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Four Points

Hotel: Four Points
Address: 868 Dongxin Avenue, Binjiang, 310053 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
 
Time of visit: September 2018
 
Equipment
There’s a fair range of weight-based machines allowing you to do a basic workout.
There’s a limited range of weights for the one and only available barbell – and I’m not sure if the barbell actually belonged to a personal trainer assisting a client.
Dumbbells only go up until 14kg.
In terms of cardio equipment, there’s a cross-trainer, a stair-master and a handful of treadmills.
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? Yes. 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? Yes.
 
Comments
Maybe the air condition wasn’t working properly, but there was a bad/strange smell in the gym.
Depending on in which part of the hotel buildings your room is located, you might need to walk a bit to get to the gym. However, there’s a “bridge” connecting the different buildings allowing you stay inside.
There’s an indoor pool available just next to the gym.
Although there’s wifi at the gym, the stability is close to useless.
 
Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
Since this is a Four Points hotel, I actually expected more from the gym. Due to limited equipment and a strange/bad smell, I’ll probably seek out other, better options – it should be possible, the price level considered.
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Wanda Vista

Hotel: Wanda Vista
Address: No. 719 Baozhou Road, Fengze District, 362000 Quanzhou, Fujian, China
 
Time of visit: September 2018
 
Equipment
The hotel gym offers a solid range of cardio machines as well as weight-based machines – including a cable machine.
Dumbbells go up until 24kg and there’s a smaller range of kettle bells available.
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? Yes.
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? Yes.
 
Comments
The hotel gym is, with 99% security, open 24/7 – you just need your room card to gain access.
 
Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
Yes, it’s very likely!
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Holiday Inn

Hotel: Holiday Inn
Address: No. 108 Qingtang Road, Xiuyu District, 351146 Putian, Fujian, China
 
Time of visit: September 2018
 
Equipment
Nice range of cardio equipment, strength-based machines as well as dumbbells ranging up until around 25kg.
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? Yes.
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? Yes.
 
Comments
There’s an indoor as well as an outdoor pool at the hotel as well.
 
Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
Yes, it’s quite likely. Although it’s not the best hotel gym I’ve ever seen, it’s the best when it comes to a Holiday Inn hotel.
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Marriott

Hotel: Marriott
Address: No.55, Tianyuan Road, 318020 Taizhou, Zhejiang, China
 
Time of visit: September 2018
 
Equipment
Weight based machines as well as cardio equipment – cross trainers, treadmills and a few bikes.
A fair range of dumbbells as well as a Smith machine.
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? Yes.
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? Yes.
 
Comments
Dumbbells go up till 25kg.
 
Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
Yes, it’s very likely – the mix of extensive cardio equipment, machines as well as dumbbell gives you a wide range of opportunities to do a solid workout!
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Howard Johnson IFC Plaza

Hotel: Howard Johnson IFC Plaza
Address: No. 288 Ding Tai Road, Yinzhou District, 315000 Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
 
Time of visit: January 2016
 
Equipment
If you’re in the mood for cardio, the hotel gym offers bikes, cross trainers and treadmills.
If you’re more into throwing weights around there’s a decent range of dumbbells as well as some weight-based machines.
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? Not sure.
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? Yes.
 
Comments
The gym was rather cold at the time of the visit, but it’s likely it’s just a seasonal thing?
 
Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
Yes, it’s likely – although I expected a bit more for a Howard Johnson hotel.
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Mercure

Hotel: Mercure/Huiying Rencai
Address: No.336 Fengli Street, Industrial Park Jiangsu, 215024 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
 
Time of visit: March, 2017
 
Equipment
The hotel gym mainly focuses on (old) cardio equipment. However, the traditional multi-gym and the selection of dumbbells (although somewhat limited) allows for a bit of weight training as well.
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? Yes.
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? Yes.
 
Comments
This hotel gym is the coldest hotel gym I’ve ever used! If you don’t want to freeze your butt of, I suggest that you dress warm!
 
Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
Probably not – the equipment is somewhat worn out and limited which might lead me to look for other options.
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Kempinski

Hotel: Kempinski
Address: No.92, Jiefang Road, Zhongshan, 116001 Dalian, Liaoning, China
 
Time of visit: March, 2017
 
Equipment
The cardio equipment is solid and rangers from bikes and cross trainers to treadmills and rowing machines. In terms of weight training, there’re a wide range of machines, dumbbells and even barbells!
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? Yes.
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? Yes.
 
Comments
Opening hours from 6am until midnight gives you enough time to get your workout done regardless of how busy you might be!
 
Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
Yes, certainly! Certainly among the five best hotel gyms I’ve ever used!
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Sheraton

Hotel: Sheraton
Address: No.68 Jinjing Avenue , 255000 Zibo, Shandong, China
 
Time of visit: March, 2017
 
Equipment
Dumbbells of up to 20kg and 3 adjustable benches.
Weight based machines including a multi-gym.
2-3 cross-trainers, treadmills and stationary bikes.
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? Yes.
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? Yes.
 
Comments
The hotel gym is accessible via your room key 24 hours every day.
If the hotel was to invest in a barbell bench press as well as a squat rack, the gym would be close to perfect!
In many cases – maybe even all – the display on the cardio machines is only in Chinese which might be a problem if you’re on a long-term cardio mission – and doesn’t use it just for warm-up?
 
Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
It’s super likely – the gym is close to perfect – but maybe also what you’d expect from a Sheraton hotel?
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Days Hotel Frontier

Hotel: Days Hotel Frontier
Address: No. 12 Haibin Road, Fushan, 264006 Yantai, Shandong, China
 
Time of visit: September, 2016
 
Equipment
The hotel gym has spinning bikes, cross trainer and treadmills – two of each. All of the, but especially, the bikes and the cross trainers seem super wobbly and somewhat worn out.
The same goes for the fancy-colored multi gym in the center of the “room”.
The only somewhat decent equipment is the dumbbells, but the range is limited.
Everything is strangely crammed together in the corner revealing little recent usage. 
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? No.
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? No.
 
Comments
The overall impression of this hotel “gym” is that it’s close to useless.
It’s simply set up at the “outside balcony” of the end of what appears to have been a regular room when the hotel first opened. The “balcony” is “sealed off” but the area is still left rather freezing.
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Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
No, not in a million years!
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Holiday Inn (Oasis International)

Hotel: Holiday Inn (Oasis International)
Address: No.199 North Main Street, Gangzha District, 226000 Nantong, Jiangsu, China
 
Time of visit: September, 2016
 
Equipment
A fair selections of cardio equipment – treadmills, bikes as well as cross trainers – and a nice range of weight based machines as well as dumbbells.
 
Does the hotel gym offer complementary towels? Yes
Does the hotel gym offer complementary water? Not sure.
 
Comments
Flexible opening hours.
 
Based on the hotel gym, would you stay at this hotel next time you’re in the area?
It’s likely – but I’ll probably check other options first.