Independent Yongding hotels in Zhangjiajie, China

Airport is only 2 kms from airport, taxi will try to rip you off. We bartered and got it for 30 yuan. The town is fairly small and right at the base of the mountain. Please visit the mountain and night play. Sensational....... One of Chinas BEST attractions. We walked from motel to cable car. You can see it from motel window. Wait at cablecar counter a local will sell you mountain tickets,insurance,night show for 410 yuan.per person. Hint....get there before 11a.m as afternoon crowds are hectic.Cablecar is out of this world. Night show is world class, taxi driver ill take you there and back for 50 yuan. Mountain cablecar ride is safe but not for faint hearted. At mountain top another chairlift to temple. Chairlift cost 40 yuan return, well worth it the temple has 5 temples. stunning...Take the cablecar back down halfway and a free bus will take you to heavens gate. Bus ride is breathtaking. Heavens gate to me was better than the great wall......Chinas hidden secret. Walking access is quite easy. We had pram and still ok. Left pram at mountain top office. Motel is excellent. Breakfast good......The highlight is the hotels evening food street. Eat like a king for very cheap, Free wifi in lobby lounge. Rooms are huge. Also has small milkbar seven eleven in lobby.The hotel has embodied what a tourist hotel should be. We will go back again and spend much longer. Loved it.

Really not a great stay! I would suggest another place!

Forget the international in the title, this is a chinese hotel. The staff did not speak any english and were bordering on rude. The room was clean, however the bed was broken, the bath leaked water, the mini bar didnt exist, and the foreign tv sattelite tv channels didnt exist either. The western restaurant only served chinese dishes, and when we checked out we were charged for a second hand map that we had kept. Overall this hotel was a major dissaoppointment and one that I would not reccommend to foreign visitors to Zhanjiajie.