As you approach immigration, there is a counter to the left for transit passengers. RJ gave us a green landing card and 4 hotel vouchers.
Cleared custom and passports were returned to us.
Waited for Golden Tulip shuttle bus and had to wait for another family! Cutting into our sleeping time!
Family of 4, were given 2 rooms. We had very low expectation for the hotel since they are free and reviews online is not very kind toward them. Other than cig smoke filled bus, it was a descent transit hotel. Probably worth US$60 per night in my book.
Free breakfast starts at 6:30 and we had to go at 6, so can’t comment on their food. Hotel return the other half of the green landing card back to us, but this is not needed as we go through immigration.
In theory, we could had use the free transit visa, sleep at the hotel for a few hours then go back to airport to pick up our car for the day. Decided not to push the system (had bad luck with our PVG free transit visa) and went ahead and bought the visa for our 24 hours lay-over.