The Sanya Blog, Hainan, China

Baywatch, Bananas, Killer Surf and Bad Hawaiian Shirts

Two’s Company, Tree’s a Hotel Room

We’ve just taken a lightning tour of the Sanya treehouse hotel – lightning because the usual entry fee to the Sanya Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone, which hosts the hotel, is 150 yuan per person. Our host, Leon, could get us in for free, but only for half an hour. He floored the accelerator on our golf cart, delivering us to the site with just enough time for some ooohs and aaahs and the taking of photographs… (more)

Sanya’s Beach of Rampant Optimism -
36,500 Couples Say Phooey to the Economic Downturn

“Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred cliches moves us because we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.”
Umberto Eco
. Read on…

Sanya – Life’s a Beach, but Which One?

Ah, the life! Sun, sea, sand, waves gently toppling over, a tube of SPF 30, a stiffening breeze, the warm, red glow on the back of your eyelids…. Here is a quickie guide to Sanya’s main beaches.[...]

Fun in Sanya – Don’t Follow the Flag

Much of Sanya’s beach activity is organised for tours shipped in by the coach-load. But we at Sanya Bounce like the feeling of freedom that comes with the wind in our hair, salt in our lungs, the slap of boat or board against wave, and those satisfying bursts of spray you get as a Waboba [...]

Seeing Stars at Sanya’s Hotels

Sanya has more than a hundred hotels. Together they have more stars than an Elvis impersonator’s jump suit. Here is a short introduction to some of those hotels.

(We have to say that this page is a work in progress, mainly because we’re not the type of people that get to stay in beautiful hotels very often. However, we have visited most of the main hotels in Sanya over the last few months, and here are some of the ones we like the look of…(more)

 
© The Sanya Blog, Hainan, China