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Dragon Retreat Yangshuo
I arrived in Yangshuo by local bus from Guilin, on the Monday of my second weeks holiday in China. I was dropped off in a main High Street and decided to hail a cab to take me to the Yangshuo Mountain retreat hotel which I had booked, and being 10 minutes out of town. Having just flown in from Shenzhen where there were millions of taxis, I found myself stranded with not a taxi in sight. A friendly man asked where I was going and he said "no taxis" but he could help. Here we go I thought, I an see a rip off coming. Well to be fair, his mate came along on his motorbike and offered to take me to the hotel for 40 RMB. Considering I had just paid half that to get from Guilin I wasn't too pleased, but hey, I had no option but to accept. On arrrival I knew I had no reservation (as I had arrived a day early) but luckily for me the newly opened Dragon next door was available, so for 220 RMB I was given a fantastic room with a view and the hotel was only 2 weeks old. Only 2 others were staying there. I didn't eat there but the staff were friendly and they had a good choice of breakfasts.
Clean, beautifully set and finished, this has to be a good alternative to the Mountain retreat next door, which was very busy. Great happy staff (they out-numbered the guests !!), good breakfast, lovely decorated nad large rooms; all new building, beautiful setting overlooking the fields and river in the distance; quiet, and serene.
As it is away from the town the choice is to mountain bike in at nights (although coming back on the un made road at night would be a bit dodgy) or they would provide a taxi service for their guests at 30RMB a time.
Do try this lovely place. It was the best i stayed in all holiday and compared to the Chungking Mansions (see my China main page) this was paradise
