Yintian Hotel — Hotel in Changsha

Contrary to some of the reviews here, I found the hotel to be clean, modern and well run. Occasional oddities for western visitors but nothing insurmountable. Breakfast is more Chinese than European, but then the client base is also more Chinese as well - we found the food descriptions amusing - breakfast intestinal and baked potato were sausages and happy faces respectively. Everything was fresh and hot enough - and there is always toast and fried eggs for the nervous. ||Room was huge, clean and quiet except for the firecrackers starting about 7:30 and the street washer playing "it's a small world" to warn you of the impending sprays of water over the pavements. Shower was enormous and housekeeping went through whilst I was at breakfast almost every morning as well as a turndown - slippers and bath mat laid ready, curtains closed. ||We never had dinner but the bar was cheap enough - 25rmb for a beer. There are 2 western friendly restaurants within walking distance and a coffee shop under the cinema - if you must McDonalds is about 15mins across the river up 2 junctions and left down the main road on the pedestrianised shopping area - the chrysanthemum stone shops are all across the square at the end of the pedestrian street. Small shop across from the entrance sold drinks and snacks many recognisable like cucumber flavoured Pringles.||Staff were all lovely, and the daily wedding always provided something else to see - daylight fireworks accompany the brides arrival. The pool is across a small road and I suspect shared with the apartment blocks - it was January and 5 degrees so I wasn't about to try it. Rooms are air conditioned and very warm so no worries there - the shower gel and shampoo are in wall mount dispensers - all the soap, nail files and usual and unusual room purchase items have prices on them - the soap being about 10rmb - so 20p UK - so possible charge there but not excessive just unusual. Large flat screen TV but no non Chinese channels - decent internet via wifi although I had a PC I the room as well - with the usual caviat that many websites are blocked - YouTube and Google being the main ones you will miss - hello Bing! - for a laugh have a look at the welding on the brackets holding the curved glass wall round the elevators - KTV rooms on the 4 to 5th floor with all the usual supplements - good range of English songs - casino on another floor limited to Chinese guests and according to rumours "Pretty Ladies" on another floor.||Frankly the hotel could pass for a Holiday Inn in almost any country in the world - happily stay...

Contrary to some of the reviews here, I found the hotel to be clean, modern and well run. Occasional oddities for western visitors but nothing insurmountable. Breakfast is more Chinese than European, but then the client base is also more Chinese as well - we found the food descriptions amusing - breakfast intestinal and baked potato were sausages and happy faces respectively. Everything was fresh and hot enough - and there is always toast and fried eggs for the nervous. ||Room was huge, clean and quiet except for the firecrackers starting about 7:30 and the street washer playing "it's a small world" to warn you of the impending sprays of water over the pavements. Shower was enormous and housekeeping went through whilst I was at breakfast almost every morning as well as a turndown - slippers and bath mat laid ready, curtains closed. ||We never had dinner but the bar was cheap enough - 25rmb for a beer. There are 2 western friendly restaurants within walking distance and a coffee shop under the cinema - if you must McDonalds is about 15mins across the river up 2 junctions and left down the main road on the pedestrianised shopping area - the chrysanthemum stone shops are all across the square at the end of the pedestrian street. Small shop across from the entrance sold drinks and snacks many recognisable like cucumber flavoured Pringles.||Staff were all lovely, and the daily wedding always provided something else to see - daylight fireworks accompany the brides arrival. The pool is across a small road and I suspect shared with the apartment blocks - it was January and 5 degrees so I wasn't about to try it. Rooms are air conditioned and very warm so no worries there - the shower gel and shampoo are in wall mount dispensers - all the soap, nail files and usual and unusual room purchase items have prices on them - the soap being about 10rmb - so 20p UK - so possible charge there but not excessive just unusual. Large flat screen TV but no non Chinese channels - decent internet via wifi although I had a PC I the room as well - with the usual caviat that many websites are blocked - YouTube and Google being the main ones you will miss - hello Bing! - for a laugh have a look at the welding on the brackets holding the curved glass wall round the elevators - KTV rooms on the 4 to 5th floor with all the usual supplements - good range of English songs - casino on another floor limited to Chinese guests and according to rumours "Pretty Ladies" on another floor.||Frankly the hotel could pass for a Holiday Inn in almost any country in the world - happily stay...

When I originally started going to Luiyang around 7 years ago, the Yintian was really cheap. Unfortunately there's very little choice of places to stay in Luiyang and even fewer hotels that offer western food! Now the Yintian knows this and certainly have taken advantage of poor westerners like me and jacked up prices.||By western standards it is definitely not a 5 star hotel. The rooms can be very filthy, the place stinks of cigarettes and at times the noise from the karaoke room can be heard from way up top. ||For most people that go for business to Luiyang they only ever eat breakfast in the hotel as most of the day and night your out working. So a decent breakfast is vital and i must say Yintian has the best hotel breakfast in town...choice of cereals, omelette station, sausages (made from cheap meat), bacon (again cheap quality), juices (made from concentrate), toast, tea, coffee and that's pretty much it.||Oh and there also a superb, authentic italian restaurant with an Italian chef near the Yintian thats amazing!||I am pleased to say that I've found a relatively new hotel where the rooms are a hundred times better and cheaper than Yintian...however the lack of westeners means breakfast is a longway off but this new hotel is willing to accommodate i.e make you an omelette if you're able to get them to understand whatever you're asking for. Plus there's a KFC a 2min walk away! Why dont i mention this other hotel's name? Because i dont want an influx of westerners staying there and prices to sky rocket and quality of the rooms to go down. ||In short if its your first time in Luiyang then stay at...