Is it normal to haggle for the price of cheap hotel rooms in China?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 5 Aug, 2023
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Many prices in China are negotiable.
Whether hotels will negotiate probably depends on local competition and attitude and instructions given to staff.
Over about 15 visits to China I tend to stay either in hostels if backpacking or hotels when in medium+ Chinese cities.
50 to 70 RMB is a reasonably low price – It’s what I’d probably expect for a single bed room with shared bathroom.
If its for a room of your own with double bed and desk and internet and bathroom of some sort. Say 1 to 2 star +. then I’d expect more like 120-150 – …
I stayed in a Shenzhen hotel that was modestly priced for Shenzhen – about 150 RMB. There were cheaper available but in terms of overall value for money and facilities this represented reasonable value for money. I got the price via an internet deal. When I wished to extend my stay no amount of reasoning would convince them to match the internet price – so if you had walked in the door and haggled you would presumably have also been unsuccessful.
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