HI - Pkiin Hostel

We are fans of the HI youth hostel chain, and this location lived up to our expectations as well. Value priced, public areas very nice, rooms are naturally furnished basic. Perfect air conditioner and water pressure too. I assume the place was renovated in recent years because virtually everything looks new and well maintained. Reasonable Israeli hotel breakfast spread means you are full leaving to tour around. We were not around for the lunch or supper meals. We decided to visit the Rashbi cave, ancient synagogue, and city centre by foot there and back. This was itself a challenging uphill and then downhill hike but slowly but surely, we all made it even the four year old on foot. Pekiin is located on a hillside so the roads are windy and hilly, use Waze or GPS to navigate. There is a small adjacent parking lot, but parking on the street out front seemed adequate even at full vacancy.