Shengnanchen
January 25, 2025
The hotel is far from the city, and it is very difficult to get a taxi during meal time. One day, I had to wait for 40 minutes. There was no car, so I took a motorcycle to the city and arrived in 15 or 20 minutes. There is nothing delicious nearby, but I really don’t want to eat in the hotel. I strongly recommend a restaurant called Mama Restaurant across the road. It is really simple and delicious. You must order the seafood fried rice. The coconut milk soup is also very good. There are a lot of cars crossing the road, so you must be careful.
The environment of the hotel is very good, and it is the first Anantara, basically it has everything that should be there. The children's playground is very small, and some activities are charged. There is free yoga every morning, which is good, but the quality of the teachers is uneven. Then the gym is quite far from the gate. The fruit mini bar in the room is not free. What's more outrageous is that the bath ball is charged. Fortunately, I brought a few. The breakfast is quite rich, which is slightly different every day. I drink two cups of my favorite Thai milk sparkling water every day. For breakfast, Shengtai Lan is still number one. The service is still very good. I saw a super big lizard. There seem to be a lot of them in the garden, and there are also in the pool. I asked the staff, and they said that he eats everything, but they will not eat for them, and told us to stay away from lizards, birds, insects, and squirrels. It's still quite primitive. In general, the two days are quite pleasant, but it's a bit boring to be away from the city. The next day, I took a taxi back to the city to have a massage.
The hotel here said we had twin rooms, but in the end we only had king-size rooms. The hotel staff was particularly bad. When we went to see them, the sea view rooms were all on the first floor, and there were people coming and going, which was completely different from what we expected. Finally, we went there, and they changed us to a lagoon view room. I had to give them a tip to get me a good room. There was a nice person at the front desk, but the girl who took us to see the room was really bad. Another thing was that there were only two twin rooms with sea view. When the Ctrip staff assisted us in communicating, they only said that they might not be able to reserve them, but they didn't tell me that there were only two. If that was the case, I might change to another room.

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