Kempinski Hotel Guiyang

Before the trip, I went through a lot of websites, and found that it seemed impossible to find a hotel without smoking issues--people in Guiyang smoke in public areas including 5 stars hotels. Some complained about cigar smell in their non-smoking rooms--the worst was that it's the same after changing rooms. After reading reviews in Chinese and English, I concluded that at least, Kempinski's rooms are free form smoking. I especially asked for a room on the non-smoking floor at check-in. During our 6-night stay, one day, we found that smoke was fill in the hallway--someone was smoking in a room and had the door wide open. We made a big complaint to the front desk. They immediately took care of it, and didn't happen again. The hotel was beautiful. The breakfast buffet was great--a wide display of selections. Our room was not big, but felt luxurious. The view form the room was great. There were a supper market, shopping mall and lots of restaurants next to the hotel. You can easily get a taxi outside the hotel entrance. I used my name to book the hotel and checked in with my credit card. However, it's probably a cultural thing--I found out at check out that they put my husband's name on the receipt, which I needed for reimbursement. It took a while for them to correct it. Since we had an early flight to catch and a taxi was waiting outside, it did create stress on us. But, they did try hard to satisfy customers. Overall, I still gave the hotel full-point rating.

The Kempenski Hotel disappointed me great deal this time. The front desk staff was unable to solve my question even with my repeated request (Remarks: I was just asking for an invoice!) and after I was back home, their "executive housekeeper" kept finding excuses and even asked the hotel portal to reply me directly. Kempenski, as a reputed hotel, should not have been providing such bad customer service and inflexibility in dealing with customers' reasonable requests. I wondered if they would treat other business travellers with the same ridiculous service in the future. I would seriously consider whether to stay at the hotel chain again in the future.