DO NOT GO TO EF HOHHOT!!! Lou has hit the nail on the head.

The management there are liars, backstabbers and bullies. I work hard, very hard, and all I got in return was constant lies, let downs and insults. It's run by incompetent idiots.

The foreign teachers are expected to behave like performing monkeys on demand, with a minute's notice. - Oh and they have to prepare all the work for such things at the drop of a hat, with no word of thanks or recognition, a nice dollop of criticism though.

Many of the people who get promoted have absolutely no talent or work ethic to be so.. the ones that do deserve to be promoted get so fed up they leave - leaving the morons behind who are on a power trip.

The person who's currently being promoted to DOS has no less than SEVEN complaints of bullying and intimidation made against him, but the Chinese management could not possibly care any less. They'll take the easiest option. The woman who takes charge is just as bad as him. They're like the tweedledum and tweedledee of your nightmares.

The Chinese management are not capable of telling the truth. 'Honesty' is not in their vocabulary. Fuck ups are made time and time again, with down right pathetic and moronic explanations. They frequently make promises they don't keep, make up absolute lies to get away with their mistakes and often try to dump their incompetence on others. Several teachers are sent back to their home countries after a few weeks work, because they constantly fuck up the paper work for their visas.

Decisions are constantly made at the very last minute. The teaching staff are not involved in any decision making (which quite often affects them the most), they're just told what to do at the very last moment (usually left with a hell of a lot of preparation to do and no time to do it in)

Oh and if you're a loyal and hardworking member of staff for a year or maybe even two, don't expect a word of thanks or recognition. Do expect to be ostracised if you don't agree with the morons, do expect to meet absolute bullies who have a very sad life and nothing better to do, do expect to be taken advantage of, do expect to be back-stabbed and slagged off, do expect to be lied to over and over again.

How loyal members of staff have been treated: Fined for flat damage caused by teachers who came before them, being made to live in a dilapidated shit-hole, not being given a release letter at the end of contract, had terms of contact broken, had promises broken, had management form firm partnerships with down-right bullies, and been LIED to again and again and AGAIN!

Having said all this, there are lovely PA's, foreign teachers and CC's there who'd do anything to help you. It's just a massive injustice and shame that the people at the top are scumbags, and have lied, cheated and back stabbed to get where they are.

I don't usually write reviews for anything and have never involved myself in any of these things. But please, for the love of humanity, don't go to EF Hohhot! There is no happiness to be found there!