Project Overview
When the Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing Downtown opened its doors in 2022, it marked a defining moment for hospitality in western Guangdong: the arrival of the first Wyndham Grand-branded property in the region, and the transformation of a legacy hotel site into one of the most ambitious resort destinations in the Pearl River Delta hinterland. With 630 guestrooms — 290 of which feature private balcony mineral spring soaking pools — an 11,000-square-metre conference complex, four dining venues, and a showpiece cave hot spring, this is a property of genuine scale and complexity. As the exclusive FF&E partner commissioned to furnish every guest-facing space, Zhobai Hotel Furniture brought to this project not only manufacturing capability but the design intelligence required to translate an ambitious brief into a coherent, brand-compliant physical environment.
Situated at No. 13 Xinghu Avenue, Duanzhou District, Zhaoqing — immediately adjacent to the east gate of the Seven Star Crags (Qixingyan) National 5A Scenic Area — the hotel’s address is inseparable from its identity. The karst limestone peaks, lake vistas, and garden landscapes of one of South China’s most celebrated natural parks form a literal backdrop to the property’s guest experience. Every major furniture decision at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing was made in conscious dialogue with that landscape: materials that echo natural stone, colour palettes drawn from the water and limestone of the Xinhu lake system, and room configurations designed to frame — rather than compete with — the views beyond the glass.
Exterior and Setting
Lobby and Arrival Spaces
The arrival sequence at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing is conceived as a theatrical transition — from the outdoor tropical garden, through a monumental entrance portal, into an interior world that simultaneously references the region’s karst geology and the refined aesthetic of contemporary new Chinese luxury design. Zhobai’s lobby furniture programme was developed in close coordination with the project’s interior design practice, with every piece positioned to reinforce the spatial narrative established by the architecture.
The reception counter at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing is among the most architecturally significant pieces in Zhobai’s recent project portfolio. At over eight metres in length, the curved desk accommodates four check-in positions simultaneously — essential for a 630-room property that receives group tour arrivals from the Seven Star Crags tourist circuit. The counter’s travertine-effect stone cladding was fabricated by Zhobai’s millwork team using a high-pressure laminate system that closely approximates the visual texture of real stone while offering the impact resistance and repairability required in a high-traffic hotel environment. The counter surface — in honed white marble — was supplied and installed by Zhobai’s stone division, with seamless under-mounted joints that prevent the liquid ingress issues common in granite reception surfaces over years of hotel operation.
Guestrooms: 630 Keys, New Chinese Luxury Across Seven Tiers
The guestroom programme at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing is defined by two overlapping ambitions: brand compliance with Wyndham Grand’s international FF&E standards, and a design identity that is unmistakably rooted in the cultural and natural heritage of Zhaoqing. Zhobai achieved this balance through a palette of materials that read as contemporary and sophisticated while carrying deliberate references to the landscape — ink-wash grey stone-effect finishes on headboard panels, warm bamboo-toned laminates on cabinetry, and textile choices that cycle through the green, blue, and ochre of the Xinhu lakeside environment across room categories.
The private balcony soaking pool rooms represent the most technically demanding element of Zhobai’s scope at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing. Each of the 290 pool rooms required a bespoke balcony furniture package designed to function in direct contact with the mineral-rich spring water, subtropical humidity, and direct sun exposure of an outdoor deck environment. Zhobai developed a teak hardwood decking surround frame for each pool, with stone-topped side tables in a UV-stable composite material and recliner frames in powder-coated marine-grade aluminium — a metal specification normally reserved for coastal projects, but selected here because of the soaking pool water’s mineral content, which accelerates corrosion in standard commercial-grade furniture components. The result is a balcony environment that performs as beautifully in the property’s third year of operation as it did at opening.
Family Rooms and Children’s Configurations
Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing’s proximity to the Seven Star Crags scenic area makes it a natural destination for family resort stays, and the hotel’s family room programme reflects that commercial reality. Zhobai developed a modular children’s furniture package — a low play table, round-corner occasional tables, a canvas tent frame, and a wall-mounted pegboard storage system — that can be installed in any standard king room to create an ad hoc family configuration, allowing the hotel to flex its family room inventory in response to seasonal demand without permanent room reconfiguration.
Bathrooms: Private Soaking Tubs and Wet-Dry Separation
All guestroom bathrooms at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing are configured with wet-dry separation — a standard feature of the Wyndham Grand brand specification in the Chinese market, and a genuine functional asset for resort guests who use the property’s thermal bathing facilities across multiple daily sessions. Zhobai’s bathroom FF&E scope covers the complete vanity millwork package: a 1,400-mm wide double-basin vanity unit in moisture-resistant MDF finished in a warm stone-effect lacquer, with an integrated open shelf at knee height for towel storage, and a full-width backlit mirror frame in brushed gold that delivers 2,700K warm-white illumination across the entire vanity width. In soaking tub configurations, the teak bath bridge, towel ladder, and accessory programme were designed as a coordinated set — all items delivered pre-finished from Zhobai’s facility to avoid on-site painting or sealing that would introduce delays into the room completion sequence.
Dining: Four Venues Across Three Floors
The second-floor Xuan All-Day Restaurant is the hotel’s primary dining venue — a full-service buffet and à la carte space that anchors the property’s food and beverage offering with a garden-facing panoramic window wall. Zhobai’s furniture brief for this 320-seat restaurant required unusual variety: morning breakfast service demands durable, easily cleanable surfaces and efficient table arrangements for high-turnover seating; evening dinner service calls for a more ambient, relaxed configuration suited to the property’s RMB 358 per person premium seafood buffet positioning. Our solution layered three seating types — upholstered dining chairs with washable fabric seats at the central tables, leather-effect banquette benches along the window elevation, and rattan-wrapped counter stools at the garden-view counter — with table sizes ranging from intimate two-tops to extendable six-tops that can be combined for group bookings. The furniture system’s modularity allows the restaurant team to reconfigure the floor between meal periods in under thirty minutes using furniture casters and folding table extensions, all integral to Zhobai’s commercial dining specification.
Meetings and Events: 11,000 Square Metres of Event Infrastructure
The conference and banquet programme at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing is among the largest in western Guangdong, and its commercial significance to the hotel’s revenue model shaped every decision in Zhobai’s meeting furniture specification. The 11,000-square-metre event floor encompasses a pillar-free grand ballroom with seven-metre ceiling heights and an integrated LED screen, ten-plus multi-function rooms, and a full pre-function area — a programme capable of handling 60-table wedding banquets and thousand-person corporate annual conferences from the same facilities on consecutive days.
Zhobai supplied over 800 banquet chairs for the Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing event floor — all from our commercial hotel banquet collection, in a gold-tone metal frame with padded seat and sash-ready back. The chair’s stacking profile (10 chairs per stack) was selected in response to the ballroom’s daily reset requirements: the property’s event operations team can break down and reset a 60-table banquet configuration in under ninety minutes, a timeline that drove every handling-efficiency decision in the banquet furniture specification. Conference rooms are furnished with Zhobai’s modular table system — individual modules with locking cable-management connectors that allow hotel staff to shift between boardroom, classroom, and U-shape layouts without tools or specialist knowledge. All conference chairs are in a mid-back executive model with swivel base and armrests, upholstered in a charcoal mesh-back specification that provides passive ventilation during multi-hour conference sessions in South China’s warm climate.
Recreation and Wellness
The sixth floor recreation level at Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing houses the fitness centre, yoga studio, and indoor temperature-controlled swimming pool, supplemented by the property’s signature cave hot spring complex — an underground mineral spring facility that is among the most unusual resort amenities in Guangdong. Zhobai’s scope on the recreation floor focused on peripheral and outdoor furniture: gym equipment organiser racks, a staffed towel service station, stretch mat storage, and a full poolside lounger programme in powder-coated aluminium frames with quick-dry mesh slings — a specification chosen for its performance in chlorine-adjacent wet environments and its ability to drain and dry between guest uses without towel-aided assistance.
Project Delivery and the Zhobai Partnership Model
A 630-room hotel opening in Zhaoqing presented logistical conditions that reward suppliers with genuine Chinese project experience. Zhobai’s production facility in Guangdong positioned us within an efficient delivery radius of the Zhaoqing site, enabling a delivery sequence — phased by building section and floor — that maintained furniture installation momentum while the general contractor completed final finishes in the upper floors. Our project manager was resident in Zhaoqing for the final ten weeks of the installation programme, conducting daily handover inspections with the hotel’s pre-opening team and the interior design practice’s site representative.
Wyndham Grand Zhaoqing Downtown has since established itself as the leading resort hotel in western Guangdong, with a five-star equivalent positioning that draws leisure guests from Guangzhou, Foshan, and Shenzhen as well as international visitors to the Seven Star Crags. The property carries a 4.8-star aggregate rating across major Chinese booking platforms, with guest reviews that consistently highlight the room quality, the private pool experience, and the dining programme — the three areas where Zhobai’s FF&E investment is most directly visible in the guest experience. We remain available to the hotel’s ownership and management teams for renovation planning, individual room upgrades, and furniture maintenance support as the property evolves through its operating life.
