I stayed in a suite while attending a board meeting in Urumqi. This hotel was selected for the meeting in part because there were several non-Chinese attendees, so an international class hotel was needed. For a hotel affiliated with an international chain, the Keminski Urumqi does not meet the basic requirement of having staff in most departments who speak English.... more

Urumqi is one of the farthest, if not the farthest, point of land from an ocean, yet this hotel which clearly is targeting Hong Kong business travellers (the Cantonese word "hoi" is "hai" in Mandarin Chinese and means "ocean") still decided to give it a fish theme--from the wall-sized aquarium in the lobby (which attracted little local children who pounded... more