9 hotels have five-star rating revoked in China

[TerrexLee]

BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- China has revoked nine hotels' five-star ratings including the Sheraton Haikou Hotel in the country's southern island province of Hainan due to hygiene and fire safety problems, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) said Friday.

Other problems spotted in a recent undercover inspection conducted by the ministry included the lack of mandatory items, outdated facilities and irregularities in services, according to a statement issued by the hotel rating committee of the China Tourist Hotel Association.

Another six hotels with relatively minor problems were ordered rectify issues within 12 months, the ministry said.

Statistics by the MCT showed that there were 11,000 star-rated hotels in China as of August 2019.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/17/c_138713856.htm

 

[Rogue Trader]

Should only give 5 stars only if there's a health spa in the hotel

 

[blackmondy]

Tiong Cock wil only allow 5-star on their flag.

 

[laksaboy]

Just as hotels in Malaysia have a green arrow on the ceilings of hotel rooms, China should also have Xi Jinping's poster on the walls of hotel rooms.

 

[eatshitndie]

Should only give 5 stars only if there's a health spa in the hotel

if heathen spa has many happy endings must give hotel 6.9 stars.

 

[syed putra]

Even if its 20 star, they would use the same towel to dry the drinking glass as that used to clean the toilets.

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China / Society
Chinese hotels’ dirty secrets exposed: same towels used on toilets and drinking cups

• Whistle-blower Huazong blows up a storm with video of hotel hygiene horrors
• Upmarket hotel chains say they’ll tighten rules and train staff better

Phoebe Zhang
Published: 6:14pm, 15 Nov, 2018


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In the video, a member of staff at what is purportedly the Bulgari Hotel in Shanghai picks up a plastic cup lid from a bin and wipes it on his T-shirt. Photo: Weibo

A Chinese whistle-blower has created another storm online by posting a video that purports to show staff in more than 100 upmarket hotels not following hygiene protocols when cleaning rooms, using the same soiled towels to wipe drinking cups and toilets.
The online celebrity, a businessman-turned-whistle-blower who goes by the pen name Huazong, shot to fame in 2011 after he began blogging about the luxury watches worn by government officials.
He released a video online on Wednesday in which he claimed he had spent more than 2,000 nights in 147 five-star or luxury hotels and found hygiene problems were typical in almost all of these chains. He claimed he shot the 11-minute video – which lit up Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service – with a secret camera placed in separate hotel rooms.
The first hotel shown in the video is purportedly the Conrad Beijing, a high-end establishment under the Hilton Hotels and Resorts brand, where rooms cost more than 1,800 yuan (US$260) a night. In the video, a cleaning woman is seen picking up a dirty towel from the floor and wiping glasses, a mirror and bathroom basin with it. Another staff member is seen using a dirty towel to wipe a coffee mug.

In another shot, supposedly of a Park Hyatt hotel room, a member of staff uses her apron to dry a cup. In a hotel room said to be at the Sheraton Hotel in Guiyang, the provincial capital of Guizhou, cleaning staff are seen using one towel to clean a bathroom mirror, basin, toilet and cups.
Other luxury hotels seen in the video include the Bulgari in Shanghai, where rooms cost up to 4,500 yuan per night. The video purports to show a member of staff lifting a plastic cup lid from a bin and wiping it on their T-shirt. At a Shangri-La Hotel in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, cleaning staff are said to be seen wiping a basin and cups with the same towel.
See video here.
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