Rhino Holiday Inn
About this hotel
Nothing else in this list comes close on price, and the position is better than the rate suggests. This sits a short taxi ride from Dalian Russia Folk Street, the strip of imported façades near the port, which puts it inside the old-centre grid where the 201 and 202 trams run and where an evening actually exists. For an event at Dalian Sports Center that means a metro route west from the Victory Square interchange rather than a long haul in from the Development Zone. Facilities are as thin as the price implies: no breakfast, no bar, no parking. Rooms are basic and the building is unremarkable. Fans staying here are buying the cheapest bed in a city where the useful thing is not luxury but being on the right side of the map when a crowd starts leaving Ganjingzi, and on that measure it does the job.