Queli Hotel — Hotel in Jining

This hotel is in the perfect location for all the sites within Qufu's walled city and everything is a short stroll away. When you arrive, you can be forgiven for thinking you've come to a very impressive museum rather than a hotel. The lobby and public areas are post modern, very spacious, beautifully designed and have artwork and objet of museum standard. As you check in with the super friendly, very smartly uniformed staff for this 4* property, you'll doubtless be wondering why on Earth the rates are so low.||||Well... the answer comes when you reach your room. Having been shown through the endless, rather dark corridors by a hostess, the rooms themselves are in much need of a facelift. Clearly the bathrooms have recently been renovated and there is a new toilet and sink, plus although the bath tub is a bit dated (and very mildewed around the edges) the shower unit is completely new with good water pressure and good hot water.||||The carpet in the bedroom is in desperate shape. Stained and dirty to the point where you can't tell what's pattern and what's stain. The furniture is really old and in bad repair. The air con does little to cool the room and no matter what I set it at, the temp never fell below 26 degrees. There is a complicated set box and TV system to navigate, so I gave up and wifi is hopeless. It goes on and off all the time and every time it goes off, you have to log in again. It's too annoying to bother with.||||There's a kettle, cups and saucers, but no tea of coffee. Water is provided and two apples were shrink wrapped for my arrival.||||The bed was awful. Really hard, with mattress springs almost poking through and digging in to me throughout the night. The bedding is clean, but like the towels, it's really worn and old. There were many tears. The lighting in the room is really dim. Maybe that's to stop you getting too close a look.||||One huge problem is that there are many ornamental ponds surrounding the property. Luxury hotels for mosquitoes. The staff kindly prop many of the doors open, so that when the beasts are ready to fly the pond nursery, they are invited straight inside. The bedroom walls of my room were covered with smushed carcasses of dead mozzies. I got bitten repeatedly during the night. You'd think in a country where mozzies are already epidemic, they'd not be so daft as to create the perfect breeding conditions and then invite them inside to feast on the guests.||||Breakfast ends at 9am and woe betide any later comers. The tablecloths start being whipped away on the dot of 9, whether you've finished or not. It's all very Chinese, but there is fruit, toast, breads, cakes if fish soup doesn't appeal. Reasonable coffee too.||||However, despite all the negatives, I liked this property. The location, the staff and the public spaces helped outweigh the very rough round the edges rooms. For the price,...

This hotel is in the perfect location for all the sites within Qufu's walled city and everything is a short stroll away. When you arrive, you can be forgiven for thinking you've come to a very impressive museum rather than a hotel. The lobby and public areas are post modern, very spacious, beautifully designed and have artwork and objet of museum standard. As you check in with the super friendly, very smartly uniformed staff for this 4* property, you'll doubtless be wondering why on Earth the rates are so low.||||Well... the answer comes when you reach your room. Having been shown through the endless, rather dark corridors by a hostess, the rooms themselves are in much need of a facelift. Clearly the bathrooms have recently been renovated and there is a new toilet and sink, plus although the bath tub is a bit dated (and very mildewed around the edges) the shower unit is completely new with good water pressure and good hot water.||||The carpet in the bedroom is in desperate shape. Stained and dirty to the point where you can't tell what's pattern and what's stain. The furniture is really old and in bad repair. The air con does little to cool the room and no matter what I set it at, the temp never fell below 26 degrees. There is a complicated set box and TV system to navigate, so I gave up and wifi is hopeless. It goes on and off all the time and every time it goes off, you have to log in again. It's too annoying to bother with.||||There's a kettle, cups and saucers, but no tea of coffee. Water is provided and two apples were shrink wrapped for my arrival.||||The bed was awful. Really hard, with mattress springs almost poking through and digging in to me throughout the night. The bedding is clean, but like the towels, it's really worn and old. There were many tears. The lighting in the room is really dim. Maybe that's to stop you getting too close a look.||||One huge problem is that there are many ornamental ponds surrounding the property. Luxury hotels for mosquitoes. The staff kindly prop many of the doors open, so that when the beasts are ready to fly the pond nursery, they are invited straight inside. The bedroom walls of my room were covered with smushed carcasses of dead mozzies. I got bitten repeatedly during the night. You'd think in a country where mozzies are already epidemic, they'd not be so daft as to create the perfect breeding conditions and then invite them inside to feast on the guests.||||Breakfast ends at 9am and woe betide any later comers. The tablecloths start being whipped away on the dot of 9, whether you've finished or not. It's all very Chinese, but there is fruit, toast, breads, cakes if fish soup doesn't appeal. Reasonable coffee too.||||However, despite all the negatives, I liked this property. The location, the staff and the public spaces helped outweigh the very rough round the edges rooms. For the price,...

We arrived at Qu’fu, the birthplace of Confucius, on fast train. This is a school trip, EOTC (education outside the classroom). After we got of the train we went to the Confucius cemetery, then our hotel. The hotel is right beside the Confucius temple. We checked in at about 5 o’clock in the evening, and prepared for dinner after a rest in the rooms. We spent the next two nights in that hotel. The moment we walked in our room, we smelt something. It smelt like a newly renovated house although the hotel was quite old. The room looked pretty good, as a whole. The carpet looked a bit old, but it felt fine when in stood on it. I went for the bathroom, and I realized that there’s no toilet paper. After going to the bathroom, my roommate and I both sat on the bed and played video games together. The bed felt comfortable, not too soft, not too hard. Later that night, after lights out, we went to brush our teeth. The hotel did not provide us anything, not even cups, so we used our water bottles. We played card games until we were both tired, and we went to sleep. My roommate and I both like to leave the bathroom light or something on so that when we wake up to go to the bathroom it we can see where we are going. The problem is, the lights in the room, are either all lit up, or all switched off. The pillows were a bit too low, and made our necks hurt a little. Later that night, I was woken up by two men talking outside, they were talking at a normal volume, so it’s not their fault, the hotel room is totally not soundproof, the walls are like half hollow. The some windows can not be opened, some can not be closed. The room wasn’t all bad, the walls were decorated nicely with a Chinese traditional drawing of Confucius. There was a desk and a lamp to do homework. The cupboard beside our beds are very useful, that’s basically the place we put all our daily things. The breakfast was not bad, but there was only Chinese food, like fried dough sticks, and Shandong...