Donawang
February 21, 2026
The hotel was excellent – convenient, spacious rooms, and great service. The area around it is lively with plenty of food options. It's a 10-minute walk to both Gongbei Port and Zhuhai Railway Station. Although the hotel is old, it's well-maintained.
Now, a complaint about Macau across the border: Apart from the casinos, everything else in Macau is quite run-down. The iconic Ruins of St. Paul's are just a wall left after a church collapsed. The Macau Tower is comparable to a TV tower in any random county in China. Basically, outside of the casino buildings, it's worse than a shantytown in a seventh-tier county.
When I visited Macau, I didn't see any locals smiling at tourists. They looked down on mainland tourists, full of a sense of superiority.
My personal feeling was like arriving at a reformed bandit's lair, where the people were still fiercely suppressing their urge to rob, but making money through casinos was at least more civilized.
Various dilapidated so-called landmarks drag tourists around, just to profit from transportation, accommodation, and dining.
Zhuhai is a hundred times better than Macau.
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