Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
If you're staying at a major international hotel, you're likely to be able to use the internet without restrictions; this is not true in more local hotels. However, some of the international TV stations such as CNN tend IME to have difficulties with reception from time to time, even in rooms occupied by foreigners in major international hotels. YMMV.
That may not be true any longer. I was in GZ last month for the Canton Fair, I stay at a Marriott where I always had access to everything. Not this time. Spoke to the sale manager at the property, who I have met before. He said that due to the Party Congress, their VPN had been shut off for 3 months, and there was no word on if and when it would go back on.