If you have to live Pudong-side, this well-tended hostel is a leafy and homey oasis in an otherwise innocuous housing estate. It offers basic but clean rooms, all with private bathrooms (even the dorms), and excellent communal areas – a bar-restaurant, a balcony seating area and a cute, tree-shaded courtyard garden.
There’s wi-fi throughout and a laundry room, kitchen and bar. Go through the gate at 490 Dongchang Rd and the hostel is in a lane on the right.