[2024 Taiyuan Stay] Travel Guide for JW Marriott Hotel Taiyuan (Updated Oct)
My short vacation in Taiyuan.
⛰️Taiyuan, as a historical city that "controls the mountains and rivers, and sits on the shoulders of the world", and "the key to the four barriers, the city of the five plains", gave me a great shock when I first arrived. I also started a short and comfortable vacation here. The Taiyuan JW Marriott Hotel where I stayed is located in the bustling commercial center of the city, surrounded by tall buildings, showing exquisite luxury in the city's business district. It is about 11 kilometers away from Taiyuan Wusu International Airport, and the route to Taiyuan South Station is less than 8 kilometers, which also surprised me when I first arrived in Taiyuan. It seems that the time here is longer than other places, you can arrange a lot of time to do what you want to do, instead of carefully planning every link of the trip in a short time.
🌃This time I stayed in a suite with panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows. When night fell, the neon lights around me lit up, making people slow down and feel the real vacation. Natural wood floors and furniture of the same color add a sense of warmth to this place. The carefully prepared welcome dessert is also trying to introduce the wonderfulness of this city to me who just arrived in Taiyuan.
🥢Enjoy a delicate dinner in Jinweige Chinese Restaurant. The various dim sums are presented under the skillful hands of the master, which is the collision of freshness and taste. The JW Executive Lounge is a private gathering space, with a magnificent panoramic view of the Taiyuan skyline, and a glass of just right wine, ending the day's fatigue.
George Corwin
The budget travelers were moved to tears, you must stay at this place when you come to Taiyuan!
1. Since it opened in February this year, the windows can still be opened for ventilation. The room is 65 square meters, which is acceptable. Thanks to the lounge manager Laura for quickly finding me a clean room at 10 o'clock in the morning.
2. The quality control of the lounge is still good, the items are replenished very quickly, and the arrangement is quite exquisite. However, there is no Perrier water, and the sparkling wine is hidden inside. You have to ask the waiter to pour it for you. Nowadays, many five-star hotel lounges have Perrier water.
3. There is no turndown service, which refreshed my understanding of JW. They said they only provide it upon request, indicating a serious lack of service. Look at the Marriott in Wutai Mountain, they automatically provide turndown service.
4. The fitness center and swimming pool use LifeFitness, a high-end brand. However, the water quality of the swimming pool is not very clear. The pool is 25*6 meters, and the waiter said that there are usually no people before 2 o'clock, so it seems I had the place to myself. The locker room is too poor, only at the level of a general four-star hotel, and there is no sauna or steam room. I don't know how this JW got its rating. The shower even had water accumulation and poor drainage, which refreshed my understanding of the hotel. The waiter said there might be a sauna in the spa, but it hasn't opened yet.
5. Breakfast has seating arrangements, and they ask you 'coffee or tea,' which is standard service. The variety is average, the colorful knife-cut noodles are just for show, and the local specialties are not enough, with only lamb offal soup and meatball soup. You need to call someone to clear empty plates, and the restroom is a long walk away, which is inconvenient. There are freshly squeezed watermelon juice, orange juice, and mixed juice, which are not bad.
AOW. Gus 2677
The top-tier Taiyuan Maoye JW Marriott offers afternoon tea with fresh flowers, in the name of romance
The enchanting flow of light among the flowers is indeed the finest in the Dragon City. For a long time, many people have had a skewed impression of Taiyuan, with its literary and romantic charm little known. However, with the official opening of the Taiyuan Maoye JW Marriott, this romantic artistic temperament has been carved into a new aesthetic height.
When the sweetness of spring meets the elegant and exquisite bouquet, there comes an afternoon tea full of ritual. Afternoon tea with fresh flowers is not only unique in Taiyuan but also something I have not encountered anywhere else in the country. Moreover, the appearance and taste of this afternoon tea are definitely TOP level among the hotels I have stayed in. When JW Marriott brings this exclusive romance to Taiyuan, it adds a bold stroke to the city's literary arts.
As the latest top-tier hotel to open in Taiyuan, Maoye JW Marriott has achieved excellence in both hardware and software. The design inspiration for the hotel lobby mainly comes from Taiyuan's traditional culture and modern industrial elements. The cold grey marble collides with the warm-colored metal to create a sense of fashion technology, while the 'fireplace' in the lobby lounge, with its leaping flames, is the finishing touch, adding a lively and warm vitality to the cool tones. The majestic amber chandelier, three stories high, can be appreciated from different angles, and the irregularly shaped white marble is inspired by the Shanxi dragon dance chair background, a creative and astonishing design.
The suite I stayed in was on the 20th floor, where the bustling cityscape of Taiyuan could be seen from the living room, bedroom, and bathroom. As night falls, in front of the colorful windows, soaking in the quickly filled bathtub, I felt as if I were traveling through time, with a sense of the Dragon City under the moon and the sound of a thousand households pounding clothes. Immersing myself in different cities and hotels is a unique way I explore a city, and a good hotel will definitely make guests feel the cultural charm of the city. Taiyuan Maoye JW Marriott does just that.
Gastronomy has always been one of the best ways to measure the standard of a hotel. At the JW Kitchen all-day dining restaurant, the fact that the buffet is almost always full shows the wide recognition of the food here. Salmon, tuna, snow crab legs, and other quality ingredients, with seafood stir-fried to perfection. The recent promotion of Jiaodong cuisine theme, with fist-sized barbecued fish dumplings with black truffle, palm-sized oysters, ginseng, salt-baked barbecued fish, and other Jiaodong flavors, is a delight to the taste buds.
Taiyuan Maoye JW Marriott is located in the bustling Maoye shopping district of Taiyuan, with a bar district nearby, making it a great place to experience the brilliant nightlife of Taiyuan. About 20 minutes from the airport and just over 10 minutes by car to the south station, it is conveniently located in the heart of the city. Such a JW Marriott, from any angle, is a perfect example. If you haven't decided on your next travel destination, why not come to Taiyuan to see its charming traditional culture and experience the extraordinary literary life at JW.