Upmarket hotels in China invariably have international business centres, money changing facilities, conference facilities and a range of restaurants. Room rates tend to be below RMB300 and restaurant facilities are less western-oriented. Indeed, these hotels are usually targeted at the growing Chinese business community and Asian travellers. Therefore budget hotel in China invariably indicates cheap and poor quality. Most are not available to foreigners and English is intermittently spoken.
Plumbing is notoriously faulty, lifts slow and restaurants poor quality if attached.
They tend to be located near railway stations or, in the case of Beijing and Shanghai, in the suburbs.