Regency Hotel Shantou
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Finding an ideal hotel in Shantou does not have to be difficult. Welcome to Regency Hotel Shantou, a nice option for travellers like you.
For those interested in checking out Longhu Haiwan Bridge (1.6 mi) while visiting Shantou, Regency Hotel Shantou is a short distance away.
Rooms at Regency Hotel Shantou offer air conditioning and a minibar providing exceptional comfort and convenience, and guests can go online with free wifi.
24 hour front desk, room service, and a concierge are some of the conveniences offered at this hotel. A pool and an on-site restaurant will also help to make your stay even more special. If you are driving to Regency Hotel Shantou, free parking is available.
If you’re looking for a sushi restaurant, consider a visit to Lian Hua Su Shi Fu, which is not far from Regency Hotel Shantou.
Regency Hotel Shantou looks forward to welcoming you on your visit to Shantou.
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It looks pretty impressive from the outside, and I was quite pleased with the room when I first entered. In the evening I did see a medium sized cockroach climbing up the wall (which was quickly despatched to hell by my shoe)
I ordered room service last night, which was a struggle as always in China. I ordered a hamburger and apart from being slightly brown on the outside, the meat was completely raw. Didnt bother to complain though, it's too much like hard work being a non Chinese speaker.
If anyone is into this sort of thing, at 10pm a rather attractive girl rang on my doorbell and offered me sexual services for 600 RMB.
She said she was from the hotel sauna. When I said no thanks she asked if I wanted another girl sent up instead.
I wonder if this happens to all male guests, or maybe the lady at room service REALLY misunderstood my order!
So anyway I went to bed (alone) and discovered it was quite hard (the bed, not anything else). This was disappointing as I had been looking forward to a good nights sleep. As it was I woke up at 5.30 am and didnt sleep again.
My room without breakfast was less than 500 RMB, but internet is extra and there are little irritations like no free drinking water available (you have to purchase a bottle from the minibar for 30 RMB - which is more than a bottle of Heineken!)
I have stayed in a lot lot worse hotels than this one, but I was just disappointed after my first sight of the hotel and thinking this was going to be a top class stay.
Service was pretty good though. And I don't mean the lady of the night, I didnt take her up on her offer, honest!
Definitely a 5 star when was built, now I will rate it in the lower segment of 4*. It needs renovation fast, starting from carpets, bed linen to the bath accessories.
Bad mattress is really hard, but surprisingly comfortable. Wifi works decent - no VPN preinstalled - so only china allowed apps.
Breakfast is Chinese, however anyone can find something to eat. Coffee not so good.
At -1 floor a good Chinese restaurant.
At 5th floor an interesting KTV which you could enjoy.
The bed was quite hard, and I had difficulty sleeping on it. The carpet was somewhat dirty. Overall, it was acceptable for the price, and it was convenient for the meetings I was attending. Just don't eat or drink anything in the hotel.
What is of concern, is a lack of English staff on hand when you need them. There are a couple, but for a place with 500 rooms, two is too little by far.
The food here was a complete joke. The steak was so bad, the most painful part was that I had to pay for it. How can you get a steak wrong? Want a beer with your meal? Oh you will wait for that. You will likely have your sub-standard food long before you taste that beer.
The restaurant is typical of the mainland, one person on his phone talking to someone on the moon I expect, given the volume of conversation, another emptying the contents of both nostrils into the cloth, whilst another next to me needed a trough, rather than a plate to eat from. Guess I can't blame the hotel for this though.
But what I can blame them for, is internet performance that is SO bad, that I wasn't able to effectively work during my stay. I did some digging and found they have a mere 100Mb/s link, for a 500 room hotel. What penny-pincher came up with that decision I wonder...
Another downside I noticed, was that the wonderful 'Rocky Lounge' in the basement, which had live music, dancers, great bar etc, is now a parking lot. What. A. Shame. I guess they had no choice as the area around the hotel, which was once sparse when the place was built, is now metropolis. Indeed, the area is almost unrecognizable after so much time...
So Regency - improve the quality of the food, and the internet, and I'll be back.
"Stay at the back of the hotel where you don't have the main road. Just prepare yourself for typical Chinese hard mattresses."Read full review
"Always ask for a western "Non smoking" room, these are much nicer and cleaner and only no smell of cigarette smoke."Read full review
"Ask for a City view room on a higher floor away from the elevator. Even if you are a smoker you might want to choose a non smoking room and smoke down in the lobby area. The smoking rooms are terrible."Read full review
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