I feel I give to much credence to places I have liked, giving “best x in y” too often. So, with this in mind where is the worst hotel in Haitian? And that is the Mint Swimming Pool Design Hotel of Haikou.
Why is the Mint Swimming Pool Design Hotel the worst? Well as always there is a story, but lets start with the fact they don’t even have a bloody swimming pool
The road to the Mint Swimming Pool Design Hotel
Fate would have me exploring Rojava and Iraq I Kurdistan before needing to get back to Asia. Initially I flew to the UAE before heading to Haikou in Hainan as it was the cheapest flight.
Haitian is tourist Mecca often called China’a Hawaii, it really is nothing pf the sort. My plan was to stay near the airport and then take a train (over the ocean) to Guangzhou and maybe dot some second hand electrons action before a meeting in Shenzhen.
I therefore and at the suggestion of trip.com elected the first hotel in Haitian.
Getting to the Mint Swimming Pool Design Hotel
Getting here should have been easy after I breezed through immigration, but after entering the worst taxi in Hainan things went from bad to worse. A ten minute journey turned into 30 minutes as the cab driver wanted me to use GPS ti find the hotel, which was on a main road.
On arrival at the Mint Swimming Pool Design Hotel it took m e a further 30 minutes to check in. The concept of biking two nights was tough for them.
I was then escorted to my room only to see the swimming pool was without water. I wa told this was because they had had floods, now firstly I do not understand this, but secondly don’t call yourself the Mint Swimming Pool Design Hotel if you cannot deliver the cotton picking obvious!
And on to my room! This was filled with mold and was seemingly also being sued for storage as there was projector in there. I decided to leave and was told if I did I would be refunded. 12 hours later I am still waiting for said refund. It turns out that not only is the Mint Swimming Pool Design Hotel is a apiece of shit, but the Trip are lying bastards.
Still there was great seafood around here.