Daoli Boutique B&B is located in Tao's house, No. 999, Chuansha Wangqiao Road, Pudong New Area, which was built in 1908 and is the former residence of Tao Changqing, a Confucian merchant in the late Qing Dynasty, and belongs to the historical and cultural relics building. Historical change, with the decline of the Tao family, the century-old mansion has become a factory and a campus, the current Tao family house is the location of the Daoli boutique homestay, the Zhongbang Real Estate Group to build the Daoli homestay on the basis of maintaining the original appearance of the old house to add a variety of hardware equipment to the old house to improve its living experience, the modern homestay life into the century-old building.
There are four century-old trees standing near the main entrance of the B&B, which are quite conspicuous. There is a small gate on the left and right sides of the gate, and in the old days of the hierarchy, the gate was the passage for the master and guests to enter and exit, and the servants and maids could only enter and exit the house through the side door. The first courtyard is a 500-square-meter koi pond, with a rockery in the center of the pond and maple trees. The common area in the front hall is furnished with sofas, books, artwork and murals, and many residents are willing to spend their leisure time reading and drinking tea. Passing through the front hall is the second courtyard, where the sculpture table of the artist Mi Qiu and the blue and white porcelain stools of various patterns are placed in the corridor of the courtyard. Passing through Langfang, you will arrive at the residential area of the B&B, which is the location of the bedroom of the lord, lady and son in ancient times, and has now been transformed into 7 rooms. The rooms are minimalist, but equipped with high-quality hardware such as full underfloor heating, Kingkoil mattresses, Italian minotti furniture, washlets, and a washing machine, refrigerator, and kitchen bar with oven in the common space. B&Bs range from 500-1700 per night and can be booked through major group buying websites.
There is a wing room in the old mansion that has been converted into a collection hall, and the collection in it is mostly cigars, wines, old lenses, etc., and the owner claims that each object has a long history. There is also a 2,000-square-meter miniature golf green outside the wing, which is built in accordance with the standards of international golf courses, and the maintenance cost of the lawn alone is as high as 150,000 yuan a year. Please note that only guests staying in suites can experience the golf course for free, and the price of staying in suites is 1,380 yuan/night, and the price of ordinary rooms is 868 yuan/night, and guests in ordinary rooms need to spend 98 yuan/hour experience fee if they want to experience golf.