If you are a frequent business traveler, heck if you are accustomed to decent hotels, I would not reccomend this place
The facilites are very old and dated, from the lobby with torn furniture to the beat up and out dated meeting facilities. It is just not a good hotel by western standards. I guess it was at one time a very fine hotel (maybe in the 1970's) but it definately could use a little updating
We flew in on a Saturday night and arrived about 11pm, the lobby was dark and almost looked deserted, the staff speaks little to almost no english so we were thankful to have a translator with us.
They wanted to "please us" so they were kind enough to upgrade us at no extra charge to the VIP building located next door. Everything in this hotel is very dated and not working well, especially the A/C in the common areas and with our stay being in late August it would have been nice to have some cold air inside the stuff hotel.
The rooms are liek stepping back in a time machine to 1978 and the carpet and the wall paper are all dingy and dirty. The bed was literally as hard as cement (but the pillows were nice and fluffy). The linens were clean and the bathroom was clean but very small and cramped. The televisions are the newest items in the hotel but I woudl say they are also about 15 years old at best and there are only 2 english stations and they are very obscure (not the typical BBC or CNN you find in other hotels around China).
There is only hard wired internet at the desk in the room and no WiFi anywhere in the hotel. You can also forget getting anything printed in the business center if your software is newer than Windows 98.
The food in the restaurant is terrible by any western standards (and I have stayed in some pretty shabby Chinese hotels with bad restaurants), but I guess there is a reason the Steaks were only 24rmb. I suggest you pack a lunch and some power bars becuase the breakfast stinks and the western restaurant is horrible. But they did have a wide variety of very good coffee and they make a great Latte - . . . Joe Sloboda
On the bright side there is a pretty good KTV bar and Spa located on the backside of the hotel with a very attentive and attractive staff
Bottom line . . . try to get a room at the Marriott when in Nanning and avoid this place
- Mingyuan Hotel Nanning
