299 Yanjiang Middle Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
From Shenzhen, let's move to Guangzhou. Situated somewhere along Zhujiang (lit. Pearl River), Bailing Hotel (4*) is the first out of the two hotels where my BFF and I spent a night. I shall say right from the start that we had a bad experience there. For someone who's usually non-confrontational, I lost my patience and had to raise my voice.
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CHN: Bailing Hotel <YOU ARE HERE!>
The hotel is a 10-minute walk from Haizhu Square metro station.
The front desk is somewhat ostentatious, but the lobby area isn't particularly impressive.
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| Is anyone able to identify the exact species depicted in the artwork? |
The hotel makes it explicit that you shouldn't jump inside the elevator.
We stayed inside one of the guest rooms on the 10th floor.
To our surprise and disbelief, we saw that the room was in a mess from the previous guests. Going back to the front desk, we were told that they wouldn't be able to give us another room, so we had to wait for it to be cleaned. Truly unhappy with the response as we'd wanted to rest a little bit, we decided to walk around and come back later.
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| You can probably guess that the room is rather squeezy. |
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| Formerly titled China Reconstructs, China Today is a monthly magazine established in 1952. |
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| There was only a packet of dried tea leaves when we came in. |
Have a look at the bathroom.
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| You shall be in the spotlight when doing your business. |
Let's open the curtain and enjoy the view through, sadly, the lens of my non-powerful camera.
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| A small gravesite, I suppose? |
One should never skip breakfast, right?
The spread of the breakfast buffet wasn't too shabby. Head over to my
food blog for more details.
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| Look at those glistening buns! |
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| Care for some dumpling soup? |
When checking out, the hotel staff asked us to pay for some chargeable packets of dried tea leaves. There were supposed to be more than just one packet inside the room apparently, which I thought would've probably been consumed by the previous guests and they failed to take note of that. I didn't give in at all. Seriously, it was a matter of principle and not about the money. After arguing for 15 minutes or so, the hotel decided to call it quits without apologising at all. That was certainly the first and the last time for me to step into the hotel.
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