The hotel is very shabby inside and out. The carpet in our room was absolutely filthy and there was lots of mould in the shower.

The location is terrible - in the middle of nowhere about 4 miles out of Beidaihe town centre. I picked the hotel on over the internet because it's next to the beach, but the beach here is actually quite nasty with muddy sand covered in seaweed and litter which goes out about quarter of as mile before you get to the sea. Some of the hotel's publicity photos appear to have been doctored, and show the sea lapping almost right up to the front door of the hotel. This would be completely impossible apart from during a severe flooding situation.

When we stayed here in October 2006, the hotel was less than half full, and most of the facilities the hotel claims to offer were unavailable. The lights were off in the parts of the building where the facilities were supposed to be, and when we tried to get to them, hotel staff would appear and just... more