“Adequate Hotel in Great Location”
The main reason to visit Hangzhou is to see West Lake, and this hotel is two blocks away. We walked all the way around, twelve miles, but there are pedicabs galore to take you partway around. The fountains are close to the hotel, and they are amazing in their choreographed patterns, be sure to see them.
The hotel has an American name, Ramada, but it's a Chinese hotel, hard beds and all. We booked through Expedia at a rate that did not include breakfast, and the cost to add it was 90¥ (about $15), so we walked 2 blocks to McDonalds and had breakfast for 2, with coffee, for under 30¥.
The hotel has western and Chinese restaurants. The western one was quite expensive, so we ate both nights of our stay in the Chinese one. The menu was in English a well as Chinese. We were able to select a healthy assortment of dishes for two for $11 one night, $15 the other. The quality was equivalent to a mid-level restaurant in town, but you could hear live music from the lobby below, a Chinese zither, later a grand piano.
The hotel was unwilling to let us use our Ramada Guest Rewards number for points since we booked through Expedia. The room offered us opened to an enclosed atrium. Since the a/c was turned off for the season and the room was already 23 or 24 C (75 F) we had to change to a room that faced the street and had a window that we could open. The room was clean but the shower had not seen bleach in ages, and could have used some. The bed was typical Chinese, quite firm.