Hi Robert,
I was in Sanya earlier this year with my lady we spend 5 days at Yalong Bay.
On the tourist flyers they say that Sanya (Hainan Island) is the Chinese equivalent to Hawaii. :dodgy:
Sanya the town has a fairly small retail area, but there are tons of apartments and amazingly 75% of them are empty most of the year. The apartments close to the city are all fairly new.
Where we stayed at Yalong Bay which is about 20 minutes from downtown Sanya, Yalong bay is a very nice place, the beach was reasonable busy with Russian Family (I would hazard to guess that most of the husbands were defence or ex defence).
I actually did not hear any English spoken there for the first 3 days………hehehe.
There are some really great resorts in Yalong Bay, the Crowne Plaza was our hotel and it was very good as there are plenty of food outlets and it has its own beach access.
It can be as romantic as you would like it to be Robert.:icon_redface:
If you’re up to some adventure then there is plenty of things to keep you busy for quite a few days.
We caught the ferry out to Wuzhizhou Island, it is a very small coral atoll about 8 kilometre off the coast. We done the walk around the island in about 2 hours (very romantic hand in hand) and the place is extremely clean and tidy, the water was bl**dy chilly. :-/
One of the other days we done the white water rafting and it was a buzz………I was the only foreigner on the trip, in actual fact there was only 4 guys and about 25 ladies, it was a really fun day.
All that I can tell you was that we enjoyed our time there and we will go back again in the future.:icon_cheesygrin::icon_arrowu:
Some of the flights get there very late so you have to be quick to catch a taxi, the places closes very early Robert.
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