Burqin Hotels

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Reviews: 427

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Bonfire Yurts

If you stay at the bonfire area near the final terminus of the shuttle buses, the prices are comparable to or a little higher than staying at the Tuva "village". There're basic rooms in wooden houses with 4 beds in them but no toilet, and also concrete mock yurts with the same number of beds and ensuite toilets. The former costs about 50 RMB/person and the latter about 70 RMB/person. On hindsight I think this might've been a better deal.

You also get "free" admission to the evening bonfire, worth 60 RMB/person.

Opinion of Price: less expensive than average
Related to: Budget Travel, National/State Park, Backpacking
Written September 3, 2007

Beds in the yurt

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Reviews: 427

Lakeside Cottages

It would be nice to stay in the lakeside cottages to me. However I didn't even consider those as we were on a tight budget.

Perhaps in one of the best locations in the entire park.

Opinion of Price: more expensive than average
Related to: National/State Park, Backpacking, Romantic Travel and Honeymoons
Written September 3, 2007

Feels like Switzerland, doesn't it?

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Reviews: 427

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Tuva Homestays

Most of the homestays are Tuva but some are Kazakh, not sure if there're other minority groups as well. We stayed a night with a Kazakh family in the "village" for 50 RMB/person in a triple room. I would describe these as very basic camp beds, though warm enough.
Make sure to ask carefully the price of anything you buy or eat, especially at the homestays! We were stupid enough to be hit with a bill for 40 RMB/person for a plate of very oily rice (shou3 zhua1 fan4) and a bowl of noodle soup (mian4 pian4). The price breakdown was 30 RMB and 10 RMB respectively. Managed to bargain our way down to 30 RMB/person, but it was still a horrible rip-off, serves us right for not asking the price in the 1st place. That certainly left a sour taste in my mouth, literally and figuratively.
For homestays, call Jin Hui (Chinese-speaking only) at the number given below. He runs his own guesthouse, if he doesn't have space he'll arrange for you to stay somewhere.
Book ahead if you're coming during the later half of September (busiest time for Hanas Lake) or during the holiday weeks in May and October. Expect very inflated prices during those times as well.

Toilet facilities are worse than non-existent. We were advised to walk to the 5-star hotel and use the toilet there, but we didn't see it... maybe we didn't walk far enough. Instead we walked less than 5 mins to the public toilet down the road which was extremely clean.
Also note that here're no hot showers anywhere in the park... maybe there are in the 5-star hotels. In fact no shower at all is commonplace. We endured 3 consecutive nights of having no showers because we came on overnight train and then overnight bus the previous 2 nights. :(

Opinion of Price: least expensive
Related to: Budget Travel, Backpacking, Farm Stay
Written September 3, 2007

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