Yelan Bay Resort — Hotel in Sanya City

Great hotel location with clean picturesque beach area across the road. Cosy hotel with dining room on the first floor with a quite a variety of tasty food.||The bathroom has all the necessary stuff: slippers, bathrobe, toothbrush and toothpaste, a comb, shower cap, shower gel, shampoo. Room service was perfect. The only disappointment for us was the absence of refrigerator.Also, there was a teapot with glasses, teacups, teaspoons and 2 black and 2 green tea bags for having tea at the balcony or in bed.||There was a little store in the hotel where you could buy snacks, drinks and some other stuff (umbrella, swimming suit etc).||Time recommended for safe swimming in the sea 7am-7pm, and the pool was available 6pm-11pm.||The bus stop is right near the hotel, so you can easily go sightseeing and shopping downtown.||For us as a couple it was perfect hotel: quiet and green, warm sea nearby, not crowded beach and bus stop nearby so we could visit lots of wonderful unique places.||The restaurants are situated 15-20 minutes walk from the hotel. So it's great to take a nice walk before and...

I booked a "180-degree seaview room" with balcony for only around Rmb339 (~30 Euro) per night (breakfast included) in July. The room price is definitely low in Sanya. The hotel is a small one, but still consists of a swimming pool, chinese restaurant (western restaurant is not open) and a bar. While the hotel is not well decorated and is not of 4 or 5-star hotel standard, it is clearly a value-for-money one.||||Unlike the popular Yalong Bay, Sanya Bay is signficantly less crowded. The beach is free. No need to pay! The hotel is located especially in the rural area. It is thus very quiet.||||However there are some drawbacks. Very few restaurants are within walking distance. Guests can only dine at hotels if ones don't go out. Food is nonetheless reasonable priced relatively in Sanya. Each dish of chinese food costs arond Rmb60. Secondly, I encountered electricity suspension for few hours during my stay. Hopefully, it was an...

A really excellent location as so close to the beach and I was lucky enough to have a room overlooking the pool and sea which was great. The pool looks lovely and the rooms are spacious and generally clean. Very hard matresses (this seems to be something Chinese customers prefer). The hotel was geared up for the Russian market and all signs were either in Chinese or Russian so very difficult for the English speaker. Also none of the staff spoke English (not sure about the Russian!). What let the hotel down was the restaurant in particular but the general 'shared' areas such as the lobby. It all looked a bit tatty and I am amazed to find the hotel was only built in 2007 - it really hasn't been looked after very well for a hotel of that age. Personally I would like to visit the area again as only had limited time and it was an interesting place to go but would probably look for a different hotel in the same...