7 Days Inn — Hotel in Guangzhou City

Price Good: One night of double bed room for member booking on internet is RMB187 only.||||Strategic location: this inn is in a tall building (22 floors I recall), prime in Tianhe District which is CBD of Guangzhou. The nearest underground station exit is D2 of Shipaiqiao Station (line 3 of the tube network) which is within 10 mins walk. This time already includes the searching time as I found it not so easy to locate it for the first two occasions because this inn is in alley. Next to it is the new upscale mall "Taikoo Hui" where you can find all top fashion brands and a supermarket Ole. Other big malls like One Link Walk are in the neighbourhood too. Personally I am not interested at all in those malls as it's very Hong Kong. I prefer visiting those older malls with local brands shops and restaurants. International brands are much more expensive in China than Hong Kong.||||Room: usual 7 Days Inn standard, acceptably clean, bed big and comfy. Room spacious but rather tired and torn. Curtains have blackout layer. With around 130 TV channels, nearly all Chinese local ones. Adequately equipped, with a towel in sealed plastic bag, 2 paper cups, a kettle, liquid soap and shampoo, disposable slippers. If you do not bring with any tooth brush etc, no worry, they are available at low price at the lobby. Shower strong and hot. Air conditioner quiet and functional. I can hear noise from the corridor in the middle of the night, but it's nothing wrong with the inn itself. The door is well noise-isolated I think, just that the individual guest was not considerate. I heard a lady guest talked aloud in the corridor. ||||Staff: polite and friendly. They are willing to do the online booking for me by using the free computer at the lobby in order to obtain a...

Price Good: One night of double bed room for member booking on internet is RMB187 only.||||Strategic location: this inn is in a tall building (22 floors I recall), prime in Tianhe District which is CBD of Guangzhou. The nearest underground station exit is D2 of Shipaiqiao Station (line 3 of the tube network) which is within 10 mins walk. This time already includes the searching time as I found it not so easy to locate it for the first two occasions because this inn is in alley. Next to it is the new upscale mall "Taikoo Hui" where you can find all top fashion brands and a supermarket Ole. Other big malls like One Link Walk are in the neighbourhood too. Personally I am not interested at all in those malls as it's very Hong Kong. I prefer visiting those older malls with local brands shops and restaurants. International brands are much more expensive in China than Hong Kong.||||Room: usual 7 Days Inn standard, acceptably clean, bed big and comfy. Room spacious but rather tired and torn. Curtains have blackout layer. With around 130 TV channels, nearly all Chinese local ones. Adequately equipped, with a towel in sealed plastic bag, 2 paper cups, a kettle, liquid soap and shampoo, disposable slippers. If you do not bring with any tooth brush etc, no worry, they are available at low price at the lobby. Shower strong and hot. Air conditioner quiet and functional. I can hear noise from the corridor in the middle of the night, but it's nothing wrong with the inn itself. The door is well noise-isolated I think, just that the individual guest was not considerate. I heard a lady guest talked aloud in the corridor. ||||Staff: polite and friendly. They are willing to do the online booking for me by using the free computer at the lobby in order to obtain a...

As we entered the building we were greeted by the stench of stale cigarette smoke, mouldy walls, a dog chained up, and two receptionists, both of which were on their phones. “Social etiquette”, I had thought to myself when they remained seated and ‘unaware’ that we were standing right before them. ||||They continued to ignore us regardless of the fact we were stood but less than 1metre from them, until I rang the bell somewhat passive-aggressively; and as I did, they became quickly agitated and unfriendly. They both remained that way throughout the entire checking in the process.||||One receptionist then chucked my room key onto the reception desk, without saying a word to me. “Xiexie,” I said, as we climbed the stairs to our floor. I was fully aware at this point that this hotel was not nice, believe me, I was aware.||||I remember so clearly, reaching my floor, and looking down the unlit, pitch black corridor, and thinking, “this looks like somewhere where you’d murder someone”, and as I pondered that, the lights began switching on one by one, as if in a horror movie, only in reverse.||||I continued down the corridor, and out of nowhere, a colossal sized rat darted towards me, staying close to the wall. It was so big a monstrous, it was as if a rugby player was charging towards me, I could actually hear it huffing and puffing. It ran straight past me, and then down the stairs in which I came.||||The room was dirty, the appliances, old, and the staff, unfriendly.||||I told the receptionists that a rat was roaming the hotel, to which they just looked at me blankly and shrugged as if to...