Howard Johnson Sandalwoods Hot Spring Resort Shuangyue Bay Huizhou

Stunning place and beach and beautiful rooms, halls, aesthetics and facilities. Overall pretty amazing for a time away to spend at a beach resort and we love to go there pretty regularly. Would reconmend One and only major drawback is the constant fireworks people set out on the beach. They're suuuper loud and disturbing, sounding like freaking war shots, especially at night hours when I just want to sleep by the waves (which are otherwise a lovely auditory experience in your room) and relax. I believe these should be banned unless for a special occasion, seriously they don't need to be set off all the time especially past 9pm on a random Tuesday. They're extremely noisy and disturbing plus polluting. Unless for celebration or special event which I'd understand.

The pictures shared on Booking.com are outdated. Once arrived, the rooms are smelly and dirty. Really dusty and old. At check inn at the reception, staff just push us away to tidy the folders. We booked 3 rooms. My friends room her bedsheets contains blood stains, and the staff argued that they did that themselves. Staff is not service minded or even taken their job seriously. At breakfast, there was a big rat running pass me. They charge extra for breakfast when there are kids in the rooms. Which is fine, but the capacity of the breakfast room is not enough for the guests, thus they set up an extra breakfast buffet in another room, however when anything runs out you ask about it, the staff is looking at you, and you get a reactions like thats not my problem. And there was still a good 1 hour before the breakfast closed. To conclude, the price quality is really poor! Unfriendly staff, hotelroom is not clean and old! Housekeeping is also lacking their job. Pool is nice but there are no poolservice. If you want to have drinks or food, its such a hussle to get it when you are a non chinese tourist. Also food-order at the pool with a QR Which is linked to your table nr. it took them 1.5 hr. At the end it turned put they couldnt find us and just left the food at the reception there for over 30 minutes. Plus! The WIFI is poor! Not a place to recommend.