Yaduo Hotel, North Square, Xi'an High Speed Railway North Station recensioner

December 2023, overall review: good hotel, friendly staff, well placed if you need to be near Xi'an Bei Zhan (Xi'an North Station). One of our rooms smelled of cigarettes unfortunately, the other one was ok. Finding the location on the Didi app worked better with the address in Mandarin (西安高铁北站北广汤亚朵酒店), or by selecting Xi'an Gaotie North North Square Atour Hotel, as there is another Atour hotel close to the station, with a similar name (see picture). Watch out for that, but overall I'd stay again! Pros: very comfortable, easy check-in and Check-out for foreign-passport holders, clean, gym and laundry room as advertised, helpful staff (not sure if they speak English as we were ok with Chinese), a few minutes away by taxi from Xi'an North Station, as well as directly opposite a subway station that is directly connected to the airport. A couple of local diners just next door, as well as a small convenience store. Cons: not much wrong with the place, just that one room smelled of cigarettes (despite it being a non-smoking room), and that one of the towels had some holes in it.

Stayed for four nights in June 2024. The location is great, subway station is right across the road, it takes 40 minutes to get to the airport without any line changes, and about 40-60 minutes to get to the city center. Northern railway station is just one stop from there. The neighbourhood is quiet, tranquil and is full of small supermarkets and local restaurants. The room was clean and cosy. Everyday we got free water and tea supply, which was crucial during +35C heatwave in Xi’an. AC and other technology in the room also was working without any problems. The breakfast mostly consists of Chinese food (chaofan, dumplings, baozi, noodles etc), but there were also cereal, fried eggs and other usual western breakfast things. Everything was of great quality and taste. Free of charge small dinner buffet was a pleasant surprise for us. The staff didn’t really speak English (but they use automatic translators really well, which helped a lot). They were extremely eager to help and overall very nice. We’ve had several weird questions, but they were always there to help us. They’ve even presented us a farewell gift of snacks. We’ve used the laundry service, which was also free of charge. It is very convenient and fast. We will certainly stay here again, if we return to Xi’an.