Hi Lawrence

Welcome can't help with your question/registering about getting a Chinese Licence in GZ but with hotel check out here

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g...Vacations.html

maybe some help here all that i can say with most of the cheap hotel we not take you in as you have a foreign passport ??? but that we come down to how bad they need your money so good luck but remenber driving in china is not like any other place in the world so take time to get used to the strange driving habit lol