This hotel has a nice online brochure with fabulous baths and a nice facade. But, when we asked our taxi driver to take us there, he laughed. We should have known. When we got there, it was not like it is pictured on the outside. I'ts not too much different, but you can tell it was dolled up for the picture and they purposely wipe away everything surrounding the building and put it on a whire background.
The front desk clerk smirked as we checked in and requested to hold onto our passports. Had it not been 10pm, we would have gone elsewhere. There were a bunch of men in suits in the lobby having animated conversations. I can't know anything for sure, but my husband and I to this day think it was Chinese mafia but I have no way of being sure of this.
We went to our room and it was if we were the only people on the floor. They had been painting and it smelled like paint (not a deal breaker) but it was like they were purposely putting us on a floor with no one else to keep us... more