Budget · Dalian Sports Center
Best Budget Hotels Near Dalian Sports Center
Budget hotels near Dalian Sports Center are not clustered at the turnstiles the way they are at an English league ground, so the useful question is which cheap bed still leaves you on a metro line at eleven at night. The honest answer splits three ways: small three-star places in the old centre around Zhongshan Square and Russian Street, a run of low-cost chains out along the Development Zone corridor, and a couple of hostel-priced rooms near Sun Asia Ocean World. Fans who read the map before booking save the taxi fare that would have wiped out the saving.
14 hotels
Budget · Dalian Sports Center in numbers
14
hotels
31€
median price per night
9.1/10
average guest rating
65
traveler reviews
Hotels in Dalian Sports Center
The first thing a cheap bed has to survive in Dalian is the sheer size of the city. Rhino Holiday Inn and Dalian Tiantian International Youth Hostel are the two lowest-priced rooms in this set, and they sit near Russian Street and Sun Asia Ocean World respectively, which is to say inside the old-centre grid where trams 201 and 202 still run and where a walk home is realistic. Xuyuan Hotel Dalian and 大连盛捷港湾服务公寓 are a short hop from Zhongshan Square. All four keep you in the part of Dalian where a late finish is an inconvenience rather than a problem.
The second consideration is the Development Zone trap. Ayaa International Hotel, Atour Hotel Dalian Development Zone Jinma Road Branch, Shiyuan Hotel and Ji Hotel all price well and all sit out past Tongniuling and Five Color City, a long way east of Ganjingzi on the Metro Line 3 corridor. On a normal night that is a fair trade for the rate. On an event night it means checking the last northbound service before you commit, because the corridor is long, the final train leaves earlier than the crowd disperses, and there is no walking alternative.
The third factor is what a low rate actually buys here. Faguo Hotel and Jinyuwan Hotel include breakfast, which matters more than it sounds for an afternoon kickoff when you want to be moving by mid-morning. Ibis Dalian Yida Spring Field Hotel and Holiday Inn Anmao Dalian strip things back to a bed and air conditioning. Yingkou Sanhe Hot Spring Hotel is the outlier, cheap but genuinely distant, near Shanhai Square rather than anywhere useful for the sports complex. Read the district before the star rating and the cheap end of Dalian behaves itself.
Dalian carries its sport the way it carries its architecture, in layers. The city was a football town long before the current stadium existed, its clubs a fixture of the Chinese top flight, and older fans still talk about the ground in Jinzhou as much as the newer complex in Ganjingzi. Match evenings here do not spill into pub streets the way they do in Europe; they spill into barbecue joints and seafood halls, and the noise moves to the metro rather than to a bar.
Budget · FAQ
Rhino Holiday Inn and Dalian Tiantian International Youth Hostel carry the lowest rates in this set, both in the old-centre area rather than beside the complex. Neither is walking distance from the venue, but both sit inside the metro and tram network, which is what makes a low rate usable on an event night.