We stayed here for three days at the "good level", knowing only that it was a "4 star" hotel on China's 5 star system. Note that the hotel actually has some lower tier older buildings which are much cheaper (about half the cost; ours was approximately 600 yuan per night) but are not as good. The biggest disappointment to us was that the hotel advertises itself as a "beach hotel" (Fu Jia Zhang) but in reality, it is two bus stops or a short taxi ride away from the beach! Considering there's no pool here, and the beach is a commute away, we were surprised at the price of the resort. There's really not much else besides the beach in this area. The resort does have a bowling alley (you must pay, note that, but it was about $2.00 US per game so not too bad). They also have some other facilities but again, NO POOL. As an aside, the beach is extremely crowded on weekends; if you go I suggest a weekday. Water was cold in the first week of August. The hotel was full on the weekend with weddings. Overall condition of hotel is OK- I'd say about 3.5 star quality. Internet was free, though staff is predominantly Chinese speaking. We had a native Chinese speaker; not sure how we'd have fared here with English only. Breakfast was included and was good- mostly Chinese style but with a good Western food sample (bread, muffins, OJ, apple juice) Room service was good and , unlike Western hotels, still cheap ("Chinese prices" as opposed to American Hotel prices.) Forget about trying to cash traveler's checks here- they first said they couldn't, then they could, then they said they'd take us to a bank to do it. All in all- if I had to attend a local wedding or was here on local business, I'd stay here and feel OK about it. As a tourist in Dalian, I'd either stay in the city center (It's a small city; you could take a taxi to the beach there too) or at a hotel that is really on the beach.