Name: Ürümqi Bulake Hotel
Address: No. 667 Yan'an Road, Urumqi, Urumqi, Urumqi, 830000, China
Rating: 6

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Urumqi, or Wulumuqi, is a rather large city, not densely populated like Beijing or Shanghai, but the area is quite vast.  Hence, when you check out the location of the hotel by Map, it can be tad deceiving.

Location: Quite a distance from the City Center, far down a street called Yang'an Lu (Yang An Road), served by a few city buses.  Hence, it isn't in a convenient location, and if you're unfamiliar with the routes, the public buses is just marginally useful.

Hotel : I'd not classify this as a Business or Family hotel, it's an OK Motel at budget Business hotel price range.  Tad a but expensive for its location and quality.  The staff speak very little English so communications isn't their strong suit (with International guests), I speak some broken Mandarin, which was on the same page as the staff, as they speak barely passable Mandarin as well, they're native Uyghur language speakers.  The entrance of the Hotel isn't like other hotels, as it's just like the ground floor for other shops, no sign board that says it's Bulake Hotel, and asking them didn't help as well, as it took well over 5 minutes of gesturing, broken English and broken Mandarin to determine that we're in the right place.  Check in was tad a bit slow, but that's OK, they have procedures to follow when checking in Foreign guests.  Here's the thing, in Urumqi, or certain parts of China, not every hotel's allowed to take in Foreign guests, that's why we end up paying around CNY170 for this below average hotel.  There're plenty of better hotels in the City Center that's a lot cheaper, but for Mainland Chinese only.  The process of checking in a foreign guest is quite long, as they have to record down yur passport details, clarify which is your Surname or Family name, record the Visa details, entry date, your next destination, etc.  Hence check in takes a bit longer.

Room and Sleep quality: Average, workable toilet with bowl, instead of Squat toilet, with showers and hot water.  BED WAS HARD.  For the uninitiated, for many places in Xinjiang, Urumqi and other cities in Xinjiang, a BED sometimes means a hard wood board, covered with a 2 inch mattress cover, hence it's basically like sleeping on the floor, but with a ply of hard wood board.  So, comfortable it isn't, in fact, since I wasn't used to it, at certain angles, like my hip bone, it's actually painful.

Non-Smoking room: Doesn't exist.  I make it a point to request for a non-smoking room, but guess it doesn't exist.  Every room, to my knowledge, is a smoking room that comes with an ashtray and a stale smell of cigarette etched into the comforter, walls and carpets, so don't bother, before you know it, you'd smell like stale cigarette smoke and you won't even notice it.

Breakfast: the reception will issue a voucher, where you'd get to the 2nd floor, walk until the end, go down a tiny staircase, into the back of a restaurant in another shoplot, for some simple buffet of some flavored rice, mixed fried or pickled vege, fruits and lots of local bread (Naan like baked flat breads) and PLENTY of boiled eggs which the locals ate like 5 at a go.  Simple and nice, not fantastic, but respectable and comforting.

Security:  ALL hotels in Xinjiang (including Hostels) have some form of security.  So, there's this kinda Chinese, kinda Caucasian, kinda Dylan McDermott looking, lanky guy who mans the metal detector, friendly, spoke some mandarin (I kid you not, with a caucasian accent). So, security is fine.  However, the hotel is a kinda fire trap, with many things stored in the corridors and near staircases, so, take note.

Overall, would I return?  I stayed 2 nights (1st night, late arrival in Urumqi, followed by 1 more night, before I took off to another city) and I had a need to return and spend 3 nights in Urumqi.  I didn't return to this hotel.  Decided that if I can find a better place, I'd not return and Didn't.  However, it's good enough for a stopover before flying off to other cities.

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