Lijiang Gui Yuan Tian Ju Guesthouse

153 reviews

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  Chuah

  MY · family with young children · Jul 2025

  7/10

  Good

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  Afiqah

  MY · young couple · Jun 2025

  10/10

  Exceptional

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  Devi

  AU · family with young children · Apr 2025

  9/10

  Great location, good for short term stays.

  I want to highlight that the owner's kindness and assistance is the real highlight of our trip. The place itself is a very authentic old Chinese house in an amazing location. The accommodation is tucked away in a quiet area, with quick access to main areas of ancient town. On our second day there was unexpected work at the neighbouring property. It was very loud. The owner upgraded our room to be away from the noise. This happened without us asking. He was very considerate and kind, provided us with advice on how to access the sites we would like to visit. There was washing machine and dryer, which is great for us as a family of five. I was able to keep up with my laundry. Location 10/10 Service 10/10 However, note that the property is outdated and needs a deep clean and renovation. It is an old house. The bedding, sink, toilet and towels were very clean. However the bathrooms were outdated and needed deep clean.

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  Ellyne

  ID · young couple · Jan 2025

  8/10

  The hotel room and staff is nice, but we have unpleasant experience due to the double booking.

  We arrived in the evening after an 11-hour journey from Guilin by train to Guilin-Lijiang. We have a nice room but we have to go to this second-floor room by the old traditional wooden stairs which I was worried my husband couldn't manage it since he is old. To my surprise the room was comfortable, clean and maintained very well, The decoration is an Ancient Chinese room with beams etc. The warm water in the bathroom and wash basin run excellent. It was winter and this is very nice with a modern shower inside this Ancient look. The location inside Goucheng Ancient town but rather far to reach the main road, about 10 minutes walk to this Ancient town since there is the car cannot come to this Ancient town, the transport using a small vehicle as a trolley to carry the suitcases while we walked following this carriage. The hotel room is inside a courtyard of a Chinese-style house with a garden. Some rooms are upstairs with separate wooden stairs.

  I do not like the wooden staircase which is small, old and only one person can climb. At night is terrible for us it does look stable We arrived in the evening after 11 hour's journey by train, we also had to find a taxi with a language barrier at the station as to how to find the taxi stand, Thw taxi dropped us in front of InterContinental as we were directed to be pick up. To our surprise, we were picked up by the hotel staff He brought a traditional vehicle for our suitcases. We had to walk for 10 minutes in these dark alleys inside the Ancient town. The worst was we were informed that we had booked 2 double rooms instead of one double room for the same date by booking com. This argument made the night more miserable since we were tired after this long journey. I could not confront booking.com, our internet with Google could not be reached in this country, confirming our booking with Booking.com. The staff was very nice, to inform their management, as they had a long conversation with the management on the phone Then they decided to have the other room with no-show guests and let us have only one room, Fortunately, my daughter in Shanghai confirmed with them. Booking.com had cancelled the other room with a statement my card was invalid. That was a terrible statement for me.

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  Ng

  SG · young couple · Dec 2024

  10/10

  Would stay again

  The owner were very friendly and introduced good food places and places of interests before we even asked. The place was in the centre of Lijiang Old Town and was thus very accessible everywhere. They even picked us up and brought us to the guesthouse.