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Welcome to Pan Tower International Hotel, your Kaiping “home away from home.” Pan Tower International Hotel aims to make your visit as relaxing and enjoyable as possible, which is why so many guests continue to come back year after year.
Free wifi is offered to guests, and rooms at Pan Tower International Hotel offer air conditioning and a minibar.
During your stay, take advantage of some of the amenities offered, including room service, baggage storage, and currency exchange. Guests of Pan Tower International Hotel are also welcome to enjoy a pool and free breakfast, located on site. For travellers arriving by car, free parking is available.
Kaiping has plenty of Chinese restaurants. So when you’re here, be sure to check out popular spots like LanDiao Theme Restaurant, Lijiang Seafood Restaurant, and Zhuwei Longtang Restaurant, which are serving up some great dishes.
Kaiping is also known for some great architectural buildings, including Watchtower Group of Zili Village, Kaiping Garden, and Ma-Xianglong Towers Group, which are not too far from Pan Tower International Hotel.
Pan Tower International Hotel puts the best of Kaiping at your fingertips, making your stay both relaxing and enjoyable.
Star ratings are intended to indicate the general level of features, amenities, and services to expect. This property is classified according to Giata.
Based on Western standards, it’s a solid 4 star hotel. When it was built many years ago, it was probably considered a 5 star.
But as time goes by, the furniture and fixtures gets a bit dated. Still, it was comfortable and more than adequate. We upgraded to a suite with a separate living room. The views of the river were great. The sheets were very soft and clean. Had all the usual amenities including unlimited bottles of water. The internet was quite difficult to get and slow when received and the tv took 3 technicians to get to finally work! The a/c functioned fine as did the hot water.
The outdoor pool was surprisingly large and crystal clear. The temperature was a perfect 30 C. The gym was a bit small but still had many of the basic equipment.
Breakfast variety was mostly Eastern fare. Not much of a salad or truly healthy selection, but one can put together an adequate breakfast.
English is spoken by a few of the staff, but the translation apps make that easier now. Most staff was very friendly and aimed to pleased.
If you find yourself in Kaiping for the watch towers or old towns, you can’t go wrong staying here. I believe it’s the best that Kaiping has to offer.
Howard S.
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Date of stay: June 2021Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:The higher the floor, the quieter it will be and the better the views.
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My friends and I just spent one night in this hotel. The rooms are nice with a very big bed, comfortable mattress and the room are clean. You know when everyone goes to China, the first impression is worry about the cleanliness..this one is doing quite good.
And the simple toiletry are included..but if you want extra stuffs, you could pay extra money for the items which they already arranged in the room ...like ferragamo salvatore toiletry.^O^
Our room with a large window which allowed us to see the view of the bridge and the surroundings area. Especially at night, when the lights turned on...the view was nice.
And our package included the complimentary breakfast..there are variety of options..mainly chinese food..like noodles, congee, vegetables..etc..There were some western food like toast, bread and cereals..etc.. The food was so-so..
But, the juices, coffee and tea are terrible...it seems they put a lot of water to dilute the ingredients...made it no taste at all..like drinking the water....
Apart from the food...this hotel was good for staying.
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Date of stay: February 2013
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The Pan Tower International Hotel is a perfectly acceptable, upscale western-style hotel in a town that doesn't see much in the way of western visitors.
Nestled inside a sprawling riverside property near the center of town, the exterior resembles an older, mid-tier Hyatt Hotel. Replete with a long driveway approach lined with world flags and a baggage porter awaiting your arrival.
Check-in is about as fast as it can be, given the need to hand over your details for visitor registration with the local police.
The lobby is clean, upscale, but striving for grandeur. Although there are quite a number of vacant retail spaces in the lobby, you'll want to take note of the restaurant where the complimentary breakfast is served. At the time of my visit, there was also a women's outerwear shop that sold affordable and well-designed scarfs, fur jackets, and the like. A member of my party bought a hat and a jacket from the boutique.
On the way to the guest room elevators, there is a hallway that leads to a fitness center and billiards hall. A posted sign notes a charge to use both of these facilities.
The standard room is rather large by western standards. I had a 2-double bed room and requested an additional rollaway. All three beds easily fit in the room and the third member of my party noted that the rollaway bed was extremely comfortable.
Elsewhere in the room was a built-in bar, tea kettle, a desk with a chair, a floor lamp near the exterior window, and a master light control panel built into the shared nightstand. Unfortunately, there are not enough power outlets positioned throughout the room, so be sure to request a power strip in order to charge all of your devices.
The furniture and room design were functional but plain. Bottled water is provided for free, along with an important reminder not to drink the tap water.
Wifi, as with all Mainland China hotels, is painfully slow and filtered.
The bathroom could use some updating. A very sterile design. But hilariously enough, there were personal hygiene products on the bathroom counter marked "for purchase," including condoms.
The most surprising aspect of my stay was the breakfast buffet. You'll need to "tag in" to the buffet with your RFID enabled room key card before entering. Once in, I'm sure you'll be as delighted as I was by the selection and taste.
There had to have been at least 50 items to choose from. Mostly eastern delights, with hot and cold dishes and a selection of bread and fruit. The highlight was the short-order noodle bar, with a selection of noodles, meat, and toppings. The chef on the morning of my stay did an amazing job of making a tasty soup broth.
The western selection, however, was hurting for variety. Hot dogs were passed off as breakfast "sausage." And eggs had to be ordered through the short-order cook. Luckily, you are able to make your own omelet or request eggs any way you want.
The most glaring offense at the buffet was the coffee. It was downright terrible and should be avoided. Ditto to the "Sunny-D" variety of orange juice.
Service, from the check-in to the buffet was quick, efficient, and helpful.
Overall, the Pan Tower International Hotel is a perfectly fine, upscale hotel for Kaiping. A solid 4-stars on the western scale. You can't go wrong staying here, despite some of its peculiarities.
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Date of stay: January 2018
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This is my first visit to Kaiping, an interesting little town. This is the only 5 star hotel in town. Pro:rooms are comfortable, staffs are very friendly, and the buffet breakfast is satisfactory. Con: every time you go out to eat, you need to call a taxi. However, it is not that far from restaurants and the one amazing, excellent shopping center nearby. Most of our taxi trips to the nearby restaurants and the shopping center costs around usd $2.50. I may still stay there next time I go on account of it being a 5 star hotel. I didn't see any other hotels that look as good as this one.
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Date of stay: July 2017
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I stayed at this hotel since 2003 and whenever I am in town at Kaiping. I think they had changed ownership in between, but not sure. One good thing is the hotel is still well up keep. The hotel is clean and service is good. Food is so so, if compare to some other place where the local people can takes you ( if you know any of them). But being a foreigner, I felt safer to eat in the restaurant at the hotel. One draw back is if you don't request for a non smoking room, the smell of the cigarette in the room is not pleasant. But you can request to change to another room , they will gladly change it for you if other non smoking room is available.
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Date of stay: October 2015
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After driving through Kaiping, (for our first visit ever) I was very anxious about the quality of the hotel we had reserved. Touring the city made me doubt that we would find a quality hotel there. Fortunately, the city is planning for many foreign (mostly business-related) visitors, and the quality of the hotel was a very pleasant surprise. True, it is not a 5-star hotel that one would find in most vacation destination cities, but Kaiping is definitely not a tourist destination. The staff was extremely friendly and helpful, but don't expect that it's staffed by college English majors. Their helpfulness makes up for lack of English skills.
We arrived during what we heard was the coldest weather in many decades, so your experience may differ. Surprisingly, cold, windy weather does not dictate that the lobby doors be closed, so those of you that enjoy fresh air, no matter the temperature, will be quite pleased, especially since there is NO HEAT in any of the common areas of the hotel. No need to request ice for your drinks in the restaurant tonight! I couldn't understand how the restaurant staff wasn't chilled to the bone in their skimpy outfits, but on the way out I noticed the seating hostess standing about 1/2 cm from an electric space heater.
Oh well, time to hunker down for the night in a nice warm cozy bed......but WHAT!....there's no heat coming out of the heat vent. Call front desk, someone from housekeeping arrives very quickly and tells us we have turned the heat control dial THE WRONG WAY! (Stupid Americans!) Apparently you turn the dial to 10 degrees C and turn the switch to 'A/C' if you want heat. Why haven't we thought of that in America!? Unfortunately, after I few minutes I noticed again that still there was no heat emanating from the vent. Call again. Speedy housekeeping visit again. After a thorough examination she determines that 'the heat does not work.' Brilliant! Rather than switch rooms, housekeeping delivered an electric space heater! (I hope she didn't steal it from the restaurant seating hostess!) It heated the room to manageable levels, and would have been more effective had the room windows not been single pane (it's still a 5-star hotel for Kaiping.)
Although we requested a non-smoking room, we did notice ash trays (pictured) by the elevator doors on our floor. Also, smoking is apparently allowed all throughout the common areas of the hotel, but the lobby is massive and does not become smoke-polluted. Our room was a little undersized by 5-star standards, but we required a room with 2 queen beds. Be careful with the shower, as the hot water is deliciously hot, but blasts out at nearly 1000 gallons per second (no wimpy flow restrictors here!)
The restaurant served pretty well prepared Western food, both for dinner and breakfast, but remember......you're still in China. They were remodeling on the floor above us, so we were warned not to plan on sleeping past 9. Sure enough, at precisely 9 a.m., the work crew fired up. The quality of the finish work in our bathroom would have gotten most contractors fired, but everything was functional and nothing leaked.
The hotel is removed from the bustle of the city by a few blocks, so that any room should be very quiet at night (we were on the 12th floor.) Any room with a view facing the city or river will be worthwhile, as virtually all the bridges crossing the river are lit up at night with neon light shows, along with several other large buildings along the riverfront.
All this entertainment for only $80 (U.S.) per night!
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Date of stay: February 2014
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I have no doubt that this is probably the best hotel to stay at while in KP. The lobby was huge and well decorated, the rooms a little small and somewhat dated. The beds are small and very hard, but from what I'm told thats just the way it is China.
There's a large outdoor pool, and tennis courts. A few small shops on the main level, including a small tea shop that I highly recommend. The western restaurant is lacking a little, but the Chinese restaurant was quite good. The english amongst the staff was lacking, but that too should be expected in South East China. However, the staff was friendly, and helpful.
I agree that it's not a five star hotel like the InterContinental in HK, or the Trump in NYC but it's a solid four star.
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Date of stay: February 2013
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Hotel looks nice inside. Rooms are avg, it's ok. Food is much better than i expected. Also this is my first hotel in China where the restaurant was not crowded at morning. This hotel offers good value, and food is more than good for an european...
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Date of stay: January 2013
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:River view is cool!
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It is only fair to start this review with explaining what the Pan Tower is not -- it is not a major, 5 star, international hotel that can be reasonably compared with the Intercontinental, Mandarin Oriental, or Shangri-La (as I think a couple of reviewers have implicitly done). Rather, it is best in class hotel in a medium-sized Chinese city that does a good job providing a lot of facilities, English speaking staff and generally looking after it's guests well.
The hotel itself is enormous, with two restaurants (one Chinese, one loosely defined as Western), a pool, tennis courts, a gym, table tennis, billiards, a night club, kareoke rooms, a spa and a (male only) sauna. It has a slightly resort like feel and is clearly a meeting point for local families in the area for dim sum lunch, a dinner out, etc.
The staff could not be more pleasant or better trained. There was always at least one person with working English on duty, they were very helpful with booking taxis, cars and explaining the area, and when we mentioned our bed was very hard they immediately sent someone from housekeeping with a mattress topper (which allowed us to get a very good night's sleep).
The rooms are pleasant and clean, with nice, modern bathrooms.
A word of advice is to avoid asking the bellboys (several of whom speak English) to book any transport, as they tend to mark up the prices. The concierge desk is the much better option.
For those in Kaping on business or tourism, this is an ideal place to stay.
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Date of stay: May 2012
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This is my fourth stay at this hotel since June 2005. I selected a room on the Executive Floor located on the 30th floor which provides a commanding view of Kaiping. The room cost was $70 USD per day. Interestingly, the room price for some reason decreased since my last stay, and accordingly, it was the cheapest rate in my four stays. The Pan Tower is still the best hotel in Kaiping. The room size is slightly above average and its marble bathroom is well appointed. The rooms still do not have flat screen TV's, and be warned that they still use the typical Chinese mattress which is quite hard by western standards. The room air-conditioning worked quite well as our week's stay at the Pan Tower was in the middle of July.
The lobby area shops and restaurant located on the lobby floor changed significantly since my last stay. I noted they added at least four or five new shops on lobby level and the restaurant was remodeled inside. A free breakfast for each guest is included in the room charge. During breakfast I spoke with several visiting Americans from California. The hotel still caters to Americans and Europeans visiting Kaiping on business. Moreover, The hotel spa on the 5th floor was reasonably priced and the room interior decors was above average. I would recommend getting a foot massage at the hotel, if not just for the sheer convenience.
Getting to Kaiping from Hong Kong (airport) can be challenging for an American who does not speak Chinese. Whether by vehicle, bus or ferry, its going to be a 4 hour trip regardless of the transportation mode. Currently, there is a daily bus that goes direct to and from the Hong Kong Airport that takes four hours. The Chu Kong Ferry that leaves from the HK Ferry Terminal will also be a 4 hour journey, including a required one to two hour additional cab or bus ride. Unfortunately, the ferry no longer goes directly to the Kaiping port (I assume due to lack of business). You have to disbark either at the Jiangmen or Zhongshan ports, and continue the journey using a vehicle or bus to arrive in Kaiping.
Americans are going to love the many cheap goods in Kaiping. They also have a new shopping center named Vanguard (after the store) which is sort of a Chinese version of Walmart. Its worth at least one visit.
Traffic in Kaiping is becoming increasingly horrible. Everyone there all of a sudden now own cars, and hence, be forewarned of sitting there in traffic jams. Not so a few years back. Also noted are all the new highrise condo complexes that have been built in the last few years.
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Date of stay: July 2011
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Trip type: Travelled with family
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The Hotel is not in Guangzhou, and there is no shuttles or rides from Guangzhou to the hotel. The hotel does not provide ride services for tourists who wish to go elsewhere for sightseeing. However, you can always hire a car for a fee ( I forgot how much, but it's reasonable) per day. The rates are posted.
We hired a private car to take us from Hong Kong to the hotel. So I don't know how much is a taxi from the bus station to the hotel, since I didn't take the bus.
There are more places to choose from in the Kaiping area.
PRICE RANGE
RM 219 - RM 309 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
开平潭江半岛酒店, pan hotel international
LOCATION
ChinaGuangdongKaiping
NUMBER OF ROOMS
297
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