We are staying at the Morning Sun Hotel in Yanghsuo. It is the cleanest friendliest place I have stayed in the year I have been in China. Frances is the manager and she can speak enough English to be very useful. Most people in Yanghsuo can. We had delays in our train but still we were collected more than 4 hours late to be taken to the hotel.

Rooms are 160RMB per night and extra bed costs 80RMB. The bathrooms are immaculate, no mould and they have a bath tub.

Their website is http://morningsunhotel.com/