Metropolitan Hotel Dongguan — Hotel in Dongguan

Stay - January 2020, Floor 13 (Room 1328). 7 nights||||This is a pretty average hotel - Please do not consider it 4 star in any sense.||||The bedsheets are clean, the shower pumps hot water and the laundry is quick and the internet doesn't drop out - Those are the positives I have found of staying here||||The place is full of faded glory - The rooms are sufficiently sized but tatty around the edges, and not that clean. The buffet breakfast is very limited, and is exactly the same everyday (Which can be a little wearing day after day)||||The swimming pool was empty and desolate, and the lights aren't even turned on on the gym floor, I had to find my way with a phone torch. All the cardio equipment is broken, there's no water supply or towels, the place is filthy. Saunas aren't working, even no toilet paper in the mens on the floor||||On the same floor is the dusty shell of a Thai restaurant||||If you get lucky when in your bathroom you can get stale smoke pulled through the air circulation system||||Through the paper thin windows I was woken by a cockerel/rooster every morning from the slums next to it||||The staff are friendly, but it's not a great place...

Stayed here for one night on Nov 9 ||Stayed in the older wing, where the rooms are dated, floor carpet stained. However for the price of RMB 299, with free wifi in the room and flat screen TV, I cannot complain much. Compared to hotels in SZ and CP, RMB 299 for a supposedly 4 stars hotel is a steal. Bear in mind 4 stars in China may not mean the same elsewhere in the world, especially developed countries in HK and Spore.||The hotel host a spa and health centre. Understand the spa has an array of services but I did not have the time to try it out.||The hotel is not exactly near the city centre, but all within walking distance (around 10 minutes walk). ||Food in ZMT relatively cheap. Tried this food joint called 今一靓汤 , food are decent and relatively cheaper than those in CP or SZ.||Will consider returning to this hotel but only staying in the newer wing , which is about...

The foot massage rooms in Metropolitan impressed me most. ||||The massage room we got had four beds with a big TV screen. We could enjoy our foot massage while the kids were watching TV. There were fruits and drinks provided. My massage therapist might not be very professional though as she would be distracted by the TV from time to time.||||It is interesting that the carpet in each of the lift in the hotel indicated the day of the week in Chinese. It showed Xing Qi Liu" (Saturday) on our arrival day. On the next day, it changed to “Xing Qi Ri”(Sunday).||||Trust that the hotel is mainly targeting...