Planning my first trip ever to China.

ctrip has a lot of local hotels that doesn't appear in the larger hotel search engines. I was looking for a hotel that is close to a specific destination.

Booked it and got an email from ctrip that they tried to contact me, but the "hotel does not have the qualifications to serve foreigners" so my reservation got cancelled. It wasn't a great hotel anyway, but it was just better in terms of location.

It's fine. In the end, I ended up booking a hotel that's more to my liking (but just a little further away) on agoda. I don't usually book agoda and don't have much experience with them, so I hope it works out. I normally book direct or on expedia.com, so so I hope there aren't any issues with agoda (hotel doesn't have a direct website)

The only reason I am a little weary with agoda is that the hotel is showing availability whereas hotels.com/expedia.com/and the likes are all showing the hotel as sold out for my dates. So I hope there aren't any issues with overbooked situation, etc, because that just wouldn't be cool.

ctrip got super great rates but that didn't work out for me, so just beware.