We've stay on this hotel for some business conference together with my friend. The hotel itself is nice and well decorated. Lobby is so beautiful with a lots of venetian decoration.
At the beginning, I was impressed on the hotel's extravagant look. Since they say that this is a 5 star hotel, I'm so excited to enjoy the ameneties. Once we enter the room, my excitement turns to be dissapointments. The room itself is dusty and with stain on carpets. My allergy starts on this hotel. It seems that carpets are not vacuumed or clean. Im not that sensitive to dust but on this hotel, it worsen my allergy. The aircondition is not working properly. Imagine the time we went there is summer season.
The location of this hotel is too far from the airport of Guangzhou. It took us around 1.5 hrs by cab. Comparing this 5 star hotel with other 2-3 star hotels in China, I would say they are just the same. At least for 2-3 star, I have less expectation.
For food, hotel restaurant serves a buffet style and others serving specialty cuisine. The buffet food, I would say is good enough since you can find a lot of cuisine from chinese, japanese, american and french style.
The worst is, other restaurant inside the hotel that serves Chinese dish was terrible. I'm living in China for how many years now and I am accustomed on how they prepare food. But despite the fact that I am accustomed, I cannot accept the fact that the food we are eating have some flies or insect on it. A colleague of my friend found it and it was so disguisting.
Another worst part is the swimming pool. The chlorine content of the pool is too much. You can smell it and you cannot bear it. My eyes turns to red after 30 mins of swimming and I've got a headache due to the smell.
After those experience, I will not stay on this hotel again.