Name: Xiamen Enfan Hotel
Address: 18F,Jinghua Building,No1130-5, Xiamen, Xiamen, Xiamen, 361000, China
Rating: 7

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Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport

Kinmen Airport

Quanzhou Jinjiang International Airport

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Fengyi Hotel is situated on the 18th floor of a 30-story modern Chinese block of flats, which is conveniently located in Xiamen city centre, just half-way between two BRT stops (火车站 Xiamen Railway Station and 莲坂站 Lianban Station), in the area with many Chinese bars, grocery shops and western style restaurants (McDonalds, KFC, Starbucks). The building is easy to identify If you took minimum effort to see it in the picture. It’s not true that the hotel is not marked - on the booking confirmation I found the number of the floor - it’s quite obvious that since they occupy only one of 30 floors, and there are other similar hotels on other floors, they couldn’t put a big rooftop sign “Fengyi hotel”.  Ladies at the reception hardly spoke any English but made no problems with checking us in earlier (free of charge) and checking out in the evening (paid half price). During our stay in Xiamen we stayed there for two times, for the first time we were given a room overlooking the main Xiahe Road, for the second time we got a room overlooking lateral street (Banwei Road?), the same from which you enter the building. We found the room overlooking Banwei Road slightly better - it had cleaner balcony with better view, and most importantly it received slightly less noise from the busy Xiahe Road. On the other hand the room overlooking Xiahe Road was equipped with a fridge (working!) and a desktop computer (that we didn't use). It's very important to notice that both rooms were big and clean (were cleaned every day) and both had sturdy, almost soundproof windows (so noise is an issue as long as you keep your balcony door open). The wifi was so-so, only during the first stay I managed to make a Skype phone call (but poor internet could have been caused by the Great Firewall). Beds were big, with clean white bed linen, but we found them surprisingly hard. For the price that we paid (170 CNY per room per night) it seemed a good deal!

Very good budget hotel

So, here's my problem(s) with this hotel. This tall "hotel" actually is just a few stories in a very tall building. The taxi driver dropped me off, pointed to a building and I got out. BUT, there was no sign of the hotel so I walked into the hotel next door (7 Days or similar name) and they told me it's next door. I couldn't believe it because there was no signage at all on the building next door which proved to be later the actual hotel.
Next door some helpful Chinese lady was trying to tell me something but I tried to avoid her thinking she was trying to sell me something. But in fact she was trying to tell me I need to get to level 18 which is where the reception was. Level 18 didn't make any sense because this building was taller than 18 levels so the reception is usually on the first floor. But anyway, when I made it to level 18, yes in fact that is where the reception was. It looked very dingy but it was too late to look anywhere else and I decided to stay since it was only for one night and I already made a booking so I wasn't sure if my card would be charged anyway. Looks like this place does not take credit cards but only cash.
The reception guy seemed to want to charge me more than the price on my booking form which I had with me and then he decided to leave it for the price on the booking form (booked via booking .com). It may have just been a misunderstanding after all because I gave a round sum which was 2RMB more than the booking price but when I checked out the next day I forgot about the 2RMB (about 50 cents) but the receptionist (this time a girl) gave me the change of 2RMB.
The receptionist took me to level 17 where he let me into the room. On the door of the room was a card for a massage call girl which the receptionist took and threw away so I am guessing the hotel has nothing to do with that.
So now I am in the room and the receptionist left. Boy was I disappointed. A very dirty carpet floor but there was a solution for that: there was a couple pair of slippers. The windows were dirty, the wall paper was peeling off the wall, there was an ungly dirty stain near the air conditioner. There was no toilet paper but you could use the tissues from the tissue box.

And now the positives which were quite a few: great location within walking distance to the train station. Close to the main street so very easy to get a taxi if you need to. Free Wi-Fi and the air conditioner worked quite well.

But perhaps the biggest positive of them was the very clean bed sheets which was very pleasantly surprising given the dirty carpets. Would I stay again at this hotel.....only as a last resort.

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