Qinibagh Hotel — Hotel in Kashgar City

In the first days of May in 2018 we stayed 3 nights in this hotel in twinroom 1415 with view on the city. The Qiniback Royal Hotel is a large hotel, on a very good location in Kashgar. It is located on a square, with a fountain in the middle, at a small dead end street. Around the square are some offices of enterprises and tour companies. When you leave the territory of the hotel, you only have to cross the street to enter the old city of Kashgar and walk to the mosque and the many nice little shops.||Some remarks about this hotel.||1. The rooms are large and rather luxurious, e.g. with airco (which wasn’t switched on centrally because it was not too warm in the city), a good shower and darkening curtains. We don’t know whether we had a better room than other guests on Tripadvisor who complained about dirty and old rooms, because our room looked quite o.k. Irritating was the noise of the trembling of some metal parts of the grid of the airo. Please, renew this grid before other guests keep complaining about this nuisance. ||Strange in the room is the window which offers you a view in the bathroom….||2 The entrance of the hotel is enormous with a very large lobby with good chairs. Some ladies at the reception spoke some English, which was rare in the weeks we visited Xinjiang. ||3. The hotel has good free wifi. ||4. The breakfast is almost completely Chinese style, in a very large rather sterile looking dining room. We understand that, if only a very few guests are from abroad, you can’t offer a lot of choice for a Western style breakfast. ||But, if you say as management you are the best hotel is the city because of an history of more than a century (that is what you’ll see as guest on a large flat screen when you enter), offer at least some bread, juice, yoghurt with cereals and …. good coffee.||In every hotel in the world that pretends to be a 4 or 5 star hotel is a (decent) coffee machine. Why not in Kashgar????||5. In Kashgar and surroundings is a lot to see. Of course you can look yourself for a travel agency in the city, but we had very good experiences with Ali Tash from Uygur tours. When you leave the hotel, it is easy to find: in the office building on the other side of the fountain, opposite the hotel. ||||Overall, we now mainly can recommend the Qiniback hotel because it is certainly the best place to stay in Kashgar because of its location. When the management would improve the quality as we suggest, it will be also a good place because of the facilities the hotel...

Also known as Qinibach International Hotel. I am writing to confirm the many recent reviews have written about this hotel.||This hotel has yet to improve on many areas reviewers from Australia have touched on. Examples are:| |1.) The grass windows have never been cleaned, infact the layer of dusts and diets have thicken that make it unsightly to get a city view; |2.) The stench smell that came out from the sewage system in the bathroom is still there. This means there is a highly likely chance that the bathrooms may get choked with flooded water if the sewage system is not thoroughly cleaned. |3.) I think the hotel regulate its hot water supply at a certain temperature, probably around 38°C or lower that’s why you won’t get really hot water of 45°C water in the bathroom. I am quite OK with this but am sure some visitors may not like it and prefer hotter water;|4.) Breakfast start serving at 8am, but the spread of breakfast buffet is a complete let down especially for foreigners. No COFFEE is served, and breads are not nice. The only counter that serves that Flour Noodle is nice but you need to know how to make it tasty by adding the condiments, to the foreigners, this could be achieved by chance and by luck. |5.) Breakfast tables were not suitable for dinning, it is either the table is high or the stool is too low, anyway the combination make eating rather uncomfortable, however you do have a choice which is to sit in the Chinese round table and join the strangers; |6.) No sure if it is because during out stay is in end Sept, the hotel turns off the aircond during this season changing period because during our two nights stay, there isnt any cold air from the air conditioning system except the noise from the air blower, quite frustrating indeed.|7.) Hotel has a total of 4 lifts, but during our stay only 3 are in operation, and all the lifts are very slow and stuffy as there is like no ventilation in...

This hotel highlights what might be both the best and worst of Chinese hotels. Starting with the best. The rooms are very spacious and sparkling clean;, the linen crisp and white; the beds very comfortable; the breakfast plentiful with good choice. Try the noodles with all the little accompanying condiments - they are truly delicious! Now to the worst: The lifts are almost painfully slow - there are 26 floors and 3 lifts which do not coordinate with each other and you can wait for ages to catch one. The windows in the rooms look like they have not been cleaned on the outside for well over 2-3 years. You can barely see out of them, not that a view of Kashgar is very enticing! The bathroom is quite smelly despite its obvious cleanliness - I think the drains or sewerage may be a problem. There is the strangest swimming pool rule. No matter how many people are sharing a room, only one person per room key ( and only one per room is distributed) is allowed to use the pool at a time. If another wants to join then they must pay 69 Yuan - quite a sizeable chunk when a swimming pool is advertised as part of the hotel amenities.In addition, English speaking staff are extremely rare. While I don't expect this in out of the way hotels, Kashgar is growing rapidly with more and more western tourists and so having virtually noone who understands you at the front desk is not a very good way to...