Dadonghai Hotel is a five-star hotel with 322 rooms, opened in 2018 on Yuhai Road in the Jiyang district of Sanya (Hainan), right on Dadonghai beach (about 15 metres to the water). Guests call the location “fantastic”: the hotel stands near Dadonghai Square, restaurants and bars, and the city centre is a few minutes by taxi. Dadonghai beach is famous for its soft light sand and calm sea, and within walking distance there are a square with a fountain, souvenir shops and open-air seafood cafés; in the evening the embankment comes alive.

Location: Dadonghai Square is about 150 metres away, Dadonghai beach about 15 metres (the main beach line about 260 metres), Sanya Bay about 1.6 km. The Dadonghai area is Sanya’s most “urban” beach, with cafés, bars, shopping centres and water-sports rental.

The hotel has an outdoor pool (umbrellas and children’s toys), snorkelling, a gym, a restaurant, private parking and electric-car charging stations, taxi booking, conference rooms and secretarial services. A guest writes that it is “a very good hotel in a fantastic place”. For the price on your dates see the booking block.

The guest rating is 9.5 out of 10 from 10,297 reviews. On the downside: the Dadonghai district is noisy in the evenings because of the bars and restaurants; the beach is crowded in season; five-star prices, especially in season; it opened in 2018, so it looks quite modern.