Yema International Business Hotel

I stayed here and I can really recommend it. Behind the museum is a park where you can see yurts, an awesome horse images museum (great for kids, the oil paintings are like national geographic photos) and horses. At the yurts there was a local with a stone eagle. There are also some iron meteors and some huge silified trees. The hotel is a bit like a museum, with plastic models of chinese militaria (tanks, planes, ...) silk road items, a tea room with some pretty cool stuff, and your usual jewellery shops. The staff is kind, but only one (!) speaks a little (!) english. Really room for improvement there. Now to come to the item that could have really turned my hotel stay into an expensive one, when you check in - you have to pay a 800 rmb deposit. Guard this paper well, you only get your money back, when you hand this paper over. I 'lost it' in my room carelessly leaving it on the table. It was 'gone' when I returned and the room had been tidied. So I spent 20 min sweating at the reception when they told me I had to give it to them. They send a member of staff to the room to check for it and he found it and all was fine. So some people are friendly everywhere. For these all items six stars. Now for the three caveats I found (minus one). The rooms are not very sound proof. This may be a problem when people have sex ( the hotel provides free condoms as part of the amenities, potentially correlated to a girl calling single travellers about 2 min after they enter the room to offer massage services ... What skill of forecasting ... Or a staff member having sent a wechat message !), or when some idiots talk in the hall at 2am, and your Chinese isn't good enough to tell them to bugger off. The shower doesn't get really hot, luke warm would be pushing it as a description. The aircon cannot be fully switched of, temperature control yes, but not the principle function of ventilation. If you are sound sensitive, maybe ask them if this can be further mitigated, as it keeps buzzing through the night. …