Yili Hotel was established and developed on the basis of the former Russian Consulate. It has become the main meeting and work venue in Yili. At present, the hotel mainly operates the newly built main building No. 2⃣️ of the five-star standard, and is supplemented by the hotel apartment-style Building No. 6⃣️. The No. 3⃣️ building, which has been in disrepair for a long time, is also the most cost-effective hotel building. It is not an exaggeration to hang a four-star sign when checking in. However, there is also a No. 5⃣️ building in the courtyard, which is contracted and operated separately by the Yizhongyuan Hotel, which is also the lowest accommodation discount price. This is definitely a garden hotel-style hotel known as the ”Yining Botanical Garden”. It is quite distinctive and rich in the regional and ethnic style of the Yili region. It is also a living historical witness of Yili.
The flight was late that night. It was about ten o'clock before I took a taxi from the airport to the hotel at a conscience price of only 13 yuan. I also happened to meet the friendly and kind intern No. 002 ”Tiejian” Hui guy who helped me arrange the check-in. Since I called the hotel the day before and said that I would stay for three consecutive nights, I wanted to stay in a room facing the south. When I checked in, the guy asked patiently and repeatedly to confirm that I was upgraded to a small suite in Building 3⃣️, which was actually a very spacious and comfortable two-room standard suite. Maybe their so-called luxury suite was a three-room large suite from the guest room diagram when I checked in. And the diagram on the fourth floor above me showed a more spacious presidential suite, which really broadened my horizons!
Breakfast is uniformly arranged in the Western restaurant opposite the front desk of the lobby of Building 2⃣️ in the main building. The business hours are 8:30-10:30. The breakfast is not only rich in dishes but also nutritious and delicious. You can clearly feel that the ingredients are fresh and the chef's level is not bad. In particular, the fried eggs 🍳 and spinach noodles, beef noodles, and rice noodles of the Uyghur guy at the fresh stall have been very busy, and the production and taste are very good 👍 Seeing him busy alone, it is really a fine traditional model of old hotels and good hotels in Yili. A comfortable breakfast with a full stomach. Traditional Kazakh potato chips fried with beef, baursak and milk are all rich in milk skin [naughty]
Building 6⃣️ of the hotel apartment has a small gym and laundry room equipped with three washing machines and dryers, and you can see that the canteen is also actively preparing for opening soon as a public laundry place.
The hotel yard is large, with lake views, rich vegetation, known as the Yining Botanical Garden, 108-year-old Xinjiang poplars, historical buildings, large water towers, and the remains of the east gate wall of the Tsarist Russian Consulate a hundred years ago. It is a historical existence like a living fossil. There are also some old historical buildings of old Soviet Russian bungalows that remain.
Building No. 5 is the ”Yizhongyuan” hotel contracted by foreign parties. So the question is, where is the old building of the Yili Hotel in my memory? Has the building you came and stayed here more than 20 years ago been demolished, leaving regrets and questions 🤔️Where is the hotel in your memory?
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