Aurum International Hotel

The staff were really pleasant and helpful (e.g. allowing us to pay the following day for breakfast when we hadn’t brought cash downstairs, arranging a taxi for a day trip, giving us a fruit hamper for our honeymoon which was a nice surprise!). The bed was comfortable and the breakfast comprehensive (with both Asian and Western cuisine). The location was excellent and central - it was about a 10 min walk to the Drum and Bell towers and the majority of our sight-seeing was done without needing to use the metro.

There was a dirty tissue in our room by the curtains on our arrival, though I threw this away without a fuss and the rest of the room appeared clean and tidy. There was also a distinct smell of smoke in our room the first evening of our stay which did dissipate by morning but was from an unknown origin given the room was non-smoking! The swimming pool was closed during our stay (although we were so busy seeing the sights this didn’t impact us much!).