This is a big hotel with a large lobby and on arrival seemed like it was not very central and located ona busy street. This was ok as we only had one night in Kunming and had arranged to have dinner with our tour guide and his girlfriend (a first in our 43 days in the region).
The room was a good size with the usual hard beds and had free broadband but no network cable. So don't forget to travel with one! The bathroom had a showergel/shampoo dispenser on the wall and the shower was fine.
They were doing building work in the hotel and worked until about 10pm - seems not to uncommon in China.
The hotel had CNN and some other english channels we had not had since we had left Shanghai weeks before so we ahppily settled in to watch a movie after dinner.
Breakfast beat our expectations. We were so excited to find real cereal that we ate two bowls! It is a good buffet and the staff are very friendly.
Can't really comment on the location as we wee picked up in the morning and taken to Lake Dian. For a big hotel that we had our doubts about it turned out to be ok in the end.
- Golden Dragon Kunming
