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SOH KIEN PENG
Singapore, Singapore

Yellowish water

Review of Longyuan Hotel
3.0 of 5 bubblesReviewed 30 Jan 2016
We took the bullet train to Wenchang from Sanya. The hotel is not within walking distance from the train station. We took the public bus no. 6 (RMB2) and alighted at the `Gong Yuan' (the Wenchang Public Park and walk for 5 mins and the hotel is just around the corner.

We book the standard double bed room via elong website and it costs us RM128 per night. We stayed here for 2 nights. The room is spacious and there is a wall mounted TV that provides quite a range of entertainment channels. The bathroom shower hose is just in front of the toilet bowl and the space is a bit crammed. Nevertheless, it is clean and well-maintained.

The electrical kettle is not automatically switch off when the water boils and I wonder if it is safe with such manually operated electrical kettle.

What shocked us was the water. We were shocked by the yellowish stained water from the tap and it took us a while to drain off the few layers of yellowish colored water. I am not sure what causes the water to be yellow. Was it the rusty piping or the soil sediments that collected after the tap was not turn on for some time? Or was it the bad filtration system of the water department? I wonder if the authority has expended much resources to improve the quality of drinking water in Hainan.

The breakfast coupon at the hotel was a RMB10 discount for what you consumed. Our breakfast costs us RMB40 and we paid RMB 30 for our breakfast. We had some lotus paste bun, local coffee, pig tendons, etc for our breakfast.

The hotel also caters to wedding banquet and we were excited to see married couples standing early morning at the door entrance welcoming their guests to their wedding banquets.

The hotel is a short 5-min walking distance from the Confucius Temple and further down is the Wengnan Old Street where you can shop. Wenchang did not impress me as a clean city. There are many houseflies roaming around in restaurants and food stalls. The buildings look old and dilapidated and I see rooms for improvement in infrastructure.

Overall, the hotel is clean but average. The staff at the counter is courteous and answered well to our queries.
Date of stay: January 2016
Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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    Reviewed 7 November 2015

    it is still the same location, you can request non smoking room but no view better than noisy road.
    this is a well know hotel for the overseas hainanese due all taxi driver in wenchang knows it. there are smaller chinese hotels around it but not as well known as this.

    Date of stay: November 2015
    • Trip type: Travelled with family
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    Reviewed 14 December 2014

    Longyuan is a basic and outdated hotel, in a small town of Wenchang.
    Location is average, nothing around for tourist, except the wet market nearby. about 20 mins walk to spa and drinking place.
    Room is basic with old furniture, but cleanliness acceptable, with kettle, but without in-room "safe". Bathroom is small.

    wifi is slow, with no acess to Yahoo, google, FB, at all.

    Breakfast with $10 voucher from hotel for.... dimsums, various pau(meat dumpling), porridge, noodles provided, with above average standard.

    the Chinese restaurant at the second floor has good Chinese food, worth to eat there, price is reasonable.

    Date of stay: December 2014
    • Trip type: Travelled with friends
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    Reviewed 4 July 2012

    The room is big but very very smelly-tobacco, I request to change to a non-smoking room, but they don't have one. Location is good, it is closed to everything. Restaurant also good. Another problem is the toilet, once shower, the whole toilet is wet.

    Date of stay: July 2012
    • Trip type: Travelled with family
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    Reviewed 23 October 2009

    standing showers (standard rooms) small bathroom
    interesting location as few blocks around the corner you can visit morning market scene (if you donot know what is wet market)
    you can sample morning humble breakfast from bun to rice noodles
    coffee/tea shops outside the hotels ;- interesting to chill out from 2yuan for a pot of tea & you can smoke in there too.
    huge children/adult park infront of the hotel (adult morning/evening execise)
    supermarkets is hard walk up from the hotel entrance but there is a short cut to get there
    hotel staff donot speak/read english so basic mandarin is a must

    Date of stay: October 2009
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    Reviewed 2 August 2009
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    Date of stay: August 2009
    • Trip type: Travelled with friends
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