Originally Posted by
uanj
I find a bigger difference on hotels among these websites. Ctrip's English site will not offer certain hotels which they have on the Chinese site stating there is a restriction that they cannot accept foreign guests. I have booked these same hotels on elong and no problem arriving foreign passport in hand. Pricing is generally though not always the same between the sites. Sometimes one site or the other has a special price so it pays to check.
What types of hotels generally don't permit foreigners to stay?
I've stayed in basically every type of lodging save for the "5 stars and up," only getting refused once, and that was after spending one night. Their scanner didn't work (to copy my passport), and the proprietor felt bad, so he washed shirts.
I'm not doubting their existence, as a bunch of the places I crawled into likely never had a foreigner to accommodate before, but that has made things somewhat interesting- for instance, one of the places had my name as "Passport Center," because no one knew English. Might've been Liaobu or Humen in Dongguan.