Review: St. Regis Shenzhen

Ain't that something. The St. Regis here is $250 and the Four Points in Havana in your Cuba post from earlier, that was north of $300...gotta love the global economy and individual market dynamics!

I typically find luxury hotels in Mainland China to be incredibly reasonable in price for the value and quality you get. If you go even further towards tier 2 and 3 cities, I've seen luxury 5 star properties under Starwood for under $100. Though that was a few years ago.

The green areas are Hong Kong suburbs!

Yes, across the river is Hong Kong.

Great review young man, but boy some of those pictures bring back memories of fighting in Viet Nam all those years ago. And now I can't drive to my local Home Depot without getting accosted in 14 different languages!

Remind you more of Hong Kong because Hong Kong is just on the other side of the river...?

Hong Kong does preserved the green area at the boundary with China.
You can check the satellite map in Google Map

"I booked through Starwood Luxury Privileges, which comes with the following perks at this hotel..."

How does the Luxury Privileges "VIP Treatment" work in practice?

Must be nice to have a good ambassador or.....yea.

Ben, no signature Bloody Mary at this property or you are too nauseated to try one?

Nice review, Ben! These losers from Hong Kong are pathetic! Shenzhen is 100 times greener than Hong Kong, period. And a much nicer and more dynamic city! At least people in Shenzhen don't live in 5 sq ft rabbit cage like most Hong Kong people do. Lmao!

But Kim, as an adopted Shenzhen citizen (four years here), they are only pointing out that its indeed New Territories, Hong Kong, that is the greenery on the other side of the river. No need to take it personally. I prefer living in SZ to HK as well, but facts are facts.

If Lucky's suite faced the other way, he might have had a view of Lychee Park, or the greenery visible beyond Luohu and Futian CBD.

I stayed in the St. Regis for a staycation on Dec. 31 this past year. The duplex suites are quite nice as well. No Carolyn Astor upgrade for me, tho it was New Year's Eve.

Grand Hyatt has a superior buffet tho. St. Regis used to have a lot of seafood, but they removed it from the buffet over the past few years.

@Ben
Nice report, thank you, the hotel looks great. Just one Grammar Nazi correction though: "I felt nauseous during much of my time in Shenzhen". As snory has mentioned, you were feeling nauseated, whereas nauseous means to cause nausea.

Rest up Ben. You might need a break from your exhaustion - perhaps a nice holiday

Very impressive!

@Lucky did you notice they serve caviar at the breakfast buffet? I was pleasantly surprised when I stayed earlier this year.

That is one a fancy room and hotel!

The green fishing ponds are actually Hong Kong as the forbidden border zone, not Shenzhen. The river is Shenzhen river, the border between Hong Kong and China.

Lucky, thank you so much for this slightly older review!

I was looking up stuff on China in terms of the current travel situation purely out of curiosity ran across this. Everything on the otherside of the river is Hong Kong, although the immediate area is in a restricted zone outside of going taking public transport.

In theory you could leave the mainland and walk across to the Lo Wu entry point (just a couple of hundred metres), and then continue with Hong Kong MTR public transport, but I think you need a normal Chinese mainland visa to return back to Shenzhen... but I am not sure as you are only allowed a 72 hour transit visa and weren't therefore anymore 'in transit' through the mainland.

One question I would have out of curiosity as well as you spoke about needing a VPN blocker... at that height and so close to HK, did you get a HK mobile phone signal or tried to connect to HK internet?

Thank you so much for the interesting posts, both older and newer!