Howard Johnson by Wyndham Resort Sanya Bay

Close to the beach and well located for the airport.

It's a building site! The main restaurant is closed - and clearly has been for a long time - for major refurbishment. One of the main pools is also closed. The building work is inevitably extremely noisy, making it hard to relax by the pool, which is also pretty crowded as a result of the closure, unless you find the sound of drilling, hammering and circular saws soothing. I was shocked that this wasn't mentioned anywhere in the hotel description, and although the duty manager upgraded my room by way of compensation (to an identically sized room two floors above my original room), I would much rather have stayed in one of the many other luxury hotels nearby that actually provided the facilities they advertised and weren't filled with the racket of tile-cutting, clattering metal and the constant cacophony of power tools. Oh, and the breakfast buffet, which closes at 10.30, had no coffee or fruit juice from 9.45 on two mornings. And in the restaurant I ate in, the only vegetarian option available was a pizza which took an hour to arrive. And the lobby bar had no gin or vodka on Sunday night, which was a bit of a problem if you actually wanted anything from the cocktail menu. Not that the staff knew how to make any of those cocktails anyway...

Clean, large, atheistically pleasing like any large international hotel.

Lacks the quality and details of an international hotel when I came to service, restaurants, menu, Pool area and bar service.