MGM Grand Sanya

The breakfast buffet was excellent, but I recommend getting up early and eating around 7:00 to avoid the rush. Still, tons of options to choose from and the food quality is very good. The room was bigger and better than we expected based on the photos from the website. It was huge! Also, the amenities in the bathrooms were fantastic. The shaving kit even had a tiny can of actual shaving cream unlike every other hotel shaving kit I've ever seen. There was so much to do besides the beach, but our all time favorite was the surfing simulator. The guys who ran it were super friendly and we spent two full days buying the day pass and learning to surf. The private beach was so clean! I usually walk in the mornings to pick up trash on the shore, and our little slice of beach was very clean...hardly any plastic waste or cigarette butts or empty bottles. They do a really good job of keeping it neat.

My only complaint about Hainan is that food is very expensive almost everywhere and we often end up eating a lot of fast food or instant noodles in order to save money. The buffets are all very nice, but even the cheap ones are nearly 350 RMB per person and we just don't eat enough to make it worth the price. This goes for all the hotels in the area, not the MGM, but it was a little annoying that if you ordered carry out you had to eat it in a small room near the lobby and couldn't bring food up to your hotel room. Other hotels in the area have let us bring in food. It's not a deal breaker, and I get that they want to support their restaurants, but that is the one thing my family didn't like. Everything else was amazing.