Hurain Girls Hostel

Overview

For a girl studying at VU Rawalpindi, few hostels in Satellite Town beat this B-Block address for sheer walkability — the campus is barely 700 metres off, a nine-minute walk, so mornings don't start w... read more

For a girl studying at VU Rawalpindi, few hostels in Satellite Town beat this B-Block address for sheer walkability — the campus is barely 700 metres off, a nine-minute walk, so mornings don't start with a commute. The setting is Commercial Market, one of the busier corners of the neighbourhood, with Mid City Mall and a Meezan Bank branch both within a couple of hundred metres and The City School just around the way. What makes the place suited to serious study is the dedicated study area alongside the study tables in the rooms, so there's somewhere to focus when a roommate is on a call. Monthly rent ranges from PKR 15,000 to PKR 31,250, the figure moving with room occupancy, and it stays on the affordable side for how central it is. Each resident gets a bed, mattress and wardrobe, and Wi-Fi runs throughout for lectures and assignments. Preston Islamabad and FJWU are options too, though both sit several kilometres out. Hurain Girls Hostel is really built for the VU crowd who want to roll out of bed and reach class in minutes.