-- Jasmine International Youth Hostel

ADD: No. 7 Hequnxincun, Shanghai Road
Tel: 025-83300517
E-mail: jasminehostel@gmail.com
Prices: 35 RMB for a bed in 6 bed dorm.

Clean place, very friendly staff with decent levels of English. Free Wi-Fi on the ground floor and in the entertainment room. Centrally located, close to Nanjing university and Grand Hotel.

-- Nanjing Danfeng International Hotel

ADD: 59-1 Yushi Street, North Floor 6
Tel: 025-83226770.
Prices: Small dorm rooms (3 people/room) from about 50 RMB, larger single and double rooms from about 160 RMB.

Easily the best budget option in Nanjing.

Private rooms are spotlessly clean, and excellent size for the money. Although their listing on numerous websites says it is "wireless", each room is equipped with wired Internet connections (you can borrow an Ethernet cable from the reception desk). Those without can share the communal computer for free.

Don't share a private room with anyone you don't want to see naked, as the bathroom/toilet is housed inside a strange transparent glass enclosure.