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claude-andre
Reviews: 89

3 out of 5 stars User Rating

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Soil building somebody else hotel !!!!: A small hotel run by a young couple

We meet the owners' father at the Longyan bus station and we decided to stay in their hotel.
A young couple runs it and organizes tailored tours, rent motocycles and taxi with drivers. The food is simple but good.
The room we rent was large, with hot water, air-con and TV. It was probably the owners' room in low season.
We wanted to stay at Fuyu in a Tu Lou, but this place was invested by a troup of German students and other tourists. We thought we were somewhere in "Schwarzwald", not in China.

The owner of our small hotel proposed us a room in an old tu lou (outside Hongkeng touristic village). It was not renovated and the rooms were dusty and very spartiat. Toilets are outside the building beside the porks house. You may want to experience very simple life. We did not.

Cheap, clean and helping staff.

Opinion of Price: N/A
Written April 20, 2008

The Hotel

SUN_69
Reviews: 76

4 out of 5 stars User Rating

3.5 out of 5 stars Helpfulness

Homestay at Fuyulou and Zhenchenglou

There are homestays at Fuyulou and Zhenchenglou. It costs RMB30 per head per night.

The rooms are basic, just two beds and no attached bathroom. You will be provided with a plastic pail to do your business in the night. The actual toilet is built outside the building. You will have to come down from your room on the third floor, open up the huge main timber doors which have a heavy timber beam across it (as added security from intruders), and walk about twenty paces to a row of low single-storey cells that houses the toilet.

I should add that the toilet is quite clean, but very basic. The hot water shower does not have a mixer, so you have to mix the hot/cold water onto a basin to get the right temperature.

Both Fuyulou and Zhenchenglou are run by two Lin brothers individually. they are the 5th generations Lin to have inherited the tulous.

Remember to bring your own toiletries and towels.

All meals are extras but it doesn't cost every much (RMB50 for lunch and RMB6 for breakfast for two persons). The meals are served on demand. Basically Hakka home cooking - yam dumplings, fish (tiny ones), vege, and toufu (my favorite as they were fresh and fragrant. They are made everyday and to be consumed by lunch asthere isn't any preservative in it)

There isn't any restaurant around other than the tulou;s kitchen. There may be restuarant outside the village, in Hongkeng town about 1.5km away, but we didn;t venture that far.

Opinion of Price: least expensive
Written December 3, 2004

Inside the circular tulou of Zhenchenglou

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