HUAN TAI

Aussie gal 8's review from dec 2008 sums the experience up perfectly. Don't bother staying here. Especially in winter as location is crap and heating is only on between hours 5pm to midnight! Also everything in the room looks like it's falling apart ( this observation is from 3 seperate rooms). We decided the only positive is that if the dodgy wiring ended up causing a fire at least given the hotel only has two levels we could safely jump out the window!

Location is far from Old Town (at least 30-40min walk). December is low season - few guests, and of all the rooms they could have possibly allocated, we had one with broken bathroom tiles and non-functional hairdryer. TV reception is hit-miss and channels are limited. Temperatures reach -13 degrees celcius overnight. Heating is not turned on until 6.30pm-midnight (according to reception staff) and request for heating was refused ("heating will make you sick", male reception staff informed us) until we spoke to the manager. No individual room radiator was available (but multiple were noted in the business centre - unused). In addition, for reasons unknown, every morning all hotel doors are opened (still -10 degrees celcius) - clearly patrons' comfort is not a high priority for management. Breakfast is served from 7.30am. As we needed to be at the airport at 8am, our tour guide organised for a 7am breakfast. No surprise when restaurant staff denied any knowledge of this arrangement the next day. Final straw - as we were checking out, reception staff could not find our registration papers (male reception staff as above had not filled out the papers). More time wasted by the hotel when we had to assist them with the details. Only positive - Bellboy/porter was most helpful and understanding.