Blue Summer Inn Sanya Bay, Sanya

Period of Stay : 12-15 Sept. 2008 Staff are overall friendly and doing their best to serve their customers. Lack of English proficiency. Dissatisfactions : 1. SPA salon - counter staff lacked of professionalism to entice customers to their different packages and offer. When I asked to charge to my room, she called the front desk to confirm my deposit! You will have to almost 'squeeze' her to provide for more informaiton. 2. Room Service - when my husband asked to refill the minibar, he was asked to pay in cash! Overall is OK. Environment is quiet and good for those whose intent is to solely relax and re-energise your batteries. Lots of rooms for improvement.

the hotel was nice enough very very quiet though no entertainment what so ever around the hotel except the broken record singers they had of a night singing the same songs over and over again. the staff at the hotel were fantastic and couldnt do enough for you the only one problem is their lack of english although they do try. our room was clean an tidy until you looked out the window at the building site and airport at the back which we were not informed about. all in all the hotel was ok but holiday was boring as there is not much to do in sanya at all.

First, this Holiday Inn Resort is more like the Crowne Plaza brand. Most of the clean,spacious rooms overlook the ocean and have a deluxe bath, many with separate shower. Some have folding doors at the bathtub so you look out at the ocean from your oversized bathtub. The property is very well maintained inside and out. The hotel has an eager-to-please staff, not the typical reticent hospitality employees in China. Most know enough English for their job, or find someone who does. They are generally well trained to make the guests feel comfortable and relaxed. The beach is across a narrow road with speed limit of 40 km/hr. The yellow-brown powder sand is clean with a slow drop off in the South China Sea. The large tropical pool has three different depths to accomodate children of different ages, and the adjacent hot fish massage pool is quite an experience for 30Y. During my stay, there were maybe a dozen or two Europeans (mostly German) and a handful of American couples. Most of the guests were Chinese couples and families. This is not the Cancun-type of environment. If you want that, go to one of the other glitzy Sanya beaches. Downtown is a 30Y taxi drive, maybe 15 minutes at most. By all means go there for your dinner, as the typical four-dish dinner is about 70Y for two, versus the 180Y each at the hotel. The included breakfast buffet was ample with a good variety of Chinese and Western dishes. At the exchange rate of 7.67Y to the dollar, you can live well here and eat out every night for less than $100 a day for two. You can spend far more in Sanya, but if you want a nice quiet beach vacation, try the Holiday Inn Resort Sanya Bay. Be sure a pay the little extra for the deluxe seaview rooms, rather than the rooms overlooking reclaimed land and the airport in the rear.

I stayed there in December 2004. The facilities were good and the restaurant at the hotel served great food. It was too bad that the beds were as hard as sleeping on cement. I've never had such a miserable sleepless experience as I had there.

Quite simply this is one of the best hotels we have stayed in. Top class service, decor, food and ambience. Superb value for money. So good in fact that we're planning to spend this coming Christmas there.

dollar for dollar, it a better value than the other 2 five-star resorts on the same beach. Also your room is much closer than the beach than the others. Hilton is building a resort there, keep an eye on that too, might see you there