This hotel is located next to the Swisotel (Hong Kong Macau centre) and is a small notch below the Swisotel in decor. However, I find it to be adequate for my needs. A Starbuck is near by and across the street (Gongti Beilu) are a number of restaurants, mainly for the locals. The more famous one, Morel, is there and within walking distance. It is one of the restaurants frequented by foreigners, but with reasonable pricing. So if you don't want to eat in the hotel and want to shy away from Chinese food, Morel will be a good choice.

Service of this older hotel is good. It has a gym and a very large swimming pool. My room was fairly large and clean. Taxis are available at the hotel entrance most of the time. A subway stop is a 5-10 minute walk away.

It is not a plush hotel but I enjoyed my stay (in Sept 2011) and have no issue with coming back again.

We were put up in this hotel by some well placed friends on their expense account.

They were charged over 2000 yuan a night , must be corporate "govt /buisness pays-so who cares" rate. But nothing like what is currently available .

Rooms comfortable but maybe not 5 star.

Everything worked except the air conditioning.....the rooms overly hot and you could only open a small window to reduce the temperature......still in low teens(c) outside,,,,but downside...the noise of city aircon outside negated the" fresh" air.

Buffet breakfast more suited to asian palate but you could get by with cereals fruit etc eggs bacon and good coffee.....but the toaster did not work or only intended to warm the bread,

Service a bit vague but picked up on ehe last days.....maybe due to a change of staff.

Overall comfortable, convenient location, short work to subway, resturants, banks and Australian embassy . Very cosmopoltian feel in the area with many westeners walking the streets.

Bottom like, nice hotel but overpriced

I stayed at the hotel because it was a conference venue. Billed as 5 star, I would rate it as Chinese 4 star at most. The room is spacious, clean, with all proper amenities, coffee/tea making facilities, hairdryer, crt tv, slippers, robe etc. Nothing to complain about for the price u pay.

The nicest surprise was getting free internet access and not too bad access at that. The nastiest part is - the ongoing renovations which start at 8am and ends at 6pm and the cigarette smoke that invades your non-smoking room no matter what!

I dined at the hotel's F&B outlets more times than I desired due to work commitments. The Cherry Tree Cafe is nothing to yell about. The breakfast is typical oily fare with an egg station, noodle station, usual continental and asian breakfast stuff. I had room service: nasi goreng - pls give it a miss, too oily, bland and American portioned! and wanton noodles (if you come from Spore/Msia, it's not the kind of yellow noodles you might expect). But all in all, I'd say the food is decent at the 3rd floor Xinjiang restaurant (we were hosted to 10 course meal) and the Little Boat House. The Little Boat House has these little boats docked and floating on water. It was just odd to sit in a rocking boat having a meal. I suppose it's a novelty for the lao wai but really, it's quite annoying cos it rocks left right everytime a service staff comes up to serve you. Otherwise, I really enjoyed the mei2 cai4 kou4 rou4 (mustard greens with belly pork) with porridge.

Hotel health club (again, testament to how much time I'd spent in this hotel!!) - give it a miss unless u really need to have that massage. It's expensive and not that great for service.

Very nice location. in heart of cbd. supermarket, shopping mall very near by. Indian restraunt 5 mins from taxi. only problem is that the rooms and bathrooms are a bit small. (superior rooms). the furniture is typical old style hotel furniture. old crt tv....not an issue but could be better.