Yuanshan Hotel (Huayin Huashan Scenic Area Branch)

Very nice hotel. Owners are very friendly with picking you up at the (high-speed) train station. From the hotel it's a 2.5km walk to the entry of Huashan.

You can stay in a clean room at an affordable price. They provide free shuttle service to Huashan North Station and Huashan scenery spot tourist center.　The woman at the reception was kind enough to help me using a translator. The male driver was also very kind to me. Thank you very much.

The hotel is newly renovated. The room is well designed and super clean. The breakfast offers many choices including organic vegetables and eggs. The service I like the most is the pickup and drop-off from the train station and from the Mount Hua entrance. You just simply call them to arrange a pick up time but only if you have a Chinese phone number. Only hiccup is the front desk phone number listed on trip.com, is not the actual front desk number. The call will not be received. I had to use the hotel owner’s WeChat for communication for pickup. All staff are very friendly, strongly recommended! I really appreciated their hospitality. The owner’s WeChat is attached if you need to reach him to arrange pick up time directly.

The nicest part is that they provide free transport to railway station and the visitor center. The rooms are surprisingly well furnished. We took 3 rooms, only 1 had heating fully working. The other 2 had warm air blowing but the room didn't warm up. The outdoor temp was -4C. They seem to allow smoking in rooms with ashtrays provided. So I guess they kept a window open for that reason. And the cold air in. Breakfast was simple but adequate.

The room was nice, new, clean and comfortable. However the food in the restaurant was very disappointing. Especially the breakfast which was empty of all food and was a mess when we arrived at 7:50am. We had paid for this breakfast for two mornings and were unable to eat it both times. Its very frustrating to not receive the breakfast that we paid for and then have to go out and pay for another breakfast elsewhere.

The chef cooks delicious, ate some stir fried rice. HuaShan mountain is just literally at the back, very beautiful