At the age of 40, I decided to get to know Shandong again
🛏 【️ Liaocheng Chiping Holiday Inn Express Accommodation Guide】
📌 Hotel Overview
❶. Comprehensive evaluation: Among the 36 IHG-affiliated hotels in Shandong Province, the vast majority are HIX (23). What I never expected was that among these twenty or so Zhixuan hotels (the earliest name to enter China was Holiday Inn Express, which was the real pioneer of the term ”express hotel”, but later more and more ”express” replica hotels were established like mushrooms after rain, which lowered the impression of ”express hotel” to an amazing entry level, so InterContinental Hotels Group had to change the Chinese translation of HIX from ”Express Holiday” to ”Zhixuan Holiday Inn”; Zhixuan is not a synonym for cheap, although it is the basic brand of 19 categories of InterContinental, nor is it a full-service brand, but it really supports most of the entire group and is a veritable mainstay. At the same time, it also quickly spreads the fast fashion concept of high cost performance, high efficiency, cleanliness, comfort, convenience, exquisite warmth to all parts of the world), the benchmark for hardware and services is not in the sub-provincial city of Jinan and the separately planned city of Qingdao, but in the ordinary prefecture-level city of Liaocheng (Liaocheng now has two Zhixuan hotels, one just opened in the development zone; the other is the Chiping Zhixuan mentioned today), which is really amazing.
🏨 About the guest room In Room
1. Guest room layout and hardware evaluation (room size): The hotel upgraded me to a suite (the hotel has two suites of 80 square meters and 120 square meters, which are two to three times larger than the basic room type). The apartment-style design is very suitable for long-term guests. There are washing machines, refrigerators, cabinets, kitchenware, tableware, range hoods, dining bars, bathtubs, laundry detergent, lotion (most smart hotels do not provide skin care products)... It is really suitable for the whole family. Diamond members are welcome to have a wide variety of fruits, snack packages, and welcome drinks, which are full of sincerity.
☕️ Dining
1. Hotel breakfast types and services (good or not): Obviously, their breakfast has exceeded the service standards of HIX. It is the kind of level that cannot be better. I personally think that it can be compared and rivaled with the products of the four Grey Select hotels in China (Xiamen/Guangzhou/Lushan/Altay, which is about to open). The most distinctive is the ”Old Taste of Liaocheng” area, the mutton soup and mutton offal are so authentic! I have stayed in this hotel four times, and this time is the fifth time. I believe I will stay here frequently in the future - after all, the best shortcut to capture the human heart is of course gourmet food.
🏊 Hardware Facilities
1. Hotel environment: There is a free coffee machine in the lobby public area. What is commendable is that the front desk staff will regularly take the initiative to clean the coffee bean residue tray. Other smart hotels need guests to remind them before they remember. The hardware facilities and decoration of the gym are top-notch among domestic smart hotels, and even surpass many ”Holiday” brand franchise stores. The dopamine and basketball-style graffiti on the wall will better stimulate sports hormones. I like this tune so much. It feels like a street three-on-three bullfight is about to start!
🌟 The Moments
1. Outstanding performance and rewards of star employees (whether the service is strong): The service attitude that makes people feel like spring breeze is still fresh in my memory. When I checked in, they told me in detail how to connect to the wifi. By the way, their internet speed is super fast (some smart hotels use room number and name access, some use code access, some use both of the first two, and some use direct internet access. This one is similar to Qingdao West Coast Smart Hotel, which belongs to the second type); knowing that I was tired from traveling, the aunt from the housekeeping department specially brought a foot bath and Chinese medicine bags for foot bathing; knowing that I was in a hurry, they took the initiative to move my stored luggage to the car and put it neatly... To be honest, the service industry should have this kind of selfless and uncomplaining dedication to the cause, the group and the brand it belongs to. In this regard, the employees of Chiping Smart Hotel have done a great job.
📍 Brief summary Conclusion
1. Wonderful moments of the journey: At the end of last year, Chiping South Station was officially put into operation. It only takes a quarter of an hour to get from South Station to Chiping Smart Hotel. In the future, it will be more and more convenient for you to go to Chiping from core cities such as Jinan. Liaocheng has two districts, five counties, and one county-level city under its jurisdiction. According to the level of economic development, the two districts are naturally the two leaders in GDP (Dongchangfu and Chiping), while Yanggu County, where Wu Song fought the tiger, Gaotang County, where the ”Great Defeat of Gaotang Prefecture” in ”Water Margin”, and Dong'e County, the hometown of donkey-hide gelatin, are ranked third and last. In terms of hotel resources, I used to stay at Arcadia when I came here for performances or tourism. The hardware is actually a bit old. Today, Hilton still controls the basic plate of Liaocheng hotels. The three mid-range brands of Garden, Huiting, and Hampton divide the high-net-worth passenger flow in a hierarchical, reasonable and orderly manner. It is not easy for Chiping Zhixuan to carve out a unique path in the red ocean of tourism and hotel industries, which is worthy of admiration.
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