Singapore, Gap Year Hostel @ Lavender (2013, Mar 7-8)

And my hostel hopping continues...

After a night sleepover at The Hive Backpacker's Hostel, I hopped to the Gap Year Hostel the next day.

gap year hostel @ lavender st.

Gap Year Hostel
322 Lavender Street, Singapore 338821

Call: +65 6297 1055
Email: info@gapyearhostel.com
Visit: www.gapyearhostel.com

Direction to the hostel:

Take the MRT train on the East-West Line (Green Line) towards Joo Koon, and alight at Outram MRT Station (EW 16) to transfer to the North-East Line (Purple Line). Take the train on the North-East Line towards Punggol and alight at Boon Keng MRT Station (NE9). The journey from Changi to Outram takes about 38 mins and costs SGD2.1. The journey from Outram to Boon Keng takes about 11 mins and costs SGD1.5. Trains run daily from morning around 6a.m. and stop operating around 12 midnight.

After you reach Boon Keng MRT Station, take Exit C (Boon Keng Road) and come up the escalator. Walk with the open grass field on your left (along Serangoon Road), and turn left at the road junction towards Lavender Street to see a row of shophouse. Walk another 50m and the Gap Year Hostel is at the 2nd shophouse.

Source: www.gapyearhostel.com

Located in a two storey pre-war shophouse, Gap Year Hostel provides complimentary high speed fibre optics broadband Wi-Fi to cater guests' needs.

Check-in time is 1500hrs and check-out time is strictly at noon. There is a late check-in surcharge of SGD5 per person to check in after 2200hrs. All payments made at the reception are to be in Singapore Dollars cash. There is a 5% administration fee for payment by credit card. The hostel reception operates from 0830hrs to 2200hrs. 

Should guests arrive before check-in time, they are welcome to leave their belongings at the hostel and return before 2200hrs to check into their rooms. For early arrivals who wish to check into their rooms considerably earlier than the official check-in at 1500hrs, they are required to book for the prior day.

The hostel have storage, but storage luggage is chargeable at a nominal fee of SGD2 per luggage/day.

shared bathroom

 

standard single with shared bathroom

Standard Single Private (Shared Bathroom), SGD45 for 1st night and SGD47 fro 2nd night.

The room is super tiny with a connecting door to another room which scares the hell out of me since there's no lock in my part of room. I call this an alleyway room. Structurally, it's more of an enclosed alley than a bedroom. A single twin-size bed would take up 70 percent of the entire space.

the alley that separates my room from the next door

Instead of the standard single room, you can opt for:
Double Room: SGD80 per room with a Queen-size bed.
4 bed Dorm (Mixed): SGD28 per pax
6 bed Dorm (Female only or Mixed): SGD28 per pax
12 bed Dorm (Mixed): SGD25 per pax

6 bed dorm

12 bed dorm

The pro of my stay this time is I can have the run of the hostel since it's low season. I just once run into fellow traveler who stays in the dorm room.