Given travel restrictions I decided to give Sanya a try. Not knowing what to expect I decided to hotel hop. My second stop was the Park Hyatt, which impressed me with its design and the largest hotel swimming pool (130m) I have seen so far. The service was excellent, but the design alone is worth a visit. Take a look.
I booked a two bedroom villa with a private pool. The villa was spacious and well equipped.
I always hear about Park Hyatt’s reputation when choosing Sanya as the travel destination, and actually my experience there indeed explains that. The design and artistic atmosphere, as well as the brilliant ocean scenery, in Park Hyatt Sanya is tremendously excellent, which appeals to me so much. The resort is like a museum/gallery and it deserves every costumer to discover. I stayed in a Premium Ocean View Suite on high level of Building 1, where I could enjoy the beautiful ocean together with a little part of the mountain/island. Meanwhile, the service quality and the food/beverage provided in the dinning room were also beyond my expectations, realizing a warm and cozy ambience. Therefore, Park Hyatt Sanya shall still be my top choice next time when I come to Sanya and I really look forward to finding more surprising aspects of it in future.
It’s quite a nice property with its semi-private beach and definitely less crowded than those at Yalong Bay. I do like the “quarters” layout of the property which reminds me of a country residence or resort for an emperor.
The room has a nice ocean view which came at a price of course. However, half of the light switches don’t work properly. For example, I can’t turn off the reading light above the bed without having to shut everything off. The Do Not Disturb bottoms by the door doesn’t work. The HDMI connection by the desk doesn’t work. Anyway, too many things nit working properly!
Most disappointing was the service at their Dining Room, your only decent choice for dinner inside the hotel. Started the evening by ordering a bottle of wine and two simple dishes. The first dish arrived in more than 30 mins only needed to be re-prepared because the waitress accidentally knocked over the bottle of wine and smashing the dish into pieces. That took another 20 mins. The second dish didn’t arrive over an hour hour. Chased them a couple of times after 45 mins only to be asked how we wanted our dish to be prepared, steam or stir fried? Even then, we had to chase one more time before it finally arrived for another 30 mins. Well that’s not acceptable for most restaurants let alone one at the Park Hyatt.
Breakfast there was an absolute zoo hit then again it’s their busy season so I can understand. Ordered two drinks at the Pool House for lunch and one drink never came despite chasing twice. Finally gave up!
Moving to the Rosewood tomorrow so hope experience will be a more pleasant one!
We stayed in a 2br villa with private pool, although we did not use the pool as it was too cold, we enjoyed the very large villa, we loved the spa treatments, private beach and relaxation spaces around the hotel and excellent customer service all around. Shout out to Christina (FOM), Anthony, Ira (F&B) and villa guest services for taking such good care of us during our stay. The grounds at Park Hyatt Sanya are second to none. We will definitely be back again in the summer.
I’m a globalist and I have a lot to say.
The room design has a lot of drawbacks. The power outlet is very loose for MacBook. So I had requested an extension, but the room service said, please let me check if we have any. OMG+1
When I checked in, the room was not ready. The front desk asked if I want a downgrade and I said no and I can wait. Then the waiter was showing me the way the restaurant for lunch. But he was lost the way in his own hotel! OMG+2
After the lunch, I got the call from the front desk saying the room if ready and where I wanted to get my key. I said, please send it to the restaurant. I waited for 10 minutes and no one showed but another phone call telling me the same question. I said I have waited for 10 minute and please send the key to the restaurant. OMG+3
Then one lady showed up and showed the way to my room but she guided me to the lady’s room, where she thought it’s a hallway. OMG+4
The typhoon has arrived so everywhere it was leaking. There were so many towels everywhere in the hallway to block the windows and doors and water was everywhere. There was a bucket to hold water from ceiling right in front of the PHSY logo! OMG+5
In my room there were 2 slippers, XL and S. We are 2 adults. I requested another L one. OMG+6
I requested a foam pillow and the room service said immediately they didn’t have it. Wow, I thought, could you please double check and get back to me? OMG+7 Why for the power outlet extension can be doublechecked but why the pillow. Either she has a very good memory or very bad memory.
In the front desk, they showed me hotel map, quite complicated. Then someone was writing from the inside of the front desk to write all amenity’s location and time from their side. So from my side, all the handwritings are upside down. I had to constantly rotate the map 180° to compare the building number and handwritings of the schedule. They don’t have any sense of service. At least she can write from my side or upside down from her side. OMG+8
The check out process seemed very long so I called them 30 minutes before hand telling them I will check out half an hour later. It means I wanted all my receipts ready when I got down and just wanted to sign and leave. But I waited for more than 10 minutes there. My car was there waiting long. There is no expediting line for higher tier member, which sucks! OMG+9
There were more small things I don’t want to mention.
