When visiting Yunnan, when talking about good hotels, the first thing that comes to mind is Lijiang or Xishuangbanna. When it comes to Dali, which is not inferior to its reputation, in addition to its "romantic scenery", what people often think of is the countless B & Bs along the Erhai Lake.

Over the years, there have been few international brand hotels in Dali, and the prices have not increased. It was not until the spring of 2018 that Dali Henar Yunshu Resort Hotel was born, changing the history of Dali without luxury hotels. It has been acquired by the Global Luxury Boutique Hotel Alliance SLH since its opening, which has become the reason why I have to visit.

This hotel built on the mountain is located in Canghai Golf International Resort at the foot of Cangshan Mountain. It is private and secluded. The hotel faces the Cangshan Golf Course, with green greens and verdant greens. Against the backdrop of the blue Erhai Lake in the distance, it looks like a garden on earth.

This hotel perfectly interprets what Small Luxury Hotel is called. It has an excellent sense of measure and gives me the illusion of returning to a seaside boutique resort in Phuket, Thailand.

SMALL

Small and complete/fully functional

At Dali Hanar Yunshu Resort Hotel, you never have to worry about overcrowding. The entire hotel's rooms and public facilities are distributed in eight villas, with only 23 guest rooms of various types.

The small and exquisite hotel has various public facilities, and almost all of them are concentrated in the public areas on both sides of the central axis, making it convenient for guests to use.

|Top: Below the central axis: Condescending front desk at the entrance|

The most eye-catching and eye-catching facility in the entire hotel is of course the outdoor transparent infinity leisure pool!

The water is clear and translucent and hangs above the golf course. The fully transparent design makes it possible to pose here, and the film will instantly explode into the circle of friends!

The hotel also launches floating afternoon tea regularly, making it full of summer. Moreover, the afternoon tea is sweet and salty, and it is very good both in shape and taste. While playing in the water, looking at Cangshan and Erhai, and enjoying the delicious food, this feeling is really amazing!

Around the leisure pool are the hotel's various catering facilities. Yunduo Restaurant is the only restaurant in the hotel, with pool view, ball scene and Erhai Lake view in one. We enjoyed an unbeatable and sumptuous seasonal mushroom hot pot here.

If you are lucky enough to travel to Yunnan during the summer, don't miss the mushroom hot pot. You can taste the most varieties and highest quality mushrooms at this annual "Grand Food Festival". This season's "soft gold" matsutake is not to be missed. There is no need to make hot pot for this. The hotel has carefully prepared matsutake sashimi to satisfy our delicious food!

In addition to hot pot, the restaurant also serves a variety of Chinese and Western cuisines. With a Chinese taste, we tried some Yunnan home-cooked dishes, and the snacks and flavors were also wonderful.

Connected to Yunduo Restaurant is the hotel's tea room. As a major tea-producing province in Yunnan, Pu 'er tea is world-famous. Guests staying in the hotel can enjoy free welcome tea here or taste more precious teas at their own expense.

On the other side of the leisure pool are two adjacent bars, a red bar and a cigar bar. The red bar houses famous wines from world-renowned wineries, including Dali's local "Fenghua Xueyue" specialty red wines, and also provides wine storage services for in-house guests.

The cigar bar contains many famous cigars privately collected by the owner, all of which are placed in a special cigar cabinet for cigar lovers to share and taste.

Across the cigar bar, across the stone road are the hotel's chess and card room and conference room, and the corresponding facilities are also very complete.

The adjacent villas have a fully equipped gym and a Bali style SPA treatment room, which can fully meet the physical and mental needs of the hotel guests.

Seeing this, I am already lamenting that although the hotel is small, it is so complete. At this time, the housekeeper told me that this was not the end. There was also an indoor simulated golf course in the hotel! All in-house guests can have a swing here for free. Especially for new golfers, they can do some simple learning here. It is quite thoughtful!

LUXURY

Luxurious yet refined/Wonderful experience

The 23 rooms of Dali Henar Yunshu Resort Hotel are distributed in 8 villas. Some villas can be fully owned (including 3-4 completely independent rooms), which can fully meet the needs of large families or small groups.

I very much like the hotel's waterscape design used between several villas to make the overall space more flexible. Dali's blue sky and white clouds are sometimes reflected on the water, inadvertently adding a scenery to the hotel.

The eight villas built along the mountains present a fashionable atmosphere and relaxed atmosphere in a new Chinese style, as if they had returned to their own house at the foot of Cangshan Mountain. Walking into the exclusive courtyard, the inherent luxury of the villa hotel comes to your face.

The room I stayed in this time was the Yunshu Seaview Suite, located on the second floor of the front building C. It is also the most popular among all single rooms, with an area of 100 square meters. This villa has a total of 4 floors, with one room on each floor. The room types are different. As mentioned before, this villa can be rented together.

|The large terrace with a view at the entrance of the villa is shared by the entire building|

This suite has a three-way horizontal layout and consists of two parts: indoor and outdoor. The bedroom is located in the center of the suite, with the living room and bathroom on both sides.

The guest room is designed with the theme of "Elegance, Tea, Fun and Hidden", and the color system is interspersed with tea green and light gray, giving people a peaceful and long-term spatial experience. The most shining feature of this room is undoubtedly the indoor sunken landscape bathtub. Looking at the sea and taking a bath, this is the enjoyment of a vacation.

The hardware in the rooms is also excellent, fully reflecting the low-key luxury: York floor heating system makes the rooms feel like spring all year round; the out-of-print Bose SoundTouch 30III desktop Bluetooth slightly has unmatched excellent sound quality;Sony's top audio and video listening system;iPad mini entertainment system;WMF temperature-controlled electric kettle; Italian original GESSI bathroom;Toto toilet classic toilet seat, etc.

There is another bonus, it is the bed! I am still picky about bedding. The linen he uses is of superior quality, very smooth, and the count should be quite high. The mattress is a cooperation between Jin Keer and ICA, which is very helpful in correcting sleeping posture. In terms of spare parts, we chose Ferragamo's classic Tuscany series. There are also slippers! It really left me with a great impression. Domestic hotels rarely have disposable slippers with supporting edges. This pair is almost close to a pair of shoes, and the linen and linen texture is also very breathable to wear.

What makes me feel most amazing is the choice of coffee machines. Instead of using the capsule coffee machines chosen by most hotels, I used Philips 'fully automatic American coffee machine. This machine requires whole coffee beans to be ground and made coffee. It can be said to be a professional barista in a home coffee machine. Because freshly ground coffee tests the quality of the coffee beans themselves, I am happy that the deep-roasted beans selected here are of quite good quality. As soon as the coffee machine is started, the whole room is filled with the aroma of coffee. In two days, I drank all of the beans. It's cool!

The outdoor terrace part of this suite is even more of the essence.

The area of the terrace is almost the same as that of the interior. In addition to a four-person table and chair, there is also a casual curtain sofa! Outside the sofa, you can take a closer look at the green shade of the greens and a distance at the blue waves of the Erhai Lake. Moreover, this direction faces east. If you want to, you can still enjoy the beauty of the "sunrise on the sea" on the terrace.

The main entrance to this villa is on the third floor, so the room I live in is one floor down. Continuing down, there is another Internet celebrity room type Yunshu Select Suite in the hotel. The area of 120 square meters is the largest among all single rooms. I also specially visited it.

It is also a three-entry layout with a terrace, but the living room area is larger. In terms of the landscape, because it is the lowest floor, you can only see the golf view. But the beauty is that there is a large outdoor outdoor bathtub, which makes up for the lack of landscape.

On this floor at the entrance of the villa is the basic room type of the hotel, Yunshu Courtyard Room. In addition to the relatively small space, there is not much difference in hardware configuration from suites.

And this room type has a wonderful advantage that it is located on the same floor of the villa and has a large living room with a terrace. In addition to a leisure area with TV, this living room also has a large dining area. If you want, daily breakfast and dinner services can be delivered here for private enjoyment! Of course, guests living in other rooms in this villa can also share this space.

I tried to have breakfast here. At the time confirmed in advance, the hotel waiter will deliver the pre-ordered breakfast to the living room. The breakfast here is on a la carte basis, and you can check what you want on the menu one day in advance. Many of the categories are unlimited, which shows the atmosphere. Whether it is Western-style banidi, Chinese rice noodles and other flavors are quite authentic.

If two pairs of friends stay here, I highly recommend Yunshu's single-family two-bedroom sea view villa. This villa is located in the highest area of the hotel and naturally enjoys the best view of the Erhai Lake.

|Landscape terrace on the second floor of the villa|

This villa room type is a two-story structure, and the color adopts a more dazzling red color. There is a bedroom with a separate toilet on each floor, and a living room and dining room on the first floor. The outdoor area on the first floor is a terrace with rocking chairs, while the second floor is a landscape terrace with beach chairs, which can clearly overlook the Erhai Lake. In comparison, the bedroom on the first floor is more compact.

|Upper: First floor bedroom left: Living room right: First floor terrace|

The bedroom space on the second floor is wider and the landscape view is clearer. This room moves the bathtub from the bathroom space to the bedroom, giving a more vacation feel.

After night, the hotel will provide turndown service, and different turndown gifts will be given every day, whether sugar water or small snacks, but no matter what it is, it represents the kindness of the hotel.

|One day, the turndown gift was flower cakes and candied fruit|

If the luxury in the guest room can be felt with the body, there is another kind of luxury that may be discovered with the eyes. The main design element of Dali Henar Yunshu Resort Hotel is golf, so this golf ball can be seen everywhere in the hotel. From signage, to decorations, to small details such as easels and lamp feet, they all have their marks. And the huge golf ball you will notice as soon as you enter the hotel!

When I stroll in the public areas of the hotel, stare blankly in the book corner, and even at the first glance every time I return to the hotel from outside, I feel this exquisite luxury from the bottom of my heart. Perhaps this is the true feeling that the designer hopes to present to every guest.

If you have visited all the facilities in the hotel and want to go out for a walk, there will be many options. For those who like golf, don't miss out on going to the Canghai International Golf Course where the hotel is located. The course has two international championship venues,"18 holes in mountain view" and "18 holes in sea view", with a maximum drop of 189 meters, which is very suitable for golf enthusiasts.

Next to the main entrance into the hotel are Dali's famous Three Towers of Chongsheng Temple. The famous ancient city of Dali is also within walking distance. You can even choose to visit the ancient city in the morning to experience the real life of the people in the ancient city. It may be more pyrotechnic than the lively night.

Another choice that is very popular is to go to the famous S-bend by the Erhai Lake. It is a good place to take various art photos with concave shapes. It is only a 15-minute drive from the hotel, which is very convenient. And the natural scenery here is really first-class, and there are also good coffee shops to sit in. I go crazy taking pictures here!

And I believe that everyone has a Dali that belongs only to them in their hearts. No matter what Dali is like, I hope that there is a space that belongs to Heiner. What do you think?

Written by: Khaven, Photography: Pan Changyong