Guest User
September 1, 2021
The service and room were excellent. Although the staff didn't include English speakers, they worked really hard to understand and to communicate. The breakfasts were excellent, Chinese country fare, and the public spaces were peaceful and welcoming.
I stayed in the Queen Garden Room, which comes with its own garden. I was a little disappointed that the tub in the garden was just a regular tub and that the grass was artificial, but it was nice to have a private, outdoor sitting area.
The location is fairly far up a path from the road and can be hard to find since there isn't any signage on the road; follow the paved path into the tea fields and up some steps to find the retreat. Two of my uploaded pictures are of the entrance to the path and of the path through the tea fields (you can see the hotel among the trees in the latter)
I'll likely come back in autumn when it's cooler to explore the neighborhood more. When I do, I'll probably choose the mountain view if solo, or the garden view if with a friend (those have private outdoor areas, too).
My only real suggestion for the management would be to partner with a tea house to offer tea and snack services in the evenings on the deck. If I could have done that, it'd have been a perfect trip, though it was already a pretty great one.
TLDR: would recommend, get the standard rooms (garden or mountain view)