Holiday Inn Qingdao City Centre by IHG

Appreciate the gesture extended by professional well spoken reception Ms Anna to allow us extending time to 1pm. Allowing us to refreshed up ourselves before heading to airport. Weather in Qingdao hits 33 deg.

It's location is excellent and it is near the line 2 metro station Fushansuo. The room is also quite spacious and clean. The bed is comfortable while they have two pillows for your sleep, one is firm and the other is soft. The toilet is also fully stocked up with toiletries and the water flow in the shower is quite strong and can be hot, so need to be careful. The view from the hotel room is great.

People in the front desk are very nice. The location is okay about 15 minutes to May 4th square. The room is kind of old, bed was not comfortable, pillows were flat, and the air conditioning did not work well, pretty much 75F, I felt hot. The swimming pool required you to wear a cap. We had to pay 100 to buy two caps to use the pool. Once we were in, we found that there was a swimming lesson with 5 kids. Basically the five kids took up five lanes and we could hardly swam. If there is a swimming lesson that takes up the entire pool, they should notify the hotel guests. When I checked out, the front desk people told us to rate them 9 or 10 on the review. I booked the hotel via hotels.com and wrote my review about this. However hotels.com never published my review. The reason I booked the hotel was because it rated 9.2 on hotels.com. Of course, if hotels.com does not publish any rating below 9, the review had to be good.