Description: This hotel was chosen by the conference organizers. Apart from the name, the address, and a vague idea of where it was, we knew absolutely nothing about it before we got there. It was not listed in any of the tourist brochures I got in Australia, nor was there anything about it on the Net. We had booked two superior rooms between the four of us through the conference, paying US$90 for each room (approx Y790). While the rooms were well set out and spacious with a separate sitting room area, they were pretty old and run down - particularly the bathroom. They were definitely not worth US$90. The room did have a fridge and television and radio (although these only had chinese stations) and one definite plus was the new air conditioning unit that had been installed in the sitting room. On the negative side, its installation had left a large hole in the wall. The carpets were also covered with cigarette burns and other marks.
Each floor had a large cleaning staff and, although we didn't understand each other particularly well, ours were very helpful. This was just as good as our key (one of those credit card jobs) rarely worked and at one stage the whole handle/lock mechanism from our door was completely replaced! Very few of the staff spoke English even those at reception. During the first few days we also got several strange calls where the caller either immediately hung up or asked if we wanted a 'massage' (first we thought they were saying message) but this was more amusing than annoying.
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