Spirited Silky Inn（ncient Dali City）

The environment is nice and I took many nice photos there. Just that the bed is a bit hard. The staffs are friendly and helpful.

We loved our stay in this great hotel. The staff couldn’t do more to help - especially Hui and Wei - thanks so much for all your help. Breakfast is lovely and great to have free laundry facilities at the hotel. The setting is really lovely, as are the rooms and we had great fun dressing up - also free as part of your stay!

The hotel is on itself one of the most beautiful sceneries of the city. Breakfast is great. People are super helpful and they have a good translation system in place. Very convenient to walk to the Ancient Town as well.

Beautiful lobby with gorgeous views, god breakfast with vegetarian options available, walking distance for main old city attractions

We stayed for 3 nights here. It’s in walking distance to Dali old town. While it was a bit hidden, it was nice and quiet. The most beautiful hotel we‘ve been to, with the cutest courtyard imaginable and the amazing atmosphere from the lovely interior, taking you back to ancient times any moment you enter the hotel. The rooms were very clean and the breakfast was tasty. Very accommodating staff and special thanks to Xiao Deng and Xiao Yang who were incredibly helpful, with booking us the cable car up to Ximatan. We‘d definitely come to stay again!

I first heard about this place on Instagram and thought it was so beautiful. Its incredible structure is just as gorgeous when you see it in person. The staff were very accommodating and attentive. It was so cool because they had a machine that translates different languages depending on what you speak. This was the first time I’d ever seen anything like it and found it very helpful as I don’t speak Mandarin. Breakfast isn’t included but you can purchase their set meals for 37 yuan and have it while looking out at the beautiful courtyard. If you need train station transfer, you can easily ask for it for 80 yuan per way which made my check in and check out process smooth. They also allow you to try on their cultural costumes for free. If you need hair, makeup and photography services than it’s 499 yuan. As a solo traveler, I decided to try it out. They were very nice, however I definitely struggled with the very white makeup since I myself am very tanned. In their defense they did their best with trying to give me something darker and in the makeup room it seemed fine. But with the different lighting outside and the camera flash, when I got my pictures back I basically had a ghost face 😞 The foundation also wasn’t applied to my neck and arms, so it was very apparent. I’ve asked the photographer to help standardize my skin so hopefully that helps whenever it’s done. You receive a total of 9 retouches photos as part of the package. However, if you prefer to do your own makeup or are traveling with others then they can take pictures for you instead. The place is very convenient for finding restaurants and if you’re primary goal is the visit the old town. It’s very close by, so I was able to explore easily and then return to the hotel for breaks when needed. Lastly, you can use their laundry machines and get laundry pellets for free. Ideally this is great. But I will say the drying part is dreadful. The instructions say to do the 2/3 rule. However, even when I followed and put a small batch of clothes in it never dried. I tried once for 1.5 hours, then again for another hour, and still nothing. That was probably the only real part that was frustrating.