#Raffles Hainan Clear Water Bay Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
We decided to spend 12 nights at this resort hotel and after a couple of issues checking in, the hotel and management didn’t stop until our magical holiday was perfect.
Breakfast was a real treat and open until 11 am which is perfect for those who do not want to rush! Our housekeeper was fantastic and became part of our holiday. There’s two swimming pools to keep you occupied and the private beach is wonderful. A short stroll to the harbour or to watch the sunset in the evening is close by too.
We ate dinner at the Italian restaurant which was delightful and in room dining was fantastic and reasonably priced.
The staff around the hotel made us feel very welcomed and I know from speaking with the resort manager that he is really developing this service further.
A massive thank you to Owen (Director of Resort) and the Duty manager Charles who went above and beyond to ensure we received 5* hospitality.
We will definitely return in the future!
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Yorkshire_Travellers
Moved Bali to Yaleju Raffles in Hainan, the hotel control must punch! Walking around the hotel, it feels like crossing the Ubud Palace in Bali. As it turns out, I just thought that I would go to Bali when I made a friends circle.
Swim in the pool and poolside lunch, experience the water raft for the first time, experience the spa with the herbal tea at the spa, enjoy the sea at the seaside...
is the Sanya vacation style I want Yes, [satisfied]
I used to like to travel alone by the sea. I always feel a little lonely, but this time at the Raffles Hotel in Hainan, although I am alone, I feel comfortable. Enriched, the whole tired body and mind relaxed, and learned and harvested many new experiences. A good hotel has a temperature. If two people come next time, this holiday will be pink.
sunnie.
When you come to Hainan, you must come to Lingshui | Clearwater Bay Strategy get!
| Clearwater Bay Strategy get!.⚠️This, too, too hi! Surprising holiday resort, a paradise free from anxiety✨🌴🌊📍Yajule Clearwater Bay! Coming here for a holiday is simply the best value for money🍹😍
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✅Travel strategy get‼️
Here's the title - "The Beach That Sings"~ It's really romantic, the beach is very delicate, and there's a fun beach market!! Golf, yachts, sailing, Strawberry Bear, Pikachu beach movie, beach sports... You can also take a helicopter by the sea to experience🔥It's too cool😎
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✅Photo check-in point📸 (Free🆓)
This is a popular base! Pink stairs, free photo castle architecture, and the coastline Longtouling photo base that the whole world envies! Don't forget to kill your friends circle when you come here!! (≖‿≖)✧
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✅Lots of food💯
There's too much food here👌🏻Dongrong Global Food Store and Clearwater Bay's major night markets are your paradise for eating all kinds of food!! No matter what you want to eat, it can satisfy your taste buds~ You can also go to the Dangjia Story, a first-line sea view seafood restaurant to check in✌🏻
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✅About accommodation🏨
Hainan Clearwater Bay Raffles Hotel & Lingshui Wipers Hotel are the top choices!! Raffles Hotel is the same hotel in the movie "Her Disappearance", come and experience the same style as the stars, while the Wipers Hotel has rooms with private swimming pools, facing the sea, enjoying the invincible sea view, simply the winner of life♥️
(ps: The white lighthouse in "Her Disappearance" is nearby, about 10 minutes drive, the photo is very beautiful)
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⚠️Tips:
Remember to arrange an afternoon shooting time for yourself before you set off! As the sun sets, the atmosphere of Clearwater Bay will be full, trust me, you will definitely take a big shot!📸✨The surfing coffee here also has a feel👀, have a cup of iced American to enjoy a nice day‼️
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📍Lingshui-Yajule Clearwater Bay Clearwater Bay Tourist Area
AdventuringGypsy
Check in at the filming location of 'The Vanishing', and experience the singing sands
🏰 The Raffles Hotel at Clearwater Bay covers an area of 160,000 square meters, surrounded by 110,000 square meters of tropical gardens, resembling a secret garden. This hotel has the largest rooms in Sanya and exquisite private villas.
🏠 Located on the undulating hills, built against the mountain, surrounded by lush tropical gardens🏡, it feels like walking into a natural oasis in the South Sea. The hotel has 13 check-in spots, each capable of producing great photos, which is perfect for someone who loves photography like me! And subtly, the hotel is really quiet, with a high plant coverage, making the whole environment seem very secluded and tranquil, with only the sound of the waves🏖️ and the rustling of leaves, which is very relaxing.
🏡 The rooms are basically sea-view rooms, and opening the curtains reveals the azure sea and sky, which is truly healing! The environment is also quite clean and tidy, making the stay feel more blissful!
🕌 Staying in the Bali Wing main building of Raffles Hotel at Clearwater Bay, you can see the lighthouse's sunrise and sunset glow🌅
🕍 The hotel has 281 elegant rooms and suites, with the smallest area being 80 square meters. Each room is equipped with a private balcony.
🏰 The hotel also has a family activity camp, which not only provides a place for children to rest and have fun, but also offers childcare services👶🏻, allowing parents to enjoy their vacation with ease.
💒 Raffles Hotel also has a very distinctive building, a pure white minimalist style church.👰🤵♂️ Newlyweds can also take some wedding photos here. The photos are super high quality, not losing to big churches abroad!
'Dining at the Hotel'
🏛 Three restaurants serve Italian, Chinese, Asian, and Western cuisine, and there is also a characteristic bar.
'Entertainment Experience'
🏫 The hotel's swimming pool🏊 really has the vibe of a tropical rainforest! Every shot is Instagram-worthy📷, capturing the essence perfectly! You can try the party water tower, floating🏄🏻♀️ afternoon tea, glass boats, giant rubber ducks, underwater scooters, etc., for amazing photo opportunities! You can also ride bicycles🚵♀️ by the beach, which is really comfortable!
❣️ The pre-booked floating afternoon tea will be delivered directly to the poolside, enjoying this quality of life, perhaps only Raffles can satisfy me💜
🏨: Raffles Hotel at Clearwater Bay, Hainan
📍: Clearwater Bay Avenue, Yingzhou Town, Lingshui Li Autonomous County, Hainan Province
APRIL GOODMAN
Vacation Resort - Raffles Hotel
Hainan Agile Raffles Hotel boasts the pristine white sandy beach of Clearwater Bay and an unbeatable seascape. Adjacent to two 18-hole golf courses, this luxurious resort hotel is surrounded by a beautiful environment and serves as a sanctuary for quality-minded travelers.
The smallest room size in the hotel is 80 square meters. The seaside wedding chapel - Elegant Pavilion, can host various weddings, anniversary events, and more. It is the filming location for 'The Vanished' and 'Ocean's Eight'.
Of course, you've probably guessed the price, starting from two thousand yuan.
Hainan Clearwater Bay Raffles Hotel
ANIYAH MCBRIDE
Hainan Vacation | A must-visit beautiful bay in Hainan Island for parents
This year for the New Year's celebration, it's still Hainan for me. Sanya is really too crowded, so I chose to take my parents to Agulhas Clearwater Bay for a vacation⛱️ The weather here is the same as in Sanya, and the temperature here is maintained at 26°C all year round, which is especially comfortable😌
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There are stunning sea views here, plenty of activities and markets, and after just one day of staying, I don't want to go home haha!!
This place🈶has a 12-kilometer coastline which is one of the three world-famous singing beaches, with fine and soft sand, making it an excellent place for children to play with sand, and the perfect choice for a beach walk to watch the sunset.
The beach is wide and flat, no need to squeeze through crowds, and there's just the right sense of comfortable distance!!
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☑️Activities
🈶Golf, yachts, sailing, Strawberry Bear, Pikachu, helicopters, hang-gliders, surfing 🏄 choose whatever you want to play!
✔️Agulhas Clearwater Bay Beach Camping Festival
Beach movies, beach sports, parent-child activities, pet activities, etc., you can enjoy these activities while on vacation⛱️, so comfortable!!
☑️Hotels
✔️Vipers Hotel: This is the five-star family-friendly hotel where I stayed with my family, 🈶with a super large children's water park, pool rooms, and the hotel environment is great👍
✔️Raffles Hotel: A top century-old resort hotel, Southeast Asian style—The main filming location for 'The Disappeared'➕'The Great Pretender'
☑️Check-in Spots
Clearwater Bay Freedom Lighthouse, the travel photography base of the sales office, Hanhai Yintan‼️lazy cat surfing coffee house, cup seaside white house, try to choose the afternoon time slot for check-in spots, otherwise it's really hot!
☑️Cuisine
Danjia Story is quite famous here, many celebrities have eaten here
Xincun Sea Fishing Raft lets you experience eating seafood🦞 in the middle of the sea
Clearwater Bay's various night markets: Yingzhou Night Market, Wanfu Xincun Night Market, Xincun Night Market are all great to visit! You can get there by navigation oh!!
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📍Agulhas Clearwater Bay
yvaine_6072
Stay in the coconut palm beach of Qingshui Bay, which is even more vacation-friendly than Sanya
Watching 'The Vanishing Her' is really thrilling!
I didn't expect the filming location to be in Hainan!
It finally made more people aware of the beautiful and lesser-known Qingshui Bay
And also made (Raffles Hainan Qingshui Bay) known to more people
📍 The hotel is located in Qingshui Bay, Lingshui
🚗 Less than half an hour's drive from Haitang Bay
🌊 Here the scenery is beautiful with fewer people, the beaches are clean, and the sand is fine, also it's in the direction of the sunset🌇
Prices start from 2000+ on weekdays
Raffles Hainan:
- The hotel is located in Qingshui Bay, only 15 minutes from the Sanya Haitang Bay duty-free shop.
- The combination of Li and Balinese styles showcases the unique island charm, and the holiday vibe hits you as soon as you enter the hotel.
- A super large size tropical rainforest, Instagram-style swimming pool, and a white chapel, all offering high photo-taking success rates.
- 15km of white sandy beach that 'squeaks' underfoot, known as the 'singing sand'.
- Children's club and authentic Balinese spa programs, ensuring a fun holiday for both adults and children.
WorldlyJourneyer
Not in Thailand, not in Southeast Asia, but in Clear Water Bay, Lingshui, Hainan
The location of the disappeared her! The same freedom lighthouse and beach dinner. I found it!
The sea in Lingshui is really beautiful~
From the jelly-colored glass sea nearby
to the deep blue sea in the distance,
the layers are distinct and surprisingly beautiful!
Walking on the "singing" beach,
Chasing a pink sunset in the direction of the Freedom Lighthouse,
Or,
Have a romantic buffet dinner with Ta on the same beach in the movie,
The sea breeze is gentle, the song in the ear is gentle,
Everything is just right, everything is worth it.
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🌴【Recommended attractions】
🔍: Hainan Lingshui Clear Water Bay Freedom Lighthouse
🈺: All day
🎫: 🆓
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🌴【Play and photo check-in strategy】
✅Be sure to choose good weather to play! The sea is blue and clear, the beach is white and soft, don't love it too much!
✅The Freedom Lighthouse at sunset is very atmospheric, remember to watch the sunset time in advance! After taking the sunset, you can also take the blue moment when the lighthouse lights up, which is also very out of the picture.
✅After taking the lighthouse, you can walk along the beach on the right to the same beach dinner in the movie-Clear Water Bay Raffles Hotel's beach seafood freedom feast, the portion is sufficient, the variety is many, delicious and romantic~
✅We live in the same hotel where the movie was filmed-Clear Water Bay Raffles Hotel, the hotel is full of Southeast Asian style, making people feel like they have traveled to Bali! The room has a super large balcony, and there are beach chairs, you can directly lie on the balcony to see the sea view, this is a surprise! There are also exquisite welcome fruits, butler service and a rich buffet breakfast, which makes people feel full of vacation!
✅Hainan's ultraviolet rays are relatively strong, be sure to pay attention to sun protection! It is recommended to wear slippers or hole shoes to the beach, which is convenient for wading and catching the sea~
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ARCHER MATHIS
This hotel is so upscale, it has the feel of a Maldives vacation
It's the Raffles Hotel in Sanya.
I'm quite familiar with the Raffles in Maldives, Singapore, and Shenzhen, they are all top hotels in their respective locations. I just stayed at the Raffles in Maldives last year, and I have a very good impression of this brand👍
Unlike the bustling Haitang Bay and Yalong Bay, this place is quiet with fewer people. The beach is exclusive to the hotel, suitable for soaking in the hotel and enjoying it. It has a Maldives vacation feel, especially the villa type🏠
🍂Raffles is located in Clearwater Bay, where the waves are calm and you can go into the sea. If you want to get close and feel the sea, don't choose hotels in Haitang Bay or Yalong Bay.
🌲The garden design is great, it has the feel of a resort, there are many trees so it doesn't feel too sunny. It gives off a tropical rainforest vibe. The decoration of the rooms and villas are all vacation style, warm wooden, very comfortable, international five-star brand hotel, hardware facilities and service standards are all online
📍It's an hour's drive from Sanya Phoenix Airport, except for the most basic rooms that do not include pick-up and drop-off, other room types all include pick-up and drop-off, and there's also a stay 2 nights get 1 night free deal, it's so PY to be able to stay in a Maldives quality vacation hotel, super👍👍
🚈It's 25 minutes to Sanya Duty Free City, there's a car to pick up and drop off which is quite convenient, shopping sisters get excited
Hannah_Smith@32
After watching 'Her Vanished', you have to visit the filming location, right?
👍Most recommended: After watching the movie 'Her Vanished', wouldn't you want to see the Moshar Lighthouse that appeared in the movie? The filming location is actually in Lingshui, Hainan, located at the Freedom Lighthouse in Clearwater Bay. The charming red and white color scheme, quietly watching at the end of the road alone!
❤Reason for recommendation: Apart from the plot, it has to be said that there are several scenes in the movie that are very beautiful!
▶️1. Clearwater Bay Freedom Lighthouse (Moshar Lighthouse)
▶️2. Clearwater Bay Beach, the couple's hand-holding photo in the movie was taken here. The water is clear, the sand is white, the wind is calm, and the sea sand is very delicate. Walking on it will make a crisp sound, called 'the singing beach'! In the evening, you can see the sunset dyeing the beach like a beautiful painting!
▶️3. Hainan Raffles Ocean Joy World (Undersea Starry Sky)
▶️4. Clearwater Bay Yacht Club (The dock where He Fei ran)
▶️5. Clearwater Bay Raffles Hotel (Holiday Hotel)
▶️6. Dali Waterfall (The place where Chen Mai and He Fei jumped into the water)
💗There is also the Baoting Sheling Film and Television Base, the Nanyang Street in the movie is located in Sheling Town on the east side of Baoting.
🌟Nearby tourist highlights: Lingshui's Boundary Island, Daidai Island, Wanning's Sun and Moon Bay, Shimei Bay, Jiajing Island, Baoting's Yanoda Rainforest, Qixianling, etc. are all worth seeing.
🚉Travel tips: The self-driving route can refer to 'Haikou-Wenchang-Qionghai-Wanning-Lingshui-Baoting-Sanya' (the reverse is also possible), directly locate the Clearwater Bay Tourist Area (North Gate), there are parking spaces, cars can be parked directly at the North Gate; the combination of high-speed rail + taxi can also make everyone travel easily.
LoganMaguire18
The feeling of living in a tropical rainforest can only be experienced here!
Raffles Yajule
Review: A treasure resort hotel mixed with Li nationality style and Southeast Asian style
Hotel location: Lingshui Clearwater Bay
Hotel style: Bali style
Room area: 80㎡
Hotel highlights: Raffles Yajule is more low-key and connotative,
It is the only luxury resort hotel in Hainan adjacent to 2 18-hole golf courses;
The hotel style has the atmosphere of a tropical rainforest, with light wind and shallow waves, really have a second through Southeast Asia deja vu
KENDALL CASTRO
The singing beach of Clearwater Bay!
Located in Lingshui's Clearwater Bay, less than half an hour away from Haitang Bay, this place has few people, beautiful scenery, clean beaches, and fine sand. It is also known as the singing beach. It is said that the sound made when stepping on it is super healing, and the sunset is a unique pink color, super beautiful!!
Hotel environment:
Located on the undulating hills, built against the mountain, surrounded by lush tropical gardens, it feels like walking into a natural oasis in the South China Sea. The hotel has 13 check-in points, each of which can produce big pictures, which is very suitable for me who loves to take pictures! And what's subtle is that the hotel is really quiet, the plant coverage rate is high, the whole environment seems very secluded and quiet, only the sound of the waves, the rustling sound of the leaves, it's really relaxing. The room type is basically a sea view room, pulling the curtains is the blue sea and blue sky, it's really healing! The environment is also quite clean and tidy!
Hotel food:
The candlelight dinner with my lover still chose the Italian seafood restaurant in the hotel, not only the atmosphere is very romantic, a small drink, directly full of sweetness, and the production is also good! The whole match is very careful! The most special thing is the white tomato soup, this soup can only be drunk in the Raffles Italian seafood restaurant in Hainan, it is made by filtering the tomato elements for a day and a night!
Penelope.Simmons@39
Hainan was once the location of a hotel in the movie 'Her Disappearance'
🏨 Clearwater Bay Raffles Hotel
🌟Highlights:
The location of the movie 'Her Disappearance'. The hotel is very large, with its own beach, three restaurants, and the accommodation corridor has open windows, overall it is Southeast Asian style.
The travel photography of Raffles is platinum, the shooting is very fast, the output rate is very high, the photographer will shoot according to your style and your clothes of the day!
🛏Room facilities:
The garden room is on the fifth floor, the room is very large, very suitable for the spaciousness of family travel, double bathroom, the height of the building is at the top of the coconut tree, the living room has an open kitchen, it is recommended for family travel garden room.
🍽Dining recommendations:
Breakfast recommends Western-style fried bacon is better than Chinese food.
You can rent a car to eat seafood at the big stall, the cost performance is very high. The seafood supermarket catches it now, the restaurant processes it, the fish has splashed me with several tails of water from the water to the table, and the average person can eat and pack it for four hundred.
🚉Transportation strategy:
Fly from Shanghai to Sanya, rent a car in Sanya, the car rental staff at Sanya Airport will pick up the plane and take you to register a few kilometers away.
📝Note tips:
The sprinkler noodles and small cakes in the V23 VIP lounge of Shanghai Hongqiao Hainan Airlines are good, and the Sanya VIP lounge seems to be a big canteen!
EZEKIEL RHODES
Complete guide to Clearwater Bay Raffles
📍Hainan Lingshui Clearwater Bay (next to Haitang Bay, Monkey Island is a 20-minute drive away, and the food court is 10 minutes away)
🚌Pick-up and drop-off: The hotel provides a shuttle bus to and from Sanya Phoenix Airport (it is recommended to add Lingshui High-speed Railway Station pick-up and drop-off, many passengers land in Haikou)
🅿️Hotel guests park for free (non-staying guests 10 yuan/H)
But there is no valet parking service, this point is not good
💁♀️Service:
1. There will be guidance to the lobby for check-in when entering the hotel, and there are butlers to follow up on the check-in experience. We arrived early and the butler knew that we were coming back from the beach and actively upgraded our room type to let us check in early to rest
2. The butler sister also knew that we were three guests and gave us three coconuts (the experience was great)
🏊Swimming pool: During the stay, the reef swimming pool was maintained (it is said to be a major change) and only a very regular small swimming pool was opened, but there was also a bubble battle which was fun
🌴Garden: The entire hotel garden is super large, very photogenic, and you can easily get lost. The garden lights are dim at night
🌊Seaside: There is a shuttle bus to and from the beach, and walking is a bit tiring. The beach dinner has the artistic conception of 'Her Disappearance', and the photos are also very photogenic, but I personally think that the buffet is not cost-effective!
🛏️Guest room: We stayed in the sea view room of Lanhaiju this time, the room area is about 80 square meters, it feels like the whole has been renovated, there is no moldy smell on the Internet, the balcony is super large with loungers and dining table (strongly recommend ordering a set of balcony breakfast), the bedding is impeccable, the bathroom has a dressing table which is a blessing for female friends, the spare parts are just simple toiletries, there is no disposable razor, which is not very friendly to male friends
🎑Night bed service: Even if there is no advance explanation of the demand, the hotel will actively provide night bed service, put water and cups on the bedside, and there are two pieces of Swiss lotus chocolate to help sleep, slippers, bathrobes will be hung up for users to use (very intimate)
🎹Night ceremony: There will be free cocktails and dried fruits provided, enjoy piano accompaniment, the whole ceremony is about ten minutes
🍴Baiwei Chinese Restaurant: The dishes are mainly Cantonese and some Hunan dishes, the price is moderate, the speed of serving and the taste are good, and a 1 pound cake animal cream mango sandwich is super delicious
🍳Disha Village: Breakfast time is until 11 o'clock, it is a blessing for friends who like to sleep in, it can be eaten as lunch, the dishes are rich, the strong push noodle stall area's braised flavor is very flavorful, the bread cake is very dry like it has been put for a long time. After entering the restaurant, there is no waiter to guide, and you need to find a table yourself and wait for others to finish eating before you can sit down (you should not let guests come in and wait when there are many diners)
⚠️Complaint point: The hotel corridor is very slippery, it should be that a guest's water was spilled and not cleaned by the cleaning staff, and I fell directly!! The waiter in the Chinese restaurant is also very rigid, saying that the chili fried meat does not want too much fat and says it can't be done.
🌟Summary: The service quality in Hainan is already very high, the guest rooms have been renovated and will not be very old, it is recommended to go out to eat for catering, there are not many entertainment options, the photos are more photogenic, suitable for couples to travel, discourage parent-child, if you want a vacation experience with fewer people and beautiful scenery, come to Raffles!
Phoenix_8_Starthorn-67
Leifeng Pagoda, isn't this lantern beautiful!
When I first saw my friend post a picture of this long corridor of lanterns, I fell in love with it completely. It was so stunning that I finally came to take a photo, capturing the reflection in the water during the day and the corridor directly at night. The lanterns are located in the long corridor after the entrance gate and will be lit up all night, making it a great spot for photography.
matthias_oliver_dante
Moved Bali to Hainan, this hotel did it, Hainan Agile Raffles Hotel. The culture of the hotel has precipitated for over 100 years. Vacation, not a foreign country. It can also be the second hometown of Bali in Hainan. A ticket, a bay. Come to the world, listen to the sea and see the sun. ### Travel Adventures# Moved Bali to Hainan, this hotel did it, Hainan Agile Raffles Hotel. The culture of the hotel has precipitated for over 100 years. Vacation, not a foreign country. It can also be the second hometown of Bali in Hainan. A ticket, a bay. Come to the world, listen to the sea and see the sun. ### Travel Adventures#