Holiday Inn Harbin City Centre

It was in a great location. Very easy to walk to Zhongyang Street. Breakfast buffet was great with a mixture of Asian and Western food. Great little hole-in-the-wall shop next to the hotel to buy really cheap beer and soft drinks to put in your minibar!

Finding our hotel transfer driver at the Harbin Railway Station was not easy and after a few phone calls, we found each other . We then got into a van that didn't fit us and our suitcases, so we had luggage piled up in the front passenger seat and kids sitting on each others laps. Not ideal, but it worked. There was confusion when we checked in that each room only had one bed (we booked two rooms for a family of six), even though our booking clearly stated that there were three people in each room. After insisting that one bed was not going to fit three people, were we changed to a room with a double and a single. On the first night, water leaked from the ceiling down the wall of our bathroom from the room above. We didn't have any issue on the subsequent nights, so I assume they fixed the problem or moved the guests. The worst problem would probably be Chinese guests smoking in the hallways. The fact that the hotel provides ashtrays near the lifts, suggests this is ok. We didn't think so.