dongzhimen subway station a 10 minutes walk from the Hostel. Close to the hostel is an international post office,banks and ATM facilities which makes changing money, with drawing cash or sending home the beautiful postcards and gifts you bought an easy process. There is a nice supermarket - Seven Eleven next to our hostel.Convenient to western food markets. A short walk from the Hostel and within the Workers stadium you will find the Blue Zoo, Tennis court, Bowling alley (yellow building), and Gymnasium building. You can walk 10 minutes to the Workers Stadium and then around the stadium you can see many Beijing people doing the famous Chinese Tai chi exercises in this park-like area,if you can get up early in the morning.

Facilities:
l Air-conditioning and TV in every room
l A coffee bar, and small snack shop, Great for meeting friends
l Rooms are clean
l Safety deposit boxes and luggage storage
l Reading room & Book Exchange
l Laundry room (dryer and washer)
l Bike rental (bicycles available at the hostel)
l Car park (free for hostel guests)
l Luggage storage
l 24 hour hot water
l High-speed internet connection
l Tourist Informationorganizing tours to the Great Wall and other Beijing attractions.
l Friendly and Helpful Staff

Services:
Reservations for national and international flight & train tickets can be arranged though the service desk, also on-site help & General assistance and near to a complete Business center.
What to see and do: (Daily tours arranged at the hostel)
Walking on the Great Wall from Jinshanling to Simatai. The structure of Jinshanling was mainly built in 1570 of Ming Dynasty and it was a well-preserved fortification system as well as natural fantastic scenery. Simatai Great Wall is highly recommended by the publication Lonely Planet. The hostel organizes daily tours for you to walk on the Great Wall from Jinshanling to Simatai. Along the way you will enjoy the beautiful scenery and you will bring home many pleasant memories. Tours also available to the Badaling and Ming Tombs. The Summer Place tour includes tours to the Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, Tianan men Square along with the Summer palace. Beijing Opera at Liyuan Theatre, with its traditional setting is on regular live performances either English subtitles everyday.

Directions to the hostel:
If arriving by airplane: please take the Airport shuttle bus to Dongzhimen stop and then walk to the east, you will be find the Xinzhong Jie, turn right walk along the XinzhongJie, you will be find No.55 middle school, we located opposite the No.55 middle school.
If arriving by train:
From Beijing railway station:Take subway line No. 2 (Circle Line) from main train station to the Dongsishitiao stop, out of the North East exit(exit C), 5 minutes walking to the east Xinzhong Jie, then turn left along the Xinzhong Jie to north (about 200 meters),you can see the Beijing No.55 middle school, and then turn right you will be find our hostel.
From Beijing west railway station: taking bus No.823 in front of the train station, get off at Dongsishitiao stop, .