We stayed overnight in the Longcheng International Hotel on our way between Mount Wutai and Pingyao. It's location is handy, as it's close to the railway station. That's about all it has going for it. To describe the hotel as five star is a travesty. The carpets were filthy and our room stifling hot. The air conditioning did not work at all (the cable had been cut) and we had to resort to leaving the window open all night, despite the noise below. The hotel is in desperate need of a renovation and basic maintenance. I would never stay there again, nor recommend it to anyone.

Stayed at Longcheng International Hotel for 2 nts. in mid-July, 2007.

The hotel ran out of non-smoking rooms, but promised to conduct their "non-smoking treatment" to the room for us. The standard was acceptable, but it was hard to expect such a new hotel (opened in Mar 2006) had such dirty carpet in the room. The carpet had a lot of stains, and there was a filthy-looking rug in front of the bathroom. If the room had a nice carpet and a cleaner-looking sofa, it could indeed have been quite a nice room.

Location was good, within walking distance to one of the coach station (from Datong/ Beijing).

Our room rate included one breakfast. The front receptionist only gave us one breakfast coupon for the first morning, and asked us to go to the reception again on the second morning for the second coupon. Breakfast/ person costs CNY58. Quality was just average.

We had dinner in their Tanjia Restaurant for both evenings as quality was very good.