The service here was amazing and very friendly.||They had an outside bar area which was very pleasant.||Surprisingly there are no tourist brochures and the staff are puzzled when you ask them where to go for sightseeing. ||I went for a very long walk along the river and really enjoyed this, however their wasn't much for the souvenir type tourists except that it was so Chinese and different.||All the people I met along the way looked surprised to see a foreigner and were very helpful and somehow we communicated with my very low level Chinese which was amazingly higher than their English. ||||The city was hot and a little untidy at times but had great character. The busy areas are busy and modern, their was an Arab restaurant area that I found by accident that had some great looking restaurants and I had a great evening there and easily met...
Read moreI stayed for a week in this hotel. The staff was really very friendly and helpful. Not all of them spoke English, but quite a lot did. The rooms are spacey and the beds really very comfortable. I slept really well. The airco also works well and so does the free Wifi. Bathrooms are well equipped and in your room you have for example bath robes. Rooms are clean-ish, and so are the corridors. This could be somewhat improved. Breakfast was OK, but not great:no freshly squeezed orange juice for example, and also no yoghurt. Fresh fruit was present however, and there was a broad choice of Chinese breakfast options. The hotel is well located in the SCNU campus with lots of trees and...
Read moreNot many Westerners stay here, thats too bad. Rooms are comfortable, even beds for a Chinese are more comfortable than higher price options like Guangdong Hotel so called 4 star hotel were I also recently stayed. For China the cable TV was very good. Front desk Staff are friendly and speak enough English to get by. Metro is about a 15 minute walk Gangding station on line 3 . Western food options are available at same mall where the metro stop is located . IM staying again this...
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