中山国际酒店 — Hotel in Zhongshan

It's an old Chinese business hotell, ie a very nice attempt to make a high class that fell short on the details. There's a certain charm to that, so I rather like the not quite horizontal fixings etc.||The staff is very nice and service minded, but very few speak English, which is a bit odd for an "international" hotel.||The revolving restaurant on floor 20 serves a nice breakfast buffet, with a number of western items.||The conference facilites are quite good.||However, there are only two non-smoking floors so they quickly run out of non-smoking rooms.||Furthermore, in the rooms, the carpets really should be cleaned now and then. They provide slippers and robes, but as usual not in western sizes.||All flat surfaces (the bathroom countertop, desk, nightstand, table, shelf above refridgerator) really need a good scrubbing.||A few truly odd things are the chess room, the fact that the perfectly acceptable gym doesn't open until 8AM(!), the bar in the lobby closes at 10PM and that the breakfast doesn't open until 7AM.||The immediate surroundings are not particularily charming, but there is a very nice shopping street only a few blocks away and a few nice restaurants nearby (including an excellent italian if you need western cuisine).||All in all, a perfectly decent hotel and quite a...

After the FuHua hotel closed in ZhongShan the ZhongShan International Hotel is a logical choice. Same area, reasonably priced, it even looks a bit like the FuHua with it's revolving restaurant.||No disappointment there, the hotel is clean, rooms are comfortable and well sized, great laundry service etc. The WiFi network appears to be open so I would advice using a TP Link Nano router or similar.||Restaurants are good, although the breakfast is very Chinese oriented so that's something you have to like ( I do! ). Across the street is the Princes ( yup, I know ) Steak House and the hotel is in walking distance from the Friendship Bar and the Pedestrian Shopping Area. So, yes; good hotel. Will it replace the FuHua? Well, that is closed so it's a good alternative. But I will miss the personal attention like a cook who shows what he thing should be the right ingredients for your...

I've travelling all over China for the past 6 years and I guess I know Hotels. Well when I booked it I wasn't expecting much but at least the basic for an Hotel that is rated four stars if I'm not wrong. Anyway nothing near to a four star. Hotel is pretty much old, do not expect personnel to understand your english unless you says the usual sentences needed in a hotel such as check-in check-out and mini-bar. Rooms are pretty much small, bathroom proves the age of the hotel.||||Besides the encounter of a man vomiting right in front of the elevator at 10.30 pm the most funniest (upsetting actually) thing is that having my girlfriend over for one night, the next day she was refused breakfast and told to go to reception and pay in advance while I had left some 100 USD as a deposit.||||Forget WIFI at floors. ||||Poor management, zero flexibility,...