Don't come here, but if you have to, never book the cheapest room.
We paid around 50 yuan for the cheapest room with a shared bathroom, we are on a budget trip and we do not expect much and we really survived a lot, but we were not prepared for this one.
The room ok, the bedsheets were clean, there was a kettle, absolutely nice for the price we paid. Especially when it is located practically on the trail to mount Huashan.
That's all about good stuff.
We booked a non-smoking room, but of course there was an ashtray on the table. The room itself was not stinky, but the corridor smelled very bad. But it's China, probably you have to just get used to it.
From the very beginning the owner was laughing at us that we booked the cheapest room and he wanted us to pay more for an upgrade. When we said no, he kept trying to convince us several times and saying that if we don't do it, they will not earn any money on this. We were still refusing and finally he said 'okey, let me show you the bathroom maybe then you will change your mind'.
IT WAS A DISASTER AND YOU CANNOT EVEN CALL IT A BATHROOM.
On a terrace there was a little open-air hut made out of bricks. Inside there was a toilet- just a hole in the ground, well, no, it was not even a hole, it was an open ditch without water plugged into it, when you wanted to flush you had to go out the toilet, fill up the bucket, come back and flush. Even though, we could survive it, we understand the toilet situation in villages. But we didn't know that the worst was coming.
We couldn't find the shower. The owner smiled, gave us a metal bowl, showed us the sink with cold water only and said that 'your toilet is also a shower, so if we don't like it, you have to pay for the upgrade.'
**** no! Maybe that was his way to catfish tourists, scare them with the conditions and earn more money. Just to not make him win, we didn't agree to the upgrade and finally he let it go. And when I decided to take a 'shower' we were boiling water in a kettle so as not to freeze, cause it was like 4 degrees in the night. And I took the shower above the open ditch, admiring all the POOPS LAYING THERE AFTER THE PREVIOUS GUESTS, cause nobody cleaned it and I felt like vomiting because of the smell.
And then my partner went there to take a 'shower', but there was no more water in the pipes, so we had to go with the bottles across the street to take the water from the neighbours. I believe that no water was not their fault, there was some construction going on nearby, but it was just too much.
We felt scammed. Maybe the place and owners are good, but only for people who pay more.
