Tang Yunyi house B & B (Dunhuang YueYaQuan store)

I loved the Courtyard B&B. The rural but very chic style. My room was generous, furnishing in the same traditional style. Clean throughout The reception area very attractive and provides nice secluded spaces for relaxing- working in my case) under Bamboo trees and mandala decorated glasses of the ceiling. Very peaceful. I very much appreciated the presence of a kittens with mum and a little doggie which I perceived like mascotte of the place. They were very well maintained and cared of. The stuff is very nice and helpful and we were able to understand each others in some way. I highly recommend this accomodation both for holiday and work.

Had a very comfortable stay at this nicely decorated hotel. Staff are friendly, cats too.

The decoration and hotel staff are great. However, the location is not very convenient and the cleanliness of the rooms could be better. The breakfast was great and the rooms quiet at night.

Charming hotel, with comfortable beds and delicious breakfast. Rooms were clean and staff was very nice.

Even though the hall is very nice and the rooms are ok, the personnel welcome and overall behaviour left us very disappointed. We arrived at 10 PM after a long trip by train and we did not receive any “hello” nor “welcome” (not even in Chinese, which al we are used to). We were brought to our room without one single word of description or explanation about anything, not even about the breakfast we payed for, nor the time for check-out. So we went back to the reception to ask for these information, and we also wanted to ask for some advice on how to buy the tickets for the Mogoa caves. They didn’t even look at us while asking them for support via google translate (obviously they don’t talk in English, but no problem with that). They were very cold and annoyed in telling us that it was IMPOSSIBLE to enter the Mogoa caves if we did not reserve with large advance the tickets. We explained we were not able to reserve the tickets because a Chinese passport number was required (we are Italian, we have Italian passports). The best part comes the next day: we did not listen to their statements and we went to the Mogoa caves and guess what? The personnel there was much kinder and more competent than the hotel staff, and we had a great day visiting the Mogoa caves. It’s quite surprising how the hotel staff was bad informed about touristic attraction in their own city. The impression they gave us is that foreign guests are not welcome at all, they should mention it on the description so that foreigners can choose accordingly. Just a suggestion for the staff: for the future, please don’t provide false information to foreign tourists, they could think that Chinese people is that incompetent and rude, which is absolutely not! First and only bad experience at a hotel in China, what a pity.

Location is a short 10 minute drive or 30-40 minute walk from the town center and the sand dunes. The B&B is very beautiful with cool art, plants, and animals. The rooms are spacious and clean and the staff were prompt in replying to questions we had. The only downside for us was that there were no real towels available, only disposable one time use ones which were not effective in drying. The skylight also did not work which we were not made aware of before booking.