The Garden Hotel is the oldest luxury hotel in Guangzhou. I have been there this year at the TedX conference, the AmCham ball, and the 90’s Christmas party. At that party, I won a free night stay. As I had only a few weeks to do so, I decided to do it the last weekend of vacation.
After a run to and back from my covid-19 test required to return to work, I packed up and left for Dim Sum with colleagues.
Then I left to pick up Jack by Didi and headed for the Garden Hotel.
We didn’t get settled in when they sent up a snack. Phyllis dough with filling was just yummy.
We were given a pass to the executive lounge for high tea. Great snacks and tea or juice to drink.
We were delivered another snack to the room.
We walked around the neighborhood as it is one of the oldest in Guangzhou. There are middle eastern and african restaurants. Unfortunately as we found many of them closed due to covid-19. We had been looking for the Ethiopian restaurant, but it was closed. Instead we found a Syrian restaurant. I had Foul which is a slightly sour bean dish. Along with the hummus was a flat bread.
After dinner we went back to the executive lounge for drinks (included in the free pass). They also had Dim sum snacks.
The live entertainment was great. I requested a few songs which they knew and sang quite well like Adele’s “Rolling in the deep” and Alannis Morrisette’s “You outta know”.
Breakfast the next morning was great followers by sauna and outdoor hot tub.
I had never won anything before so a stay in a great hotel was amazing. A relaxing start to the New Year.