Luoyang Grand Hotel — Hotel in Luoyang

We stayed at the hotel overnight. This hotel was booked for us by a travel agency so we did not checked it's quality before arrival and it was a greate mistake. So, in order: ||1.Rooms: Our room was #805 8-th floor. When we entered the room my breath almost stopped - so intensive smell of tobacco smoke was in the room. We asked to change the room, but the man at the counter said that there were no more free rooms. So we had to sleep in tabacco smell atmosphere with the windows widely opened. Furniture was old and shabby, some of the doors did not close properly. We found a couple of gas masks in a wardrobe which should be used for evacuation in the case of fire, but we thought whether they were in the room for those who could not withstand it's awful smell? ||2. Bathroom: Though the bathroom was cleaned and served, it seemed dirty. The bath had stains of rust and mould. All the eqiupment was old and functioned poorly. It was hard to adjust water temperature in the shower. Water faucets poured water with such a greate noise that awakened me in the morning when my companion went washing. The hairdryer produced mostly noise, not the warm air. ||3. Sleep. Beds were rather convenient, but as I wrote allready, the room was stank and the bathrooon equipment - noisy. Besides this we heard for half the night sound of music from disco bar and karaoke bar. The music was so loud that did not enable us to sleep. And when the music stopped, some chineese people began to argue loudly in the corridor, and it seemed that they shouted just over my ear. It seem that the hotel has no sound isolation at all. ||4. Staff. Friendly, but tricky. As I asked to change the room the man at the counter smiled and suddenly stopped to understand english though a minute earlier spoke quite vividly. At last he sent a service man with me to clean the room, the guy followed me to the room and then escaped noiseless when I turned my back to him for a moment. ||5. Breakfast. It was the only normal thing...

Arriving at the Luoyang Grand Hotel one is impressed with the lobby, which is a bit dated, but has a clean feel to it and a nice little goldfish pond. The elevator doors close on the third person entering like a welcome hug and the elevator itself wobbles reassuringly on its cables as you are enveloped in the aroma of cigarette smoke. Your door opens directly onto the bathroom wall, ensuring that you enter at a safe pace. In your room you are met with the combined fragrance of decades of dust, tobacco smoke and mould, with a hint of drain water. The bed is one grade softer than marble or granite and the soothing orchestra of traffic outside will have you sleeping like an insomniac in no time. The nostalgic effect of broken windows, light switches and fittings is a feature worth the cost, as is the panoramic view of the China Tobacco factory, proud sponsor of the olfactory ambience. The restaurant has a single menu brochure and it’s absence of any other guests will, no doubt, be a relief from the hustle and bustle of downtown Luoyang. So, if you are a nicotine addict with anosmia, a penchant for sharing your shower with fungi and eating questionable food, this is the...

Ok. So first off my tour booked me here. I had trouble breaking in this city once I got off the train(also I have asthma) I put on my mask for better breathing. Hotel is nice on there inside, Clean. Hotel staff speaks very little English. We booked a non smoking floor. The air didn't seem to work& my breathing was worse. So I decided I would change hotels. I couldn't get any other hotels to book for some reason so my tour guide along with the mgr and house keeping brought me two air purifiers!! Which helped so much! In a hour I could actually breathe and didn't need to steam. Even my friend has better breathing with these. ||Unfortunately, other patrons make this hotel unappealing for me with all the smoking. Even though it was a non smoking floor there were ash trays trashcans by the elevators. A disco club downstairs and no English channels except HBO which you have to pay for. ||They do have a jewelry store, shop down stairs & A breakfast buffet. The beds are hard. ||It's not horrible if your there for the night, the city is close to many beautiful sites & I really was duper grateful to the mgr who brought me...