Our plan for visiting Yellow Mountain was:
- arrive in the city and stay overnight at Mild Spring Hotel
- be transported to Yellow Mountain (leaving the car and most of our luggage behind)
- enter the park, walk to a hotel inside, and stay there overnight
- walk back out of the park, be transported back to the city, and stay in Mild Spring Hotel overnight again
- leave to drive back to Hangzhou.
Transportation to/from Yellow Mountain and the overnight hotel stay inside the park were booked together as part of a package. I chose Mild Spring after looking at various hotels online. This one seemed to have an interesting character… and I was right! I’m happy with my choice and would definitely recommend it to any English-speaking foreigners looking for a place to stay in Huangshan. The only caveat is that your car/van/taxi can’t pull up to the front of the hotel directly, because it’s in a rather interesting retail pedestrian zone (called Liyang Old Street). Fortunately, the staff can help bring bags over from the street or parking garage if necessary.
There are way more and way better photos of Mild Spring Boutique Hotel on Booking.com, Tripadvisor, and Agoda. But here are 19 of ours:
The Hotel
Upstairs
The Room
The Cats
Our Experience
I liked the area, and the building and decoration, and the cats. Also, the people were super nice!
- They helped us bring our luggage from our car in the nearby car park when we arrived.
- They helped us store our luggage while we went to the mountain, and gave us the same rooms when we came back.
- They advised us about how to explore the mountain.
- They made sure Siqi had something to eat and drink even though he was late for breakfast one morning.
- They were just generally friendly and chatted with us about the business of running a hotel. They like having foreign guests.
- They helped us with our luggage again when it was time to leave, and got us free parking.
