Holiday Inn Sanya Bay is a five-star hotel in one of the most chic resorts in South China (Hainan Island). The hotel positions itself as a beach resort, and indeed, from the sea it is across the road. The hotel is suburban, relatively new. It was built in two thousand and five. The hotel is a network hotel, belongs to the Intercontinental line. Travel programs are organized here by the international Holiday Inn group, which has opened its second hotel in Sanya in the last ten years. Both of these companies offer you relaxation and service that meets the requirements of all international standards. No wonder the number of Russian tourists both on Hainan Island as a whole, and in Sanya, is growing every year. Rest here is prestigious, not very expensive and completely safe.
How to get and when it is better to go
Sanya is a Chinese resort hosting tourists all year round. Although formerly guilty officials were exiled to the area, everyone is now happy to visit local beaches. Even the rainy season in Sanya is almost invisible, and temperature fluctuations are minimal. The high season depends on the holidays that tourists come to celebrate, and not at all on the weather or climate. The fewest people in Sanya are in the summer, when the sun can burn, and strong waves rise at sea. Typhoons are possible in October or September, but in practice they are rare. Sanya has the Phoenix International Airport, which is located eleven kilometers from the city center and very close to our hotel. Regular flights of Aeroflot, South and East Chinese Airlines fly here, as well as Hainan Airlines. True, only charter planes arrive here from Moscow without changes. A transit stop is best done in Wuhan. A big plus of the Holiday Inn Sanya Bay hotel, the photo of which will satisfy any tourist with taste, is that if you fly directly to Sanya Airport, then you will be brought here first and taken last. But if you do not arrive in Phoenix, but in another hub, know that you will have to drive from three to five hours to the hotel.
Sanya, Yalong Bay
The bay where the Holiday Inn Resort Sanya Yalong Bay is located is considered the most prestigious place in the vicinity of the city. It is built up mainly of five-star hotels with beautiful gardens and fancy shaped pools. On three sides, the bay, with a length of almost eight kilometers, is surrounded by mountains that look great in any weather. This area is as if created for a quiet and relaxing holiday for tourists. You can wander for days and evenings on many kilometers of beaches and brightly lit promenade. Few people have fun; there are walking and cycling paths. The sound of the surf, a fresh sea breeze. From time to time there are special dance venues where music is constantly played. It’s safe and beautiful to walk in the local mountains, where giant trees and beautiful waterfalls meet every now and then.
Location near the hotel
Holiday Inn Sanya Bay is located a few kilometers from the most interesting sights of Sanya. This is the End of the World Park, Nyanshan Temple Complex. To the center of the capital of Sanya, as well as to the airport of the island and its sea gate, about fifteen to twenty minutes. And to such large Chinese cities as Beijing or Shanghai, you need to get three to four hours. The hotel is located in the central part of the coast. At the gates of the hotel there is a bus stop for buses to the center of Sanya and the main attractions, the ticket costs depending on the distance - three to four yuan (27-35 rubles) one way. To the left of the entrance there are stalls with fruits, essentials, drinks, mosquito and midge bites, tourist shops where they offer trips around the island. A little further in the same direction - an inexpensive cafe with seafood.
Holiday Inn Sanya Bay: hotel description, territory
The area of the hotel and its surrounding park is more than twenty-seven square kilometers. The design of its buildings and parkland is modern, stylish and chic. It is implemented by the American companies "AJ-DG" and "Smallwoods." The hotel is designed in such a way that the West and East islands are visible from its buildings. The hotel has free parking for guests. There are thermal springs right on site. The park area is very well maintained. There are secluded arbors with tables, armchairs and deckchairs, set in picturesque places. The territory, although small, is tasteful.
Where do the guests live?
The hotel complex Holiday Inn Sanya Bay - more than three hundred and twenty stylish rooms with an original design. The vast majority of them belong to the "luxury" category. From the windows of these rooms you can see the sea, a courtyard with a pool or green mountains, as if descended from the works of famous Chinese schedules. They are very large in size - forty-six square meters. There are thirty-one executive numbers. They are similar in terms and conditions to the "suites". But twenty representative apartments are truly huge. Their area is ninety-six square meters. In addition, they have very large balconies, from where you can see both the sea and the mountains. The Holiday Inn Resort Sanya Bay also has a so-called "business floor" for VIP clients. Its residents can enjoy not only breakfast included in the price, but also tea, coffee, cocktails. All rooms have satellite TV (one Russian channel), good internet, ironing board with iron, hairdryer, fridge and minibar with two bottles of mineral water that are brought daily. In the rooms you can prepare green or black tea, Nescafe - for this there is everything you need, including glasses and spoons. The beds are equipped with hard and soft pillows from Slumberland, and water flows from the thermal spring into the bathroom. The rooms have fumigators, in case mosquitoes appear. The cleaning is daily and impeccable, the bed and towels shine with white. All rooms include bathrobes and slippers. Cosmetic supplies are given - soap, gel, shampoo, rinse aid, toothbrushes with mini-paste, wipes, shower cap. You will have to pay extra for a room with a sea view.
How tourists are fed
Hotel Holiday Inn Resort Sanya Bay 5 * boasts amazing cuisine with excellent cooks. The Lin Nan Sui Yaan Restaurant serves buffet and à la carte Chinese-style dining. This is mainly the cuisine of the provinces of Guangdong and Hainan. You can try local delicacies such as shark fins, abalone, swallow’s nests. A restaurant with European dishes also works here, if Chinese ones seem too unusual to you. It is called "Marina", and here you can have breakfast, lunch and dinner. The restaurant is located in a traditional Chinese garden. On the ground floor of the hotel building, in the lobby, there is a bar. It is stylized as a Chinese tavern for the rich, with a painted ceiling and carved columns. Breakfast is in the local style, although you can find the usual dishes. From meat - bacon, sausages, sausage, steamed samsa and manti. They also serve cheeses (including tofu) and eggs as you wish - boiled, fried eggs, scrambled eggs with seasonings ... There are yogurts with cereals, honey, and various jams. Good coffee and tea from the machine. Large selection of noodles and chowder soups. There are many sauces and marinades, so you can combine the gravy for dishes yourself. The same is with seasonings - if the food seems fresh to you, you add spices to taste. Of course, there is always rice, as well as a mass of baked and stewed vegetables and mushrooms. Good and tasty pastries, which always use poppy seeds, nuts, different grains, sesame seeds. There are also various spring rolls. A lot of fruits - watermelons, melons, pineapples, tangerines, "dragon's eye", grapes. Fruits include cherry tomatoes. Good at the Holiday Inn Sanya Bay hotel (China) and dinners. They are also served in the form of a buffet, where you can choose dishes that you can eat immediately, or they are prepared for you on a burner or grill. Pork, chicken, fish, many kebabs, seafood (crabs, shrimps, mussels, scallops). On a sweet table are airy biscuits with different layers. The drinks at dinner include yellow tea and a bottle of beer per person.
Services
Holiday Inn Sanya Bay has a gift shop in the lobby. Seminars and conferences are often held here, especially since they have all the necessary equipment and halls. The hotel is ready for celebrations, receptions and banquets. At the same time, more than two hundred people can feast there, and the buffet table can be organized for almost four hundred people. Here you can rent a car or bike for trips around the island, exchange rubles for local currency, as well as wash clothes. This hotel is often visited not only for tourism or beach holidays, but also to improve its health, so it can be safely called a kind of exclusive sanatorium. The hotel has a wellness center with a whole program of different procedures - it includes massages of various types (including traditional Chinese, for the feet), therapy with water, fish, and much more. There is a beauty salon, a gym. SPA treatments are available from eleven in the morning until ten in the evening, and fish therapy is available a little earlier, from nine. If you come with children and want them to have fun, but at the same time want to relax from them too, the hotel will be happy to help you. From eleven in the morning until late in the evening, the teachers will deal with the kids, so that you can "pass" them after breakfast and "receive" already before bedtime. For children there is a playground, slides, sandpit, a living area with rabbits and chickens. In the evenings, a music group from the Philippines entertains guests. At the reception - free wi-fi. Once a day, a shuttle bus departs from the hotel to the Sanya pedestrian and shopping street (takes you to McDonald's). There he goes at one o'clock in the afternoon, back at five in the evening.
Sea and sun baths
The Municipal Beach is literally a few steps from Holiday Inn Resort Sanya Bay Park. Reviews assure: in order to get there, you need to cross a narrow road with very little traffic. The water is clean, the entrance to the sea is sandy. There are not very many people. The sand is small, pleasant. The water temperature in winter is not tropical - about twenty-three degrees or slightly higher, but it gives a feeling of coolness. In the summer, she warms up to thirty. There is always a small surf that does not stop swimming at all. The beach is safe, security guards work. The bathing area is surrounded by buoys. There are umbrellas and sunbeds. By regular bus directly from the hotel you can still get to one beach - Yaluvan, insanely beautiful, with clear turquoise water. In the hotel beach towels are issued without any problems and deposits. And the sea can be accessed directly in the hotel bathrobe. From nine in the morning until eleven in the evening, the Holiday Inn Resort Sanya Bay 5 has a tropical thermal pool. Depth is different. Around him there are many sunbeds. After sunset, a barbecue is arranged by the pool. There is a children's "paddling pool" in the hotel.
Excursions
Of course, tour operators will not leave you alone at the Holiday Inn Sanya Bay. Reviews, however, advise buying excursions from local residents. Otherwise, you will be taken to the center of Chinese medicine and offered a small sightseeing tour. If you contact your local travel agency, you will be provided with a good car with a driver and an individual program. Of course, on this island there are no ancient temples or palaces, but the lush nature may well replace them with you. Landscapes "End of the World" is a kind of "rock garden" where bizarre boulders with romantic names are scattered along the sea. Admire nature and on the mountain "Deer turned his head." It is especially beautiful there in the evening. But in the daytime, you can have a great time there, especially since you have a lot of attractions at your disposal, in particular, toboggan. Be sure to visit the Pearl and Plantation Museum where it is grown.
Holiday Inn Sanya Bay 5: reviews
Hotel guests praise both the hotel and the surrounding area primarily for a comfortable climate for relaxation. There is no heat, no suffocating wet heat. A cool breeze often blows here, but it does not get cold at all. Guests really like the proximity of the hotel to the sea - from any room to the beach no more than three minutes walk. Vacationers responded positively that it is quiet, the public is mostly decent. True, many complain about the restrictions of the Chinese government regarding Internet access. For example, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are banned in the country. Catering tourists organized very competently. Many people like that often you can choose a dish raw or as a semi-finished product, and everything else is prepared with you and add those sauces and seasonings that you specify. Although “all inclusive” works here, most of the guests eat half-board at the Holiday Inn Sanya Bay 5 *, and dine in the city (unless, of course, there is still room in the stomach after such an abundant “buffet”). The most popular dishes are Peking duck and lobster. You can call a free transfer from the hotel to any cafe or restaurant in the city, which, of course, cannot but please tourists.