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2.5 out of 5
Skyview Hostel
40 Nathan Road, Flat B4, 14/F, Block B, Chungking Mansion, Kowloon

Reviews

5.8
Rating 10 - Excellent. 24 out of 89 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 9 out of 89 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 15 out of 89 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 12 out of 89 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 29 out of 89 reviews" "

6.0/10

Cleanliness

6.8/10

Staff & service

3.6/10

Amenities

5.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

James

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Microwave, room refrigerator, filtered and hot water readily available
Stayed 7 nights in Nov 2023

2/10 Terrible

Gie

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is not recommendable at all! Please if you’re family please don’t get this place it’s not family friendly place. Super small place and there a lot of vendors which makes us feel unsafe. We didn’t continue our stay here and checked out right away. Thanks to relocation team of exodus for accommodating us.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2023
Response from A on 11 Apr 2023
We are sorry that you don’t happy to stay in our place. We have lots of happy & enjoyable experience with family reservations, unfortunately your expectations are more than what we can do.

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019
Response from Amy Leung on 10 Jul 2019
Thank you very much for your valuable comment and feedback.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019
Response from Amy Leung on 8 Apr 2019
We are sorry that you are not happy, we will try our best to fix the issues you experienced. Thanks for let us know.

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Good value for the price point.
The room is on the small side but overall good value for the price. Close to everything. I am a repeat customer there.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2019
Response from Amy Leung on 8 Apr 2019
Thank you very much for your valuable comment and feedback.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
rubbish
rubbish
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019
Response from Amy Leung on 8 Apr 2019
We are sorry that you are not happy, we will try our best to fix the issues you experienced. Thanks for let us know.

8/10 Good

MELINDA, Quezoncity ph

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The place is nice and clean at reasonable price. I felt relieved that i made the right choice of making the reservation at Skylark
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2019
Response from Amy Leung on 8 Apr 2019
Thank you very much for your valuable comment and feedback.

2/10 Terrible

Anil

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Smell in the Bathroom Gutter couldn’t sleep in the Room. I got sick had to leave 2 Days earlier. Have requested for refund for 2 days and your response is negative Why?
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2019
Response from Amy Leung on 8 Apr 2019
We are sorry that you are not happy, we will try our best to fix the issues you experienced. Thanks for let us know.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The staff were really good, but the room was smaller than I was lead to believe. No windows, TV didn't really work. If I hadn't have been using the room simply as a base to sleep, I would have been very disappointed.
Stayed 18 nights in Jan 2019
Response from Amy Leung on 7 Mar 2019
Thank you very much for very valuable comment and feedback.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Good friendly staff, great location. Room was a lot smaller than indicated by website, no windows. Television didn't really work. This was an okay base as I spent all days and evenings out, using the room as a bed only, as it wasn't at all suitable for use as a place to relax.
Stayed 18 nights in Jan 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2018

2/10 Terrible

Dexter

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Horrible hotel. Dont even a 1 star hotel. Accessibility is the worse thing about this location. It takes about 20 mins to get the elevator.Avoid this hotel at all cost
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018
Response from Amy Leung on 15 Dec 2018
We are sorry that you are not happy to stay with us. Our team will work harder to fix the issue you experienced. Thanks for let us know.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We were stuck....
We had to reserve last minute or would never had stayed here.... Building wild and incredibly run-down. But room clean.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2018
Response from Amy Leung on 5 Dec 2018
Thank you very much for your valuable comments and feedback.

2/10 Terrible

LZ, Chicago IL

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We booked room for two adults and two kids for 5 nights. After we arrived the hotel in a smelly building, they told us they didn't have big room with two beds, they gave us two separate rooms for the 1st night. The room was very small, not as showing in the picture, with one double bed in each room. I asked them if the rooms are clean without bugs, they said yes. But my wife found the bed sheet in her room was dirty with hairs, so we asked them to change bed sheets. We were tired after 16 hours flight, so we just settled down and went to sleep. They switched us to a room with two double beds on the 2nd day. We had to move all our luggage to that room at night. After we arrived at the room, I found cockroaches in the bath room. We were too tired so we just tolerated it and went to sleep. On the 3rd day, my wife saw something like wall geckos crawling on the wall and then disappeared. It was as long as her hand and she was scared. Then it came out again and kids saw it and got really scared, they couldn't stay in that room anymore. So we asked them if they had clean rooms to put us in or not. They said yes and switched us to the 3rd room. Right after we came into the 3rd room, we and the hotel people saw cockroaches crawling in the cup tray. We couldn't tolerate anymore and went out. They told us they didn't have more rooms anymore. So we came out of the building at night and ended up only staying for two nights and then rebooked Holiday Inn which was great.
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2018
Response from Amy Leung on 5 Dec 2018
We are sorry that you were not happy to stay with us. We will work harder to fix the issues you experienced. Thanks for let us know.

2/10 Terrible

Dave, Linyi

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Too small and not very clean. 14 th floor slow elevator had to wait 30 minutes to get on .
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2018
Response from Amy Leung on 5 Dec 2018
We are sorry that you were not happy to stay with us. We will work harder to fix the issues you experienced. Thanks for let us know.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018
Response from Amy Leung on 5 Dec 2018
We are sorry that you were not happy to stay with us. We will work harder to fix the issues you experienced. Thanks for let us know.

4/10 Poor

George, Taiwan

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I was very disappointed with the Hotel. It is only a small room and in NO WAY a hotel. It is very difficult to find and I took a long time to locate it. It should not be described as a Hotel. I have been a customer of Expedia for a long time and this is not what I would have expected from the description. It will not prevent me from using Expedia but I will have to be more cautious of your description in future
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018
Response from Amy Leung on 5 Dec 2018
We are sorry that you were not happy to stay with us. We will work harder to fix the issues you experienced. Thanks for let us know.

2/10 Terrible

Jennifer L

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
THE MOST AWFUL EXPERIENCE I have ever had!!! I am flight attendant and stay in a lot of hotels. I do understand the price reflecting a city's thrive and relevance HOWEVER if you pay more than 5 US dollars for this place you are being ripped off. TERRIBLE customer service, AWFUL room accommodations (although the pics make it look decent, don't be fooled they are stretched out), and very gross and sketchy location. Good for a solo backpacker (who is willing to spend a lot) willing to live on a big spender budget (and get very little). This place should be CONDEMNED!!!
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2017
Response from Amy Leung on 5 Mar 2018
Thank you very much for your valuable comment and feedback. We will work harder to solve the problem you experienced.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing and comfortable khhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2018
Response from Amy Leung on 5 Mar 2018
Thank you very much for your valuable comment and feedback.

6/10 Okay

Yitz, New York, NY

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Location, good for backpackers
The Location of the hotel is excellent - it's located on the bottom of Nathan St, with easy access to Kowloon and Hong Kong. The entrance to the hotel though is beyond sketchy. It's located in a building called Chungking Mansions, where the entrance is filled with very shady immigrants from third world countries. These immigrants are not all too friendly, and they try selling you things in a aggressive matter. You enter the hotel through a tiny elevator, where the wait to enter the elevator can take at times more than 20 minutes. With that being said, once you enter the hotel itself, the staff are accommodating and the rooms are extremely small but clean. The WiFi works well, and you have AC and a TV in your room. In Conclusion: Great Location, horrible experience while entering / exiting the hotel, nice small hotel.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2017
Response from Amy Leung on 12 Dec 2017
Thank you very much for your valuable comment and feedback. Our team will work harder to fix the issues you experienced.

6/10 Okay

Panda, Canada

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Nice locations and poor surroundings.
We stay there for 10 days, I would rate this hotel no more than 2 stars. The hotel unit itself was acceptable; the room was clean (at least they've tried to keep it clean...) , the security level was good with camera monitoring the unit 24/7, the piping system were awful, they don't have pee trap installed with their piping system, therefore bad/sewage gas odor comes back up in the washroom. To correct & eliminate the bad odors, I had to plug up the sink hole with paper, close the sink drain trap, and used a plastic bad fill with water to cover the shower drain on the floor before I leave the room for the day. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to tolerate the bad smell when I come back. My first two days there were a bit of torture until I've figured out a system to stop the bad odors. The helper there was a nice fellow. However, for some reason, he likes to work at night more than during the day. The washing machine and the dryer was constantly on until 3:00 am, trying to get some sleep wasn't easy. Overall, I can't complain as I get what I paid for. Hong Kong's hotels are super expensive, staying in a guesthouse/hostel would be a better way to save your travel money, You just have to put up and balance with the pros and cons. Overall, it was an okay experience! If they can alter the points I mentioned above...then this place would be a better place to stay for that price and rating.
Stayed 10 nights in Oct 2017
Response from Amy Leung on 11 Nov 2017
Thank you very much for your valuable comment and feedback.

6/10 Okay

George

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Rough Place for Inexperienced Travelers
This place is located in a building that houses various Indian (India) merchants. There is every kind of shop and stand and the lobby area smells of Indian Curry. It can be intimidating if you're not a savvy (male) traveler. I'm a white American. As soon as I entered the building, Indian merchants started barking at me to buy their wares. I walked a gauntlet of them until I got to the elevators. The hotel was listed as being on the 14th floor. But when I knocked on the door listing the hotel name, no one answered. There were many “hotels” (doors saying they were different hotels). I've traveled the world for 47 years and never seen such an arrangement. I finally pressed an intercom button and a man answered. He said I would have to go down to the 13th floor to check in. I went there. After checking in another man led me to a different elevator taking me to a different floor. There, I actually checked into the room. It was very tiny, l(like an 8 x 10 jail cell) but the bed was extremely comfortable. The toilet and shower was an integrated unit and very efficient. You just stepped into it and closed the sliding glass door. As a mechanical engineer I was impressed with the efficiency of this arrangement. This place was interesting to me only as an adventure. But I would not stay here twice. It definitely is not for families, women or inexperienced travelers. Big Plus: If u take the Airport Express Train from HKG to Kowloon Station, a free Shuttle bus (K-3) stops next door
Thank you very much for valuable comment & feedback.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
poor location & cleanliness, disappointed
We booked for three days but it is a poor location and not cleanliness, we rebooked a different hotel right away. It is the worse hotel that we ever had before. It is so tiny with smelly and uncomfortable. The location is very noisy and dirty. They refused to refund us for the days we were not staying. Definitely we will never recommend this hotel to anyone.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2017
Response from Amy Leung on 18 Sept 2017
Thank you very much for valuable comment & feedback. According to our policy, any cancellation will be charged the full amount as penalty.

10/10 Excellent

Syu, China

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice place, excellent location,value for money
Helpful staff, clean room, excellent location walkable to everywhere, strong wifi, good price
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017

10/10 Excellent

Bal, SIN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent, value for money
Comfort, excellent location, walkable to everywhere, reasonable price, nice staff
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017
Response from A on 19 Jun 2017
Thank you very much for your valuable comment.

4/10 Poor

POH LIN

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Small room but great location
The cleanliness of the building left much to be desired. The fact that the hotel is on the 14th floor and there were only 2 small lifts going up, made the stay a lil unbearable. You can only fit 5 people and with big luggage perhaps only 3 people in the lift. People who werent guests were also lining up because the same lifts go to other apartments and restaurants on different floors.
Thank you very much for your valuable comment.

8/10 Good

ROMEO H.

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good value
All right.
Thank you very much for your valuable comment.

2/10 Terrible

traveller, L

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close to shopping malls
The hotel is so dirty and the invironment had unpleasant smell
Response from A on 19 Jun 2017
Thank you very much for your valuable comment. We will work harder to fix the issue you experienced.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
hotel in good location
not flash but easy to locate and in a good place for accessing shopping

10/10 Excellent

Diane

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
fantastic
nice hotel, cheap price, kind staff, always willing to help whenever needed
Response from A on 19 Jun 2017
Thank you very much for your valuable comment.

10/10 Excellent

Romeo, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good place, value for money
Room is very clean, strong wifi, friendly staff, provided basic amenities. Walkable to everywhere, superb deal, sure will come again.
Response from A on 19 Jun 2017
Thank you very much for your valuable comment.

10/10 Excellent

Jiaj

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Memorable and comfortable
I forgot my ipad computer in the room, they send somebody bring the ipad to HK Airport. Highly recommended, room is small but clean, staff are honest and helpful. I will stay only in Hotel Skyview in future.
Thank you very much for your valuable comment.

10/10 Excellent

Asri

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Exceptional
Staff helpful, 24 hrs CCTV camra, clean and cheap place, miss poly is nice staff and helpful
Thank you very much for your valuable comment.

10/10 Excellent

Soon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good option for Hong Kong stay
Nice place and location is very good , near mtr station, ferry terminal. Lot of shopping malls, free welcome drinks provide on check in time,
Thank you very much for your valuable comment.

10/10 Excellent

Lance

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location, private, hostel style
This was a great place to stay if you're traveling solo through HK. You cannot beat the location, though the atmosphere is a bit "rugged". This is not your typical American style hotel. The accommodations are typical for a youth hostel in HK, but it has the necessities: private bathroom, spacious bed for one, and Wifi.

2/10 Terrible

Christopher

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Complete chancers
It was a poor. The entire building is chopped into small guess houses and they share the customers around. For example, if you book this property it's likely you'll actually stay in the same building but an entirely different guesthouse albeit with a similar name. This means you don't actually get what you pay for and your decision to choose this property is based on false means. The room I booked had cockroaches and smelled of curry. It was also tiny, as expected. All the properties are located above a creepy shopping mall. The rest of Nathan Road was pretty cool

10/10 Excellent

Joyce

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Sure I will come back same place again
Nice place to stay, very new decorated place , nice staff, nice place , good location, I will come back sure in future, Miss poly nice staff and always helpful

10/10 Excellent

Jasmeet

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful
Wonderful place to stay , wifi strong, nice and kind staff , room was very clean and tidy , location is very perfect

10/10 Excellent

me ha , Hong kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Exceptional
Wonderful place to stay , poly nice staff , near place good Indian food to eat , will come back sure again .

10/10 Excellent

magret, Hk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent place
Excellent place to stay , nice and clean with good design and good decorating room. Staff good ,

10/10 Excellent

alex, indonesia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect place in this area, superb
Room was small but very clean as hk standered, Perfect location, near by mtr station, ferry terminal, the staff was helpful and wifi very strong signal

6/10 Okay

Maria E

Liked: Staff & service

10/10 Excellent

rajan, hong kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Exceptional
Wonderful place to stay, nice and clean room, helpful staff , good location and heart of hing Kong , I wii come back sure same place in future.

10/10 Excellent

irwin, philippines

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Skyview is perfect place to stay
Perfect place to stay in skyview, internet very strong, room was clean and staff nice , location very nice and lot of transportation all over in Hong Kong from hotel place , so many shopping malls too.

10/10 Excellent

malkiat, india

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very wonderful place
Clean and tidy room,strong WiFi,nice staff,free storage after check out,we are happy and enjoyed stay in hotel skyview. Our best choice. Sure,I will come back in future.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Reasonable price and clean place
Wifi very strong, staff helpful and kind to everyone, The location is very good and lot of shopping centre near by place

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Blissful stay
From check in I had a seamless experience. The staff were extremely friendly and helpful, the room was specious and had every amenity one could ask for.

10/10 Excellent

Yang

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Superb place and perfect location
The Hotel place is very clean and comfortable place , the staff is helpful and mr sudam is nice staff and always helpful if need , location is perfect and wifi internet very strong.

10/10 Excellent

malik

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Exceptional
The bed is comfortable, free welcome drinks on check in time, easy found place and transportation easy to access any where in HK , very clean place and cheapest, staff nice and helpfull , location is very very good .

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful skyview place
Wifi very strong , staff nice and new decorated place in TST, room was clean and bed was comfortable, free welcome drinks provided, mr Joni is nice staff , always smiling face so I like skyview