Chengfangyuan™
November 19, 2023
Balcony Suite at Holiday Inn Guangzhou R&F Airport: The Terminal of Happiness
I have stayed in this hotel too many times. Every time I stayed, they upgraded me to a one-bedroom balcony suite in room 558. Thank you very much. Balcony suites are available in 64 square meters and 70 square meters, while suites without balconies are 51 square meters. InterContinental has 10 hotels in Guangzhou (excluding those that have been withdrawn and those that have not yet opened, such as Intercontinental Luxury Hotel Xianglan, Prince Mountain Holiday Resort, Dashi Express, etc.). The layout is very balanced. Except for Nansha District and Outside Conghua District, there are basically one store in each district: Nanhu Holidays (Baiyun), Poly Intercontinental (Haizhu), Poly Holidays (Huangpu), Shifu VOCO (Liwan), Zhixuan (Panyu), Indigo (Tianhe), Center CP (Yuexiu), Crowne Plaza (Zengcheng)... But there is one district that is an exception, and that is Huadu. R&F Airport Holidays (don’t think that being close to the airport belongs to Baiyun District) and Huadu CP are both located in this district.
Among the InterContinental hotels in Guangzhou, the one closest to the airport was the Airport Smart Hotel, but it has long been delisted. Now the closest to the airport is R&F Airport HI. There is a free shuttle bus from the hotel to the airport (about 20 minutes one way), which departs from the hotel every hour and from the airport every half hour. Over time, I became good friends with several hotel drivers. One of the drivers is a native. He has two acres of land at home, where he grows tropical fruits, raises chickens, and runs a farmhouse. He also built a five-story building and rents it out to make money. His life is quite comfortable. As for staying in the hotel Being a driver is just to pass the time and make life more interesting. The people in the entire suburbs of Huadu are in a very leisurely state, and the pace of life is slow. For example, in the small square in front of the hotel, there are always a lot of aunties dancing in the square at night, which is a great time.
There are welcome fruits and snacks (the welcome sign for diamond members is wrong, it is for platinum members). Panyu Smart Selection has a coffee tumbler (printed with the IHG logo) as a souvenir, which is very exquisite; and R&F There are no souvenirs during airport holidays, but the breakfast is still remarkable. There is a breakfast room in the diamond member area, which is usually found in InterContinental or CP, but is still relatively rare during holidays. There are many desserts and local specialty snacks in Guangdong, and the privacy is good. The Spanish decoration style is similar to Panyu Holiday Inn Express (Panyu HIX also adopts European style, which seems to be a common feature of real estate developers in southern Guangdong for a period of time, such as Beijing The Pearl River, Roman Garden, etc., to name a few). The only drawback is that there are often non-diamond members hanging out in the members area, and no one cares about them. It seems that there are still not enough staff.
Because of the well-known new round of "small epidemic" and the end of the Canton Fair, this period is actually the off-season for the hotel industry in Guangzhou. However, the occupancy rate of R&F Airport is still quite high. There are many foreigners and some companies. Frequent guests stay here for several years, which shows that they recognize the quality of the hotel. The guest room TV can receive most common international channels, but there is no Phoenix News. This is also the case with Poly Holiday. There is no paper bag distributed by the group, but there is a non-woven bag. The breakfast coffee machine is broken and always stops automatically. There are no standard coffee paper cups provided by the group, but paper cups purchased by ourselves, and the lids are of poor quality. The executive lounge is on the 12th floor. Since it does not provide executive treatment, I don't know if it is open.
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