Pod Inn Hangzhou Westlake

I would recommend this hotel if you plan to explore West Lake due to its good location. There are some bus station nearby to bring you to all directions. Taxi drivers are familiar with this place as well. This place is also near Hangzhou Botanical Garden so it will give you nature feel. You will wake up each morning by the sound of the bird chirps. The only problem is the hotel staffs don't speak English at all. So make sure you prepare yourself with some basic Mandarin for hotel stay.

The room is SO DAMN SMALL, but COMFY. Really like the blanket and pillow. I got the bunk beds and non-smoking room. The staff was really really NICE. They can speak a little bit English and that was very helpful. However, this place is isolated, whenever I wanna use Uber they find it hard to reach this hotel.

Easy and not far to walk to West Lake although at the quieter side of the lake. We had bunk beds, we swapped rooms because our window didn't lock only to later find someone else walk in our room as they had also been checked in there. When this was resolved room was fine. There isn't much room and the shower isn't amazing but fine for a night or 2. Bit frustrating as not many of the staff spoke much English and they didn't have a map in English. Calling cards were left along the corridor but didn't see anyone laying them down. They had washing facilities but not drying so we ended up trying to hang up many of our clothes in the room. Computers in the room but they are Chinese so hard to use.