Vanburgh Hotel Guangzhou

China , Guangzhou - Guangdong
Guangzhou Shi, No. 126, Huangpu Da Dao Xi, 126
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75 reviews shown

10/10

Exceptional

08 Jan 2026

Bing

Friendly staff, clean room, convenient location

10/10

Exceptional

24 Dec 2025

Swee

Power

10/10

Exceptional

24 Nov 2025

Lisa

Clean room, and friendly staff

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

16 Nov 2025

Georgina

I stayed for two weeks during the Canton Fair.
I appreciate the location and had all of my basic needs filled by Link Mall/Plaza just a short walk away.

Negative:
The bed was so hard, that is not 5 star. After 4 nights and the amount of walking at the Fair, I requested a change of room or other resolution. It turned out there are a limited number of matress toppers that I was lucky enough to get one, eventually. Previous to getting one, my whole body ached and I am not a sore back type of person normally.

If you turn on your DO NOT DISTURB light, it doesn’t matter. You will still get your room cleaned, people knocking for ? And this one time, I came back from the fair early to a woman inspecting my room with the door wide open. Just to be clear, I only engaged my DND light approx every second day as I didn’t need cleaning that often. It didn’t seem to matter.
I did however really appreciate my cleaning lady after getting used to everything but how was I to guess that? I would have liked my privacy respected more

Expedia described the Banana Leaf restaurant as Chinese Cuisine. It is Thai and I wish I had known the correct cuisine as that would have been ideal for my preferences.

I have to give credit for cleanliness, overall safety, location, and the proximity of Link mall filled in so many needs for a single female traveller attending the Fair.

Business_and_leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

24 Oct 2025

Mubarak A

The area is 10 drive or 45mins walk away from the main activities in Guanzhou downtown. 45mins might sound small, but after 5hrs walk in guangzhou downtown, you dont wanna walk another 45 mins to get to you hotel. The location of the hotel on Expedia and in reality is incorrect, this needs to be fixed.

Business_and_leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

15 May 2025

shin sook

Nice room, location good

Business_and_leisure Friends

6/10

Pleasant

29 Dec 2024

Zuobao

no gym

8/10

Excellent

14 Dec 2024

Jonathan

Room is spacious and clean, various dinning options

Business_and_leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

05 Nov 2024

Jaroslaw

I wish that front desk and restaurant staff speak English.

Business Partner

6/10

Pleasant

28 Oct 2024

Angelo

The hotel is in very good conditions, but there is some small remarks. The breakfast was totally chinese oriented, very little for european. No international TV Channels available, But very good organized hotel and very modern.

Business Self

4/10

Poor

27 Apr 2024

Fareed

My door no safety lock and the tub inside show so standing to shower area to small and inconvenient

Business_and_leisure

8/10

Excellent

26 Apr 2024

anil

Bit dissapointed thought it would be much better than expected.
No english channels on tv
No room service or ordering.
Seems like a small hotel.
Lots of staff at reception speak english but quite a few dont
I got food poisoning at the restaurant on lobby level and had to muss the canton fair from the day it started till the day it ended in bed with severe fever and stomach flu.
The large crowds at breakfast makes it hard to keep utinsils clean and food safe with folks coughing and hawking over the food. Leaves the staff unable to properly sanitize tables after use.
Rooms other wise were ok. Smoke every where from people smoking.
Beds were super hard and hard to sleep on for people like me who sleep on their stomach.
One thing for sure, i wont be back and will return to the3 or 4 hotels i normally stay at for the past 15 years.
Be warned.. only good thing is its close to the canton fair, which i could not attend.

Business Partner

8/10

Excellent

11 Apr 2024

Abdallah

Very helpful staff, very clean hotel, very generous and 5 star service. Just the beds are very firm but overall excellent stay with good location. Special shout for Chan from reception for being very helpful!

Business

10/10

Exceptional

04 Apr 2024

Abdallah

Excellent overall

Very good experience overall. Very helpful and welcoming staff, great customer service especially from Chan in the reception. Would definitely come again… my only comment is that bed mattresses are a little stiff..

Business

8/10

Excellent

25 May 2019

Markus

Great Hotel, highly recommended.

Great hotel, good location, clean and comfortable, nice pool and gym, friendly and helpful staff and reasonably prized. Good value, highly recommended!

10/10

Exceptional

04 May 2019

Malih

Very nice hotel. Rooms are spacious with large windows. However the bed mattress is too hard other than that it was great overall.

2/10

Poor

04 May 2019

Verified traveler

I had stayed here in the past without any major issues, and frankly it was due to the much better price compared to other hotels during Canton Fair. On this particular occasion I experienced:

1) awful cigarette smoke smell throughout the floor and room. The stench of cigarettes permeated the sheets and made staying in the room unbearable. The hotel did not attempt to enforce its no-smoking policy on the floor

2) Been coming to the Canton Fair for a decade. Anytime I need a last minute train ticket to HKG, a member of concierge at any reputable hotel will arrange to pick one up (a lot of times free but sometimes for 20-30 RMB.) This concierge initially offered to do it for 95 RMB, which was about 50% of the entire ticket price. That's just extortionate. So I refused. He then attempted to negotiate it down to 80 RMB. No thanks. I simply purchased one online.

3) I had previously printed multiple documents at the hotel biz center (which has the equivalent of dial up internet) without any charge. So on this trip, when I asked to have my online train ticket receipt printed for pick up, the concierge, sensing he had lost out on a service fee to pick up the ticket, then said it would cost 30 RMB to print the ticket.

4) The breakfast at the hotel was pretty subpar, and there's no fresh juice. Most of the meats are out at room temperature for extended periods below 60 degrees so be careful of salmonella.

I will never stay here again. ** AVOID THIS PLACE **

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

30 Apr 2019

Verified traveler

Great location, perfect for my stay. The Wifi was a little unreliable

Business Self

4/10

Poor

11 Mar 2019

Verified traveler

Somoke odor everywhere.. even in the room they changed me... people smoking in rooms with open doors, all isles with smoke and nobody cares... bed extremely uncomfortable... bathroom not clean... Its a shame because the building is spectacular, and construction...

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

09 Dec 2018

Verified traveler

Room is clean and comfort. The location is a bit far from metro but public buses can reach.

4/10

Poor

01 Sep 2018

Nicholas

Not an international hotel

It is not an international business hotel, it only caters for Chinese travelers. None of the staff speak much English. The food is only Chinese. The business centre and the hotel staff are not set up for business travelers.

4/10

Poor

03 May 2018

Wei kai

This was the most miserable stay that never happen anyway except Vanburgh, When we were at reception checking in, they told us no reservation, when we showed them our hotel.com reservation, they went in the back office and print exact same conf. But they said they couldn’t honor the room rate despite having the confirmation in front of them. Whoever book in this hotel should be really careful. Don’t let this hotel ruin your vacation.

10/10

Exceptional

29 Apr 2018

Verified traveler

Great Staff

Anazing stay, great service, great everything.
Location is perfect, easy to get out about town!

4/10

Poor

18 Dec 2017

Trixie

I won't stay here again and won't recommend.

Lobby of the hotel stinks. It has a very strong musky smell and gave me a headache throughout my 4 night stay. Check in was not pleasant. The receptionist took a while to finally acknowledge that I have been waiting for a long time but with a sulky face. Service needs to be looked at. Amenities for the room is bare minimal, they didn't even provide body lotion. Room make up is almost non existent, only the bed is made. The location is lousy, 15 - 20 mins walk from the nearest station. One of the Gym light has been faulty for 4 days and no one fixed it. The only saving grace is the concierge boy who at least puts up a smile all the time. No way will I stay here again.

8/10

Excellent

10 Dec 2017

Verified traveler

Convenient

Nothing to complain room service was excellent Will consider coming back next time

8/10

Excellent

27 Oct 2017

Verified traveler

Feels like a Western hotel, but no English

The hotel is very nice; it was actually much better than I expected.
-Perfect for Canton Fair, and has bus service to complex daily. 15 min away by the shuttle.
-Breakfast buffet and Dinner buffet are very delicious and abundant for the price. A la carte menu leaves much to be desired.
-There's a good size fitness center and nice outdoor pool on the 5th floor (locker room is clean and has locking mechanism on lockers)
-Room is spacious, and has mini fridge. Room is very clean and well kept. Nice work desk for business trips.

Buyer beware:
-The beds are hard as rock.
-No one speaks English more than a few broken words.
-They require an upfront deposit of the full reservation amount + more $$$ in anticipation of anything you want to charge to the room (this they call a deposit).
-Internet connection is slow, but not unusable. No access to Google, Twitter, FB, Messenger, YouTube, Gmail.

6/10

Pleasant

25 Apr 2017

Verified traveler

Good for the price you pay

While the hotel staffs tries to go out of their comfort zone to understand what you are saying. They do not speak english. The food is good. The room smells like cigarette every day and night, but it was ok in terms of comfort. The good thing is that you can control the air conditioner

8/10

Excellent

17 Dec 2016

Verified traveler

Spacious and cosy hotel

Spacious room for 2 adults with a child to stay in. Hotel staffs are friendly and helpful. Only thing that disappointed us are the taxi drivers. If you don't know your way, taxi driver will drive you merry go round. Look so near yet so far.

8/10

Excellent

08 Dec 2016

Miji

Great neighborhood and great service

The hotel is located on a big avenue, which has never-ending stream of buses. 5 mins walk to the nearest mall/supermarket, 5mins walk to street filled with restaurants and 15mins to the nearest metro station. Hotel room is in excellent condition - staff speak mediocre English. Had a funny incident with housekeeping: the cleaner did not clean our room but took off with the tip. The hotel supervisor took appropriate actions immediately once complained.

8/10

Excellent

18 Oct 2016

Paresh

Would like to stay again during my visit in November 2016

4/10

Poor

22 Jan 2016

Verified traveler

Very modern Chinese hotel

Although hotel is clean and relatively new, it completely lacks of any semblance of customer service. The other hotel guests are not much better. But for the location and price, this hotel is difficult to beat.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

18 May 2015

Low

Cleanliness of room good

my stay was ok

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jan 2015

Murat S.

Recommend

8 minutes from Tee mall by car. There is a shopping center right side of street. Easy to find taxi.

6/10

Pleasant

02 Nov 2014

Melanie

Comfortable for short stay

Stayed here while visiting canton fair. This hotel was fine. This is a large hotel that services everyone well. Large rooms, large breakfast buffet does feel a little impersonal but for the number of people they look after its a smooth operation. The lobby lounge seems small in comparison to everything else. The guys on the door are great and there is a shuttle bus to the fair.

8/10

Excellent

20 Oct 2014

Shaz

Would recommend

The service and cleanliness, together with location is what would bring me back again. I was visiting from Australia and during one attempt to order dinner from room service they couldn't understand me, so a staff member came to my room with the menu and circled each item that i wanted. I haven't had this experience in other China hotels. The bed was very hard, but is expected in China. Overall very satisfied.

8/10

Excellent

01 Sep 2014

jfchar

Nice clean room in the heart of Guangzhou

My wife and I had a good stay. It is a higher end local Chinese hotel where the room and amenities were standard, but the hotel service did not stand out. The hotel is right on the edge of the new financial and commercial heart of Guangzhou. It's worth a stay if its in your budget.

8/10

Excellent

02 May 2014

Verified traveler

Clean and spacious

The room was clean. Not centrally located at the Yinhe area, but good enough. Hotel was very full during the Canton fair, but it didn't affect the comfort and service level. Good hotel.

10/10

Exceptional

27 Apr 2014

Erin

Good for business travel

We were attending the Canton Fair and the accommodations at this hotel were very comfortable. it was a little farther from the fair than we wanted to be, but it was ok since there was a free shuttle.

8/10

Excellent

24 Nov 2013

Ron

Good Business Hotel but lots of Construction now.

The hotel is located about 15 minutes walk from the Nanjing Road West metro station (about 1 hour 15 mins from the airport by metro). The metro station is right at a major shopping district with lots of restaurants and shops.

The alleyway to the hotel from the metro station is now the greatest and some may not feel too safe to walk to the hotel from the metro station. Taking the cab is not a great option too as it is so close.

The hotel is right across the street from a Four Seasons Hotel, has a Starbucks on the ground floor and a great cafe/bakery called Rembeld on the other side of the hotel which is better than Starbucks.

The room was large and comfortable. My room faced the road and the construction was throughout the night but really started by 6am. The bed was very comfortable and the bathroom was large. Overall, very clean and much like any other hotels in other countries.

I stayed on a \"smoke-free\" floor but as usual, the smell of smoke is quite evident on the whole floor and in the room through the ventilations. This is quite common in any hotel in China no matter how highend they are.

Water was not hot enough but it was not cold. The amenities in the room was very good. The wi-fi throughout the hotel was nice. As usual, the internet access is quite slow in China because of the filters the traffic goes through.

Make sure you know where the hotel is as there is no sign of Hojo until you are about 100 feet from it. Staff spoke good English.

8/10

Excellent

19 Nov 2013

RESHEE

Nice place for business trip

The hotel is nice fits in well for me on my business trip but does not fit it for shopping. Hardly or no shopping close by.

8/10

Excellent

18 Nov 2013

inder

clean room & helpful staff

staff spoke in english which in china is a blessing!!

8/10

Excellent

29 Oct 2013

Atul Tibrewala

Great Location for Canton Fair

Ecellent Hotel, very close to the Panzhou area where the Canto fair is held. Very co-operative and helpful staff. A bit expensive but worth it if you are at the fair all day and need a comfortable place to come back to within 10 minutes.

2/10

Poor

29 Oct 2013

dr Jorge

they are still in 19th century

This type of hotels try to offer 4 or 5 star hotel, but they are far away, they dont understand that in service the big picture is less than the small picture, small details make a diferencie. The elevators were so bad programed that it took forever to wait. They had a breakfast buffett in the morning where you can seat 100 and there were 500 guests and everybody fought for place and food, incredible!!! diferente cultures together and complaining because there is no order. They should visit other hotel chains an learn. Many details that make the stay very bad from Tianhe área one of the worsts hotels. And The duty manager did not care to solve any of this problems, he said that is just the way it is, to many people, but sorry!!! and offer discount next time to come. Sorry never again to stay in this hotel.

8/10

Excellent

26 Oct 2013

Brandon

Great Hotel, but bad directions.

Hotels.com showed the Vanburgh's hotel location on a google map that was incorrect. My wife, my 3 week old son and I spent 3 hours trying to figure out where it was at. A nightmare! We didn't get into the hotel until half past midnight. I will never use Hotels.com again, I will post this on my Facebook, my twitter and tell all my friends and family to avoid Hotels.com

We thought we were a short walk to a subway line near the American Consulate, but it ended up be much further away than we wanted.

Very disappointed!

10/10

Exceptional

24 Oct 2013

Gary

I thought this was a great pick for the Canton Fair. It is convenient to both the fair and the city center. Will definitely go back next time.

10/10

Exceptional

22 Oct 2013

Gary

Great place to stay if going to Canton Fair. Inexpensive cab ride to the event, and not far from downtown. Staff did not speak great English, but were very helpful. Highly recommend.

8/10

Excellent

18 Jun 2013

traveller

New hotel

It is clean and tidy as it is a new hotel. Though the location is not exactly convenient (no train station nearby), the room rate is very attracative. Worth staying!

Family

10/10

Exceptional

28 May 2013

Verified traveler

Business trip

Excellent value for the money. This caters primarily to Chinese clientele but the food, both Chinese and Western is good. The staff went out of their way to help and several staff members, including the concierge speak English well.
Had a room with a great view on the 19th flr and everything appears to be fairly new in the room and works well.

New fitness center (that was always empty) and had enough equipment to get a good workout.

8/10

Excellent

03 Apr 2013

Verified traveler

Good hotel

Good hotel but very inconvenient as there are few amenities around (such as shops or restaurants)

10/10

Exceptional

13 Mar 2013

Verified traveler

Great business hotel

Excellent service. did not eat at the restaurant so do not know about the food, but the service was great as was the condition of the room. Would definitely stay there again

10/10

Exceptional

12 Mar 2013

Verified traveler

Residential Feel

East is a bit off the tourist path so quieter and more residential. Right on mtr station so very easy access. The rooms are splendid. Gym renovation taking ages though

10/10

Exceptional

09 Mar 2013

Verified traveler

Great hotel. I liked everything about it. Very clean, beautiful.

10/10

Exceptional

14 Mar 2026

Amy

防生非常整潔，職員也禮貌友善

Business

10/10

Exceptional

10 Apr 2025

Alvaro

It is a very nice hotel, convenient located. Safe and very clean

10/10

Exceptional

12 Nov 2024

cosmetic co.

객실이 큰편이며 주변에 다양한 편의시설이 있습니다

Business

8/10

Excellent

27 Oct 2024

pingzhen

everything not bad

Business_and_leisure

10/10

Exceptional

26 Oct 2024

Su bin

Good

Business

8/10

Excellent

24 Apr 2024

Andres

Good breakfast. All hotel smells like cigarrett

Business

10/10

Exceptional

22 Jan 2020

굳호텔

재사용하고싶은 호텔입니다.^^조식도 굳

Business

8/10

Excellent

06 Sep 2019

Verified traveler

不错

适合商旅

8/10

Excellent

28 Apr 2019

Verified traveler

値段の割に五つ星ホテルとそれほど変わらない設備なので、お得です

Business

8/10

Excellent

28 Apr 2019

BEOM SEOK

출장가기 좋은 호텔

청결하고 친절했으며 조용했어요.

8/10

Excellent

28 Apr 2019

Verified traveler

早餐很多款式，房大，酒店位置優越，會再去，附近有大型商場，購物，吃飯方便，酒店有車直通香港很方便，推介此酒店

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

01 Mar 2019

Verified traveler

酒店房间空间不错，地理位置也很好。

10/10

Exceptional

10 Feb 2019

Anton

Mycket bra

Hjälte bra hotel om man har någon med sig som kan chinesiska. Annars kan de bli svårt att ta sig runt. Hotellet ligger lite avskilt så man måste ta taxi(12kr) till centrala delarna. 15minuter till fots från tunnelbanan.

Friends

8/10

Excellent

18 Dec 2018

TAN PANG

值得選擇

房間大，整潔明亮。周邊有大型商場，食店也不少。網絡稍慢，離地鐵站也較遠。

10/10

Exceptional

04 Dec 2018

Verified traveler

Excellent hotel