International four-star boutique hotel offering excellent service, good-value business apartments, family suites and rooms, all with high-speed internet access. Rates include buffet breakfast. Good discounts offered.
A strong smell of air-freshener hits you when you enter, but the trademark golden-honey hues are always a welcoming sight, as is the usual Shangri-La comfort and excellence (although the spoken English is surprisingly feeble).
With rather bland cream-caramel tones, the Novotel nonetheless has a kind of functional elegance and good- value post-discount rooms – blond wood with compact bathrooms – in the business end of town.
Tucked away in an alley off the bustling pedestrianised zone, this excellent-value boutique hotel has a prime location and a natty finish throughout.
This heritage building dates from 1931, with an old-world dark style interior and an ace location off the pedestrian shopping street of Jianghan Lu.
Bright and tidy rooms with fresh furnishings, plastic wood flooring, clean showers and overall newness, just north of the Guiyuan Temple in Hànyáng. Two meals included per day; further branches around town.
Acceptable rooms here are a bargain at this central Hànkǒu cheapie. There's neither English sign nor English spoken at reception, but sign language, production of passport and opening of wallet should convey the message.
