Hotel Pet Friendly di Xi'an

Ding-Ying is an artist and generous host!! She is the friendliest person ever! So warm and caring! She will treat you like you’re her family and an honoured guest. She told us that she believes that all her Guest must’ve been her close friends or relatives in previous lives. Her place is beautifully decorated and renovated. So many Natural objects reflecting her love of nature and her creativity. On the practical side this place is really close to a convenience subway stop it is only five or seven minutes drive to the famous Huaxing Palace, and probably 15-20 minutes to the terracotta Warriors. So it makes an excellent base outside of the main city of Xi’an, to spend a few nights. You will experience beautiful Chinese hospitality. Ding Ling was very generous with her time. She even taught to me how to make dumplings!! it was very fun! I am from New Zealand and have stayed at many bed-and-breakfast and AirBnb’s, and this lovely Homestay rates very highly. Please note the five floors the top floor room has a beautiful rooftop courtyard. It is the best room however it would suit well off backpackers/flashpackers! Ding-Ying is more than happy to help carry the suitcase up several flights of stairs. We stayed in a double room on level two. It was me and my friend. We both highly recommend this place to many travellers!!

This is a difficult review to write. There’s a lot I like about Joke Inn - it’s in a cool location, the room was nice,and the staff are friendly. And I should mention - I don’t have experience with the inner, courtyard facing rooms - this is just about street-facing rooms…. I saw the reviews talking about noise and figured it was just normal street noise - which as a New Yorker I’m fine with. But what we experienced was FAR beyond regular street noise. We had a room facing the street (and the Xi’an city wall) and the issue is that there are two live music venues on the ground floor that compete by blasting the music - which bounces off the city wall into the room. The music goes until 2am every night (not just weekends). The earplugs they give you don’t even begin to be enough. After getting just 4 hours of sleep the first night I managed the next 3 nights by taking a sleeping pill and wearing huge uncomfortable noise canceling headphones. That should never be necessary in a hotel. So the bottom line in my opinion is the owners need to figure out if they’re in the entertainment business or the hotel business because the two don’t mix - at least not for the street-facing rooms.