Changsha, as the capital of media and art, and the top Internet celebrity city, has too many attractions for us. In the eyes of food eaters, Hunan cuisine is Wenhe and tea is pleasant; in the eyes of cultural people, Yuelu Mountain and Juzizhou are Yuelu Mountain; as a hotel owner and food eater, checking in to a new hotel is also indispensable.

This time, I met my friends to visit Changsha and stayed in the just-opened Changsha Marriott Executive Apartment. This apartment is the 10th Marriott Executive Apartment in China and the first Marriott Executive Apartment in Central China. The apartment is located on the bank of Meixi Lake, surrounded by green waters and green mountains. It will surely be the first choice for business and leisure guests who visit Changsha next and look forward to an exquisite medium-to long-term living experience.

This time we caught the good weather and took an aerial photo of Meixi Lake. The green water reflected the new city. In such an environment surrounded by green waters and green mountains, it is very pleasant whether it is a business trip or a leisure vacation.

The overall design inspiration of the apartment is presented to everyone through the five elements representing Huxiang culture: chrysanthemum stone, Liuyang summer cloth, Wangcheng paper-cutting, Tongguan ceramics, and Hunan embroidery. I will introduce the hotel floor by floor, hoping to bring you a brand new Marriott Executive Apartment experience.

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First floor to arrival floor

Driving to the hotel gate, the red "Changsha Marriott Executive Apartment" came into view. At night, when neon lights light up the hotel building, it is completely new and gives people a passionate feeling.

Through the hotel door, a wide screen adopts the shape of Liuyang summer cloth, separating the elevator hall from the revolving door. Artworks in the shape of chrysanthemum petals are placed in the middle, which means "people are elegant, and stones are precious with chrysanthemums"; on the right side is the concierge desk.

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Second floor: Front desk, lobby bar, Yiranju Restaurant, meeting room

Apartment front desk lobby bar

Take the elevator to the second floor. When you come out of the elevator, you will see the hotel's lobby bar and front desk. Because the entire building of the hotel is designed with floor-to-ceiling windows, there is sufficient natural lighting. At this moment, the sun shone into the lobby bar and the front desk, sweeping away Changsha, which had been rainy for the past two months.

The front desk has two reception desks and comfortable seats to better provide guests with check-in and check-out in a relaxed and comfortable environment.

Screen and porch separate the front desk from the lobby. As familiar and warm as home, the lobby bar is equipped with well-arranged sofas and tables, which is suitable for business guests or meeting with friends. The lobby bar serves freshly ground coffee, Chinese tea, and some alcoholic drinks.

Yiranju Restaurant

You can reach Yiranju Restaurant through the lobby bar. The restaurant has large floor-to-ceiling windows and has sufficient natural light. Guests can enjoy the delicious food while enjoying the scenery of Meixi Lake. The screen design of the restaurant is inspired by Liuyang summer cloth. It takes time and seems indifferent as the wind, but it touches the heartstrings.

The restaurant also has a terrace dining area. In good weather, guests can dine on the terrace and enjoy the wonderful dual experience of sight and taste in a quiet and comfortable dining environment.

Yiranju Restaurant serves international cuisine and Chinese specialties. For breakfast, it serves distinctive Hunan vermicelli, traditional soy milk and fried dough sticks, as well as porridge and fried eggs.

If you are a team or a big family, you can also enjoy delicious Hunan cuisine here.

multi-functional meeting rooms

At the other end of the second floor of the apartment is a small conference room. Although it is small, it is fully equipped with projectors, projection screens, microphones and sound equipment. The conference room has a total area of 102 square meters and can be divided into two conference rooms according to the needs of guests. The apartment is also equipped with more than 100 square meters of meeting space that flexibly meets the needs of different meetings and events, such as board meetings, social events, family gatherings, and intimate romantic ceremonies and celebrations.

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Third floor: Gym, swimming pool, children's entertainment room

gym

Guests staying in the apartment can swipe their room card to enter the gym on the third floor. The fitness equipment is all from the world-renowned brand-Technogym. Guests can run, exercise and enjoy the beautiful scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

indoor heated swimming pool

At the other end of the third floor is an indoor heated swimming pool with panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the apartment. The swimming pool has a constant temperature of 28-30 degrees Celsius throughout the year. The design of the floor-to-ceiling windows can better incorporate the beautiful scenery of Meixi Lake. Presumably, this summer, there will be Many Internet celebrities and sisters are checking in here to show off their figures.

kids Club

Taking into account the stay of parent-child families, the apartment also sets up a children's playground for children. If you bring cute babies here for vacation, guests can come here to play with their babies and enjoy the warm parent-child time.

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Above the fourth floor: 173 well-equipped luxury apartments

Changsha Excellence Marriott Executive Apartment has carefully built 173 luxury apartments with well-equipped facilities, ranging from exquisite city view apartments, luxury one-bedroom city view apartments, luxury one-bedroom lake view apartments, one-bedroom executive apartments, luxury two-bedroom lake view apartments, and luxurious three-bedroom lake view apartments. There are many options for apartments with lake view, most apartments can enjoy a panoramic view of the charming city and the intoxicating scenery of Meixi Lake.

one-bedroom

This time I stayed in a one-bedroom apartment, which is also the most room type in the apartment. The interior is designed in a simple Nordic style, and the room space is designed tightly, making it as warm and comfortable as home. The one-bedroom layout is like a hotel suite, except with many additional elements in the kitchen utensils.

There are some triangular and diamond-shaped elements in the guest room. The design of the triangular elements is inspired by the Fei Citron of Aiwan Pavilion, while the diamond-shaped design is taken from the logo of Excellence Group.

The design of all rooms in the apartment reflects the "rhythm" and "simplicity" sense of Hunan embroidery, especially some small art ornaments, vases and murals hanging on the wall. The murals are made of paint, and the whole picture reflects the artistic beauty of casual nature and relaxation.

The kitchen in the living room is equipped with fully equipped kitchen utensils, and they are all of high-end brands, such as a full set of Electrolux appliances, WMF knives, and the Internet celebrity cetis electric kettle. Guests can cook delicious food in the room and showcase their cooking skills.

The dining area in the living room is equipped with a large dining table. After the food is cooked in the kitchen, enjoy it with family and friends on the dining table. Also, the room will be cleaned by staff, so you don't have to worry about being dirty.

The room is also equipped with a large refrigerator that can freeze and refrigerate various foods and drinks. There is also a washing machine that integrates washing and drying. If you stay for a long time, don't worry about washing your clothes.

Although the one-bedroom bedroom is only equipped with one bathroom, the interior space layout has been cleverly designed. The living room has a door that allows you to directly enter the bathroom. There is no need to go through the bedroom, and the bedroom only goes through the cloakroom; this ensures the privacy of the bedroom without affecting visitors 'use of the bathroom. The bathroom is equipped with many towels and bath towels for convenient use by guests.

Except for the TV, the bedroom is not equipped with too much decoration and decoration, and there are four large pillows placed on the bed. Whether it is a pillow before going to bed or a hug when you fall asleep, it is very comfortable.

The shower room next to the vanity is also equipped with an egg-shaped bathtub with cute little yellow ducks placed next to it. I think the parent-child family comes to stay here, and the children can have a good time here again without worrying about the water getting wet outside. The bathing spare parts are the same as Marriott Hotel, THANN, an all-natural care product originating from Thailand.

The hotel's guest rooms also support the operation of electronic room cards, which is simple to operate and you don't need to carry your room card when you go out.

two-bedroom

The indoor space of the two-bedroom room is more spacious, and the twin-bed room is also equipped with a style of ocean elements. It must be favored by parent-child families in the future.

three-bedroom

The three-bedroom room is also equipped with two bedrooms and a study room. Of course, the oversized living room will be a favorite room for high-end guests or celebrities. The bathtub is equipped in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows.

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Great places to explore Changsha

||Meixi Lake City Island Double Spiral View Platform

The apartment is located on the bank of Meixi Lake and sits on 3000 acres of blue Meixi Lake. The clear lake water reflects the beautiful scenery of high-rise buildings and mountains. The lakes, scenery and mountains are suitable, close to nature, and without losing the city's fireworks.

It is a few minutes 'walk from the apartment to City Island on the west bank of Meixi Lake. This is an artificial island at the east end of the city's central axis. It is now open to citizens for free. The landmark building on the island is a double spiral viewing platform. Climbing onto the viewing platform, you will see tall buildings, road networks crossing, lake light reflecting, and Meixi Lake Park full of greenery.

||Meixi Lake International Culture and Art Center

Meixi Lake International Culture and Art Center is a few minutes 'drive from the apartment. Hunan is known as the "Furong Country". Looking down at the Meixi Lake International Cultural and Art Center from the sky, it seems like three hibiscus flowers are blooming on the shores of Meixi Lake. The three hibiscus flowers set off each other and unified in style, and coexist harmoniously with the surrounding rivers and lakes. These three hibiscus flowers blooming on the shores of Meixi Lake once again inherit Zaha's architectural concept and interpret the shocking aesthetics of "Zaha": attitude, temperature and depth.

||Yuelu mountain

Yuelu Mountain is located in the western suburbs of Changsha. It is one of the 72 peaks of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue."Nanyue Ji" mentions: "Nanyue Mountain is surrounded by eight hundred miles, with Hui Yan as the head, and Yuelu as the foot." On the mountainside there is an ancient Lushan Temple known as "the first scenic spot of the Han and Wei Dynasties and the No. 1 Taoist temple in Huxiang". There is Yunlu Road Palace on the top of the mountain and Aiwan Pavilion in the mountain. The scenery along the way can be captured in your eyes.

||love late Pavilion

Du Mu's "Mountain Journey" must be familiar to many people. The saying,"Parking and sitting in the maple forest at night, the frost leaves are redder than February flowers" has been passed down to this day. This gives the name of Aiwan Pavilion located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain. Aiwan Pavilion has eight pillars and multiple eaves. The top is covered with green glazed tiles and a sharp roof. It is very spectacular. Although it is May now and there are no red maple leaves, it is interesting to see the green trees under the creek and mirror lake.

||Yuelu Academy

At the foot of Yuelu Mountain is Yuelu Academy, where you can feel the strong scholarly culture. Yuelu Academy is one of the four major academies in ancient China and the earliest institution of higher learning in China."Only Chu has talents, but it thrives here." Over the past thousands of years, batches of "Yuelu giants" have been cultivated here. If you are interested in culture, then you may wish to come here to experience the cultural atmosphere of a century-old institution.

The central location of Yuelu Academy is the "Lecture Hall", which is the core place for the academy to conduct teaching and hold major activities. Southern Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism scholars Zhang Wei and Zhu Xi once held a "lecture" here. There are also a large number of steles and plaques in the academy, such as the "Lushan Temple Stele" carved in the Tang Dynasty and the Yellow Xianhele Stone Carvings in Jiangxia; the stone tablet workshop of "Yuelu Academy" and the "Chengzi Four Admontions Stele" carved in the Ming Dynasty; the imperial tablets of Kangxi and Qianlong "Learning to Achieve Nature" and "Daonan Zhengmai"(the imperial plaque hangs in the lecture hall), etc. I personally recommend asking a local guide to explain the whole process, otherwise I won't be able to understand the cultural atmosphere here just by looking at the buildings and monuments.

||Flies Restaurant·Xiandi Local Restaurant

In fact, when you come to Hunan, you don't have to go to Wenheyou and spend time in line. It's better to find some small restaurants on the streets and alleys, so that you can taste the most characteristic Hunan cuisine in the area. This time we drove to Xiandi Local Food Restaurant, a local food restaurant located in the community, but it cooked pure Hunan cuisine.‍

||Food Art Museum: Taoyuan Ji Baiyin

Of course, friends who like high character can also go to Taoyuan Jibaiyin, the art restaurant in Meixi Lake International Culture and Art Center, and enjoy the temptation of delicious food with friends in the cave. The style inside Taoyuanji store continues the design of Zaha, the designer of Meixi Lake Grand Theater. It focuses on white and is very simple. The store specializes in cutting-edge Hunan cuisine and collects many local Hunan specialties.

||Yuannear Coffee·Meixi Lake Branch

Yuannear Coffee·Meixi Lake Store was converted from an old warehouse. It transformed an old warehouse that is not far away from the city but far away from the hustle and bustle into a coffee shop with a full sense of design. It seems that the boss is also very thoughtful. Dining and coffee desserts are available here. The taste is still very good.

Come to this unique cafe with friends after dinner, drink a special cup of coffee and dessert, and take some beautiful photos.

|tea color

Tea Yan Yue seems to have become a must-miss street milk tea when visiting Changsha. You can see two or three restaurants within 50 meters, but the business is still booming.

Order a cup of your favorite flavor, hold it and drink it slowly on the street, and feel the charm of the city.

Changsha Excellence Marriott Executive Apartment

Hotel address: No. 32, Jinhu Seventh Road, Meixi Lake Street, Changsha