Sanya Expat

Here's a quick set of tips and recommendations for the Sanya beaches as we approach the Chinese New Year in Sanya.

Yalong Bay - This is a great beach to spend the day. If you want fancy, park at the Sheraton/Marriott/Hilton/Ritz end. If you want to enjoy a great beach on a budget, park at the Holiday Inn end of the beach and you will find many beachside vendors offering typical low priced Chinese street food/barbecue and drinks. In front of the Aegean Conifer is a barbecue/snack cafe on the beach with nice tables and chairs in the shade.

Dadonghai - The center of this beach rates a a big time AVOID. If you stay the far west end (near the Dadonghai Square and South China hotel) or east end (near the Jin Ling and Shan Hai Tian hotels) the beach area and boardwalk is great. Find Wave Bar for cheap beers at the beach. If you stay in the middle of Dadonghai, stay ONLY at the beachfront. 30 meters back its a filthy Armageddon leaving me wondering why any tourist in their right mind would ever voluntarily sit street side to have a meal and feel happy.

However, suffer the neighborhood to enjoy Marco Polo Italian restaurant, Pattaya Thai restaurant on the beach in front of the InTyme resort, and the 2nd floor Hong Kong Dim Sum restaurant at the BaoHong hotel. Also heard recently that Blue Lotus russian restaurant is currently serving up really good chow.

Sanya Bay - What's better than a 20km long sunset beach lined with tropical palm trees and grass for shady areas to picnic? However, the water and sand are below what one would hope. The best of Sanya Bay is at Jin Ji Ling Lu where you'll find Fat Daddy's and Casa Mia and the Japanese restaurant. Also, drive about 5 km further up toward the Howard Johnson and look for lantern lights on the beach where you'll find local vendors with chairs and tables right on the beach doing barbecue and cold beers...fabulous.

Cheers, M

You'll be happy to find out that the real tenderloin steak dinner plate comes to your table looking and smelling as tasty as the flyer photo. Sheldon Habiger never stops digging in his quest to bring the best values he can find to Fat Daddy's customers and the restaurant's foray into becoming known as a steak house hits the mark nicely.

The 125g mini-tenderloin plate became quite the hit at 69rmb and now they've made the big move: doubling the portion to 250g of perfectly marinated tenderloin with all the fixin's for only 99rmb.

Where else on God's green earth or on this tropical island can we find THAT deal? Enough said...by the way, I'm out of Sanya traveling this week for several events schedule here...Cheers, M

Coffee World in Haikou is proud to present to new and loyal customers a totally new beverage concept, the Mooncake Frappe, for the Chinese National Holiday and Mid-Autumn Festival. The Frappe is a type of smoothie beverage, blended as a gentle smoothie and condensed beverage that is great for warm weather and as a refreshing thirst-quencher.

The Mooncake Frappe combines the traditional delicious moon cake with...

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Everyday dozens of Mandarin Oriental employees get off the company shuttle bus along Xin Feng Lu between the two rivers adjacent to the Shangpin Jie street area known for being the Sichuan/Hunan/Chongqing hotpot restaurant...

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I hit the latest updates hard today for reader updates and news on Sanya as we are departing for our one month holiday back to the U.S. We will be travelling in and around LA, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and New York until August 6th. We might even make it down to Florida if time allows.

Before the coming high season period, www.sanyaexpat.com will be moving into a major site upgrade including a community forum and monthly email newsletter in cooperation with the major site upgrade taking place at www.shanghaiexpat.com.

Advertisers and service partners are highly recommended to reserve and lock in lower six month and yearly rates quickly for banner spaces and special promotions available before the upgrade. Come high season last year our traffic doubled and service requests from all over the world for apartments, car rentals, tours and property were coming in daily. With the major upgrades planned, we expect traffic to triple again quickly as we hit this high season. Feel free to reference our #1 traffic ranking for Sanya websites at www.alexa.com

Please be patient with respect to our email replies for the next five weeks. Thanks to all of you for being here with us at SanyaExpat. Enjoy the summer! Cheers, M

If there ever was a city which exemplifies and reflects the unprecedented and close to unbelievable Chinese economic expansion, Sanya is that city. Where the five previous Sanya Real Estate Reviews covered three key Sanya real estate property development areas, Sanya Bay, Dadonghai and Yalong Bay, this latest installment, Part VI., includes a total of eleven areas!!! Incredible. Remarkable. Unprecedented in the world. I am not exaggerating and am humbled as I fondly recall my virgin arrival in August 2003 at Dadonghai Beach to find the three newly built and lonely Rui Hai beachfront apartment buildings available at a tropical beachfront bargain price of 5,000rmb psqm...

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