Skov River Resort

Our recent family trip to Skov River Resort near Guangzhou was an absolute delight! Just a comfortable 1.5-hour car ride from the airport, this destination offers a truly unique and immersive experience. Our stay was excellent value, including entrance to their massive water theme park and delicious breakfast for two adults and one child, with our toddler enjoying free admission! We loved the resort's authentic localized vibe—it was refreshing not seeing many Western, Singaporean, or Malaysian tourists, offering a genuine cultural immersion. The environment is superb; both the resort pool and water theme park consistently have ample lifeguards on duty, ensuring safety. A subtle mist along the poolside created a wonderfully mystical ambiance. The water theme park is incredible! It features diverse herbal hot springs, perfect for soaking. Kids will love the dedicated area for catching fish and feeding animals. While standard water slides offer thrills, the standout was their unique "roller coaster" slide spanning several buildings. A huge bonus: the indoor water theme park playground uses warm water, ideal for those who, like me, dislike the cold! The sheer size of the resort provides endless activities. Beyond the water parks, a huge lake offers kayaking, boat rides, and even chopper rides for aerial views. There's also a stunning man-made beach that perfectly simulates a Maldives vibe with fine sand, clear water, and coconut trees. Entertainment is a highlight! Daily performances feature DJs and dancers at the water fountain. The human water jet performance is truly captivating and something we'd never seen before in Singapore! Evenings are spectacular with a combined light and firework show. Choosing a room was fun with so many thematic options, almost all featuring a hot spring tub. We adored our forest theme room with a loft, slide, and a balcony boasting its own hot spring tub. Dining was excellent; we highly recommend the resort's Chinese restaurant over the Western buffet. The portions are generous, and the food is delicious, especially their fried rice! Despite its rural location, nestled among villages, the staff's service was outstanding. When we struggled to find a 6-seater car to the city, they commendably used their contacts to charter two 4-seater cars for us and our luggage. This personalized assistance truly made our departure seamless. Skov River Resort offers an unforgettable blend of adventure, relaxation, and authentic charm. We highly recommend it for a truly remarkable family getaway!

It was a wonderful weekend getaway, we were very lucky with the weather and the sun was shining. The pools are all clean, but I was very upset that children were not allowed to swim without a life jacket. Even children who can swim are required to wear life jackets and this is very annoying because the life jacket irritates the skin and it is unpleasant to swim in a life jacket when you want to enjoy your vacation and the water. It is very strange that they force you to wear a life jacket endlessly even at a shallow depth, although your child can swim. It was very unpleasant when the lifeguards tugged at me every 5 minutes and asked me to put on a life jacket, this really spoiled the whole vacation and really spoiled the whole mood. When you pay money for a vacation, you want to relax the way you are used to, the way you want, but definitely not feel like your rights are being infringed. It was also quite difficult to eat at lunch or dinner, the buffet ended at 8 pm, and then I had to go to a Chinese restaurant and choose from what was offered there. The breakfast was not varied for Europeans, after all, breakfast for Chinese is 90%. But there is a small cafe where they have delicious pastries and you can have afternoon tea with sweets and different desserts. The service is very good and at a high level, everyone was friendly and welcoming. The territory itself is beyond praise, a wonderful equipped space for children and a very good water park. In order to spend the weekend here, of course, they did everything, but on weekdays almost all the small cafes on the territory of the water park were turned off and some entertainment places in the open-air water park were also turned off on weekdays. What really pleased was the speed of work and the help of the employees who respond and try to help.

Highly recommended! It might seem location is a bit remote (3 hrs from HK) but it's perfect for our family get away. Really feels like a resort and there has a lot of thoughtful activities and recreational facilities for both the parents and the kids.

We had an amazing stay in one of our favorite hotels in Guangzhou. We love the nature. It’s in the mountains and it’s a lake next to the hotel. You can do kayaking or take a boat. This time we started in RV zone, it’s nice to have own yard. And it’s pet friendly.

The hotel room was spacious and clean. The kid enjoyed playing in the water park very much.

The resort has clean and modern interior. The room is spacious with scenic mountain view from the balcony. There are different themed hot spring pools. Some pools have small private pavilion which we enjoyed the privacy. My kids love the indoor water park with slides and wave pool. I highly recommend the food in the restaurant with ala carte menu! Fine cooking with fresh ingredients. Simply delicious! The restaurant and hotel staff are friendly and professional. In addition, the resort is just a few minutes away by car to the popular site, Baishuizhai waterfall! We really had an awesome and memorable stay Skov River Resort! \(^o^)/