An upper floor had been requested, but the desk clerk said it would be too noisy due to “renovation”, so we were assigned to a mid-level room. The “renovation” noise did start first thing in the morning and was heard in the room. Street noise reached the room. Pool noise was also easily heard in the room, even early morning and late evening. The door to the room seemed to be a sound amplification device rather than sound deadening, as all hallway conversation was easily heard, word for word. Having requested a quiet location, we were given a room between two families with children who perhaps were playing midnight soccer outside our door and needed to be heard at the other end of the playing field.
Upon arrival, a pot of tea and a fruit plate consisting of 2 apples, 2 oranges, and 1 banana were brought to the room. Considering it was about 10:30 p.m., it would have been nice if the tea had been an herbal type tea (no caffeine) such as hibiscus, mint or whatever.
The room was a small pentagon shaped room. The size was adequate for one person, a bit crowded for two. The view was of other buildings, the pretty hillside and the pool. The room was clean, but dated and in need of renovation to be a first class hotel. The TV was an ancient tube TV that maybe could be used to heat the room in the winter. There was no DVD/CD player. The rotary temperature control was difficult to read and not precise. Motorized drape and lighting controls were at bedside.
The bed was hard, even though some type of pad had been put on it. The linens, duvet and pillows were nice. The mini-bar refrigerator did not work – everything in it was warm – but they replaced it at our request. However, they put the warm beverages back in and it was a day before there was anything cool to drink.
There was complimentary coffee, tea and bottled water in the room. I didn’t try the coffee, but the tea was low quality. The evening turndown left an Andes mint.
The bathroom was very compact, but nice and equipped with everything necessary. There were separate tub and shower. There was a “volume” knob which didn’t work – probably was to pipe in the house music. The bathroom was equipped with a magnifying mirror, weighing scale, bathrobes, slippers, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, shower gel, bar soap, bath salts, mouthwash, sewing kit, nail file, cotton balls, etc. The hair dryer was decrepit – only 2 settings, very hot slow, and very hot fast – no cool settings, etc.
No writing stationery was provided. A few small envelopes (maybe 3”x5”) and 2 postcards were provided – one of a goldfish bowl, one of the hotel view from the pool. An umbrella was provided.
The hotel location is nice – connected to the Pacific Place Mall, the subway, and near the very pleasant Hong Kong Park.







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