Somerset Yangtze River Chongqing

For the price of a standard hotel room, at this Somerset you can get an entire apartment. The level of comfort is very very high and the building is luxurious, modern and clean. The staff was very friendly and helpful, providing complimentary water bottles and fulfilling other small requests such as changing to single person sheets.

The reception was always well manned - staff, porter, security etc.

As we are a family of 6 pax, we booked a 3 bedroom apartment. We were expecting only the master bedroom has an ensuite bathroom but to our surprise, the apartment has 2 bedrooms with an ensuite bathroom. We were given an apartment at the 28th floor and the view from the apartment is stunning! The bedroom is big and the bed is comfortable. Each bedroom has its own view. The location of the apartment is within walking distance to the Bai Xiang Ju area, which has many restaurants and shops. The front desk staff is very helpful when I ask if they can arrange for some decorations for my brother in law's surprise birthday celebration. Our apartment was decorated with balloons, a 3-tier birthday cake made of towels and also a lighted Happy Birthday signage. As we are not Chinese speakers, we also asked the front desk staff to assist us to order a birthday cake from a local Chinese app and arranged for the cake to be brought up to the apartment when we went out.

The breakfasts were nice. A variety of foods. My travel partner on the other hand was not as happy with the lack of diversity of foods. Loved the people who cleaned our room as they noticed when we needed something in the room and supplied without us even asking! For instance, we had a washing machine in the room and used it. They saw we didn't have a place to hang the clothes to dry and brought the clothes rack and put all our wet clothes on. They left our personal things how they were and cleaned where needed.

Very good solid and standard hotel. Breakfast was excellent, both Chinese and English varieties. One of the staff members could speak real English and that was a plus when he was around. The hotel is very beautiful and at night, you can see a yellow coloured lighted up tower across the river from the hotel. You need didi to move around, as the topography of Chongqing will make you work-out heavily. The location is alright, if you know your way around Chongqing, if not, it gets complicated by trekking, and very easy using Didi rides. They have a washing machine in the room, which can dry your clothes as well using the dry only function and you can also iron your clothes using the iron and ironing board provided. The cleaners and staffs overall were excellent.