



Still with the Huazhu/Orange Group. So what’s different here? Three kinds of bread to toast, for instance, including wholemeal. But when you ask for a knife to butter your toasted bread, you are given a spoon, because there are no knives. Now, Chinese spoons are actually quite beautiful and well suited to Chinese cuisine. But they are not very good when it comes to buttering bread. The choice of fruit and vegetables was somewhat better than in the Hating hotels (another if the group’s brands), with today’s fruit being oranges, apples and bananas, in addition, of course, to the ubiquitous red dates. One thing to mention is that the hot water dispenser requires you to push three or four buttons. First the on-switch, which needs to be held down for a few seconds, then two others for temperature and amount (at least I think that is why) before you push the one to actually dispense the water. The latter is unfortunately adorned with a picture which, while it does show water poured into a cup, at first glance resembles a logout button. All instructions only in Chinese, which leaves poor laowai (Old Foreigner) bemused. By contrast some of the food has bilingual signs, so why not one here? Anyway, standard breakfast for this group, which means standard rating of 6.5/10.