This was probably a 5 star hotel 10 years ago so it's great value at around $60 a night (8 days) It's clean, good air con, and has free Internet in rooms. Central to city, coach service to HK and airport.

Globel link now has a new name called Shillbin Hotel Guangzhou, same address, maybe same management.

We made online reservation in advance for this hotel for May 17 through May 20th. We were traveling from Wuhan by high speed train to guangzhou in the late afternoon. We knew we were going to arrive late in the evening, so on our reservation, we specifically requested a room be reserved for late arrival. We received text reminders and confirmations every day for prior to the check in day to guaranteed that Globelink will hold the room until 11:59PM for our late arrival. When we got off the high speed rail at about 9PM. We took the subway for 45 minutes Zhongzhan 4 road and walked about 10 minutes witih our luggages for about 1 killometer and arrived the hotel at about 10PM. When we checked in with the reception desk, the clerk asked me to write down my name in English so she can check in the reservation system. After she found my name on the computer, one man looks like a supervisor told us to sit far away from the lobby to wait for the room to be available and clean. At the same time I over heard other people were complaining and yelling with someone for their room. I thought we were safe because we had our reservation, and the hotel acknowledged and confirmed reservation. So we sat there for about an hour to about 11:00PM, some one came by and told us all their room were sold out and they do not have room for us regardless our guaranteed reservation. We were shocked and asked to speak to the manager on duty. Then came this short little man wearing eye glasses in wrinkle oversized suit with a cigarrette in the month. He said he's the manager and he's sorry that all room were sold out. Ironically, he offered us to take down his name and phone number and to give him a call when we are in town on our next visit. I thought he must think that we were retarded or he himself was retarded, why would someone expect him to honor something in the future while he couldn't even honor and perform on his contractual obligation in writing right now. My wife and I were very upset, but could not do much in strange city. The manager pretended he's not fluent with English and offerred to call a taxi to get us out. It's getting late at night in strange foreign city. Fortunately, we contacted our emergency contact in Guangzhou, and got a place to stay in the other side of the city. The next day, we learned from some one that there was some kind of convention in town yesterday, and the hotel room in Globelink was sold for as high as $890 yuen and our online reservation price was $490 yuen a night, a difference of $400 Yuen.

My advice, don't trust and rely on this hotel if they would sold they creditibility for merely $400 Chinese Yuen. The rationale, anything can be sold in China.

Stayed in this hotel for 1 night whilst visiting relatives in the city.
The service in the hotel is good. The room is very big for what you pay for and very comfortable. Only thing is that the beds were quite hard but it seemed like the hard bed is a common thing for all China hotels so maybe it was the norm.

There is a direct bus service to the airport right in front of the hotel for RMB190, which was very helpful if you are lugging luggages around.

Step out of the hotel on the street to the left of the hotel are plenty of food stalls that sell really good street food. Ask at the reception and you'll probably be given directions.

Only thing about the hotel is that there is only 1 floor of the hotel that is non-smoking. So do remember to ask if you do not like smoking rooms for a non-smoking room.

Other than that, we will definitely be back to the hotel.

Stayed for three nights at this hotel in May 2008.
Booked as a base to use when visiting friends who live in Guangzhou.
Very friendly and helpful reception staff who had adequate use of english.
Very large bedrooms compared with those in Hong Kong -rather too large- in fact we asked to be moved from our first allocation- to a smaller room without all the sofas and chairs !
The rooms needed refurbishing but the bathroom was really well appointed, with the rare luxury of a deep bath and superb water pressure for the shower.
Try and get a room on a high floor as there is some traffic noise from the highway systems adjacent to the hotel.
Stayed on a room only basis -again very cheap compared with Hong Kong.
Plenty of shops, supermarkets etc nearby, but a good 15min walk to the nearest underground station.