Yuncheng Hotel Guangzhou — Hotel in Guangzhou City

We arrived at the Guangzhou train station. From there the taxi driver managed to find this hotel easily enough being on airport road. ||At check-in, I asked for a non-smoking room in Cantonese Chinese, but was met with a blank stare. So I asked in English instead and it took me a few minutes to understand that they could only give me a smoke-treated room. ||The room itself was clean and tidy enough, but the toilet seat was broken. I didn’t want to be charged for something that was already broken. So I called reception from the room, who put me through to maintenance to see if they could fix this. The guy who answered did not speak Cantonese Chinese nor English. So after a period of “a chicken talking to a duck”, I gave up and decided to go down to reception and tell them about it. They then informed me that they will get someone to look at this. But nobody ever came to fix it during my entire stay and they didn’t charge me on check out, so that was all I was worried about really. ||I found it difficult to communicate with the staff in this hotel. None of them are locals from Guangzhou, so they don’t speak Cantonese and their English is barely understandable. ||Other than that, the room we had did face the airport road, but the only noticeable noise was actually from the social dancing that went on in the basketball court below. But thankfully this did stop before bed time. ||I couldn’t get the PC in the room to work, but that was not a big issue for me, as the TV was working just fine and the beds were comfortable enough. ||The hotel provides a shuttle bus to the Canton fair during the expo dates. They called the room to make sure you know the bus is there. The driver had a typical mainland Chinese attitude. He needed to empty out his trash and didn’t care as he tipped it out right next to where you were standing. His driving wasn’t much better. You get given a card with the hotel info on it. When it was time to return to the hotel, trying to find the shuttle bus back to the hotel was a total nightmare. Turns out the bus bay number is written down on the back of the hotel card and you’re suppose to know that what that number means without any sort of explanation. ||I asked the one of the staff who sits behind a desk in the lobby where the metro station was in Cantonese and while he was being as helpful as he could replying in Mandarin, I could just about understand what he said with his gesturing and managed to get myself there. ||The actual route goes like this: I needed to walk out of the hotel, turn left, cross the road (at the intersection, you’ll see the metro symbol pointing the way), then cross over the main airport road and then turn left and follow the metro symbol walking more or less straight on till you see the station on the left (there’s no escalator down to the platform, which makes carrying a baby down in a pram sweaty work). Also be careful of the bikes when you are crossing these roads, as they don’t seem to stop like the cars do. Plus there are motorised ricksaws that can run you over from behind as they cross the roads the same time as you do too. ||There are plenty of eateries and supermarkets left of the hotel along the main street and makes for a pleasant enough stroll in the evenings. ||On check out day, we were able to leave our luggage out the back and collect it that night. ||We need to use the toilet before leaving for the airport, and the one out the back was not pleasant at all for a hotel. ||But overall, I think this hotel was an affordable stay during the Canton fair period. ||||Just a last note about the Guangzhou airport - I left 4 hours to get to the airport, but the journey from the airport to there at 7pm was actually quite reasonable. It was only at the airport that I spent a good 2 to 2.5 hours queuing up to get through the luggage check and immigration points. I’m pleased that I was paranoid and allowed for so much time, as there were quite a few people there panicking and shouting that they were going to miss...

I booked and paid in advance for this hotel through Expedia. When I arrived they said the rooms were full ! The only available rooms were business rooms which we had to pay 100 Yuan more.||But I have booked and paid for the standard room already and they should have kept the room for me. I don't think it's my fault. The good thing that I have sent an email to confirm that I would be arriving late and please keep the room for us, I also got a confirmation. When I showed them the email, they let me stayed in the business room free for one night.||Apart from that, the rooms were nice compared with price. Not far from the subway, you can walk 8-10 mins.||There is Wanda mall near to subway which is a mall with shops and restaurants.||They have Wifi but very slow.||The hotel is quite nice accept from trying to get more money for not saving the rooms for what I have booked and paid for. ||The best thing is to send an email to confirm your...

A very good Budget Hotel in Guangzhou. Especially during the canton fair Guangzhou hotels tend to hike up their prices. Well you can stay in this hotel in under USD 50 and also they provide pick-up & drop to the fair which is quite convenient. During non-peak time the rates are less than USD 30 a day. ||The hotel is close to the cosmetics market and a taxi ride away to the san-yuanli bags market. There are quite a few restaurants and shops in walking distance.||Also you can take No.1 bus from Gzh Airport and reach the hotel in 25 mins. ||The rooms are quite clean and service is good.||Overall its a good budget hotel and do not expect more...