Bishkek Backpackers in Bishkek

I strongly advise against this hostel. We spent one night there and had to wait with our very heavy bags on our backs without being able to put them down for the long check-in process. The rooms weren't clean (mouse droppings on the sheets, mold on the walls), nor was the bathroom. The rooms and dormitories are under corrugated iron roofs, so it's extremely hot (30 degrees Celsius at midnight). There wasn't a proper window in the room (just a sort of opening at the bottom, making it impossible to ventilate). Finally, we had no electricity all evening (no lights, cold shower, no way to charge our phones). Honestly, don't go there; you won't get a good night's sleep.

Disclaimer for women: DO NOT GO THERE… The worst experience I’ve ever had! I booked a night in the mixed dorm, but when I arrived in the middle of the night the owner/staff told me that I could not stay there because two men already stayed in the dorm, and apparently they did not feel comfortable staying in the same dorm as a woman. The did not try to help me finding a new place even thou I told them that I just arrived to the country and didn’t now any other place, nor did I have I have a SIM card.. they said they did not care and that it was not their problem, so they just kicked me out in the middle of the night. The most uncomfortable experience I’ve ever had as a woman. Do not book the mixed dorm as a women, because apparently you cannot stay there if there are also men in the dorm. I do not want other women to be put in the same position:’(