Guangzhou Yu Cheng Hotel — Hotel in Guangzhou City

Our stay at the Yucheng was on the last leg of our tour of the Foshan, Nanhai, Shunde and Guangzhou area as a family. The hotel (booked by the local tour operator) fell short of what one would call acceptable. By American standards, one would possibly categorize it as a cheap motel. All of the shower stalls in our rooms leaked water into the general bathroom area and a couple of the "telephone" shower heads would not stay in place. The carpeting in the rooms had stain marks all over and walking barefooted even for a short time was a risky proposition. One of our rooms had a pillar by the end of the a bed - one had to crawl over the bed to get to the other side. Don't bother to ask or offer to pay for an upgrade - we were told all rooms were the same. All rooms, reception, and dining facilities are on the 7th floor - it is a one floor hotel and there is a single elevator to get you up or down and it serves multiple floors that are not part of the hotel. Breakfast was unappetizing. I had to ask a worker to pick up a watermelon rind and used tissue from the floor. ||||Yucheng is a bit better from a location standpoint. It is at the eastern end of Changshou West Road (where it ends at Kangwang Middle Road) - about two blocks from the Changshou Road #1 subway line (metro) station which is on the western end of the same street. A couple of blocks south is the Shangxiagiu pedestrian street - a sight to behold at night with all the people, shops and neon lights. A taxi ride from the hotel to Beijing street or the Sun Yat Sen memorial hall costs under 20 yuan. The subway ride to the Baiyun International Airport costs 8 yuan a person (change from the #1 line to the #2 line to...

This is more a hotel for business people coming for the Jade Wholesale trade or possibly exhibition. Hardly any tourists in the hotel (at least, not when we were there). Taxi drivers generally don't know there is a hotel housed within the upper floors of this Complex, however they all know Pavilion C of Hualin International Exhibition Centre.||Short 7-10 min walk to subway, passing several good local eateries. Good beef noodles, and good western bakery.||Another short walk in another direction will bring you to Shangxiajiu. Along the main Kangwang Middle Road, there are also lots of eateries, fast food chains and couple of shopping malls. At night, stalls will sprout up along the wide pavements, selling mainly mobile phone accessories and street food. We got new protective screens and covers for mobiles at very cheap prices!||||For those who (like me) don't like wet bathrooms, ask for a room with shower partition in the bathroom. My family took 3 rooms and we realised 1 of the rooms had a shower partition but the other 2 didn't which would mean water all over when the shower is turned on. So we asked to change rooms. Fortunately we managed to get the last 2 available rooms that had shower partition.||A pleasant surprise was having a "Towel Warmer" in the bathroom! It was sooo good to open it and take out nice warm towels to dry oneself with after a shower, especially as it was winter when we went.||Overall, not a great hotel but rooms were clean, reception was polite though not very knowledgeable, and rates were reasonable (less than CNY400 per nite). Breakfast was nothing to shout about. Wifi only...

My wife and I stayed at this hotel under the arrangement of a friend, whose wedding we were attending. The entrance to the lift that took us some floors up to the hotel proper was pretty hard to locate, as all the shops and displays on the ground floor just crowded it out. The room we were checked into was windowless (the boardings outside what should be a window blocked out all the light), contrary to what our friend had ordered. Without any partition for the shower and having a blocked drain, the toilet became so flooded after my shower that my wife could not have use of it. The staff took a long while to come to have a look at the flooded situation. On the whole, the decor in the room looked very tired...