The Shenzhen Flora hotel is not a good place to stay if you cannot speak and read Chinese well. I had been studying Chinese for about 3 months, solidly, and thought my skills would be sufficient, but they weren't! The staff there do not speak English, well accept for the night manager who spoke a few words, so the whole communication process was somewhat difficult. An example was while booking in, I was handed a credit card receipt for over 2500RMB. My bill would only have been about 1200, so naturally I was concerned that I had been charged the wrong rate. Eventually I figured out that it was a deposit!
I stayed in one of the middle ranging rooms, it was big, but the facilities were poor, or at least compred to what one expects of a 3 star hotel in the west. Everything was in a state of disrepair, there was damp on the ceiling and the wardrope smelt damp too. The shower was a joke and the water wouldn't stay in the bath.
They provide you with a thermos of hot water, but by... more