My China Travel Blacklist... Consider This Your PSA!
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I totally agree! I traveled for four days, and only in Suzhou were the hotels absurdly expensive. It's impossible to find anything under 500 RMB. One guesthouse, where they even used disposable paper cups for brushing teeth, charged over 450 RMB a night, and it was more than ten subway stops away from any tourist spots! To give you an idea, in Hangzhou, I stayed at an All Seasons Hotel near Wulin Square for two nights starting October 1st, and it only cost a little over 900 RMB. The expensive hotels were bad enough, but on the way to the attractions, I witnessed something truly unbelievable: a fruit vendor chased down and verbally abused someone just for tasting a single loose grape and not buying it. I was utterly shocked to see something like that happen in this day and age.
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Even really rundown guesthouses cost 300-400 RMB a night. It was so filthy I barely dared to move all night, and the bed felt damp. And I almost couldn't even book a room! When I went to Chengdu earlier this year, a hotel for over 400 RMB was worlds better, for just a small difference in price.
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Of all the places I've traveled to, Suzhou is the only one I'd say I'll never visit again after returning home.
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@TheOneCursingMeToTakeMyBadLuck What's so attractive there that you're so worried I'd still go? You must be paranoid.
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It's true there aren't many trash cans, but it's quite clean. I actually kind of liked it.
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It was clean, sure, but I had to carry my trash with me the whole way.
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Whenever someone from Suzhou starts acting unreasonably with me online, I go and 'like' posts from others who've had similar negative experiences.
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Same here.
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Me too. I just got to Suzhou, and it's really terrible.
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Did you drive here? How about you rant about those long solid lane markings on our elevated highways? Go on, roast them! We'll support you on that one.
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As a local, let me offer my two cents. Due to strict garbage sorting rules, there are fewer public trash cans, similar to cities like Tokyo or Shanghai. Prices aren't cheap, especially at those trendy 'influencer' spots. But for tourists, it should be manageable, mainly because traveling anywhere is expensive these days. For hotels, you could opt for chains like Orange Hotel or Atour; prices should be reasonable outside of peak season.
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What a garbage city.
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Definitely garbage. I just visited today, and I'm never coming back in my lifetime.
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People from Jiangsu are just... well, you know. Anyone who's had dealings with them tends to develop a bias against them.