Wutai Mountain Marriott Hotel

The hotel is located nearby the Wutai mountain ，the hotel is so beautiful and the hotel room is so clean

This is the first complaint I have ever made to a hotel, and I hate doing it, but I just spent almost a thousand dollars for two nights at a hotel that was not worth it. We had expectations that at least the basic features of a Marriott Hotel would be met (pool, soft beds, aircon, western breakfast), especially at the astronomical cost we paid per room (a total of $923 for two rooms, two nights!). We never pay this much for a room, but that’s how desperate we were for a vacation – we had planned to stay in a Marriott in Sanya where we’ve had a good experience, but COVID and visa renewal delays prevented us from leaving our province. We literally went to Wutaishan for the Marriott - not for the mountain. Since my space is limited here, I hope it will suffice to say that our weary family had to spend the weekend working hard to enjoy our short vacation, rather than having the highly anticipated respite from the stressors of living in this nation during a very stressful time. No pool (closed because of COVID though no other hotel in our province has done this for a long time - our confirmation email and the website didn’t even mention the pool closure and we didn’t find out until we had unexpectedly had to pay an additional $100 to enter the park before getting to the hotel), no cool air con (hotel said cool air not necessary, but with the warmer than normal temps it was - and it was after May holiday, so it should been able to turn on cool), no screens on windows so we couldn’t open windows without bugs, beds harder than usual, rooms not together and then when moved, we were given lower floors and not the better view (which I thought I had chosen to pay for), and the fridge in the room wasn't cold. Swimming and hanging out in the comfy hotel with the great view were the only things we’d really planned on for the weekend. Neither of which happened. We are so completely disappointed and are wishing that for that experience we had just stayed in one of the smaller, cheaper Chinese hotels that we would have been prepared for a less than ideal experience. I can say the breakfast was good and we were glad they brought us ice whenever we asked. The staff was nice, but there were limits to what they could change in this whole thing. The one thing that redeemed this a little for my kids was when we drove up the mountain and there were silver foxes all over the place.