Close to Chongwenmen tube stop. Large, rambling and shabby but with a decent Peking Duck restaurant and extremely central and cheap.

By Chongwenmen tube

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Four-star, central, very clean, business rooms (£40) have free internet access. Restaurant does weird western food if you can't face Chinese for the 17th night in a row. I had fish fingers and chips with a blob of jam and my partner had mushrooms on toast with a little pool of lemon curd. Gorgeous.

No.55, Section 2, Ren Min Nan Ave, Chengdu, Sichuan 610016.

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Meat in China can be revolting - take a slip of paper with "I don't eat meat or fish" written on it if you are at all squeamish. They don't eat "meat" they eat "animal" and don't distinguish between lean meat or other body parts such as intestines, rectums, stomach, heads, eyes etc are all considered meat. Many vegetables dishes also contain meat but if you say you don't eat meat they go to the trouble of keeping it out.

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Gorgeous hotel in the DDA (Dalian Development Area), 20km north of Dalian airport, 40km north of Dalian city, best we stayed in out of ten cities in China.

www.kerrenhotel.com

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In Dalian, by the sea, the terrible sight of two polar bears in a tiny, tiny tank, obviously going insane with desperation. It's on a par with the handicapped baby beggars for misery. Chinese people thought it highly entertaining, mistaking the repetitive movements for some kind of dance. Really horrible.

Dalian

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Nice and cheap, clean and comfortable double ensuites, close to several restaurants and the park and opposite the river.

1 Jiefangdong Road, Guangxi
End of Guilin town, close to river

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Very close to Chongwenmen tube stop, easy walk to Tianenmen square and Forbidden City, clean and comfortable and about £30 a double ensuite in high season. Nice staff, speak English.

Close to Chongwenmen tube stop, www.asiarooms.com

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Hotel in central Beijing, opposite tube station, couple of stops from Tiannenmen Square, 500m metres from main Railway station, clean and cheap at £31 per night per double room.

No. A2, Chong Wen Men Wai Street, Beijing, China;
tel: 86-10-67112244;
www.hotelclub.net/hotel.reservations/Hademen_Hotel_Beijing.htm;
www.asiarooms.com

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