Overall, I had a good stay here. The hotel is quite old but still pleasant. I would stay here again.
However, there are 2 things that need to improve:
1. wifi: the current free wifi requires a local phone number. I believe many foreigners who are just in Shenzhen for a brief time would not have a local SIM card. So, foreigners cannot access the wifi! There needs to be a suitable way to access the wifi without a phone number.
2. Hotel lobby has very limited seating area. Although there’s plenty of sofas in the cafe that is mostly empty during the day, the actual lobby seating area just has 2 small sofas and 1 larger sofa. This needs to be doubled, maybe tripled in capacity. The problem is that it’s often full, especially between 11-3pm. When you check out, but don’t fly out for a while, you want to be able to sit and relax for a while, and the current set up does not provide this.
Despite these 2 points, still a pleasant stay.