Liuying Hotel West Lake Hangzhou

Liuying Hotel provides one of rare direct access to West Lake. Several rooms offer lake view, which is a special treat. Hotel service is also quite good, and staff are helpful and courteous. Wifi signal is a bit weak, but manageable. Hotel offers customised chauffeur tour. However, there is a tendency to introduce guests to shopping sites. Thus unless one is keen to splash some cash, I recommend booking one's own private car. Breakfast quality is average, much of food is lukewarm. Amongst the guest houses consist of a garden, with typical Chinese landscape architecture including bridges, pagodas etc. Overall a nice hotel, with potential for improvement.

The hotel bedrooms and bathrooms were of a very high standard and all the staff were very attentive. Tea in the hotel gardens, at the lake edge, was a highlight of the trip and the sunset was magical. Being only a few minutes walk along the lake edge to a good selection of restaurants and bars made the quiet location of this hotel perfect for us. The small tour boats also stop very near to the hotel so a great place to explore other areas of West Lake.

This government run hotel is very quiet and pleasantly modern, yet stylish. The rooms are spacious, have a fridge, writing desk, a very large bathroom, windows that open. There's tea and coffee and a kettle. Beds are very comfortable. The garden is very nicely styled, right on West Lake with wonderful views. The hotel is next to a park and within a few minutes' walk of shops and restaurants. There's a coffee shop and a small restaurant. The indoor 20 m swimming pool is excellent (full service of towels, slippers, shampoo, water - all free) Breakfast is a good selection of Chinese and Western food, there's a noodle station, hot and cold food Only some of the staff (including reception) speak English and there are no brochures in English available. Still, service is very good. There's free WiFi, though not particularly fast and with firewall limitations. Though expensive for Chinese hotels, the situation makes it worth it