Second trip to Hainan to Dadonghai Bay

Written: 7 october 2019
Travel time: 16 — 30 september 2019
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 10.0
The location of the hotel is very good! You don’t need to cross a big road, it’s 6 minutes to the sea along a short road, chifanka is right behind the hotel 50 meters away, the food area is 80 meters away. Leto shopping center right next to the hotel, followed immediately by Winter shopping center. Bus stops are very close.

The hotel opened after renovation in the month of May, a lot has changed. Strong 3+ can be given to the hotel. Cleanliness, everyone tries, cleaners control, they wash the floors even under the bed, the only negative is that there are no balconies.

WI-FI works average, provided that you have installed a VPN at home. In March, Turbo VPN worked well, now it is blocked, I had to install Thunder VPN which did a good job on the 9th floor.

MAPS. ME - Offline maps, navigation helped a lot to travel.

The course was with us $ 1 = 7 yuan.

BREAKFAST takes place on the third floor according to the buffet system, there is a room in the building, under an awning and in the open air.

There is little choice, although almost nothing changes every day - rice, noodles, boiled eggs, meat finely chopped with bones with potatoes or pineapple, lightly stewed vegetables, boiled carrots, corn, cold spaghetti salad, sea mushrooms, pickled cucumbers , fresh salad with cabbage and sweet peppers, mayonnaise, 2 times a week scrambled eggs with tomatoes. From fruits, there were three of them every day - watermelon, pineapple, melon, sometimes something changed to a banana or guava. Tea and coffee drink with milk, sugar. Instead of bread, steamed dumplings, toast, jam and some salty spreads with cheese, pepper, sometimes there were cubes of butter, 2 more types of balls, soy milk, 3 types of soup.

If you wish, you can try everything and decide what suits you from food.
We had lunch and dinner mainly in Sasha's Chifanki, Lina's average price tag is 38 yuan, the portions are large, they took it to go and ate at the tables on the third floor in the hotel, in Oleg's cafe, in the burger they took a whole chicken for 20 yuan, a leg 7 yuan .

We bought Coconut vodka 40 yuan for 0.5 soft pleasant and rice vodka from 18 yuan per bottle, strength 52 * sometimes with the smell of moonshine, sometimes vodka is normal, my head did not hurt.

There are 2 washing machines in the open area of ​ ​ the dining room, drying under an umbrella and an open dryer. Since there are no balconies, this was a way out. You can use it for free, powder from 7 yuan a package in supermarkets. Most of all, I liked the price of the supermarket under the Barry Boutique hotel, 200 meters from the New City hotel, they always gave gifts for sweets and cheaper coconut milk.

ROOM about 25sq.
, on the superior room twin tour, I asked for a room on the 9th floor - they gave 914 a corner window to the road (new windows are completely inaudible from the road), and my friends got 419 (the dining room tables under the window) and every evening someone dine there and noisy. All rooms do not have balconies, the windows open only 5 cm forward, so things do not dry in the room! There is a small cooler without a freezer (heat from the compressor - I dried my swimwear on it)

Towels 2 per person 1 on the floor, bathrobes and bed linen are very white, the beds are comfortable, there are bedside tables, a table, chairs. TV with 1 Russian channel, mirror, kettle, glasses. In the bathroom there is a hair dryer, toothbrushes with paste, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, body cream, cap, comb, ear sticks, soap. Water 0.5 bottle for each, tea and coffee but no sugar.

The first day our air conditioner did not work well, it showed 26.5 degrees.

I turned to the guide Lyuba and we were offered several rooms, 8 by 6 on 4 floors, it turned out that the air conditioner works almost the same, you need to wait longer and it will be 24.5 (which is quite normal for this climate). So in all the rooms below the 9th floor there were no bathrobes, no tea and coffee, no body cream, no hair conditioner. And shampoo and shower gel were in small tubes of 20g. instead of bottles of 30g.

EXCURSIONS - we bought one Yanoda-Glass Bridge with all-inclusive food for $ 54 from the guide, counting all the nuances, it turned out to be more expensive than the local ones by $ 4. But we were taken directly from the hotel, there was a Russian-speaking guide, he led us and took us along all the paths of the park, we were satisfied. With an audio guide, we wouldn't have seen half of it. It was a very worthy lunch, which was not only ice cream and beer too.

Hot springs "Zhujiang Nantian" took from a local near the Zima shopping center for 100 yuan each, I also liked it. Went after lunch from 2pm to 7pm.
00 on the free shuttle bus departs from the Pearl River Hotel. At this time, there are fewer people, you can freely walk through all 38 baths, and especially liked the fish and the pool.

We went by bus 25 to 7 yuan to Yalongbey beach, not impressed.

We went to Sanyabey in Houses of Trees 25 bus for 2 yuan, visited the underground city with a river, shops and cafes, as well as an evening embankment from which the Phoenix Island is clearly visible with illumination, back 8 by bus for 2 yuan.

On the previous trip, we also looked at Sanya a little, went to the park where the Statue of the Goddess Guanyin and made tours for ourselves by bus.

The WEATHER in September was great, the first two days there was a shower every hour, but we were interested. The rest of the days until October was the same weather during the day +30 easy to breathe, light breeze, at night +24 but evaporation and stuffy, water in the morning +26 and in the afternoon +28 very comfortable, very rarely a little stormy, but more often there was calm.
We didn’t see any jellyfish or anything else, the water is very clear for a sandy shore, a smooth entry into the sea.

This was our second trip to the island. Hainan, I hope not the last.

They noted for themselves that they don’t mind having a rest in Hainan, it was in Dadonghai Bay that it remained to see Romantic Park / Romance Park and Atlantis.

Why only Dadonghai! ? Because it’s not boring in the evenings, fruits are at every turn, there are many places to eat and the price is cheaper than other areas, there are several large and smaller supermarkets, a lot of shops and markets, there are no animals on the beach (I mean a flea), you can get in any direction Sanya is comfortable. Say a lot of people on the beach - it does not scare me, we always swam in a forbidden place in the middle of the bay where there are not many people. Sometimes the Chinese were kicked out by the police, no one even looked at us.
Dadonghai is changing before our eyes, half a year ago there was a construction site opposite the road, now many shops and Fast Food opposite Summer have been opened, the facades of hotels and cafes have been updated, the information is outdated, you need to focus only on the latest reviews.

In general, VERY-very beautiful and pleasant! Even a flight of 12 hours did not prevent spoiling the mood.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original