Directions To West Lake Hostel Getting here is no easy feat but once you are here it is a fantastic place. DO NOT FOLLOW MAPS.ME AS IT LEADS YOU TO THEIR OLD LOCATION. It's no longer near the lake. EITHER: • From the East Railway station get a subway to Ding'an. • Walk West bound until you are at the lake • Have a scenic walk southbound along the lake. • When you reach the giant Pagoda there is a bus stop outside the front. OR: • From the East Railway station get a subway to Long Xiang Qiao. • Get on a number 4 bus to the Leifei Pagoda (I'm not sure how many stops, but you'll see it). THEN: • Get the 87 bus westbound. • Stop after 4 stops, you should be on a street heading uphill. • The hostel cannot be seen from the street. Don't follow the numbers along the street as they stop at 182-1 (yes seriously). EITHER: • Walk down the street a little to a side street near a bicycle parking and a small house-shaped electrical box on the left hand side. This is around number 30 or so. Head up here and it's directly in front of you. OR: • Head uphill, past a construction area (or new looking building, depending when you read this!). • On the right, there will be a walkway into a little street full of little hotels and coffee shops. Head into here, walk right to the very end (the numbers will decrease from 200ish to 186) then, at the wall, turn left and 184 will be up a few steps in front of you. Once here the staff are wonderful, the beds are comfortable and showers are the best we have used in a long time, especially for a hostel! We went off peak season and had a four bed dorm to ourselves. The heater works a treat, but it doesn't reach the lower bunks too well. The wifi is good provided you are close to the office, room 106 has fantastic wifi, can't speak for the other rooms. The garden behind the in-house restaurant is scenic and cozy, ideal for reading a book, having a siesta or an afternoon snack. It's got a beautiful view of the surrounding scenery and has cute little swingy egg chairs which are really cosy. The chips are good. We had dinner and breakfast. The vaguely named 'pasta' is spaghetti pasta with a sweet tomatoey sauce, bacon and onions, kinda oily but really tasty. The beef rice was nice too. The breakfasts we didn't think all that much to, especially as they lost our train tickets at check in (they found them about 10 mins later), but on a double check during breakfast they'd given us some other poor sods ticket (presumably it happens often then, don't leave your train tickets tucked into your passports!). This made breakfast stressful but they did find the right ones in the end. The American breakfast consists of two fried eggs, TINY star staped hash browns which were tasty, a nice pork sausge, some ham/bacon and sweet bread and jam. The British breakfast consists of two fried eggs, half a button mushroom (seriously), two plum tomatoes, ham/bacon, sweet bread and jam, and "baked beans" (possibly the worst, just boiled beans in lukewarm oil, no tomato sauce). They were ok but we wouldn't have it again. You get a 10% discount if you order it the night before. There are some caves to explore in the area and you can take the 87 (or walk 20 mins) to the National Tea Museum, which is nice. The dog is so much fun, really soft and playful but never barks or pesters.…