Tanyue Howard Johnson Holiday Hotel — Hotel in Huizhou

We came for a long weekend in May to help us get through the school year before summer break. Getting here is a bit tricky from Shenzhen. You can either hire a driver or string together metro, train, and 30-45 minute DiDi ride. We did the later and it worked fine, though there was more traffic then expected leaving the hotel Sunday afternoon. ||This hotel has been through at least two different owners and it shows as some parts of it are simply not kept up, like some small pools by ground floor rooms, and a fence added around the water park/ pools to make getting in and out more difficult. ||Our room was a suite with a separate bedroom for our daughter. The kitchen had room for someone who might stay longer and do some light cooking with a good size fridge. The balcony was nice if sparsely furnished. Our friends upgraded to a hot tub on their balcony, something we would do next time. ||We only ate at the hotel for breakfast. The buffet was not included on our reservation but was fairly inexpensive. It had a decent balance of Western and Chinese options. It was crowded around 9:30 or so each morning, so I would go earlier especially if traveling with a larger party. Our first night ate a place on the beach where you can pick out your food to grill. It was a little more expensive because it was on the beach. |We ate another night at a seafood place nearly across the street from the hotel front. I would not recommend it. The seafood quality was questionable and at least 2 people from our group had food poisoning the next day that may or may not be from the restaurant. I especially remember the shrimp being of questionable quality. If you know how to use the app Metuin, you can order quite a few items delivered to the hotel including food. Hotel staff should be able to help you with this. The staff were quite helpful when we had to contact them a few times via WeChat to address a balcony door that wouldn’t shut properly and to ask for a late check out. ||The bar/ cafe area inside the hotel has at least on the weekend live music, which when we were there, consisted of a keyboard player and singer, covering mostly Western songs. ||The beach area is fine, if steep .The water was too cold to swim in. We stayed around the infinity pool inside the hotel property. We appreciated not having to wear swim caps, which is a common requirement in most Chinese run pools. We would come back again perhaps when the weather is warmer to take full advantage of the beach and to walk up and down the beach to explore more of the area. I do thought agree with other reviews that the area has loud fireworks at night that go quite late. I would bring earplugs or have some white noise ready on...

Yes it is an international chain, a Howard Johnson Sandalwood hotel. Yes its designer is somewhat known. The resorts appearance does look quite nice, the lobby is wide , opened and pretty. For a moment I thought i was in Danang's Intercontinental Hotel, but this feeling did not last long. The property is huge. There are 5 different towers if i recall properly. One is for residents , two for rooms , and one for the hot spring. The rooms are spacious and I have nothing to complain about it , the balcony has its own private hot spring tub which was amazing. View was nice too, facing the beach! Beds were comf and we paid around 1200 RMB / night on a Sunday night. Public hot spring facility - there are at least 10 different tubs each with a different scent, outdoors , very nice. Its the people, the service and the maintenance that is the problem. Dinner was buffet, and the chinese mentality towards buffet has lack of etiquette. People take two plates and take as much food as they can and bring it back to their tables, when you line up after the bunch of hungry guests you'll probably have 3 shrimps left from the counter to get food. It felt like it was a free meal and everyone has been starving for months. I didn't have appetite seeing the crowd and the food. Although i must say there was a big variation of food selection. Limited alcohol though.||||Staffs aren't really well trained, at least not to international standard. They dont really know what they are doing, serving, they lack motivation and just simply dont' care. ||||Hotel bar isn't very good either. although nice view. ||||The location is seriously in the middle of no where. Hui Zhou is a newly developed town and a lot of upcoming residential buildings. But the surrounding at the moment are just farms and roads. You can't get here without a car. Theres no convenient store nearby either. You must speak Chinese if not you wont' survive. I tried so hard to call a cab to send me back to Shenzhen the next day, I ended up paying 700 RMB. If i called the hotel car service it would cost me 1000 rmb. ||||To be honest, I did not enjoy my stay at all although it was a nice sleep and good bath in my balcony. The guests who goes there are mainly Chinese people from nearby cities/ towns. The neighborhood isn't developed yet and there aren't enough facilities within the property to fully satisfy guests. ||||I wouldn't recommend this and I would not come back. But if you're stuck in China or near by Hui zhou and would like to have a simple getaway, this could be your choice. I'd prefer to go to Hai Nan Island...

Yes it is an international chain, a Howard Johnson Sandalwood hotel. Yes its designer is somewhat known. The resorts appearance does look quite nice, the lobby is wide , opened and pretty. For a moment I thought i was in Danang's Intercontinental Hotel, but this feeling did not last long. The property is huge. There are 5 different towers if i recall properly. One is for residents , two for rooms , and one for the hot spring. The rooms are spacious and I have nothing to complain about it , the balcony has its own private hot spring tub which was amazing. View was nice too, facing the beach! Beds were comf and we paid around 1200 RMB / night on a Sunday night. Public hot spring facility - there are at least 10 different tubs each with a different scent, outdoors , very nice. Its the people, the service and the maintenance that is the problem. Dinner was buffet, and the chinese mentality towards buffet has lack of etiquette. People take two plates and take as much food as they can and bring it back to their tables, when you line up after the bunch of hungry guests you'll probably have 3 shrimps left from the counter to get food. It felt like it was a free meal and everyone has been starving for months. I didn't have appetite seeing the crowd and the food. Although i must say there was a big variation of food selection. Limited alcohol though.||||Staffs aren't really well trained, at least not to international standard. They dont really know what they are doing, serving, they lack motivation and just simply dont' care. ||||Hotel bar isn't very good either. although nice view. ||||The location is seriously in the middle of no where. Hui Zhou is a newly developed town and a lot of upcoming residential buildings. But the surrounding at the moment are just farms and roads. You can't get here without a car. Theres no convenient store nearby either. You must speak Chinese if not you wont' survive. I tried so hard to call a cab to send me back to Shenzhen the next day, I ended up paying 700 RMB. If i called the hotel car service it would cost me 1000 rmb. ||||To be honest, I did not enjoy my stay at all although it was a nice sleep and good bath in my balcony. The guests who goes there are mainly Chinese people from nearby cities/ towns. The neighborhood isn't developed yet and there aren't enough facilities within the property to fully satisfy guests. ||||I wouldn't recommend this and I would not come back. But if you're stuck in China or near by Hui zhou and would like to have a simple getaway, this could be your choice. I'd prefer to go to Hai Nan Island...