Close to the permanent site of the China-ASEAN Expo, the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center, the Nanning Marriott Hotel (Xinwei Wanhao Jiudian) is a business hotel within easy reach of Hangyang International Shopping Mall and Wuxiang Square.Newly opened in 2009, this Nanning hotel houses 343 guestrooms.The on-site Chinese restaurant houses 13 luxurious private dining rooms, and chefs specialize in seafood and Cantonese cuisine. At the Western restaurant guests can enjoy Western-style and Southeast Asian-style cuisines while listening to contemporary music. For business travelers organizing conferences and events, this hotel's 704 square-meter banquet hall and four variously-sized multifunctional conference halls are all equipped with audiovisual systems and high-speed Internet access. The banquet hall can also be broken down into three smaller units.Guests with free time on their hands can go to the lobby bar for a drink or private gathering, or enjoy a refreshing swim at the pool, steam up in the sauna, or enjoy some pampering or a massage at the spa. There is also a beauty salon on site.
"The hotel's facilities are a bit dated, and the room size is just average. There was a minor incident on the day we checked in: the air conditioning in this executive room made a loud, whistling noise when it was on. Luckily, the weather wasn't too hot, so we could sleep without it. The shower drain was severely clogged; initially, I thought it was just hair and debris, but when I opened the drain cover, I realized the pipe itself was blocked. After running the shower for just two minutes, the entire shower stall would flood, enough to 'go boating,' and it took a long time for the water to drain. This also caused water to spill out onto the bathroom floor. We contacted housekeeping, and since we were very tired that day, they offered to give us a solution the next day and promptly switched us to a twin room. Overall, their attitude was good, and they handled the issue quite proactively.
The hotel breakfast spread is decent for the price. The hot food at the lounge was just so-so, but given how hotels are currently cutting costs due to 'cost reduction and efficiency improvement' by their owners, it's good that the lounge is still operational at all. We drove ourselves, and that evening, we were told we couldn't park in the ground-level parking lot due to a bus, so we had to navigate to the very complicated underground garage. A doorman proactively asked if we needed a ride to guide us, which was a nice touch, as we wouldn't have found it otherwise. I suggest they update the hotel's underground parking entrance/exit location on navigation apps."