Walnut Garden, Yongsheng Village, Hutiaoxia Town, Shangri-La, Yunnan, 674402, ChinaView Hotel Details
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Juanjuan Deluxe Double Bed Room
Stayed in Sep 2025
Couple
8 review
10/10
Outstanding
Posted on Oct 29, 2025
We arrived following our hike and Shaun’s was a welcome paradise. It has a lovely traditional feel and the service is excellent. The room has a fantastic aspect over the valley and all amenities are very good. From here we were able to walk down to the river and spend some quiet and uninterrupted time enjoying it’s majesty. Rosey is a mine of information for travellers. Her English is very good and she gave us lots of local information and arranged onward transport and recommended places to visit in Shangri La. I recommend anyone who walks the trail stays here!
Response from Property: Thank you very much for choose to stayed our place and show people your honest information, you have happy time here will keeping more visitors to know more about our place give us more confidence to keep the place natural and more comfortable, you will have happy holiday every where you visit. Best wishes to you and all the visitors
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Juanjuan Deluxe Double Bed Room
Stayed in Jul 2025
Couple
17 review
10/10
Outstanding
Posted on Oct 6, 2025
Such a quiet and peaceful place, with incredible views. A little far from the main tourist places, but it's only a plus because there are no crowds of tourists and you can see the real life of the locals. The hostess cooks homemade dishes in her restaurant and helped us order a transfer to Linzian directly from the hotel. We would like to go back there again.
Response from Property: Thank you very much for choose to stayed our place and show people your honest information, you have happy time here will keeping more visitors to know more about our place give us more confidence to keep the place natural and more comfortable, you will have happy holiday every where you visit. Best wishes to you and all the visitors
Guest User
Juanjuan Deluxe Double Bed Room
Stayed in Jul 2025
Couple
6 review
10/10
Outstanding
Posted on Aug 20, 2025
Sean wasn't there, so we cannot say much about him. Anyway, his daughter Rosey and her auntie took good care of us. Rosey helped us with transfers and informations (she is an excellent english speaker) while her auntie took care of us on site, cooking express fresh food at every meal we had there. On that, I would suggest to order the meals in advance, because cooking fresh food from zero takes time.
The room we had assigned was a lovely wooden nest with a breathtaking view on the mountain.
Was hard to go away
Response from Property: Thank you for choose stayed in our guesthouse and give us good reviews ,and tell people what you feel the best here!
Loved our stay here! It's a fantastic place to explore the Lower Tiger Leaping gorge as well as go up hiking in the mountains. It's serene, peaceful and not crowded and touristy like the middle or upper sections.
We got the best room with panoramic windows and could admire the beauty of the gorge from the comfort of our room.
Another thing to mention Sean and people working with him were all helpful and genuinely good people
It's absolutely worth sending a few days at Sean's while exploring the suroundings :)
Response from Property: Thank you for choosing to stay and enjoy your stay in our place , if you book the bus ticket from Our Place, bus driver will come pick up you in our place even much more convenient more enjoyable for your journey, we hope to keep the peaceful place for ever for people feeling like being in your home.thanks for the honest information review
Guest User
Chanchan Wooden Twin Room
Stayed in Sep 2025
Family
2 review
10/10
Outstanding
Posted on Oct 21, 2025
Recommend. Will bring groups to stay here again next trip. The services are perfect, kind and very helpful
Response from Property: Thank you very much for choose to stayed our place and show people your honest information, you have happy time here will keeping more visitors to know more about our place give us more confidence to keep the place natural and more comfortable, you will have happy holiday every where you visit. Best wishes to you and all the visitors!
Guest User
Juanjuan Deluxe Double Bed Room
Stayed in Sep 2025
Couple
1 review
10/10
Outstanding
Posted on Oct 25, 2025
Very kind and welcoming owners, and lovely to stay in an authentic guesthouse. Thanks!
Response from Property: Thank you for choose stayed in our guesthouse and give us good reviews ,and tell people what you feel the best here!
Guest User
Comfy Family Room
Stayed in Aug 2025
Traveling with friends
8 review
10/10
Outstanding
Posted on Sep 12, 2025
The staff was very accommodating and tried to fulfill our needs. Rosey, the daughter, was very helpful with all our transportation bookings and hike recommendations. For the price we paid, it was value for money. Madam Fang who managed the place while the owner is away, was also very helpful. Great effort for a one-woman show.
Response from Property: Thank you very much for your choose to stayed our place and show people your honest information, you have happy time here will keeping more visitors to know more about our place give us more confidence to keep the place natural and more comfortable, you will have happy holiday every where you visit. Best wishes to you and all visitors
Genya2k
Chanchan Wooden Double Bed Room
Stayed in Sep 2024
Solo traveler
48 review
10/10
Outstanding
Posted on Oct 23, 2024
I had a huge pleasure staying one night at Sean’s place after hiking in the Tiger leaping gorge. Sean was extremely friendly and hospitable, cooked dinner and breakfast for me, and we talked about many things. Sean speaks fluent English (very rare case! so it was a rare opportunity for me, as a traveller, to learn more about local culture. He also organized for me a minivan transfer to Lijiang for a fare price in the morning, that was extremely convenient.
The guest house has a spanning 40 year history, and it was one of the first in the area to welcome foreigners. It’s very maintained, provides with all the essentials amenities, very comfortable, clean and spacious. I felt very rested and tranquil there. And the view is just unbeatable!
It’s just 2km extra walk after the exit from the middle gorge, totally worth it. It provides desired comfort and isolation from the crowds that you may encounter in other places along the way.
Response from Property: Thank you to choose stay with me here , I am happy to talk to all visitors who more interested in nature atmosphere place and protect the gorge for long term development, do not support the shining light and sement, glasses and metal building in the beauty gorge, thank for kindly help me here!
Guest User
Juanjuan Deluxe Double Bed Room
Stayed in Jan 2025
Solo traveler
13 review
9.5/10
Amazing
Posted on Mar 2, 2025
Best part of Tiger Leaping Gorge is this end part where masses of tourists are no longer present. Food is great, nice views. definitely plan more hikes around here, than the traditional first part over halfway guesthouse etc.
Response from Property: Thank to choose and stay with us here, thank you for telling the truth of our area by real trekking, our place are still peaceful and peaceful, be lower our place trekking by along the Yangtze river is very peaceful day trip you will have if you have time join us day trip here, thank for telling more your friends about our place
Guest User
Chanchan Wooden Double Bed Room
Stayed in Apr 2024
Couple
5 review
10/10
Outstanding
Posted on May 26, 2024
I can’t encourage you enough to stay at Sean’s. Tiger Leaping Gorge does not stop at Tina’s. We walked to Sean’s from Tea Horse Guesthouse on our second day of our three day trip around Tiger Leaping Gorge. The only thing that we were disappointed in is that we didn’t come sooner!
Sean’s Guesthouse is amazing, with super clean rooms with everything you need. As well as a common areas where you can view the stars at nice and socialise. The food was amazing and I definitely encourage you to try.
We got to speak to Sean properly on our last morning there and he told us all about how he was there and watched the Tiger Leaping Gorge develop. He’s the most experienced guy there and cares simply for respecting the wildlife. We found he runs tours such as climbing, running, hiking and learning Chinese medicine. We’re so sad we had run out of time as we would love to do this.
Response from Property: Thank you for your choosing and stay in our Sean’s Spring Guesthouse, I am very happy to meet you in our place, also very regrettable for we only have short time chatting here,actually our guesthouse is been running here over 42 years and I am the example to leaning English with helping local people and foreigners visiting gorgeous a lot,we also organize the Yunnan tour trip to help this area orphanage and the leprosy people to get the medicine, I believe you are very kind heart people same as me, wish we can help some one really need help and god will bless us good luck and happy every second
迦勒
Juanjuan Deluxe Double Bed Room
Stayed in Apr 2024
Couple
11 review
9.0/10
Great
Posted on May 3, 2024
We went during May Holiday. While it was quite busy, the staff worked hard to accommodate everyone and provided clean rooms, wine, and good food. It’s about a 25-30 minute walk from the beginning/end of the Hutiaoxia Trail but if you’re mentally prepared for this it’s not so bad. Owner speaks good English. It was unclear if the bus shuttle was running but turns out it was, even though we’d already made other arrangements.
Response from Property: Thank you for your stay and write your opinion to us here, the transportation from here or the other way from lijiang / shangrila is easy get support booking ticket or rent the private car, the bus from here to lijiang and shangrila every day leave here in the 8:30 am, 10 am and 15:00 pm three times, all our guests don’t need worry any thing , thank you again for sharing information and help us !
Stevi Op Reis
Chanchan Wooden Double Bed Room
Stayed in Sep 2024
Couple
7 review
9.0/10
Great
Posted on Oct 22, 2024
The host is a very pleasant man. The rooms are simple but have everything you need after a hiking day. Also Sean is a very good cook and takes really good care of you.
Response from Property: Thank you for the honest review for join our Guesthouse, here we have three houses building, the room quality is also different, depending the room price shows up higher is better and soundproofing with bigger glass windows to view the gorge and mountain, if you booked cheaper room then want to get everything as your wish is bit difficult for if have more people stay, here I can talk to you all my history and what you would happy to know about this area, welcome to join time with us here, thank you for all our visitors!to
Guest User
Chanchan Wooden Double Bed Room
Stayed in Oct 2023
Couple
4 review
9.0/10
Great
Posted on Nov 15, 2023
Great guesthouse and well worth the hike!
Sean is an absolute legend, impeccable English and a fountain of knowledge. He also organized a minibus for us to get back to Lijiang.
Tiger Leaping Gorge trek does NOT finish at Tina’s (contrary what many blogs say); the path continues 50 minutes down the gorge, and then through the Ray of Sunshine trail, which is one of the most stunning parts of the trek. After 1 hour of beautiful views and walking through Walnut Grove, you will reach Sean’s (after a short hike back to main road).
The rooms / bathrooms are a little dated; the food was great.
Response from Property: Thank you very much for your favorable comments on our inn and your recommendation on the route from the semi-tunnel route at the bottom of Zhonghutiao Valley to Walnut Garden Village! Regarding the Zhonghutiao Hiking Exploration Tour, we are happy to hear your positive introduction and comments about this hiking trip. This route is indeed an excellent hiking route. By crossing this route, you can experience excellent scenery and save the time of returning to the original route. Along the way, you will experience miraculous historical monuments and the pastoral scenery of walnut orchards. This is An amazing hike. Regarding the situation of the rooms and bathrooms, we have been working hard to improve the quality of facilities and services to meet the needs of our guests. We offer different types of rooms with relatively different values. We understand that the maintenance and updating of facilities are very important to our guests, so we will continue to pay attention to these aspects and make improvements. Food is an important feature of our inn. Our menu is a rich combination of Chinese and Western food options. We are happy to hear your appreciation of the food. We will continue to work hard to improve the level of catering services and provide guests with more delicious and diverse menu choices. Thank you again for your positive review! I wish you all the best in life!
Guest User
Comfy Family Room
Stayed in Apr 2024
Traveling with friends
1 review
10/10
Outstanding
Posted on May 13, 2024
With two friends, we had a great time at Sean's Guesthouse thanks to the warm welcome of our hosts and the beautiful wiew on the mountain and the flowers of the house.
During our stay of two days, our hosts were very nice to us: the food was delicious (you have a great panel of choice with pancakes for breakfast if you want). The host, Sean always asked if we were well and offered his help for booking a taxi or telling us the way of the walk. The family room was very cosy, quiet and clean. I really recommend you Sean Guesthouse for a stay in the Tiger Leaping Gorges!
Response from Property: Thank you for choosing to stay in our place and give honest review , we are very happy to know you and friends, our Guest House is only place in the gorge building with out steeling and cement , we are more followed and protected the natural environment suited Decoration, so we need more people who like nature to come join our family home stay, thanks again for all your come take good care for us and for yourself too !!