Eda Skylark Hotel

Patrick1 year ago

1/5

This is our honest review of the hotel. I would like to start with saying that the staff were very welcoming and helpful to us. They even called us after our stay to check in after our review to see what they could improve on and we want to thank the staff there for that, it was a very thoughtful gesture and it made us feel heard. We enjoyed the human interaction with the staff and all who were working here, again, no issues with them and I would rate them highly. However, we had issues with the hotel, location and experience itself, not the staff, see the review below for our experience. --- We weren't very happy with out stay at all, location, cleanliness, scenery and entire vibe of the area wasn't something I would recommend. Location isnt very good at all, if you're wanting to stay more than one night, there isn't much to do here unless you're planning to do lots of shopping and spend time at the park. Getting into town is an hour away by bus with limited scheduled bus time (about 1-1.5hr wait in between). Only convenience is close proximity to the mall and theme park but wouldn't recommend staying here for that. When we were trying to leave, the bus out of E-DA was missing, so we had to wait an extra hour at the bus station. The view driving in for the first time wasn't very appealing with the abandoned half-build hotels and unwashed building walls, but the view from outside the window in our room was very depressing, directly looking the scenery of unbuilt abandoned hotels and gave an uneasy feeling as soon as we entered the room. The hallways hotel had some old, dirty carpet and peeling wallpaper, and the wallpaper in our room had some peeling next to the bed. We had a bath in the bathtub and the morning after my partner had a UTI, were thinking that maybe the bath wasn't clean resulting in that infection. The TV was old with limited channels, and the cable tv box was unplugged, I had to plug in the receiver cable to get it working. We stayed from Wednesday till Friday but the whole time we were there the most of the stores in market weren't open so there wasn't really much to see or do especially during night time. dont really recommend coming here unfortunately, and if you were still, would recommend only one night, perhaps visiting the theme park in the day, mall at night, and Fo Guang Shan the morning after, we felt a bit stuck here booking two nights.