Deqin Meri Poodom

Crazily luxurious and comfortable hotel with the best snow mountains views, only downside is the transport there. Breakfast is yummy but there’s very limited food choices there.

Hotel interior, amenities & services are all perfect. Staffs are all very helpful as well. Just the food need to be improve as they served the same menu for breakfast, tea time, lunch & dinner. Which the food I paid for dinner is same as the breakfast buffet one. Hopefully they can improve this. Last but not least, I love they served steak for breakfast 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

The room is beautifully designed with advanced built in technology such as diffused oxygen supply and floor heating, with a great direct view to the snowy mountains. There are many home stays nearby that offers the same Mountain View. We paid a premium to stay here, not only for the Mountain View, but also for the supposed services and daily activities that the hotel advertised on social media. Unfortunately the service level is almost non existent, the breakfast area is easily overpacked. The staffs even asked me to share a four people table with a couple during breakfast. I am not paying USD500 per night so I can share a dining table with strangers with no privacy. We joined the sound healing experience which was held at 9pm (on the contrary to most other sound healing experiences I had, which is usually in the morning). The sound healing experience was held in the meditation room, which is located right above the Bar. Naturally, during the sound healing experience I heard mostly loud speakers playing APT and other loud music, with some light bowl singing sound. The dinner was the worst I have had during my 9 days trip in Yunnan. The afternoon tea on level 5 (Bar area) was strangely arranged with all guests cramped next to each other and hunched over the low table where snacks are placed. The hotel claims to have the top hotel room design and provides top end appliances in all the rooms, including HERMES toiletries, a B&O speaker, and Dyson hairdryer. The staffs introduced the room with great enthusiasm and pride on the small design details. Although, after 2nights in the hotel, I left feeling the hotel is nothing but an empty shell with no soul. I will not come back to this hotel again

With the price we paid, we expected a bit more. The decor is dark, there is no bright light in the room that I could read messages or see photos in the phone. There are Japanese tatami and cushions but not comfortable to sit for too long, nice decor but not practical The washing basin in the bathroom is black and don’t feel too clean. The lighting is dark. Bath towel is quite thin. Good to have diffused oxygen in the hotel so altitude sickness can be reduced The location of the hotel is the best to see Meili Snow Mountain Mountains but unfortunately it was a foggy day, so the price we paid was not worth the value. There is complimentary photography session, photos came out very good but only 3 digital original photos are free. One extra photo with editing costs 100 RMB. The package is quite pricey so we only chose a few extra photos . We note that the photo admin lady a bit aggressive at the end to sell our photos. If you wanna see the beautiful Meili Snow Mountain Mountains in this hotel, better choose a right season, as it takes about 4 hours drive from Shangrila.

Fantastic location. The room we got was superbly well designed with a view of Meili mountains from the bed. Room amenities felt luxurious and expensive - from the bath robes, the b&o speaker to the minibar beverages. Really loved the indoor onsen/bath fixture which really felt like a treat. The hotel surroundings were also beautiful and well designed to maximise the view of the Meili mountains. Only complaint is the initial front desk/reception service which felt a little haphazard. Apparently the room I booked wasn’t available that day and the reception tried to offer us another room that was supposedly of the same price but had a poorer layout and view. I think great service would have been to offer a better room (which was available since we then requested an upgrade which we paid for). Also, there was bellboy/butler to receive us when we first reached the hotel.