On assignment to Hainan Island, China - Part 04 - The Le Meridien Resort

Continuation from:

On assignment to Hainan Island, China - Part 03 - The One Day Conference

The next day after the conference was the final day before leaving the resort. Since the flight was in the evening, got chance to explore the resort. Pity the weather was downcast and raining.

Note the many villas on the hills. Was told that these villas are being built to be sold to the Chinese as holiday homes.

The main entrance of the resort.

The hotel is only 4 stories high. However, if you do get a room at the ground floor and facing the sea, each room has its own private swimming pool (see below on the the left side of the photo).

This is the first set of pools for guests located in a jungle-like environment.

More on the private pools.

On the beachfront, this is the view of the hotel.

A second set of pool for guests is located here. You can also see the beach.

This resort is very children friendly. All pools are open for children.

The beach has a wide expanse before the waterline.

There is a place to exercise as well as the resort name to be placed without any fear of it being swamped by the sea.

Very picturesque.

The sand on the beach is not as fine as in Malaysia.

Le Meridien...

Note the sunken trampoline.

Very wide beach.

The hotel was able to secure a very secluded beachfront.

The changing room.

The hotel is surrounded by a large garden.

The first set of guest pools has a sense of quietness due to the trees.

Very secluded.

A photo of the private pool.

There could be a lot of people here but it won't be noisy.

View from my room.

The lobby.

Just about to board the bus to the airport.

To be continued.

On assignment to Hainan Island, China - Part 02 - La Meridien Resort

Continuation from: On assignment to Hainan Island, China - Part 01 - To the island

Arrived at the resort late in the evening after a long bus drive across the island. I was impressed with the set up. Very modern.

All the modern convenience was made available.

The bathroom can be seen directly into the bedroom. This is resort is being advertised as a honeymoon resort.

In the toilet there is also a place to put your handphone when doing your business!

Surprisingly, the room also came with a ceiling fan - very ornate and totally useless.

The only interesting part in the room that I have never found anywhere else is this portable gas mask in case of fire.

There was also a welcome plate of fruit from the organiser, CCDC.

To be continued.

On assignment to Hainan Island, China - Part 01 - To the island

It was very early in the morning in KLIA to catch the flight to Hainan, China. Flying by Cathay Pacific Airlines. Morning is just about to start.

Was lucky to be able to fly by Business Class. On Cathay Pacific aircraft (an Airbus), the Business Class passengers have individual sections facing a way from the window. Here is a picture from where I was sitting with my back against the window.


Selfie.

The first leg of the trip was to Hong Kong. After a short one hour wait we took a Dragon Air airplane to Hainan Island. Below are photos from the aircraft.


The airport in Hainan Island that I landed was called Haikou Meilan International Airport. The island is so huge that they have two international airports. The most incredible thing is that the resort when the conference (which I was attending) took another 2:30 hours of traveling on bus to get there. I only arrived that at 7 pm (both the local time and KL time are the same).

To be continued.