We were staying at Howard Johnson Hawana Resort in December 2006 with my family, parents and 3 sons. We got very good service, personnel were speaking good English even if all the other guest were Chinese. The only negative point was that hotel cannot change money and nearest ATM is in the airport. It is not problem when you stay at hotel, but none of other resort area facilities accects any credit card. You will find inside swimming pool and huge outside pool (closed for winter when we were staying), inside badmington course and outside tennis court. I wanna list could contain playing ground for children... but even childcare is on the list. As we were during low-season, our price level was very favourable and so price-service level was excellent! Place is not far from the airport and I could recommend it if you have no reason to go to Guangzhou city but are continuing further to China. Or coming back as we were.

My main complaint with this hotel was that they want to save electricity and the A/C was turned off from 2am until 6am. One night at 3am I got up wet from sweating and the mgr told me that they were going to check on the A/C, but later I discovered the real reason. Guangzhou is a very hot and humid city, specially by the time of Canton Fair. I think this hotel is designed for people from China and not for foreigners that come specially from the western world.