Prestige Boys Hostel

Overview

Food and study are the two things this Gulshan-e-Jamal hostel gets right. There's a mess where residents eat together, taking the daily worry of meals off your plate, and rooms come fitted with study ... read more

Food and study are the two things this Gulshan-e-Jamal hostel gets right. There's a mess where residents eat together, taking the daily worry of meals off your plate, and rooms come fitted with study tables so there's always a proper place to sit and work rather than a bed doubling as a desk. Prestige Boys Hostel occupies the second floor of a building in Block B, near Lavish Dine Restaurant, and adds the essentials you'd expect — Wi-Fi throughout, geysers for hot water, and beds and mattresses already provided so you can move in without fuss. Monthly rent spans a fairly broad PKR 22,500 to PKR 40,000, leaving room to choose according to budget. Everyday errands are simple here: Allied Bank is a couple of minutes away, Masjid Al Hilal is close, and there's an ATM within easy reach. The universities take a bit of getting to — SSUET and FUUAST are both around three kilometres, roughly thirty-six minutes on foot, with IBT Karachi further out — so it suits a student happy to trade a short commute for sorted meals, a real desk and a settled, well-served neighbourhood.