Guangzhou

[NewGuy]

I've never been to Guangzhou before (but have traveled in other Chinese cities) and I need some help. Because some booking sites list over 1,120 hotels and don't order them by district I am totally overwhelmed.

When: I'll be in Guangzhou for six nights beginning July 1.

Budget: 200 Yuan give or take.

Area: Something like the Temple Street Market area in Hong Kong, if that is possible. Good place to end up at night. Lots of restaurants and buzz. Safe. Fairly close to Metro.

Purpose: To see the city's tourist sites, walk the streets, eat the food.

Skills: Chinese vocab is limited to half a dozen words; will double that in the next weeks.

Thanks all.

== I had posted this earlier in the South East Asia forum where it died an inappropriate forum death

[jackr]

Perhaps more takers on the ChinVisa site...

Hotel Travel (see link) is pretty good for info as well as hotel booking as it lists them by district, has them on a map, and also has a travel guide on Guangzhou.

Also Wikitravel gets overlooked a lot but is right to the point. They list them by budget and also have the district in the address: Wikitravel Guangzhou page.

[NewGuy]

Thanks jackr, I'll look them up pronto.

[craigt3365]

We loved that city when we were there a few years ago. Lots to do. Be sure to print out the Chinese description of your hotel. We booked a hotel via sinohotel.com, I do believe. Evergreen or something like that. NOT what the Chinese call it. Took us forever to find the hotel. The Marriott, for example, in China is not called the Marriott!

Have a blast!

P.S. if you want some good travel ideas/help, try Lonely Plant's Thorn Tree forum....

[NewGuy]

I ended up booking the Five Rams Hotel (28 sq m, free internet, no breakfast), Renmin Middle Road, for RMB210 all in each night using elongdotnet. It looks like an okay walk to the interesting market, alley and resto area bounded north and south by Changshou Lu and Shang Jiu Lu. There were several other and perhaps less expensive places nearby (depending on what they do with taxes and fees) but their rooms were 12-15-22 sq metres, some without internet. Anyway, time to find southern China locations where its not raining.