Yangshuo Dongling Resort

Staff are nice and Friendly. Although the website said no breakfast, we had a delicious breakfast with no charge. The Hotel does offer lunch and evening meal for reasonable price. The rooms are quite nice, fairly standard for China. Be prepared for some mosquitoes, I managed to kill 5 mosquitoes before bed and so managed not to get bitten in the night. A taxi in to town using the Didi app cost us just 13 RMB. The taxi journey takes about ten minutes in to town depending on the traffic. Wifi was decent enough, managed to connect to my VPN even during the difficult national day holiday period.For those looking for a bit of hiking, I spent a great deal of time looking around the immediate vicinity of the hotel: the hotel is perched right on the summit of the hill, there is one track down to yangshuo town which is pretty unspectacular, from the town there are must be plenty of walks. However I also found one abandoned track that goes down the other side of the hill, the views were spectacular. The hotel does offer rental of mopeds for 130 RMB a day.

The scenery is worth the stay. It is 3 miles outside of town (5km, I think), but the hotel staff is willing to call a taxi for you if you want to go into town (30 yuan). You can actually walk to town if you are up to the hike. The hotel is in a fairly quiet area, although there are two other hotels close by so you might get some noise from the other properties. The first night we stayed, a celebration was going on until 11, the owner said it was from another property. The rules of the property say that the guests should be quiet from 11 p.m until 8 a.m. Personally, I think 9:30 or 10 p.m would be better, and even if you are in your room, you should remember there might be people next door who want to go to sleep earlier and not shout to each other. The property is surrounded by mountains. Unfortunately, the windows had too much moisture on them to see the sunrise, but I caught a gorgeous sunset my last night there. The hotel is up a long dirt road and the walkways are stones, which can become slippery especially when it rains. My friend and I hiked back from town one evening and I was surprised we were not covered with mosquitoes. If you can, stay in room B08, the view is amazing. As for the breakfast, they have a small Chinese buffet for 20 yuan a person, but I did not like it. Nothing was hot and I got there shortly after the food was put out. I did not have any other meals there, I often waited to go into town or eat elsewhere. The manager and staff speak decent English and are very helpful. I would recommend staying here and would likely stay again. Oh, if you do not have large or heavy luggage, you can catch the bus to Guilin at the bottom of the hill, on the same side of the road as the hotel. You can also catch the bus to other local towns too, across the street at the gas station.

The resort offers quite clean rooms furnished in Chinese style and an amazing view. The staff is very kind and helpful and I loved the home made food. Fresh ingredients and fresh chickens ... their chickens! Nice coffee. We loved the food so much we decided not to eat anywhere else. To go to the city you can take a taxi if you don't like to walk a bit the staff will help you. You can rent bicycles as well. We wanted a quite place with a good view and we got it. The bed is comfortable and the room is just perfect to relax. The price is cheap for the service and the room size, not mentioning the view If you want to save on the room and don't want to use a mountain front you can still enjoy the view from the terrace which is a common area with seats Definitely recommend this place