SinoStay China Travel Data
A data-first guide to travelling in China, written for foreign visitors: hotels that state they accept foreign passports, attractions with English names, the railway stations that look alike, and trip budgets worked by origin country.
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About SinoStay China Travel Data
SinoStay is a travel reference for foreign visitors to China. It is organised around one observation: the questions people ask before a trip are practical, and most travel writing answers a different set. A hotels section lists properties that state in their own listings that they accept foreign guests, each with its Chinese name, address and phone number, so a booking can be turned into a taxi ride. An attractions section gives English names, opening hours and ticket information. A transport section covers airports and railway stations, paying attention to the station names that catch visitors out, because several cities have two stations whose names differ by a single character. A costs section works through trip budgets by origin country, showing which parts are fixed and which move. Beside the datasets sits a wiki of short answers on visas, payments, SIM cards and train classes, and a journal documenting the dataset as it grows.
Key features
- Chinese name and address for every hotel and attraction
- Printable taxi card with the address in large characters
- QR code that opens the map on a phone
- Railway station names, including the pairs that look alike
- Trip budgets worked by origin country
Who is this website for?
First-time visitors to China who do not read Chinese: independent travellers, families and business visitors planning the trip themselves.
What can visitors do here?
You are outside a railway station in Chengdu with a booking and no Chinese. Open the hotel entry, show the driver the printed Chinese address, and the ride starts without anyone calling the front desk.
What makes it different?
Each entry prints the Chinese name and address rather than a romanised one only, and the site publishes the data it is built on, so a claim can be checked.
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