Chengfangyuan™
June 1, 2024
Where is the best place to stay during the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Auto Show?
🛏 【️ Shenzhen Nanshan Yiheng Hotel Check-in Guide】
📌 Hotel Overview
❶. Comprehensive evaluation: In order to highlight the "IHG" attribute, InterContinental hotels across the country will emphasize the word "InterContinental" in their names. For example, Donghua Holiday Hotel directly changed its name to "InterContinental Donghua Holiday Hotel" on third-party websites. The same is true for this Nanshan Yiheng. The floor sign at the parking lot at the entrance reads "InterContinental. Yiheng". I think this is very good, because there are still many frequent travelers who are not familiar with the Yiheng brand. The hotel should do everything possible to promote the "InterContinental" brand, which will make new guests feel more at ease; this is like when I host the performance of "Zhiji" car on the stage, I have to introduce it in detail that it belongs to SAIC Group. If you explain the background thoroughly, the newbies will have more confidence to consume;
❷. Local situation: The surrounding area is full of fireworks, with a large number of residential areas, kindergartens, food stores, etc. Anyway, living here can quickly integrate into the comfortable city life in Nanshan District.
🏨 About the guest room In Room
❶. Guest room layout: Common channels on the guest room TV (Sansha TV, Greater Bay Area TV, Phoenix, Starry Sky, etc.) can be received. You can go online directly without the tedious login of your surname and room number. Similar to Atour and All Seasons, most of Yiheng's guests are young and middle-aged on business trips, so the guest rooms also thoughtfully prepare many literary books for borrowing. The guest rooms fully implement the egalitarianism at the forefront of the trend, with only two differences of 33 square meters and 28 square meters, so that every guest can feel the necessary respect and harmonious atmosphere; the bedside fragrance diffuser has won the German Red Dot Design Award and is also one of the must-have highlights of the 10 Yiheng hotels in China;
❷. Welcome gift: The welcome gift is high-end imported wine and a signature sports water bottle (for sports bikes); the night bed gift is a sports-style large bottle of washing and care set, refreshing and natural, unique. The mini bar has soda water, soft drinks, etc., which are completely free.
☕️ Dining
❶. Gourmet glimpse: The rooftop garden has a beautiful view, which reminds me of the 8 Holiday Inn Express hotels in Thailand (most of those HIX hotels also feature high-density green plants and rooftop gardens, etc.), with a tropical rainforest style. Happy hour is also here (18:00-20:30), with fried food, desserts, fruits, coffee, drinks, beer, red wine, fried noodles, etc., all available; breakfast dishes are rich and served from 6:30 to 10:30 (half an hour later on weekends and holidays). The small size of Yiheng has an advantage, that is, it is particularly quiet during the off-season, and there will never be the embarrassing situation of queuing for food. You can have a steady and stable breakfast. The more recommended ones are seafood porridge, beef brisket noodles, freshly squeezed juice (cucumber/cantaloupe/pineapple), etc. The hotel originally had an à la carte menu (similar to some semi-self-service options at Indigo and Kimpton), but now it is fully self-service;
❷. City gluttony: A KFC is about to open one or two hundred meters north of the hotel (next to "Yaoji Wang"), and it is currently under renovation.
🏊 Hardware Facilities
❶. Hotel environment: The laundry room is on the first floor and is completely free; the avant-garde sculpture at the main entrance is full of dynamic vitality and is a good place to take photos and check in;
❷. Recreation and fitness: There is a Leke Fitness (next to the "Mubei" shape) three or four hundred meters north of the hotel and less than a hundred meters west. The hotel rooms have yoga mats, fitness balls, pullers, spinning bikes/magic mirrors (choose one of the two), etc. The main feature is youthful vitality and full of energy. The gym on the first floor is open 24 hours a day and is fully equipped. If you live in Yiheng, it is difficult not to lose weight, it is difficult not to be healthy, and it is difficult not to be full of hope for life, haha.
🌟 Unforgettable Moments
❶. Star staff: Unlike the old-fashioned executive chefs of big hotels, the chef of Yiheng is young, handsome, and sunny. No wonder the quality and appearance of its welcome fruit plate, breakfast, and happy hour are so high. Aesthetics need to keep up with the trend; Yiheng brand is a lifestyle hotel, positioned between full-service hotels and limited-service hotels (but it is definitely not an upgraded version of Holiday Inn Express. Among the 19 brands under IHG, Holiday Inn and Express are both positioned in the "quality" category. The so-called "quality" means the middle and low end, while Yiheng is classified as the "high-end" category), so in principle there is no turndown service (also to highlight the concept of environmental protection), but if you really need it, the hotel will still do it, don't worry;
❷. Number of stays: I have stayed in this hotel 3 times, and this is the 4th time.
📍 Brief summary Conclusion
❶. Wonderful moments: There are 38 EVEN hotels in the world now, of which 10 are in China, almost a quarter, which shows how much the InterContinental Group attaches importance to the mainland market. Among these 10, the first to open is Nanjing EVEN, and the latest to open is Qingdao EVEN. Shenzhen is the only city in the country with two EVEN hotels, and this Nanshan EVEN is the second in the country. Domestic EVEN hotels are divided into three types: large scale (Yinchuan 230 rooms/Ancient Grand Canal 205 rooms/Chongli 200 rooms), medium scale (Zhongshan 198 rooms/Expo 198 rooms/Chengdu 186 rooms/Yangtze River Boat 171 rooms), and small scale (Guangming Tianan Yungu 149 rooms/Qingdao 146 rooms). Nanshan EVEN has 80 rooms, which belongs to the latter, but although it is small, it has everything and is very exquisite;
❷. Regrets: When the hotel opened, there was "Starbucks service", which is now cancelled. But the quality of the coffee beans in the lobby bar is still very good, with moderate acidity and not too bitter, just right;
❸. Questions and Answers: A friend asked me where the media people and car reviewers invited by "Wenjie" and other car brands at the Shenzhen Auto Show live? Oh, they all live in the newly opened InterContinental next to the exhibition hall. This is also the first time in the history of the Shenzhen International Auto Show that it has moved to the new exhibition hall in Bao'an. Of course, compared with Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Shenzhen itself is not big. If you think there are too many acquaintances in the exhibition InterContinental, living in Nanshan Yiheng would be a good option for "seclusion".
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