Meliá Chongqing

The hotel is incredible spacious inside, while the outside has a nice walking path around a large pond with trees. Being in the mountains there are plenty of trees and no traffic noise at all. For those concerned about shops/other food options etc, there is a small shop selling snacks (chips/noodles/drinks etc) directly opposite the conference end of the hotel. Staff are great, as was Jo who spoke English very well and greeted us the moment we arrived and gave us information we needed. There are some activities to try, we just played some table tennis which is set up in a really nice room with big glass windows on one side for a really great view. A staff member saw us playing, came in and left 2 water bottles for us! Great service! The balconies are huge, with a long couch and a single seater to move around, and a small round table. We were roughly in the middle of the hotel with the lake view, which faced directly towards the sunset, which made for a great view every evening. We had room service dinner twice, which was really good. There's a map they can provide of the surrounding area to give you an idea of what is there, but it's an illustration style map that is not accurate. It just highlights the main buildings and sights to see. So if you try to follow the roads on the map it will be very confusing! So happy to have found this hotel. We stayed for 6 nights.

The sound of frogs around the lake at night is very loud! But that didn't bother my partner. Nothing you can do about it, and I got used to it after a few nights. The weekends gets noisy with activities around the pond, so it's hard to relax during the day if your room faces the pond like ours did. There's a kids "train" that very slowly circles the pond with the loudest electronic noise blasting from it every so often (supposed to be like a train whistle I guess, but it is just an awful electronic noise). It's great they provide activities for families though, so it's something to just be aware of when planning your stay. During the week was pretty relaxing.