Jiaxing Marriott Hotel
Indoor pool and jacuzzi with a bar attached, near South Lake
About this hotel
Jiaxing Marriott Hotel sits closer to the historic center than most of the business hotels on this list, putting South Lake and the Red Boat memorial within a reasonable taxi ride rather than a detour. The indoor pool and hot tub combination is one of only two in the city paired together, and the hotel backs it with a bar and full restaurant service that turns an evening swim into an actual evening out rather than a solitary lap session. Rooms are business-standard rather than styled, but the amenity list, including a fitness center and business center, is the fullest of the group after Doubletree. It reads as the pick for a traveler who wants both the water and the location without compromising on either.
- Indoor pool with hot tub
- On-site bar
- Full restaurant service
- Near South Lake
Our take
I would book the Jiaxing Marriott for a South Lake trip that ends each day in the water: the indoor pool and hot tub sit alongside a bar and a full restaurant, so an evening swim and dinner need no taxi. Of Jiaxing's two indoor pool and jacuzzi hotels it is the more central, and its 9.0 rests on only seventeen reviews. Travelers focused on Pinghu or the airport side should look elsewhere.
- ✓Book a room away from the bar-facing side if you want quiet evenings, since the ground-floor bar can carry some noise upward.
- ✓Use the central location to walk to South Lake in the morning before the day-trip crowds arrive around mid-morning.
- ✓Confirm the hot tub's operating hours at check-in, since business hotels here sometimes run shorter evening hours than the pool itself.
Why we love it
- Indoor pool and hot tub paired together
- A real bar and restaurant on-site
- The most central of Jiaxing's jacuzzi hotels
- Full business center for working travelers
Why guests love itTravelers staying here tend to mention the location first: South Lake is close enough for an evening walk, and the bar downstairs makes it easy to end the day without going anywhere else. The pool and hot tub combination gets used more in the evening than the morning, once the day's meetings or sightseeing wind down. The one tradeoff worth knowing is the price, which runs higher than most other options in the city for a broadly similar four-star experience.