Feel the local life

    It’s a ancient city with long history and culture. It owns the honor of “Suzhou and Hangzhou are paradise on the earth”. Many gardens scatter between the buildings with white walls and black tiles.
    Because falling in love to the exquisite and graceful Suzhou, the people who have been to Suzhou all fall in love to the peace life hiding in old streets and alleys.
    On May 2007, a few young guys who are interested in outdoor games chose a old Suzhou-style local house at first. Then they planted bamboo , spread cyan flagstone on the floor and put soft bine-chair on the corridor.
    Day after day , the alley was full of joy. Some time the old women who live nearby came here to see the new faces everyday. Finally we hanged on our lovely signboard — "Suzhou water town youth hostel".
    Watertown hostel locate on ＃27 Dashitou Lane, Renmin Road, SuZhou.
    It’s said that Shenfu, the writer of “Fusheng siji”(‘Six chapters of a floating life’)in dynasty, lived nearby. In his house ,there is a brick-caved torri caving “enjoy reading all the seasons”,which was awarded Suzhou culture-relic-protecting department in 1963.
It contains Shenfu’s experience during his whole life in‘Six chapters of a floating life’. There is always up and down in his life, but he also enjoy everyday comfortably and quietly , which make others look for such kind of life.
    Maybe we also look for such life style, or maybe we are reminded by the reference of a passage in LiPo’poem, “Our floating life is like a dream; how often can one enjoy oneself”.Whatever, we give our hotel the name “fusheng siji”(floating life in the four seasons.)
Enjoy easy life when time goes by, and get close to the nature. Hope you could hold such kind of feeling when you come to Suzhou in every season..
    Set out from the hostel, you can arrive at Guanqian Street (the business center of Suzhou ) within 5 min. Furthermore, it’s unbelievable convenient to get to other districts from the hostel.
    Meanwhile, you can take the bus from the Railway and Bus stations by no.1,101, 102 or 103 to the “yinmaqiao” bus stop.
No matter which airport you will arrive at in Shanghai, just take the shuttle bus to Suzhou, it will stop at TONGGUANFANG(one block east of the hostel).
    We think a lot of culture communion between different regions, and do a lot of environment protection.
    Save resource and care of environment. Hope friends who come to the hostel could help others on the base of taking care of themselves. Hope because of our efforts, more youth could leave city for the nature, and form the spirit of independence and self-help
Feel the change-life in water town, feel the local life in Suzhou city.
    We are proud of the super-expanse yard in the hostel. You can concentrate on chatting or reading or just sitting with your empty brain.

感受江南水乡的变迁,体味苏城民居的生活。
    一面素墙，一抹光影，和你一起看那些曾经被感动的记忆。

      

   

精心为您准备的阅读区，以介绍苏州老城区的历史为主，墙上的很多建筑现在都已经消失不见了。

              
              
              
              

浮生四季拥有一个江南民居式庭院，我们可以在这里晒太阳，发呆。

        

旅舍内部公共设施齐全，自助厨房，洗衣房，电脑上网，满足你在旅行中的一切基本需求。

       

旅舍提供自行车租赁，自行车是在苏州旅行的最好交通工具。在浮生您可以放心的凉晒衣服，因为这里是您在旅行途中的家。

        

        

自助与助人是青年旅舍的精髓所在，希望大家在浮生使用公共设施的时侯，也为他人着想，爱护设施，互助才快乐。