Bestel Hotel

I stayed in this hotel for six night in oct 2011. If you are on a free and easy holiday, I strongly recommend this hotel. The location of this hotel is superb. It is surrounded by shops, shopping malls and eating places. After a day tour, you can come back to hotel for a bath and take a walk to the nearby eating place for dinner or window shop in the same building. For me, I like to walk to Zhong San road where I can enjoy the night atmosphere and do some window-shopping. It is similar to our orchard road surrounded by many shops. The road is closed for traffic at night. There are many youngster selling things on the road late at night.

The hotel is within a shopping mall. The lobby is at the ground floor but is not very grand looking. The front desk staffs are quite friendly though. There are many entrances to this hotel. The standard rooms are sizeable and comfortable. You can still add in a bed ( RMB 120 ) if required. The hotel room and its corridor are considered nice with full carpet.

The only setback for this hotel ( to me ) is the breadfast. I purposely look for hotel where breadfast is included so that I don't need to waste time looking for makan in the morning. But it seems that I was wrong. The western style breadfast is totally not acceptable. The american breadfast is the most basic of all but also fail. The orange juice taste like plain water ( may be a little exaggerated ). The bacon is funny. The eggs are not well fried. The coffee is good but they take a long time to refill. same goes for the butter. They should be more observant and make sure there is constant supply at all time. Other than american breadfast, all other food are not suitable to me, such as noodle, spaghetti ( looks like aglio olio but taste horrible and cold ), fried rice, vegetable etc. You don't miss anything if BF not included.

Other than BF, everything is good for the price you pay. less than RMB500 a night in oct. I find it cheap but my relative told me they ( under corporate a/c ) can get it even cheaper.