Overall Rating: GOOD

Reviewed February 10, 2016
Visited January 2016

If you visited the West Lake, don't miss the Leifeng Tower. In fact you have to go here first before you play by the lake. In this tower, you will told about the famous legend, The White Snake Legend. And of course to take pictures from the top level with the West Lake as the background. The view was breath taking, you will not regret it, trust me!

Don't worry about getting tired climbing up, because they have the escalator for going up, though you have to take stairs while going down. It's not recommended for the wheel chair, unless you have someone to carry you down.

Overall Rating: GOOD

Reviewed February 10, 2016
Visited January 2016

It was 1 degree Celsius when we visited West Lake. The cold weather plus the foggy horizon just great for making the situation felt unreal. It felt like being in the legend, The White Snake Legend. Especially when we took pictures in the bridge where Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian met. This, must be, the must visited site where you are in HangZhou.

One set back though, on the island at the middle of the lake, the only toilet was under big repair while we were there. They provide the portable toilet instead. But it was the worst toilet I’ve ever seen. You name it: no water for flushing, no water to wash your hand, stinky to the point that even when you hold your breath you still can smell it!

If it was not because of the toilet, I would had been given the full 5 stars for this review.

Overall Rating: AVERAGE

Reviewed February 10, 2016
Stayed January 2016
Traveled with family

Our friend in Ningbo booked this hotel for us, because it's affordable and has special promo of free beef steak dinner every night for two person and one espresso for every room booked. There we go, we had twice beef steak dinner since we spent two nights in this hotel. Nice, because the steak was not just very good, the atmosphere in the restaurant was also added the warmness of our family dinner since it was 2 degree Celsius outside.

The room however, was just average and nothing special about it. An average room of 3-star hotel. This hotel is actually serve the pillow menu, but I failed to request mine since NO ONE IN THE FRONT DESK CAN SPEAK ENGLISH. This is the very reason why I gave only two stars (poor) for the service. Hangzhou is the big and rapid growing city. More and more foreigners visit here, so I really hope, for this hotel improvement, they'd hire somebody who speaks English!

Overall Rating: GOOD

Reviewed January 20, 2016
Visited January 2016

The food and drink served here actually like other lobby lounge. But the service is what make them somewhat different. You'd feel like you are their most important things and made you forget that actually the price is rather expensive :)

Overall Rating: GOOD

Reviewed January 20, 2016
Visited January 2016

You know what? I tried the black ink squid risotto here and it was... delicious. If you like Italian food and also like seafood, the combination was perfect! Other menu are also enjoyable and the special made tiramisu cake in particular was superb. Two thumbs up to the chef! These two menu I mentioned were made just to make you go Hmmmm... :)

Overall Rating: GOOD

Reviewed January 20, 2016
Visited January 2016

It's actually the usual square in the city. But because it's always been discussed in the TripAdvisor, somewhat it became famous. It is a big open space and the ideal place to enjoy it with children. Even in winter time, the Tianyi Square still enjoyable. Many food available nearby and it's also very close to the river where you can go to afterward.

Overall Rating: EXCELLENT

Reviewed January 20, 2016
Stayed January 2016
Ttraveled with family

Ningbo is famous of its three rivers, and one of the best spot to enjoy it, is from up high. This is exactly what Marriott Ningbo has to offer. All room in this hotel is somewhat has a river view. But the room which gets better view is the one in the corner, where you can enjoy the junction of three rivers with at least 4 beautiful bridges in sight. I stayed in room 3510 and I had a privilege to enjoy such view.

This hotel is relatively new and you know by staying there since everything in the room is new and modern. The space of the room is also spacious compare to hotels in other China's cities. Not to mention the amenities in the room consider very complete.

If you want to swim, this hotel indoor swimming pool with warm water plus the hot whirl pool in the corner giving you a relax atmosphere, made me forget that it was in the winter where the temperature was almost freezing outside. If it's not enough, you can enjoy sauna and steam room inside the changing room with another warm and cold whirl pool available next to the showers. They even gave my 5 year old daughter a teddy bear plastic slipper for souvenir :)

Breakfast... what do you want? You name it, and they have it. From Chinese cuisine, Japanese, Western, and even traditional from inland China. But if you are a Muslim like I am, you have to be careful and always ask the waiter before you eat because many menu has pork in it.

Don't worry about getting lost in this hotel, because all the hotel staff can speak good English and they will walk you to the place around the hotel if you ask for direction. They even walk you to the elevator... too much ha? :)

But staying in this hotel, is one of the best hotel experience for me. You should try it.

Room Tip: Ask for the room that has the view of the famous Ningbo's three rivers.

Overall Rating: GOOD

Reviewed January 17, 2016
Visited January 2016

I don't know why not that many people visited this attraction and some food stall even closed when I went here. I think this place is very good because your children will have the experience of making chocolate, pizza, biscuits, cotton candy, etc. by themselves. And they get to eat what they made, would make the experience even more interesting.

It's free for children under 1 meter of height, and 50% off for children between 1 to 1.40 meter. And I can assure you that it's worth it. One thing though, that all instruction and language spoken is Chinese, so you need to go here with local friend or otherwise it would very hard for you to communicate.

Overall Rating: GOOD

Reviewed January 17, 2016
Visited January 2016

Super Brand Mall is the medium size mall. I went to this mall several time because it is so close to the hotel where I stayed (Oriental Riverside Hotel). You can find almost anything you'd find in a mall. From food, fashion, even toys if you travel with kids like I did.

But not like other mall, I cannot find the brochures and information about the mall. And since almost nobody can speak English, I always had to go to the information booth on the 1st floor, where you can find (maybe the only person) who speaks English.

Overall Rating: EXCELLENT

Reviewed January 13, 2016
Visited December 2015

I guess there are 2 history museums in Shanghai. I'm writing this for the one in the ground level of Oriental Pearl Tower. So if you go there, don't miss this museum, since this is the one of the best museum in China and very good education for children.

You need the camera with low light capability to captured your moment since all area in inside is dark, and has low lighting environment.