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Palms and ocean golf on the tropical Sanya coast

SANYA · FROM ¥1,100 / NIGHT TWIN

InterContinental Sanya Resort

The city-side five-star — 343 rooms on the Xiaodonghai shore under Luhuitou hill, with Sanya’s restaurants close by and the ranked golf of Yalong Bay forty minutes east.

343 rooms & suites, most facing the seaROOMS
Four pools and a water parkFOR THE FAMILY
Five restaurants and two barsDINING
20 min from Sanya Phoenix (SYX)GETTING THERE

WHY THIS HOTEL

Scored on one metric:
minutes from the tee.

The honest
pitch.

The city-side five-star — 343 rooms on the Xiaodonghai shore under Luhuitou hill, with Sanya’s restaurants close by and the ranked golf of Yalong Bay forty minutes east.

Sanya’s first InterContinental sits where the city meets the sea: on Zhouji Road at Xiaodonghai, under Luhuitou hill, ten minutes from the seafood streets and the harbour. The resort itself runs to four pools, a complimentary water park, five restaurants and the best-staffed kids’ club in our Sanya book — which is why family-heavy groups end the winter week here.

The honest trade: this is not a bay-isolation resort. Yalong Bay’s championship course is about forty minutes east, and the beach at the door is Xiaodonghai’s, not Yalong’s crescent. We book it for groups who want the city on the doorstep — dinners that wander, duty-free runs, the pearl market — with the golf sequenced east on golf days rather than daily.

For pure golf weeks, Yalong Bay’s beachfront hotels do the isolation better. For a mixed group — golfers out in the morning, everyone together at a good dinner table by seven — this is the Sanya base that keeps the whole party honest.

  • On Zhouji Road at Xiaodonghai, 20 minutes from Sanya Phoenix (SYX); Yalong Bay GC about 40 minutes east; the Luhuitou course ten minutes.
  • From about ¥1,100 per night twin in season; Sanya weeks built around Yalong Bay GC and the coast courses.
  • Best season: Oct–Apr. We book room and tee times as one package so neither can strand the other.
  • THE GOLF AT THE DOOR

    Yalong Bay golf,
    forty minutes east.

    The ranked golf sits east along the coast; the city, the seafood and the airport sit behind the hill. The week is sequenced so golf days drive one way and evenings never do.

    Yalong Bay Golf Club

    Sanya’s established championship layout beside the bay — palm corridors, water on the closing stretch and ocean holes worth the drive. Book the morning slot; the bay traffic builds after ten.

    PAR 72 · OCEAN PARKLAND
    Luhuitou GC

    The neighbourhood course on the peninsula under the hill — the quick-round option for arrival afternoon or departure morning, close enough that the airport run still works on schedule.

    10 MIN · THE LOCAL COURSE
    The coast course circuit

    Clearwater Bay’s sea-links south and the Haitang Bay layouts north extend a Sanya week into a coast tour. Your planner spreads them across the week so no two days drive the same road.

    40–70 MIN · WE SEQUENCE THEM

    BEYOND THE GOLF

    The rest of the resort,
    told straight.

    This is the part your non-golfers care about — and the reason the trip works as a week, not a series of tee times.

    The water park & four pools

    A complimentary water park and four outdoor pools keep the non-golfing half of the group genuinely occupied — the reason families with mixed agendas book this resort over the bay hotels.

    The city at the doorstep

    Ten minutes to Dadonghai’s seafood streets, the pearl shops and Sanya’s night markets; evenings here wander on foot instead of staying resort-bound.

    Dining without a drive

    Five restaurants and two bars on property, from the all-day seafood grill to the Cantonese kitchen — the fallback for the night nobody wants to get back in a car.

    Luhuitou park & the hill

    The deer-park headland above the resort gives the best sunset view in Sanya, and the coastal walk down the hill is the evening exercise your cardiologist ordered.

    ASKED BEFORE YOU ASK

    Three questions,
    honest answers.

    Everything else — room categories, caddie arrangements, that back nine your handicap fears — is one message away.

    How many rounds can we realistically play?

    3 courses are profiled above, and a four-night stay comfortably covers three rounds without a single long transfer. Your planner sequences them so the toughest round lands on your freshest morning.

    Is this hotel a good pick for non-golfers?

    Yes — that is half the reason we book it. The water park & four pools is the headline, and the full day programme is planned with the same care as the tee sheet.

    What does a stay here actually cost?

    From about ¥1,100 per night twin in season; Sanya weeks built around Yalong Bay GC and the coast courses. Everything is quoted as one fixed all-in price — room, rounds, caddies, drivers and transfers — so nothing arrives as a surprise on checkout day.

    STAY + GOLF, ONE PRICE

    InterContinental Sanya Resort in a full itinerary — rooms, rounds, drivers, one fixed all-in price.

    Tell us the dates and the group. Day-by-day plan back within one business day, no deposit, no obligation.

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