The location of the hotel is quite good. bit far from the city center, but closer to the airport and to the stone forest. It means 30-40 minutes to the airport in not rush hours (60-80 RMB, from the airport with normal taxis, and 150 RMB to the airport with hotel’s organized taxi). The hotel has two wings; the better rooms are in the pricier/west wing (in the main building). The bed and the pillows were comfortable, and the breakfast was also ok. If you don’t want have a dinner in the hotel, you can go in to a huge megastore (opposite to the hotel), which is full with plenty of restaurants. Overall, this was a good stay in Kunming.

This was by far the nicest stay of my thirteen nights in China. While my trip was largely a business trip, the stay in Kunming offered a number of interesting side opportunities, most noteably a trip to the Stone Forest. The Grand Hotel staff was adequate, the breakfast was quite good and the rooms and ambiance were very good. Given the opportunity I will return to this hotel.

I stayed on the executive floor of the hotel, and the room I must say was of a very high standard. It was large, well fitted-out and thoughtfully packed with almost every amenity one would need. The bed was comfortable, as were the pillows and I slept well. I wish though they would do something about the television channels on offer. They are woefully inadequate for someone who does not speak Chinese. The staff was very polite, although some did have problems understanding English. The breakfast spread at the ground floor restaurant was sumptous, although I wish they wouldn't fry quite so many eggs and leave them at the "live" counter for people to pick up. Overall, this was a very nice stay, although the hotel is a bit far from the city centre.

Since we wanted to go to the stone forest, which is in the east of the city, in order to aviod the city traffic, we stayed in this hotel which is in th SE of the city. We had an executive room. The room and bathroom are spacey and clean, the hotel lend us a wifi router to our room. The engineer was very good at setting it up, and made sure it was working on my iPad.

We bought a day-tour pkg (chinese tour guide only) to the stone forest from the hotel travel desk, it was convient since they pick you up from the hotel and a good deal considering the entrance fee to the forest is 175 yuan, but there are a couple of shopping stops in the tour.

Breakfast in the executive lounge was good, has more local dishes than western dishes. I was surprised when was told that the happy hours was over after 6:30pm, which is a bit earlier than western hotel chains.