Recently Reviewed Hotels around Penglai

• Chateau Junding Club
  "Beautiful chateau in the Shandong countryside"
  "This chateau is not all that easy to get to - you need your own car, or a driver (we arranged a car out of Yantai for 350 RMB per day) - but it's worth the trip. I was expecting something quite gaudy, but it's actually very elegant. You drive up to a beautiful white building complex situated in a lo..."vely valley in the Shandong countryside, and once there, the chateau has everything from golf to wine tasting available. We started out with the wine tour - a guided tour of their wine production facilities, including a tasting at the end of one of their white and reds - and then had lunch in the Chinese restaurant the next building over, which was excellent. A few hours there was perfect for us, but you can also spend more time and explore the vineyard, rent bikes to explore the valley, or even stay in one of their rooms (which I'd guess would be fairly pricey). " More >
• Scottish Castle, Treaty Port Vineyards
  "A very unexpected hidden gem"
  "I stumbled on a couple of mentions of this place online, and since we were in the area, we decided to drop by. The website was down, no one was answering the only phone number we could find, but luckily my friends were willing to take a chance, and so the driver we had booked for the day went search..."ing for the Scottish castle in the Shandong countryside - not an easy task. Through some sort of miracle, we found it, and it was amazing. We walked in and were greeted by Emma, a very friendly Taiwanese woman working there, who poured us generous portions of three of their wines and one of their whiskeys to taste, which were amazing (we ended up buying a few bottles to take home). Following that we were given a tour of the castle - and met the very friendly (notice a theme?) owner, who was up for the weekend. Finally we had an amazing 4-course lunch in the library, nicely paired with one of their wines. We were staying in a hotel in Penglai, but the castle apparently has 6 guest roo... " More >
• Huaxi Hotel
  "Perfectly ok hotel"
  "This hotel was more expensive than budget options but cheaper than international 4*/5* chains, and what you get is more or less what you'd expect for that price. It has all of the trappings of a 4* hotel - it's huge, complete with fitness centre, fully decked-out bathrooms, clean sheets... but s..."omehow all of the small details just fall short of the true 4* experience, e.g. front desk service is very slow, the TV menu claims to have international channels, but none of them work, the breakfast buffet in theory has the full range of food you'd expect, but just slightly lower quality than at a 4* hotel, etc. There was free fruit and a free teddy bear in my room, but my friends had just the fruit (which was still a nice touch). There was wireless the first day that randomly didn't work the second day - although cable internet worked fine throughout the stay. Still, it's a good mid-range or upper mid-range choice, and we didn't have any complaints with our stay. It's also walking... " More >