Boao Golden Coast Hotspring Hotel - Qionghai

Good value, great hot pools and cold swimming pools, location, dinner buffet, breakfast buffet. Well furnished rooms, good linens and towels. Pleasant staff - can usually find someone who speaks a little bit of English, and at least one quite well - we (eventually) had all our few basic requests fulfilled such as charging dinner to the room, fixing the room safe, getting the wifi code, luggage pick up from our room and getting a taxi at a requested time to the train station. The cheaper 'Superior' rooms are on islands quite far from lobby, food and main pools. Our room 6223 was on Kipool Island a 5 minute walk away with steep ramps and stairs, longer if you have little kids, are older or have mobility issues. The hallway floors have serious water stains. The room smelled a bit damp. Rock hard beds - I swear they're just quasi box springs with no mattress. Lacking some cleanliness (i.e.: filthy in room drinking glasses) but overall was good. Bathroom is okay size with a nice sink and good sized tub but the shower stall is pretty basic with a slight bad smell and some drainage issues. Water pressure is good with both hot and cold water. Mini-fridge, room safe, kettle, tea, hairdryer, bath robes, toiletries. Really appreciated the very good in room wifi. The Kipool Island rooms also share a nice large swimming pool and a very small hot tub but not as nice as the main pools and these pools were closed for maintenance both days of our stay. The main pools are excellent and the hot spring water is fabulous on your skin - no chlorine and doesn't dry you out. It's pretty clean with a few issues that didn't gross me out - some algae, etc. We saw them drain the hot water pools each of the two days of our stay but I wouldn't say they were 'cleaned' but it was still good to see the water being changed. The hot pools re-opened by 1pm and were topped up full by about 3pm. I would stay here again and I would recommend this hotel to you but I would just spend a bit more money for the larger Deluxe rooms to be in the main part of the hotel and closer to the main hot pools.