East King Business Hotel — Hotel in Hangzhou City

We stayed at East King in October, right after Chinese Golden Week. ||It is middle class hotel within appr. 15 min walk to West Lake. Around Hotel there are numerous small restaurants and shops, for those missing western food there is even Subway´s right in front of the hotel door. It will take you 10min and appr. 12 RMB to get to the main railwaystation or appr. 45min and 120RMB to the airport.||We booked a standard city view room. It was very spacious and clean, nothing special, but exactly what you need for a city trip. Receptionist was very nice, as we asked to get a higher floor; we got a non-smoking room in the 24ht floor. I am not sure about staff English, since I speak Chinese. I saw from some over reviews that communication might be problematic if you have any special wishes. But in our case staff was very polite and helpful, therefore I truly believe picture-dictionary would do it also here||There is one breakfast included in the price of every room. If you are staying in the double room, you will have to pay for the additional breakfast. We tried it once; I have to say it is pretty bad. It is obviously a Chinese breakfast, although with some coffee and even probably fried eggs. I really like proper Chinese breakfast, since variety of such a buffet is really huge and literally anyone could find something delicious to it there. But Breakfast offered in the hotel is really poor. Therefore you better try street eateries in front of the hotel or make a walk to the Eastlake to find one of the numerous Starbucks shops. Shall you still want to try hotel breakfast, be careful, hotel staff wants you to sign a blank receipt, absolutely nothing on it, and they want you to put your signature there! So make sure, you refuse it and they first print out the correct receipt for you to sign.||Right in front of the hotel there is a bike rental station, which is very convenient.||Hangzhou is a bike city – there is a largest IN THE WORLD net of public bikes for rent (over 60.000 bikes). Therefore make sure to get a tourist Z card for bike rental. You can do it in one of the kiosk at the bike rental station – they are everywhere. You will have to leave a deposit of 300 RMB per card. But 1st hour of bike renting if for free, therefore if you change your bike every hour, you would ride the whole time free of charge. In the end of your stay you can return your card in any of the kiosks and get your deposit back with small deduction of 10RMB for the service provided. ||There are some rush hours, when it is difficult to get a bike – in the morning between 8 and 9 am, and in the evening app. Between 5 and 6 pm. Obviously it is not only tourists who is using these bikes. Also make sure to check tires and breaks of your bike, since some of the bikes are pretty old.||We used these public bikes for entire weeks, it is just great, since you are saving troubles with traffic jam and problems with communication if you don´t speak Chinese. Don´t miss to explore Hangzhou´s surroundings i.e. Dragon Spring Village (Long Jing Cun - 龙井村) with it´s amazing tea terraces and the most famous green tea in China. It´s only 8km from city center away. Great opportunity for...

I love this hotel. And I found it quite by accident. I was staying at the much-hyped Friendship Hotel around the corner but felt quite strongly that it wasn't good value for what I was paying. So after one night there I went for a walk around the block looking for an alternative and wrote down a couple of other options. I saw this lovely imposing-looking hotel tucked away just off Pinghai Road, and when I looked it up on ctrip, the rates were quite reasonable.||||I booked the most economical city-view room, which cost 368 per night, which included free internet and breakfast. When I arrived they told me they only had a king, which didn't really suit me, my sister and her son, so after a bit of a song and dance in my broken Chinese, they gave me a beautiful corner room with a pullout sofa. The room was stunningly huge - with floor to ceiling windows, a desk, dining area, lounge area and small kitchenette. There was no tub - only a shower, but even the bathroom had a window, which let in a lot of natural light. ||||The place has a very Chinese feel to the way it is run. You get the sense there that it doesn't see a lot of western tourists (which is probably why the room rates are so reasonable and why it is such a great find), but it has everything I wanted and more. The gym and pool were lovely, there was a huge outdoor terrace area by the gym, and breakfast included a modest selection of cereals, fruit, custom-made eggs and some Asian offerings. Best of all, right at the foot of the hotel, there is the sizeable Wushan night market that sets up every evening. It couldn't be more convenient to pop out for an hour of hard bargaining and then saunter back up to my room. And of course, being right off of Pinghai Road, it is well situated for access to the lake, and is close to many decent restaurants in the downtown core.||||This is a great find in Hangzhou - it has the right location, amenities and price. The only real drawback is the lack of English spoken, which wasn't a big problem in the end, as the staff were quite...

We stayed in East King Business Hotel for three nights. We had a one-bedroom apartment with lake view (room 1915). The view was not particularly fantastic as the lake is still quite a distance away. For a really good lake view, one should stay in Hyatt Hotel which is just by the West Lake. Both the living room and the bedroom are spacious, and the apartment is clean. It was hot during our stay (around 38 degree Celsius). What a relief that the two air-conditioners in our unit worked well. Strangely, there is only an electric sterilizer in the kitchenette but no microwave or electric oven. This is not a problem for us as there are many restaurants in the neighborhood; the Chinese restaurant Caidiexian in the hotel is good. One breakfast voucher is given for each apartment every day, and additional voucher costs 25RMB (about 4USD). However, the choices are rather limited. || ||The hotel is located at Yuewang Road, just 100 meters from Pinghai Road. Walking along Pinghai Road to the west for about 15 minutes, you reach the West Lake where a musical fountain show is performed every half-hourly from 7 pm to 9:30 pm. Although the show is smaller in scale as compared to that of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, it is still an enjoyable event with accompanying music like “O Sole Mio”, “Nessum Norma”, “Time to Say Goodbye” and “The Blue Danube Waltz”.||||In the evening, the streets near the hotel become a night market (see photo), with hundreds of stalls selling all sorts of things. From the bus stop just outside the hotel, one can take bus Y7 to the Lingying Temple, a main attraction of Hangzhou. In addition, there are many buses plying along the Pinghai Road, including some that go to the famous West Lake, the main attraction of Hangzhou. Check with the hotel service desk for derails. The West Lake is worthy of...