Name: Fairyland Hotel Kunming Nanping Pedestrian Street Baida
Address: 1 Dongfeng West Road, Wuhua District, Kunming, Kunming, Kunming, Kunming, 024948, China
Rating: 8

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The Fairyland Express (Baida) goes by several additional names including New Era Hotel apartments and its Chinese name. It is attached/next to the New Era Hotel but it is not part of the hotel. Several reviews here clearly have mixed up the New Era Hotel with the New Era apartments. The rooms are serviced apartments rather than hotel rooms.

Finding it:
You have a better chance of your taxi driver finding the New Era Hotel. Once you have found the New Era hotel, the Fairyland Express apartments are next door. The New Era hotel has two entrances: from a pedestrian only mall and another one diagonally behind the mall entrance on the block. If you are coming by taxi, you will most likely arrive at the second entrance, that is the street entrance. This is the entrance you want to find the Fairyland Express. Stand in front of the New Era hotel entrance facing the hotel. Turn right and follow the block around the corner for about 10 meters. You will be standing in front of the entrance of the New Era Hotel apartments aka. Fairyland Express. The front desk is set deep in the lobby near the lifts to the right. It doesn't look like much of a hotel.

The good:
Big rooms with a view out on to the street. Big bathrooms with reasonable water pressure and hot water. Clean and basic toiletries provided. Our room had two main bedrooms with queen beds conjoined at the bathroom with minimal privacy for users of the bathroom. Very swinging.

Cheap. Much cheaper than the hotel right next door. Bang smack in the center of Kunming with plenty of food, bars, malls, night markets and Starbucks within easy walking distance of the hotel.

The staff are friendly and efficient but you will need some Mandarin to make requests and get information. There is 100 yuan deposit at check in. You can use international credit cards here but the staff might accidentally try to process your card as a Chinese credit card at first. You will know this has happened when they offer you the keypad to enter your PIN. Get them to process the transaction using your signature rather than the PIN.

The bad:
No air con. The hotel claims this is because it participates in Kunming's Green City initiatives. Based on the other reviewers here, this is clearly croc and a conveniently made up excuse for an air con system that has long stopped working. Ironically, you need to run the hot water for about 5 minutes to come through, thereby, in terms of environmental impact, offsetting carbon output minimization saved through the no air con policy with pure water wastage. Swings and roundabouts...

The ugly:
It's noisy at night, even up 17 floors. The noise comes from the street mall below. Music and signing and general revelry mixed in with a bit of traffic. I doubt the New Era Hotel next door is much better for noise pollution levels so this is what you get for a central city stay.

There is strange petroleum product smell permeating the lift well. I think it is the lube they have used on the lift cables. Don't be put off: the smell doesn't reach the rooms.

Overall:
For a couple of nights stay in the center of town, this perfectly adequate clean accommodation. You won't get any of the services you get with a proper hotel but neither will you pay for it either. I would happily stay here again if I came to Kunming for the central location and save my RMB even more happily for other things.

In a nutshell: cheap and comfortable no frills accommodation in the center of Kunming

The room is just average, not spacious enough. 
The bathroom was divided into wet and dry area but sharing a sliding door. The water from the wet area often overflowed to the dry area next to it. The water can't be drained out from the dry area making the floor wet all the time. It's definitely failing by design!
Location was strategic, the pedestrian shopping street is just right behind the hotel. However, the front desk area was shared by another hotel and could cause confusion when you first stepped in the hotel.
The main entrance does not have spacious parking space for dropping off visitors from the tourist bus. Not recommended for big group or families.

Good for its location, the rest are just average

This hotel should be sharing the same building with another prominent hotel right next door, so it is confusing about the entrance (especially the day we arrived they were renovating the lobby, which looks anything but a hotel lobby. There are 2 elevators only (and they only direct us to one) which make people spend quite sometime waiting for a lift.

The room I stayed was reasonably clean, though you can definitely see its age. They have a really weird design of an "open" washing basin and a sliding door for toilet and shower room. It seems using glass door/glass walls is a very "standard" thing in china business hotels.. (4 out of 6 of the hotels i've stayed for business). Didn't locate a fridge. There is a warmer. Bed sheets are clean enough.  

Though my colleague mentioned he saw quite a few insects in his room.

If I am not wrong there's no facilities apart from the breakfast dining hall.

1 min walk to the shopping area. Its opposite to a big shopping mall which its broadcast lasts until 10pm, so avoid room facing that side (if you can request..that is)

In short, average hotel, location should be is best selling point. Good for one or two night stays but don't expect anything even slightly luxurious.

Basic, no frills, central location

Inside the pedestrian area of central Kunming. Rooms were supposed to be serviced appartements, not bad on paper. Staff speaks no english at all, apart from the day duty manager who understands the words "credit card" and "deposit". Having said that, they're ok-friendly, just not used to LaoWai people. Biggest drawback was aircon, only blowing hot air, whatever happens (days were burning hot during my stay, nights were cool).
Downstairs of the place there are some good chinese muslim joints. Try anything with lamb

Fairly worn out place. Location not bad though

I can't believe this place can receive all those rave reviews, which I'd based to book my stay at the end of March! The only redemption of this place is its location and the friendly cleaning lady we had on our floor.
The lobby is a small messy room with no waiting area. Not even the hotel name was displayed anywhere, I had to ask the front desk to be certain I was at the right place. Construction materials were piled all over the place. The hallways smelled of chemicals and paints. There was only one working elevator for the entire hotel. Understandably, it was always crowded, stopped by many floors on each round, and took forever for us to get to our room or to exit the hotel.
When I checked in, the staff asked for an extra 300rmb as deposit. I booked for two days, both days' room charges and deposit were to pay up front, without a receipt. Next to me were a middle age couple, renting a room by the hour. Later in my room, I found a card advertized 80rmb/4hrs rate (see attached picture). Returning to our room in the evening, a young fashionable lady got off the elevator at the same floor. From the way she searched in the hallway, it was obvious she did not stay in the hotel but was merely there to look for someone. It was easy to guess her profession!
On the second day of my stay, my card key didn't work when I returned to my room in the early afternoon. A cleaning lady told me the hotel changes all key codes every noon. After spending 10 min to get down to the lobby, I was told my card was demagnetized due to my own fault. In fact, I placed the door card in my back pant pocket all the time, nowhere near any cell phone or devices that may cause demagnetization. When I was getting ready to return to my room after my card was updated, I observed a smirking smile on the face of an idled staff to the one who dealt with me, as if to say "Good lie!" 
The room we stayed had no fridge, bottled water, facial tissues, alarm clock or radio (basic amenities I would expect for the 300rmb/night I paid). The bathroom and toilet was a transparent unit partitioned by a haphazard wall. The toilet floor got wet when someone took a shower. The most amazing thing was a single piece of glass served as both shower and toilet door, therefore only either one can be closed (see attached picture).
The promised free WiFi never worked in our room. Fortunately I had paid and brought my own device to get online. 
If you really like the location, please consider paying a little more to stay at the New Era Hotel just next door. It looked much more presentable although I did not check out their rooms.

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