Pingyao Hotels - Comments and Reviews

Day 2

We get to the beautiful old town of Pingyao around 11am after unsuccessfully trying to hitch 30km from the service station and taking a local bus instead.

There's this great hostel inside the old town called Yamen hostel - it's in the LP. I stayed here last time with Ilka although it's much warmer and less touristy than the...

Vanmorgen zijn we om half 4 opgestaan. Om half 5 vertrokken we richting de luchthaven voor onze vlucht van Beijing naar Taiyuan (je spreekt dit uit als Taiwan, erg verwarrend!) Een uurtje vliegen, maar wat een gedoe. Wij hebben niets te zoeken in Taiyuan (behalve de luchthaven), het is een ernorme industriestad. Bij aankomst op de luchthaven haa...

Slight detour in travel plans due to week long National Holiday in China and the fact that everyone in the country was travelling home for the celebrations! Hence we arrive in the tiny walled "city" of Pingyao for a couple of days before departing to X'ian.

Ugh wake up tired and a bit hungover, i have an English breakfast! or at least the Chinese equivalent and head to the Bell Tower which is really small with steps designed for hobbits not 6 foot plus Englishmen. The views of the town are okay but we don't stay long we attempt to go into the Financial Museum but it's part of a tour costing 120yuan...

Jim's blossoming Mandarin skills have proved a great bonus on several occasions so far, but on our journey from Datong to Pingyao we discovered the downside of a slight proficiency when we were treated to three hours of rapid Chinese / pigeon English conversation by a very enthusiastic man in our cabin. We only opened our mouths to say hello whe...

After departing Xi'an I made a stop in the small town of Pingyao. On my train ride I befriended a few people, and perhaps the most significant being a semi-cute four years old. About 9pm this cute child decided to sleep. Usually I have no problem with children sleeping except for one problem, they wake up very very early and thus I wake up too. ...

We liked Beijing, thats probably why we stayed there for a week with no complaints. Mmmmmmmmmm... where shall we go next. We decided on Pingyao. Unsure why because it sounded a bit touristy for our liking, but you can't pass up the opportunity of looking at the last fully walled city, no cars allowed. So we booked the soft sleeper carriage on th...