泰安宝龙艺珺酒店
Indoor pool and three restaurants near the Red Gate
About this hotel
泰安宝龙艺珺酒店 sits 1.9 kilometres from the Red Gate, the traditional starting point for the climb up Mount Tai, second only to Ramada Plaza among the city's indoor pool hotels for proximity to the trailhead. Rooms lean toward the more polished side of Tai'an's hotel stock, with modern interiors, large windows, neutral tones and a sofa seating area alongside the private bathroom's bathtub, a step up from the more functional rooms typical of the railway-corridor properties. Three dining options on site mean guests are not tied to a single restaurant for the length of a stay, and the fitness centre and indoor pool cover recovery without leaving the building. Business and meeting facilities, plus a tour desk, position the hotel toward groups and conferences as much as individual climbers, with Peach Blossom Valley seventeen kilometres away for a longer side trip.
- Indoor swimming pool
- Three dining options
- Business and meeting facilities
- 1.9km from the Red Gate
Our take
This suits travellers who want a more polished room than Tai'an's business-hotel norm without giving up proximity to the Red Gate, at 1.9 kilometres from the trailhead. Groups arriving for meetings or conferences will find genuine business facilities here rather than an afterthought conference room, which is less true of the smaller hotels nearer the railway station. Solo climbers on a tight budget should look toward more modestly priced options, since the room finish here comes with a price to match.
- ✓Ask for a room with a large window if the view matters, the newer wing here makes more of natural light than older Tai'an hotels.
- ✓Book the business facilities well ahead if travelling for a conference, meeting and banquet space gets reserved early around group season.
- ✓Walk to the Red Gate rather than taking a taxi, 1.9 kilometres is a manageable warm-up before the real climbing starts.
Why we love it
- A private bathroom with an actual bathtub
- Three dining options within the hotel
- 1.9 kilometres from the Red Gate trailhead
- Genuine business and banquet facilities on site
Why guests love itThe 1.9-kilometre distance to the Red Gate makes this one of the closer options to Mount Tai's climbing trailhead without matching the jacuzzi-equipped Ramada Plaza's price point. The bathtub in the private bathroom is a genuine comfort after a day on the mountain, more than most Tai'an hotels in this range bother to include, and the three dining options remove the usual scramble to find dinner once the old town's restaurants fill up. The meeting and banquet facilities feel oversized for a solo traveller.