Listen, I know booking a hotel in China as a foreigner can be very frustrating, especially in this extra ordinary COVID era. Hello everyone, I know and I make videos exploring hidden gems of China, but it hasn't always been easy, and through all the bumps in the road, I've gained a lot of travel knowledge and tips, and consider myself to be a China travel expert. In this video, I'm going to share with you my Trident Tested Way for booking a hotel in China as a foreigner myself, and I'm really excited to share this with you because I think there's a tip or two in here that is going to change the way you book hotels in China, and there's just going to make it a lot more can be. As you probably know, most hotels in China do not accept foreigners at home, even if they say so online. So let me show you what I have found as the easiest way to overcome this obstacle and book a hotel in China as a foreigner. So first thing is download the app Chunar. This is one of the premier Chinese travel apps. It's all in Chinese, but not to worry, I'm going to completely guide you through it. So first thing you're going to want to do is to click the orange button in the upper left Jodiad, which means hotels. And then after that, in the box, type in your destination and your travel dates. I'm going to type in Fuhrong Gujin, which is an ancient town in Hunan province. And then in the search box, type in Y. Bin, which is foreign guests in Chinese. I'll paste that into the description below and just click on the first thing that pops up, which is D.A. Die, Y. Bin. And then from there, just click on the option you want. I'm just going to click on the first option here. And then click the blue writing in the upper right to see more details about the hotel. And then here at the top, there's a phone number listed. So now we need to contact them to make sure they actually accept foreigners. So if your Chinese is good, you can communicate with the hotel over the phone. No problem there. What I like to do because my Chinese is still improving, is to attempt to add the we chat of the hotels number listed online. In my experience, about 40% of the hotel or numbers listed online are linked to a we chat account. Also, you have to do that now. So we're going to leave this page temporarily and open up we chat. And when we chat, we're going to add a contact and then type in the number of the hotel. So as I mentioned before, there are a lot of hotel numbers that are not linked to a we chat account. But it's totally worth the sorting through because we chat's ability to translate messages just makes a miscommunication a lot less likely. So we pull up our results here and we're just going to add this contact first. In the friend request, we're going to type in. And this just means hello. Do you all accept foreign guests? I am a foreigner, but I've always been in China or I've been in China for a long time. This is important because in their minds, if you've been in China for a while, then there's less of a likelihood for you to have or to be able to spread COVID. In case you need, I'll have this friend request pasted in the description below. And I'm going to be adding a lot of hotel contact. So to be able to keep them all straight, I'm going to label them. This one is going to be FU-RONG hotel one. And then we just send the friend request off. And then I'm going to repeat this process for about 7 to 10 hotels before I even talk with any of them. Sometimes I reach out to the first hotel and they will accept me as a foreigner. But there have been times on rare occasions where I reach out to countless hotels and none of them accept me. You gotta display the numbers game. This information is helpful to you at all. I would really appreciate if you hit that like button. So this video is able to help more people. Thanks. Pretty much all the hotels I contacted from this ancient town replied to me back saying that they would accept me. Most of them just said, as long as your health code is green or normal, there's no problem. Some hotels might have specific requests of you like to get a COVID test within a certain time frame. Just be sure to know the exact requirements for the hotel you're staying at. And if you need some travel inspiration, check out my Chinese Ancient Towns playlist where I visit some of China's most beautiful little towns and villages. I'll see y'all for the next great China adventure.