voco Thousand Island Lake

We had such a wonderful time at Voco! The hotel is very clean and beautiful. The views of the lake are gorgeous- especially from the breakfast restaurant and the gym. You can watch the sun set right over the water. The hotel staff members were friendly and helpful. The breakfast is delicious and there are plenty of options. I do think the restaurant prices for lunch/dinner are a bit high, but the hotel is just a walk away from other restaurants. It’s located on Yangguang Road, right along a running/walking path next to the lake. I will definitely stay here again if I come back to Qiandaohu!

A beautiful hotel in a quiet location. Breakfast was a buffet to rival the best. Staff polite and accommodating.

The hotel switched off the central air conditioning making the whole hotel including our room very stuffy in the hot afternoons and at night. The quilt cover in bed was very thick but we could not adjust the room temperature so I was woken up by the heat in the middle of the night and couldn’t sleep again. We opened the window but the road noise kept me awake at about 5 am in the morning. I had very poor sleep because of this. The Chinese restaurant had a great view but we left after 2 minutes because it was super hot and stuffy at 530pm, we couldn’t enjoy the nice lake view at that restaurant. Hotel F&B is very expensive, the 2kg fish head soup cost CNY580. You can have a 1.8kg fish head soup at CNY168 which is very delicious, just outside the hotel on the food street. We ordered the fried rice which cost CNY88. The F&B vouchers cannot be used for alcoholic beverages. Basically we book an accommodation for good night sleep but this hotel, despite all the seemingly nice peripherals, couldn’t even ensure a comfortable sleeping environment hence not worth the money. We didn’t use all the other vouchers as we only stayed 2 nights, no time to use. Free Minibar is only for 1 night. There is only 1 small can of beer, not 2 as some earlier reviews mentioned. This is the only accommodation among all our stays that didn’t provide proper air conditioning, it’s very disappointing. Not recommended. The hotel staff are all very nice though.