Crowne Plaza Kunming City Centre, an IHG Hotel

When you stay at a place, the location, overall rating, and cleanliness definitely matter. But what leaves the lasting impression and creates returning customers is the service. This is where the Kunming Crowne Plaza failed. It's the little things that occurred that seemed to be incessantly bothersome. The maid seemed to come into the room multiple times per day and shut off the power. The writing on the light switches was rubbed off so you never had any idea how to turn on or off the lights. I ended up just keeping them all off because it was never clear which switch did what. I did laundry while I was there, and it came back smelling (and I kid you not) gasoline! I literally had to keep my "clean" laundry in the hall because it fumigated my entire room. In the Crowne Plaza's defense, they did submit my laundry to be cleaned again that same day, but this was beginning at 7:00pm now. Thus, it came back to me at midnight--when I was sleeping. Also a disruption. And then, it smelled exactly the same. I kept it in the laundry bags, rolled it up into a ball and put it in the plastic laundry bag in the room. I'll deal with it when I get home. And they only offered a 10% discount instead of waiving the charge. Then they took it upon themselves to wake me up by repeatedly knocking on the door until I woke up, got out of bed, and answered the door. I did not request this and found it very intrusive.