Service World Chinatown (Chin Swee) Hostel, Singapore, Singapore

82 %Customer Satisfaction*

ServiceWorld Chinatown is a unique new hostel located within Chinatown, yet with the Pearl's Hill City Park at its doorstep. Moreover it is on the third story of a shopping complex on top of a leading Supermarket in historic People's Park, the original Chinatown and now Chinatown MRT Station site.

The ServiceWorld Chinatown Hostel is a premier hostel adjacent to People'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 in Singapore have won a number of awards. Awarded the title "Top Rated Hostel" in 2009, the hostels also won "The Best Atmosphere Award" given by Hostelworld in February, 2008 and "The Best Staff Award" by Hostelbookers in November , 2008 through a million+ customer ratings. The 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. Above all, it operates a Tour Desk to help guests to make arrangements for tour and transportation, including cross border tours to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. The Tour Desk is manned by an experienced Travel Manager who works full-time.

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 Singapore's past, present and future. The Hostel show-cases the rare vintage photographic collection of Yip Cheong-Fun, a Master Lensman who was elected by the Photographic Society of New York in 1980, as "Outstanding Photographer of the Century" and a recipient of the coveted 1984 Cultural Medallion in Singapore, a national ward only given to an individual for his or her outstanding achievement in art and culture in Singapore and internationally.

Accommodation Information

This Hostel is indeed "A Home Away from Home". It offers a very clean and comfortably spacious dormitory, a large 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.

Standard check out time is 12:00 PM. Check in is from 12:30 PM until 8:00 PM but special arrangement for late check-in can be made in advance through telephone or email.

Contact Information – Telephone +65 65353986 or +65 6226 3886.

Email: serviceworld@hotmail.co.uk or serviceworldrsvn@hotmail.com

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.